On Tuesday April 13th Acquavella Galleries will open an exhibition that documents the amazing, unerring eye and acquisitive passion of the colorful New York couple who dominated the contemporary art world in the 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition continues through May [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2010
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The philosopher Luca Lupo has described the work of Adolfo Magnelli as enacting a continuous search for new forms of denunciation and struggle against a world in which the innate creativity of life has become stunted, regulated, mortified, exploited, and drained of [Read More]
The Van Abbemuseum has invited the Danish artist collective, SUPERFLEX to work with the museum’s collection. They have responded with the exhibition In-between Minimalisms and a new work, FREE SOL LEWITT – an installation made specially for the second part of Play [Read More]
Kevin Bubriski first began photographing Nepal in 1975, when he was stationed there as a Peace Corps water engineer. In the decades that followed he continued to shoot in Nepal, creating a large documentary record of the country. “My photographs of Nepal [Read More]
The Contemporary Arts Center will be giving away the Shepard Fairey Rise Above print to two lucky fans. In celebration of the CAC’s benefit bash on May 22 – THE EVENT, the CAC will hold two drawings for THE EVENT ticket purchasers. [Read More]
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century, has opened at The Museum of Modern Art. On view through June 28, 2010. The exhibition comprises 300 prints from 1929 to 1989, at least one fifth of them previously unknown to the public, and focuses on [Read More]
The Amon Carter Museum is pleased to announce that Marci Driggers Caslin has joined its staff as the exhibition coordinator. In her new position, Caslin is responsible for coordinating permanent collection and traveling exhibitions presented at the museum. “Marci brings to the [Read More]
The Van Gogh Museum of Amsterdam is hosting Paul Gauguin’s Breakthrough into Modernity through June 6th, 2010. Given the importance of Gauguin and his art, this exhibition brings art fans from around the world looking to explore not only his art, but [Read More]
Richard Aste, an art historian with broad experience working with European painting, sculpture, and works on paper, has been appointed Curator of European Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Currently Associate Curator at Museo de Arte de Ponce in Ponce, Puerto Rico, Aste [Read More]
On June 26, the Amon Carter Museum presents Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s–50s. This groundbreaking exhibition is the first to bring together South American and U.S. geometric abstraction and includes a range of paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, [Read More]
The Directors of Bonhams, international fine arts auctioneers, are pleased to announce the appointment of Amy J. Lawch, G.G. as the firm’s Regional Representative for Houston, Texas. As Regional Representative, Ms. Lawch, an Accredited Appraiser certified by the International Society of Appraisers, [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York will offer the most important work by Brice Marden ever to appear at auction, “Cold Mountain I” (Path). Executed in 1988-89, the masterwork was the first in the artist’s acclaimed series of six monumental (108 x 144 in.) canvases [Read More]
Photographs 1980 – 2010 Open April 10 till June 7 2010 “We hope for better things; it will arise from the ashes,” was the motto adopted by the city of Detroit, after it was ravaged by the great fire of 1805. American [Read More]
Sotheby’s London announced as part of its Contemporary Turkish Art sale: Untitled, 1956, a major work by Nejad Melih Devrim, will be offered alongside works by leading Turkish artists. From a private Danish collection, the painting has remained in private hands since [Read More]