Series from Durer to Lichtenstein showcases 500 years of serial printmaking

BALTIMORE, MD.- Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein is an epic exhibition of more than 350 prints by American and European artists working in series from the late 15th through the 21st centuries, including Canaletto, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, and Ed Ruscha. On view October 30, 2011 through March 25, 2012, the exhibition presents a rare opportunity to view 29 series of multiple images in complete sets—revealing the true vision of the artist, print by print. Also represented are [...]

Sotheby’s Paris announces it will be devoting a whole day to Books & Manuscripts auction in November

PARIS.- Sotheby’s Paris will be devoting a whole day to Books and Manuscripts on 9 November 2011, staging two sales: the first devoted to Books & Manuscripts, Including the Library of a Connoisseur: History of Ideas, Science & Letters (2:30pm); the second (6:30pm) to a Collection of Precious Books from a Connoisseur’s Library. The first sale begins with a collection of 70 emblematic books about the history of science and ideas. All embody a discovery in, or new contribution to, the field [...]

Art in Motion: Sonia Delaunay Textiles On View at Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP).- A century ago, Sonia Delaunay and her husband, Robert, were brash young innovators in the avant-garde art world of Paris, exploring the idea that contrasting colors could be used to create a sense of movement and rhythm in art. Sonia, who was intent on merging art and everyday life, applied this principle of “simultaneity” (color suggesting motion) to clothing, which naturally moves and flows with the body. She says she realized the potential of fabric in [...]

Early Pioneers of Abstraction Explored in Gallery’s Remarkable Collection

BUFFALO, NY.- The work of four modernist masters and early twentieth-century pioneers of abstraction: —Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, and Sonia Delaunay—are explored in a new exhibition which opened at the The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, on January 21, 2011. The exhibition, organized by Albright-Knox Curator Heather Pesanti and Curatorial Assistant Ilana Chlebowski and drawn from the Gallery’s Collection, features more than seventy objects in a variety of media, including paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, spanning decades of each [...]

Alexandra Exter Retrospective Opens at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art

MOSCOW.- An unprecedented retrospective exhibition of works by Alexandra Exter hosted by the Moscow Museum of Modern Art is a truly remarkable event. Alexandra Exter, one of the ‘amazons’ and brightest stars of the Russian avant-garde, took part in most significant shows of the new art, including exhibitions of ‘Jack of Diamonds’ group and ‘Union of Youth’, ‘№ 4’ and ‘Tram B’, ‘Shop’, ‘5×5=25’ and so on. One cannot imagine innovative Russian art of the early 20th century without this [...]

France’s Pompidou Centre opens regional art hub

METZ, France (AFP) – A sparkling new branch of one of the world’s top modern art museums, Paris’s Pompidou Centre, opens in northern France on Wednesday with hundreds of rarely seen treasures on its walls. On former wasteland in Metz, the undulating white teflon roof encloses a space to free up some of the 65,000 works trapped in storage at the Paris museum — and to breath new life into a city seen as a forgotten gem. Planting the huge [...]

How Investment Helped the Art Market Weather the World Economic Crisis

HELVOIRT.- A change in luxury spending habits caused by the recession has helped the international art and antiques market weather the global economic storm, reveals a new report commissioned by The European Fine Art Foundation which organises The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) to be held in the Dutch city of Maastricht in the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre) from 12-21 March 2010. The report The International Art Market 2007-2009, Trends in the Art Trade during Global Recession has [...]