You have been there: Departures, bifurcations – A proposition by Marie Muracciole at Marian Goodman Gallery

Marian Goodman Gallery announces a group exhibition curated by Marie Muracciole which opened on Tuesday, December 13th and will be on view through Saturday, January 21st. This exhibition began in Paris last summer. This second iteration assembles a renewed selection of works organized around the idea of departure. Here some works relate to the passage from one place to another, from one time to another. Some refer to changes in life, to the end of a story or a belief. Each [...]

Marian Goodman Gallery presents photographs by Canadian artist Jeff Wall

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Marian Goodman Gallery announces an exhibition of new photographs by Jeff Wall which will open on Friday, December 9th and will be on view through Saturday, January 21st. The exhibition will present pictures created over the last two years. In these new works the artist continues to address the neo-realist and near-documentary concerns at the core of his practice for the past decades. In a separate installation, in the adjacent North Gallery Viewing Room, three pictures created in Sicily [...]

Exhibition of new work by Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco at Marian Goodman Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Marian Goodman Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by Gabriel Orozco which will be on view through October 15th. This is Orozco’s first solo exhibition to follow his recently completed retrospective tour that began in December 2009 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and traveled to the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and ended at the Tate Modern, London, in May of this year. Two new bodies of work are introduced in this exhibition. [...]

A Large Number of Prestigious International Galleries Announced at 2011 Edition of FIAC

PARIS.- FIAC 2011 will bring together 1681 galleries of modern and contemporary art, coming from 21 countries. France will be represented by 53 galleries, accounting for 33% of exhibitors, followed by the United States with 27 galleries, Germany with 21 galleries, Italy with 13 galleries, Belgium with 11 galleries, the United Kingdom with 9 galleries and Switzerland with 9 galleries. 73% of participating galleries are European. Brazil, Turkey and South Africa are represented by participating galleries for the first time this year. [...]

SKMU Sorlandets Kunstmuseum Presents Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Where is Where?

KRISTIANSAND.- SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum presents Where Is Where?, a multi-screen installation by Finish artist and filmmaker Eija-Liisa Ahtila (b. 1959). Ahtila’s masterfully crafted narratives and touching portrayal of characters have captured the public’s interest and won critical acclaim worldwide. Her films and multi-screen installations explore and experiment with storytelling, creating extraordinary tales out of ordinary human experiences. The exhibition is on view from March 26 through May 15, 2011. Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Where is Where?, 2008. HD installation for 6 projections [...]

Exhibition Featuring More than 60 Works by South African William Kentridge at Albertina

VIENNA.- William Kentridge: Five Themes, a comprehensive survey of the contemporary South African artist’s work, on view at the Albertina through January 30, 2011. Featuring more than 60 works in a range of media – including animated films, drawings, prints, theater models, sculptures, and books – the exhibition is co-organized by SFMOMA and the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida. In close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition explores five primary themes that have engaged Kentridge over [...]

The Art Show Organized by the Art Dealers Association of America to Benefit Henry Street Settlement

NEW YORK, NY.- On March 2, 2011, the country’s longest running national art fair, The Art Show, will open its doors at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. Now in its 23rd year, The Art Show assembles the nation’s most influential and prominent art dealers to present museum quality exhibitions of art ranging from cutting-edge, 21st century works, to museum-quality pieces from the 19th and 20th centuries. Organized by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) to benefit Henry [...]

William Kentridge at the Louvre: Egyptian Sketchbooks

PARIS.- The South African artist William Kentridge, born in Johannesburg in 1955, is chiefly known for his drawings, dominated by pastel and charcoal and usually conceived as the basis for animated films. But Kentridge also works in engraving, collage and sculpture, creates performance pieces, and often designs and directs opera and theater productions. Combining the political with the poetic, Kentridge’s earliest works denounced apartheid and the ravages of colonialism. Scheduled to coincide with the monographic retrospective devoted to the artist [...]

New York Gallery Week to Present Over 50 Solo Gallery Exhibitions

NEW YORK, NY.- New York Gallery Week, a new initiative organized collectively by 50 Manhattan-based contemporary art galleries and 7 not-for-profits – spanning Chelsea, SoHo, the Lower East Side/Bowery, the Upper East Side, and 57th Street – will launch its pilot program in May 2010. With a shared desire to refocus the art world’s attention toward the city’s long-standing exceptional gallery programming, a group of emerging and established galleries have come together with a mission to put the spotlight back [...]

Romanesque Sculptures by Tacita Dean at Museo Reina Sofia

MADRID.- The monumental cycle of Romanesque sculptures in the cloister at Santo Domingo de Silos has long attracted visitors, including generations of artists. When Tacita Dean made her first visit there, many features in this historic complex engaged her attention, not least the Gregorian service of Vespers with which the monks end the day. Some months later, she returned in order to study more closely doodles and graffiti on and around the cloister’s colonnade, marks that she imagined might have [...]

Solo Exhibition by Finnish Film and Video Artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila at Parasol Unit

LONDON.- Parasol unit presents a major solo exhibition by the renowned Finnish film and video artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila. It will include three important video installations never before seen in England. Ahtila is best known for works that concentrates on narratives in human life together with the relationships and primal emotions that underlie them. She describes her films as ‘human dramas’ because they play on the central themes of our existence, such as love, death, sexuality, the difficulty of communication, and [...]

MCA Chicago Presents Exhibition that Examines the Artist’s Studio as Subject

CHICAGO, IL.- This winter, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, premieres Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside-Out, an exhibition that uniquely examines the artist’s studio as subject. The exhibition presents an illuminating look at how some of the most compelling artists of today have demystified, remystified, and reconsidered art production spaces. Large installations, films, multi-channel video projections, photographic light-boxes, and life-sized fabrications of artists’ studios that explore the creative process are on view February 6 through May 30, 2010. [...]

Exhibition of New Work by Gerhard Richter at Marian Goodman Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- The Marian Goodman Gallery is showing an exhibition of new work by Gerhard Richter which will be on view through January 9th, 2010. On view are a major representation of works made by the artist from 2005 to the present, including an important new cycle of paintings titled Sindbad , 2008 as well as individual paintings presenting medium to large format abstractions, and a new group of large scale near-monochrome paintings whose underlying chromatic structures are layered [...]