Artist John Miller transforms Metro Pictures into a bizarre yet familiar public space

NEW YORK, NY.- John Miller elaborates on many of the tropes he has masterfully cultivated throughout his thirty-plus year career in “Suburban Past Time,” his latest exhibition at Metro Pictures. Through artificial rocks and plants ranging in scale from massive to ordinary, wallpaper, store-bought and handmade decorative elements, Miller transforms the gallery into a bizarre yet familiar public space. The works included in the exhibition are a continuation of the artist’s ongoing sociological investigation into so-called middlebrow culture, which focus on artifice [...]

Before The Law: Post-War sculptures and spaces of contemporary art at Museum Ludwig

COLOGNE.- The question of the fundamental conditions of human existence is of timeless importance as well as contemporary urgency. Human rights violations and assaults on human dignity can be observed every day – the media seeming to allow us to examine these with increasing thoroughness. The exhibition Before the Law is dedicated in both a focused and comprehensive manner to the central theme of the human condition and its fragility. The sculptures of the postwar era and spaces of contemporary art [...]

Gagosian Gallery announces the death of The Father of Pop Art: Richard Hamilton

NEW YORK, N.Y.- It is with tremendous sadness that Gagosian Gallery announces the death of Richard Hamilton, which occurred early this morning. Considered the Father of Pop, the art world has lost one of its leading figures – a hugely innovative talent and a great intellect, whose work crossed many fields: from painting to print making, sculpture to typography and collage. He was a pioneering artist of unparalleled skill, invention and lasting authority. Hamilton’s fascination with the authenticity of the image in contemporary [...]

Special exhibition of landscapes by Max Beckmann on view at Kunstmuseum Basel

BASEL.- Max Beckmann (Leipzig 1884 – 1950 New York) is one of the titans of modernism, even though he saw himself as the last Old Master. He never joined any of the avantgardist groups of the twentieth century, but the experiences of Impressionism, Expressionism, New Objectivity, and abstract art left their traces in his oeuvre. Beckmann was long perceived as a typically German artist, and only in the past few years has his importance been fully appreciated on the international stage, [...]

Alexander Calder’s Horizontal Permanently Installed in Front of Centre Pompidou

NEW YORK, NY.- The Calder Foundation announced the permanent installation of Calder’s 1974 monumental standing mobile Horizontal in front of the Centre Pompidou’s iconic façade. The placement of the sculpture on the museum’s beloved plaza was determined in accordance with architect Renzo Piano. The 8-meter sculpture, which had been in storage following its last exhibition in Bonn in 1993, recently underwent extensive restoration with the collaboration of the the Calder Foundation and the sponsorship of KPMG France. The Centre Pompidou possesses one [...]

Artist Joel Shapiro Creates an Installation of New Works for the Museum Ludwig

COLOGNE.- American sculptor Joel Shapiro (b. 1941) created an installation of new and preexisting works for the Museum Ludwig‘s large sky-lighted gallery, interweaving the pieces into a new structure in the space. He will arrange free-hanging, colored wooden beams according to a sophisticated plan, shaping a new sense for space and the possibilities of sculpture. Exhibition view, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 26 February – 25 September 2011. Foto: Lothar Schnepf © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011. Shapiro’s works, which freely float from barely [...]

Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale to Be Led by a Major Mark Rothko Painting

NEW YORK, NY.- On 9 November 2010 Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale will be led by a major 1955 Untitled painting by Mark Rothko which has been off the market for over 40 years (est. $20/30 million). The auction also includes major works by many of the leading artists of the 20th and 21st centuries including Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Gerhard Richter, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg among others. All the works will be on view from 5 November with [...]

Paintings, Sculptures and Drawings by Roy Lichtenstein on View at Museum Ludwig

COLOGNE.- The halftone dots used by Pop maestro Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) are world famous. Taking motifs from the realms of comics and consumerism, Lichtenstein made paintings by piecing together dots and coloured surfaces. But a very different side of his work can be discovered at this exhibition in Museum Ludwig. Around 100 exhibits, chiefly large-scale paintings along with a number of sculptures and drawings, reveal his fascinating explorations of style through the history of art – from Expressionism and Futurism [...]

Matthew Bown Gallery Turns Off Its Lights for New Exhibition

BERLIN.- Kant, in The End of All Things, suggested that the imagination is more active in darkness than light. In the exhibition noire et pourtant lumineuse, Baudelaire’s description of his lover is applied to the space of the Matthew Bown Gallery, which will be blacked-out for the duration of the show. The exhibition presents work by four artists – Anina Brisolla (Berlin), Alexander Brodsky (Moscow), Gunda Förster (Berlin) and Katie Paterson (London) – which explore our experience of darkness. Anina [...]

Dr. Christine Litz Appointed Project Manager at dOCUMENTA 13

KASSEL.- dOCUMENTA (13) announced Dr. Christine Litz as a new member of the dOCUMENTA (13) organizational team. Recently appointed project manager, she is responsible for the realization of the ideas developed by the artistic director, Carolyn Christov-Barkagiev, and her curatorial team, as well as for the artists’ projects and other elements that will ultimately comprise dOCUMENTA (13). Dr. Christine Litz Christine Litz is an art historian. She studied Art History, German Language and Literature, and Education in Cologne and Bochum, [...]