New rooms with works spanning the years 1962 to 1982 on view at the Reina Sofia Museum

MADRID.- Opening to the public at the Museo Reina Sofía on Wednesday 30 November are the rooms devoted to the third section of the Museum’s Collection, which covers the period from 1962 to 1982. The Museum’s Collection is articulated around four areas corresponding to the key moments in the history of art, both Spanish and international, in the 20th and 21st centuries. Two of them have already been opened to the public. The first, exhibited on the second floor of the Sabatini Building, [...]

Major retrospective of the work of Alighiero Boetti opens at Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid

MADRID.- Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994), who identified with arte povera early in his career but soon distanced himself from this movement, was a prolific, unclassifiable artist who, trying to avoid any form of artistic self absorption, explored different modes and degrees of collaboration throughout his career. His oeuvre can be placed within the context of relational aesthetics and in his art notions such as multiplicity, duality and division play a key role (thus his decision in 1972 to starting signing his [...]

Tate and Pompidou Buy Works at the First Pinta London Art Show

LONDON.- During the first London Pinta art show, strong sales were seen across the board in a packed Earls Court Exhibition Centre. At this inaugural modern and contemporary Latin American art show, over 2,000 enthusiastic international private and public collectors attended the opening, with a further 4,000 visitors during the show, as they competed for paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, videos and installations by some of Latin America’s most celebrated artists. Museum curators had a challenging choice in what to choose [...]

The Potosí Principle: How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land?

MADRID.- The exhibition The Potosí Principle. “How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land” is curated by Alice Creischer, Andreas Siekmann and Max Jorge Hinderer. It offers a critical re-reading of the dynamics of global capitalism from the oblique viewpoint of the Spanish colonial empire and its imagery. Art history has traditionally located the origins of modern art in the paintings of Courbet, Manet and the Impressionists: in other words, in that break with the traditional forms [...]

The Drawing Center Appoints New Curator Claire Gilman

NEW YORK, NY.- The Drawing Center announces the appointment of Claire Gilman to the post of Curator, effective July 1, 2010. The Drawing Center’s Executive Director, Brett Littman, says of the appointment, “Claire brings to The Drawing Center the right level of intellectual rigor and curiosity, art historical knowledge, extensive publishing experience, and an engagement with the art and artists of our time that will continue to push our programming in new and interesting directions.” Frances Beatty Adler, Co-Chair of [...]

Renowned Polish Sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz Exhibits at Marlborough

NEW YORK, NY.- Marlborough Gallery presents an exhibition of work by renowned Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz. This show, her first in New York since 2005, includes work in aluminum, bronze, burlap and plaster, and follows recent solo exhibitions at the Palacio de Cristal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid and Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, both in 2008, and the Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, in 2009. Several works are on display in the ‘Energy and Process’ wing [...]