Fourth Hong Kong International Art Fair Welcome Over 161 Galleries from 30 Countries

HONG KONG.- Back for its fourth year, ART HK 11 – Hong Kong International Art Fair will take place from 26 – 29 May 2011 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). Sponsored by Deutsche Bank, ART HK 11 presents a strengthened exhibitor line-up that confirms the Fair‟s place as Asia‟s premier art fair, and firmly establishes ART HK 11 amongst the world‟s top art fairs. As part of its development and commitment to its role as the [...]

Artists Inspired by Alice Neel Exhibit at Victoria Miró Gallery

LONDON.- In the Company of Alice presents portraits and figurative paintings by a diverse group of artists – some established and some emerging, some for whom portraiture is the crux of their practice and others for whom creating a portrait has been a new exercise. A number of these artists admire or have been inspired by Alice Neel, and it is for this reason they have been brought together in an expanded homage to the ongoing influence of the late [...]

Kristen: As Seen by Miles Aldridge and Chantal Joffe at Galerie Alex Daniels

AMSTERDAM.- In this rare artistic collaboration, the photographer Miles Aldridge invited contemporary painter Chantal Joffe to explore the theme of ‘the artist and model’. The resulting works in colour and black and white photographs, ink and pencil drawings and paintings in watercolour and oils create a fascinatingly obsessive and emotional study of one woman: the model Kristen McMenamy. Aldridge is well known for high-gloss, high-drama images of women captured in pop colours. His work featured in the recent “Weird Beauty” [...]

Victoria Miro Gallery Presents New Work by William Eggleston

LONDON.- Victoria Miro Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by William Eggleston, which is being presented concurrently by Cheim & Read in New York in January 2010. William Eggleston is one of the most influential photographers of the last half-century. Born in 1939, Eggleston has lived and worked in his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee throughout most of his sixty-year career. Hailed as the father of colour photography, his ability to find beauty in the banal has changed the way [...]

Major Works by Doig, Freud, Richter, Fontana and Ofili Lead Sotheby’s Sale

LONDON.- Following Sotheby’s outstanding sale of Contemporary Art in New York last November, which soared above high estimate and witnessed all but two lots find buyers, Sotheby’s London Evening Sale of Contemporary Art on Wednesday, February 10, 2010, is set to provide Contemporary Art collectors with the opportunity to acquire important and rare works by some of the foremost Post-War and Contemporary artists. The Contemporary Art Evening Sale, which includes ZERO: Property from the Sammlung Lenz Schönberg, will also be [...]

New Work by William Eggleston and Rare Photos by Diane Arbus at Cheim & Read

NEW YORK, NY.- Cheim & Read present two concurrent photography exhibitions featuring, respectively, a selection of rarely shown photographs by Diane Arbus and new work by William Eggleston. The installation of Arbus’s work, shown here under the title “In the Absence of Others”, brings together a group of photographs of empty interiors and artificial landscapes spanning the 1960s. The Eggleston exhibition is titled “21st Century”. A presentation of this work is also on view at the Victoria Miro Gallery in [...]