Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale Led by Andy Warhol’s Sixteen Jackies

NEW YORK, NY.- “We are very pleased with our sale total of $128,104,500,” said Tobias Meyer, Sotheby’s Worldwide Head of Contemporary Art. “The results came within our pre-sale estimate of $120.8/171.4 million, and we had a strong sell-through rate of 84.5% by lot, with 58 lots offered and 47 lots sold. These results follow the impressive total of $54.8 million achieved last night for works from the Collection of Allan Stone, bringing our overall two-day total to $182,910,000, securely within [...]

Hyperrealist Paintings by Victor Rodriguez

Victor Rodriguez was born in Mexico City, 1970, Currently Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He is considered to be the leader of the new generation of hyperrealist artists working internationally today. He has exhibited extensively internationally, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Flint Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Museo de Monterrey in Mexico and Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey MARCO.

Steven Holl Architects Presents Su Pietra at the Castle of Acaya in Lecce

LECCE, ITALY.- Steven Holl Architects presents Su Pietra, an exhibition of recent projects in China and Europe, which is being held at the Castle of Acaya in Lecce, Italy. The exhibition illustrates the design process of Steven Holl Architects, from conception to its current form, documenting the collaborative process of model making, drawing, and animation. In the exhibition, Steven Holl Architects’ recent projects merge with the early-16th-Century Castle of Acaya, with high-definition projections being cast onto the stone walls. It [...]

Txuspo Poyo’s Political Utopias at Artium Basque Centre for Contemporary Art

VITORIA-GASTEIZ.- ARTIUM Basque Centre-Museum of Contemporary Art presents the exhibition by Txuspo Poyo U.N(Inverse) (Lower East Gallery, until September 5, 2010), a show that deals with political utopias constructed around the image of the building that houses the headquarters of the United Nations in New York. Although the centrepiece of the exhibition and one that gives the show its name is a large animation video that deals with the aforementioned building and the multiple interpretations that it inspires, U.N(Inverse) gives [...]

“A Vernacular of Violence”, a Group Exhibition at Invisible-Exports

NEW YORK, NY.- Invisible-Exports presents A Vernacular of Violence, a group exhibition of work by Eric Baudelaire, Rita Sobral Campos, Claire Fontaine, Lisa Kirk, Sylvère Lotringer, and Walid Raad. Pictures of violence wallpaper our lives, and yet they seem remote, aloof. Those images, demanding and harrowing, can seem nevertheless uniquely inaccessible in a visual culture that evangelizes the transformative power of the impulse to reinvent, recreate and in turn, demystify and deconstruct. The six artists gathered here, in an exhibition [...]

Es Baluard Museum Opens Exhibition of Photographs by Lou Reed

PALMA DE MALLORCA.- The Es Baluard Museum of Contemporary Art presents an exhibition of new photographs by Lou Reed. The exhibition features stunning black and white and color images of landscapes and architectural motifs, shot on the artist’s travels to Scotland, Denmark, Big Sur and elsewhere. The photographs are taken with a specially altered digital camera, which gives them an aura of strangeness, or otherworldliness. They have a timeless quality but are simultaneously very modern, like Reed himself. They are [...]

Face-offs/Takeovers: 25 years of the Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art

SAN JUAN.- As a celebration of its 25th anniversary, the Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art has organized a wide and rich exhibition of its permanent collection. The show, titled Face-offs/Takeovers: 25 years of the Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art, presents around 100 outstanding artworks that belong to the permanent collection of the MAC and that are milestones in the recent history of contemporary art in Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Being the groundwork of the long [...]

Artium Presents the Exhibition “Desde Ayacata”, by Juan Hidalgo

VITORIA-GASTEIZ.- This artist, born in the Canary Islands, exhibits 70 photographic actions, objects and ambiences in which irony, humour and sex play a leading part. The works were created on his return to Gran Canaria in the late nineties. ARTIUM, Basque Centre-Museum of Contemporary Art presents the exhibition by Juan Hidalgo Desde Ayacata (North Gallery, from August 29 2010), a sample of the work the last twelve years of one of the major reference models of Spanish art of the [...]

Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp Presents Works on Paper by Koen van den Broek

ANTWERP.- Almost concurrently with Curbs & Cracks, a retrospective exhibition of paintings by Koen van den Broek (°1973, Bree) at S.M.A.K, the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent , the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp (KMSKA) is displaying in it’s Print Room a unique selection of some twenty works on paper by the same artist. Never before has van den Broek’s oeuvre on paper been shown to the public. Moreover, this is very recent work, created in [...]