Irish Museum of Modern Art announces appointment of Sarah Glennie as new Director

DUBLIN.- The Chairperson and Board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art today (13 January 2012) announced the appointment of Sarah Glennie, currently Director of the Irish Film Institute, as the new Director of IMMA, where she previously held the post of Curator from 1997 to 2001. Sarah Glennie has been working professionally in the cultural realm for sixteen years and has extensive experience of directing and working in a number of public cultural institutions in Ireland and Britain. Prior to joining the [...]

Major exhibition of the work of American artist Bill Bollinger at The Fruitmarket Gallery

EDINBURGH.- The Fruitmarket Gallery presents this major exhibition of the work of American artist Bill Bollinger (1939–1988), one of the most important artists of the 1960s. A work of art historical rediscovery as well as an exhibition of great power and beauty, it brings an artist once mentioned in the same breath as Bruce Nauman, Robert Smithson, Eva Hesse and Fred Sandback back for serious reconsideration. Bollinger’s work is characterised by his sensitive use of the idiosyncrasies and possibilities offered by technical and [...]

Historic Celebration of British Artist Henry Moore Begins at Leeds Art Gallery

LEEDS.- The display covers both the pre-war and post-war era concentrating on British loans as it challenges the familiar image of Henry Moore (1898-1986) as an artist. It features works loaned from Tate Britain, the Henry Moore Foundation, private collections from around the country and pieces returning to the UK from display at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Canada where the show has been since leaving Tate Britain last year. After surviving the horrors of the First World War [...]

Never-Before-Seen Works at the Art Gallery of Ontario Reveal a Darker Side to Henry Moore

TORONTO, ON.- An exhibition heralded by the Guardian as “the most important exhibition of [Henry] Moore’s work for a generation” is coming to the Art Gallery of Ontario this fall. The Shape of Anxiety: Henry Moore in the 1930s is a dramatic reconsideration of one of the 20th century’s most revered artists. The exhibition will be on view from October 23 through February 6, 2011 in the AGO’s Henry Moore Sculpture Centre. Organized by Tate Britain in collaboration with the [...]

Multi-Part Sculptural Project by Antony Gormley at National Galleries of Scotland

EDINBURGH.- Work began in Edinburgh in April on an extraordinary multi-part sculptural project by the celebrated British artist Antony Gormley. Commissioned by the National Galleries of Scotland, 6 Times will consist of six life-sized figures positioned between the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the sea. Four of the figures will be sited in the Water of Leith itself, acting as gauges for the height of the river as it swells and recedes. The figure closest to the sea, [...]

Tate’s Ben Borthwick Appointed CEO and Artistic Director of Artes Mundi

LONDON.- Ben Borthwick has been appointed Chief Executive and Artistic Director of Artes Mundi – the UK’s largest art prize. Borthwick is a curator and writer who specialises in contemporary art, with particular focus on sound and socially engaged practices . He joins Artes Mundi after seven years at Tate Modern where he was Assistant Curator and curated the exhibitions including Gilbert & George, Rodchenko and Popova and the Turbine Hall installation Bruce Nauman: Raw Materials. In 2007-08, he devised [...]

Hauser & Wirth Announces Works from the Henry Moore Family Collection

ZURICH.- Hauser & Wirth will present an extraordinary body of works curated directly with members of the Moore family. “Works on Paper from the Henry Moore Family Collection” is the gallery’s second presentation of works by Henry Moore, following our 2008 exhibition “Ideas for Sculpture” held at Hauser & Wirth London. The exhibition includes works ranging from Moore’s sensitive and sublime studies of the human body to his wartime “Shelter Drawings” and exploratory “Ideas for Sculpture”, spanning six decades of [...]

Exhibition Re-Asserts Henry Moore’s Position at the Forefront of Sculpture

LONDON.- Radical, experimental and avant garde, Henry Moore (1898-1986) was one of Britain’s greatest artists. This major exhibition will re-assert his position at the forefront of progressive twentieth-century sculpture, bringing together the most comprehensive selection of his works for a generation. Henry Moore will present over 150 significant works including stone sculptures, wood carvings, bronzes and drawings. Henry Moore will reveal the range and quality of Moore’s art in new ways – sometimes uncovering a dark and erotically charged dimension [...]

Yinka Shonibare’s Fourth Plinth Ship To Set Sail in May

LONDON.- The next commission for the Fourth Plinth, Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle, by leading Anglo-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare will be unveiled in Trafalgar Square on the morning of Monday 24 May 2010. Commissioned by the Mayor of London and supported by Arts Council England with sponsorship from Guaranty Trust Bank of Nigeria and additional funding from the Henry Moore Foundation, Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle is a scale replica of HMS Victory in a giant bottle. The artwork will [...]

New Wire Drawings by Cornelia Parker at D’Amelio Terras

NEW YORK, NY.- D’Amelio Terras presents a series of new wire drawings by gallery artist Cornelia Parker. The artist is well known for her large-scale installations of transformed or destabilized objects that re-emerge in surprisingly beautiful forms. For years, Parker has been concerned with formalizing things beyond our control, containing the volatile and making it into something quiet and contemplative. Here, Parker has melted lead bullets and literally drawn them to the limits of their materiality. Creating wire grids, Parker [...]