Sotheby’s Presents Highlights from Its Autumn Sales of Impressionist & Modern Art

NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s autumn Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art in New York on 2 November 2010 will present a superb offering of works across the period. From an early painting by Eugène Boudin from 1868 to a Pablo Picasso canvas from the 1970s, the sale features classic Impressionist paintings, key Modern works, tremendous sculpture and powerful German Expressionist canvases. Highlights will include important works by Modigliani, Matisse, Monet, Rodin and Picasso, among many others. Prior to the auction, works [...]

Museum of Modern Art’s Annual Photography Series Highlights 4 Artists

NEW YORK, NY.- For New Photography 2010, The Museum of Modern Art highlights four artists in its annual showcase of significant recent work in contemporary photography, with the 2010 edition marking the 25th anniversary of the series. The exhibition is on view from September 29, 2010, through January 10, 2011, and features the work of Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, and Amanda Ross-Ho, all of whom engage photography as a medium with fluid borders between editorial work, film, and [...]

“Persistence of Memory” to Join Dalí Exhibition at the High

ATLANTA, GA.- On November 16 Salvador Dalí’s iconic Surrealist painting “The Persistence of Memory” from The Museum of Modern Art, New York, will join the highly successful exhibition “Salvador Dalí: The Late Work.” The exhibition brings together many works from Dalí’s later career as well as several works of art not seen in the United States since the 1950s. The exhibition will be on view through January 9, 2010. “‘The Persistence of Memory’ represents Dalí in ways few paintings have [...]

Tate Announces First Major Retrospective of Joan Miró in Fifty Years

LONDON.- Tate Modern will present the first major retrospective of Joan Miró (1893–1983) to be held in London for almost 50 years. Opening on 14 April 2011, Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape will bring together over 150 paintings, works on paper and sculptures by one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists. The exhibition will draw on collections from around the world to represent the astonishing breadth of Miró’s output. It will also explore the wider context of his work, [...]

Matthew Barney’s Series of Sixteen “Drawing Restraint” Performances on View at Schaulager

BASEL.- This year Schaulager is presenting Matthew Barney’s Drawing Restraint project. Drawing Restraint is a series of performances, numbering sixteen to date, in which Barney attempts to make graphic marks despite self-imposed physical and psychological hindrances. In the exhibition, works arising from Barney’s performances, such as sculptures, vitrines, drawings and videos, will be juxtaposed with artworks from the northern renaissance. Schaulager’s supporting body, the Laurenz Foundation, has acquired Matthew Barney’s archive of the performance series together with the Museum of [...]

Major New Book, “Lee Friedlander: America by Car”, Announced

NEW YORK, NY.- Enduring icons of American culture, the car and the highway remain vital as auguries of adventure and discovery, and a means by which to take in the country’s vast scale. Lee Friedlander is the first photographer to make the car an actual “form” for making photographs. Driving across most of the country’s 50 states in an ordinary rental car, Friedlander applied the brilliantly simple conceit of deploying the sideview mirror, rearview mirror, the windshield and the side [...]

Christian Schwarzwald and Ethan Breckenridge at Derek Eller Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Derek Eller Gallery presents a site-specific drawing installation by Christian Schwarzwald entitled Boxed. Consisting of a series of large works on paper which are mounted on partially painted gallery walls, Boxed challenges the viewer’s experience of pictorial space. As two-dimensional drawings interact with the three-dimensional room, the installation becomes sculptural. This quality is further enhanced by Schwarzwald’s repeated use of the box form which functions both as a space-defining device and as a kind of presentation vitrine [...]

MoMA Adds Evening Hours on the First Thursday of Each Month

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art will remain open until 8:45 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month, from January through June 2010, providing visitors with extended hours to view MoMA’s collection and special exhibitions. Regular Museum admission applies. MoMA Nights will include music by DJs and a cash bar featuring a specialty cocktail. A prix fixe dinner created by Chef Lynn Bound will be available in Cafe 2. Gallery talks will be offered at 5:30, 6:30, [...]