SFMOMA Announces 2010 SECA Award Winners

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announced that Mauricio Ancalmo, Colter Jacobsen, Ruth Laskey, and Kamau Amu Patton are the 2010 artists selected for its biennial SECA Art Award. Administered by SECA (Society for the Encouragement o f Contemporary Art), one of the museum’s auxiliaries, the signature award honors Bay Area artists who are working independently at a high level of artistic maturity but who have not yet received substantial recognition. The four award winners [...]

Well-Qualified Crowds Discover 2nd SOFA WEST: Santa Fe

SANTA FE, NM.- Dealers and galleries at the second annual SOFA WEST: Santa Fe 2010 held July 8-11 at the Santa Fe Convention Center reported steady sales, most to new clients from all over the United States. Overall fair attendance climbed to 12,000 from 10,000 persons last year. An estimated 1800 persons attended Opening Night on July 7, which was a special member preview for the prestigious Museum of New Mexico Foundation and SOFA VIPs. Mark Lyman, President of The [...]

Mika Rottenberg’s New Video Installation Debuts at SFMOMA

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Artist Mika Rottenberg debuts her latest immersive video installation for SFMOMA‘s New Work series this summer in her first solo museum exhibition on the West Coast. Rottenberg makes feminist art decades after feminism was legibly defined. She makes seriously political art that is preposterously funny. She documents reality, but spins it into narrative fiction. With Squeeze (2010), Rottenberg hones these signature tactics, creating a video installation that is both humorous and unsettling. New Work: Mika Rottenberg will [...]

Haughton Announces Dealers and Plans for the 22nd Annual International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show

NEW YORK, NY.- Haughton International Fairs have announced a superb roster of 62 world-class exhibitors — with an unprecedented dealer return rate– for the 2010 edition at the Park Avenue Armory. The prestigious “International Show” – the flagship fair organized by Anna and Brian Haughton, has retained its position as the premier platform in America for top dealers from Europe and the United States for the past twenty-two years. It is a must for collectors, connoisseurs, museum curators and interior [...]

Art Fund Director Stephen Deuchar Awarded CBE for His Service to the Public

LONDON.- Stephen Deuchar was awarded the honour for his service to the public as former director of Tate Britain from 1998 until 2009. He joined the Art Fund as director in January 2010. On receiving the award, Stephen Deuchar said: “It’s a great honour and I’m delighted. I feel privileged to have worked at Tate Britain amongst so many inspirational colleagues.” During this time at Tate, Stephen oversaw the creation of Tate Britain in 2000 at Millbank, home of the [...]