University of Oklahoma’s Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art launches new Robert Rauschenberg exhibition

NORMAN, OK.- As excitement builds for the opening of the new Stuart Wing at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma this fall, the museum debuts a new exhibition of modern art. Robert Rauschenberg: Prints from Universal Limited Art Editions, 1962-2008 opens at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30, at the museum. A guest lecture by Mary Lynn Kotz, biographer and author of Rauschenberg: Art and Life (2004, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.) will precede the opening reception at 6 [...]

Exhibition of painting and sculpture by Robert Rauschenberg at Gagosian Gallery in Paris

PARIS.- Gagosian Gallery Paris presents an exhibition of painting and sculpture by Robert Rauschenberg. Rauschenberg stands as one of the most inventive artists in American art, arguably the first of his generation to chart a viable course out of Abstract Expressionism towards the formal integration of art and the mess of life. His approach to making art using discarded materials, everyday objects and appropriated images eviscerated the distinctions between medium and genre, abstraction and representation, while his “flatbed picture plane” created an [...]

Jasper Johns Awarded the Julio González Prize by the Government of Valencia in Spain

VALENCIA.- The Government of Valencia has awarded the U.S. artist Jasper Johns with the Julio González Prize, an artist considered along with Robert Rauschenberg as the forerunners of American Pop Art. The Julio González Prize awarded by the Generalitat Valenciana, is granted to a distinguished artist who in his own right-has has helped to highlight artistic creation internationally. This year´s edition, has seen fit to propose the granting of the award to artist Jasper Johns, in recognition of his work [...]

Realistic Paintings by David Jon Kassan

David Jon Kassan (Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1977) is a contemporary American painter best known for his life-size realist portraits. The paintings combine figurative subjects with abstract backgrounds or “tromp l’oeil texture studies,” reportedly inspired by Franz Kline and Robert Rauschenberg. Of this dual representation strategy Kassan notes, “my effort to constantly learn to document reality with a naturalistic, representational painting technique allows for pieces to be inherent contradictions; paintings that are both real and abstract.” Kassan currently lives [...]

Keith Haring and Andy Warhol to Star in American Pop Art Show

LONDON.- Olyvia Fine Art will present ‘Sold Out: American Pop Art from the 1970s to the 1980s,’ an exhibition of works by Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Tom Wesselmann, Keith Haring, Robert Longo and Frank Stella, which illustrates the evolution of Pop Art and the diversity of styles and techniques developed by its leading contributors. This comprehensive and original collection of paintings, silk-screens and wall sculptures aims to highlight key notions of Pop art using existing imagery from mass culture, the [...]

Friedman Benda Presents Work by Post-War and Emerging Artists

NEW YORK, NY.- Other than Beauty will present work by post-war and emerging artists, whose ground-breaking practices have established new paradigms of art-making and new criteria for beauty. Tracing the emergence of process, performance, language, video, and political action as new or subversive components of artistic expression, the exhibition considers a broad range of artists who have disregarded the primacy of formal and aesthetic beauty. Some works investigate materiality; some are acutely self-reflective, others offer unconventional platforms for mundane or [...]

Did Duchamp was a quack? What about contemporary artists?

How an artist can consider his masterpiece an object that he even produced? For me, Duchamp was a quack, but I forgot one thing: the historical context!

“Original” Reproductions by Marcel Duchamp at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

TEL AVIV.- “Impossible for me to recall the original phrase”, Duchamp noted alongside his signature on the replica of the readymade Bottle Rack in 1960. The first Bottle Rack that was found-chosen by Duchamp in 1914, was lost shortly after being chosen, and its caption remains unknown. The replica was purchased by Robert Rauschenberg for three dollars, following its presentation in the 1959 “Art and the Found Object” exhibition. It was preceded by two signed replicas (circa 1921; and 1936) [...]

Pablo Picasso and other Modern Masters Announced at the Gibbes

CHARLESTON, SC.- The Gibbes Museum of Art will present the exclusive exhibition Modern Masters from the Ferguson Collection in the Main Gallery from April 30 through August 22, 2010. Selected from the private collection of prominent art enthusiasts Esther and James Ferguson, this exhibition includes paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by significant twentieth-century artists such as Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, and Christo. The Ferguson ’s remarkable collection reflects their personal tastes in art, but also offers [...]

Rupert Shrive Gives New Meaning to the Word ‘Portrait’ at Morton Metropolis

LONDON.- Rupert Shrive will give new meaning to the word ‘portrait’ at his show at Morton Metropolis, London’s most talked about gallery in the West End. In an insightful interview with Michael Peppiatt, biographer of Francis Bacon and author of a forthcoming book on Alberto Giacometti, the art historian describes the works as “Very tender, sensitive things, as if you’re peeling back the skin of appearance to show the strangeness of a human face and the head beneath.” But it [...]

Candice Breitz Presents Third Exhibition at White Cube

LONDON.- White Cube Hoxton Square presents ‘Factum’, an exhibition of new work by Candice Breitz, the artist’s third exhibition at the gallery. Shot in Toronto, Canada, ‘Factum’ is a series of in-depth video portraits of twins – and one set of triplets – that extends Breitz’s ongoing interest in doubling, portraiture and identity. Titled after Robert Rauschenberg’s ‘Factum I’ and ‘II’ (1957) near-identical twin paintings, Breitz’s ‘Factum’ explores the modes of internal and external forces that drive individuation. Breitz has [...]

The Guggenheim in Bilbao Exhibits 60 Metal Sculptures by Robert Rauschenberg

BILBAO.- Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao underscores the spirit of the artist’s excitement about Frank Gehry’s architectural masterpiece and its transformative presence in Bilbao. In response to the building’s scale, larger and more elaborate Gluts have been added to the exhibition, displaying not only their majesty and monumentality, but also the dynamic between the sculptural and painterly that defined this great American artist. Almost two years after the death of Robert Rauschenberg, May 12, 2008, the Guggenheim [...]

Christie’s New York to Sell Major Works from the Collection of the Late Michael Crichton

LONDON.- Christie’s is honored to announce that it will offer at auction this spring in New York major works from the collection of the late Michael Crichton. Best-selling author and screenwriter, film director and producer, Crichton is renowned for his terrifying and sometimes controversial scientific thrillers such as The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, Timeline, The Lost World, Rising Sun, and State of Fear, and for creating the television series ER. Crichton is also acknowledged as a leading authority on the [...]

Internationally Acclaimed Artist Jeff Koons to Create BMW Art Car

NEW YORK, NY.- Internationally acclaimed artist Jeff Koons will create the 17th BMW Art Car in the 35th anniversary year of the program. Koons and Jim O’Donnell, President of BMW North America jointly made the announcement today at an event held at Koons’ New York City studio. “I always thought it would be an honor to work on a BMW Art Car,” said Jeff Koons. “I look forward to participate in a tradition set forth by such great artists as [...]

Moderna Museet Director, Lars Nittve, to Retire in October

STOCKHOLM.- On 31 October, 2010, the contract for the Director of Moderna Museet, Lars Nittve, ends. Mr Nittve will resign from the post in accordance with the regulations for all senior civil service posts in Sweden. Lars Nittve, Moderna Museet director 2001-2010 2001-2010, when Mr Nittve was Director, has been an extraordinarily eventful – and successful – period in the museum’s 52 years. Besides some 150 large and small exhibitions covering the entire 20th century, including highlights such as Paul [...]

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