NY federal court finds for Art International in Edelman Arts’ suit over multimillion-dollar Mondrian painting

NEW YORK, NY.- One of the art world’s most acquisitive and controversial collectors has been dealt a noteworthy setback this week by a New York federal judge. In a closely watched case, European art broker Anne Faggionato, former Director of Art International and current CEO of BlueLabel, won a favorable decision in a long-running dispute over the purchase and subsequent sale of “The Composition,” a 1923 painting by renowned Dutch artist Piet Mondrian that has been valued as high as $7 [...]

Dallas Contemporary presents first major US institutional exhibition by artist Rob Pruitt

DALLAS, TX.- Dallas Contemporary announces an exhibition featuring New York artist ROB PRUITT. The exhibition made specifically for Dallas Contemporary will be Pruitt’s first major institutional exhibition in the United States and his largest exhibition to date. Dallas Contemporary Executive Director, Peter Doroshenko said, “It’s an honour to be presenting the first institutional exhibition of Rob Pruitt’s work in the USA. Pruitt has been a seminal figure in the New York art scene since the late 1980s and to have a focused [...]

Quinn’s Fine Art auction spans Old Masters to Modern, with a premier of French paintings as its centerpiece

FALLS CHURCH, VA.- Some of Washington DC’s most elegant homes were the sources forQuinn’s Auction Galleries’ upcoming sale of international fine and decorative art, with an afternoon session dedicated to Asian art and antiquities. The Dec. 10 event includes 750 lots led by a selection of French paintings whose overall quality surpasses that of any seen in previous Quinn’s auctions. “We’re particularly excited about the French paintings in this sale, especially the oil-on-canvas harvest scene by Leon Augustin L’hermitte, which is expected [...]

A New iPhone App, Which Recognizes Art, Set to Transform the Art Fair Experience

NEW YORK, NY.- From Thursday, March 3, to Sunday, March 6, 2011, iPhone-toting visitors to Pulse, SCOPE, VOLTA NY, Fountain, and Moving Image will experience the New York art fairs in a new way thanks to a “next-gen” mobile technology that recognizes artworks. The art fair visitor equipped with the Collectrium mobile app will be able to point her iPhone at any registered artwork exhibited at the fair and: • instantly receive extensive information on the artist and the piece; [...]

Provocative Portrait of Photographer Francesca Woodman, Her Artist Family, and Tragic Demise

NEW YORK, NY.- Film Forum will present the U.S. theatrical premiere of THE WOODMANS, opening Wednesday, January 19. Francesca Woodman’s haunting B&W images, many of them nude self-portraits, now reside in the pantheon of great photography from the late 20th century. The daughter of artists Betty and Charles Woodman (she a ceramicist and he a painter/ photographer), Francesca was a precocious RISD graduate, who came to New York with the intention of setting the art world on fire. But in [...]

Fifth Annual New York Art Book Fair Offers the Best in Contemporary Art-Book Publishing

NEW YORK, NY.- Printed Matter, the world’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to publications by artists, presents the fifth annual NY Art Book Fair, November 5–7 at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens. Free and open to the public, the Fair hosts over 230 international presses, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, artists and publishers from twenty-one countries, offering the best in contemporary art-book publishing.  Philip Aarons, Chairman of the Board for Printed Matter, said: “The NY Art Book Fair is the premier venue to find [...]

Danziger Projects Starts Off Summer Program with Group Exhibition

NEW YORK, NY.- Starting off the summer program, Danziger Projects will present a group exhibition and installation titled “The Art Fair is Present”. On one hand a playful reference to the just finished Marina Abramović retrospective at MoMA (titled “The Artist is Present”) the exhibition is comprised of work exhibited by the gallery in recent art fairs mixed with new work by Jean-Philippe Delhomme commenting on the New York art world. On the other hand, the exhibition seriously calls into [...]

First Retrospective Exhibition in the Nordic Region of Lee Lozano at Moderna Museet

STOCKHOLM.- This is the first retrospective exhibition in the Nordic region of Lee Lozano (1930-1999), the American artist whose original and challenging work is still largely unknown, especially in Europe. Lozano was part of the 1960s art scene in New York, an artists’ artist in the midst of the avant-garde of the time. On the border between minimalism and conceptual art, she created a powerful and individualistic body of work in a completely male-dominated environment. Some sixty paintings and hundreds [...]