 | | Rothko / Giotto - Tactility in Painting Opens at Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz, Gemaldegalerie | 
Giotto di Bondone (1264-1337), Dormitio Virginis (Marientod), ca. 1310, Eigentum des Kaiser Friedrich-Museums-Vereins. © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie. Photo: Volker-H. Schneider.
| BERLIN.- Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz, Gemäldegalerie, presents today Rothko / Giotto – Tactility in Painting, on view through May 3, 2009. An exhibition of the Gemäldegalerie in cooperation with the German Institute of Art History (Max-Planck-Institute) and Daimler Contemporary, Berlin. Mark Rothko (1903-1970) was one of the primary representatives of Abstract Expressionism of the New York School of Painting. His Color Field Paintings created from the 1950's on, and for which he is famous, are still celebrated today. Throughout his life, Rothko dealt with philosophic, aesthetical and historiographical issues, by means of which he constantly redefined and questioned his own position as an artist. His ideas have recently been published in "The Artist's Reality" edited by his son Christopher Rothko, but written in the late 1930s. Rothko's thoughts, published in this text, as...More
| | Sotheby's February 2009 Contemporary Art Evening Sale Achieves $25,785,250 | LONDON.- Tonight’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale at Sotheby’s London saw 25 of the 27 works offered sell, realising a total of £17,879,250 ($25,785,250) within the estimate of £16.5-23.1 million. More than 200 clients registered to bid in the auction, which was 92.6% sold by lot – one of the highest ever achieved for a February sale in this category at Sotheby’s – and 90.7% sold by value. The sale established a new auction record for a Venezia series painting by Italy’s foremost Post-War artist Lucio Fontana, and witnessed three works sold for over £1 million, seven for over $1 million....More
| | Edgar Degas. Intimity and Pose Opens Today at Hamburger Kunsthalle | HAMBURG.- Hamburger Kunsthalle presents today Edgar Degas. Intimity and Pose, on view through May 3, 2009. In addition to his many well-known pastels and paintings, the French Impressionist Edgar Degas (1834–1917) also made numerous sculptures, but the large majority of these were never presented to the public. Shortly after his death, the figures of dancers, bathers and racehorses he had originally modelled in wax were secured, and in 1919 they were cast in bronze. The exhibition Intimacy and Pose...More
| | Utopia: Qiu Anxiong - What Do You Dream Of? The Best of All Possible Worlds! | COPENHAGEN.- A 25 metres long, 42 tons heavy Chinese train carriage stops in Arken Museum of Modern Art's unique exhibition space The Art Axis, ready to take the museum's visitors on a journey unlike any other. A journey into China's past, presence and future. Into deliberations of the good life and the good society. Of the dreams we have today - for ourselves and for the world....More
| | SFMOMA Explores Unconventional Approach to Exhibiting Architecture with Patterns of Speculation | SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- From February 6 through July 7, 2009, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) features Patterns of Speculation: J. MAYER H., the first solo museum exhibition of work by the German architecture studio J. MAYER H.
Organized by the San Francisco Museum of Art (SFMOMA) and Henry Urbach, SFMOMA's Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design, the exhibition is unorthodox in that it combines two approaches to showing architecture in a ...More
| | The Contemporary Jewish Museum Presents Today "Jews on Vinyl" | SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- What do Bagels and Bongos, Israeli Disco Fever, and When You are in Love the Whole World is Jewish have in common? They are just a few of the vintage record titles featured in the Contemporary Jewish Museum's exhibition, Jews on Vinyl. On view February 6 through June 9, 2009, Jews on Vinyl is a unique exhibition based on the new book by Roger Bennett and Josh Kun-And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl: The Jewish Past as Told by the Records We Have Loved and Lost (Crown Press, 2008), which spans the history...More
| | The Best is Often the Memories - Photographic Portraits of Romy Schneider Opens | HAMBURG.-Museum Fur Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg presents today The Best is often the Memories - Photographic Portraits of Romy Schneider, on view through April 13, 2009. Herbert List, Max Scheler, Roger Fritz, F. C. Gundlach, Will McBride, Peter Brüchmann, Werner Bokelberg, Helga Kneidl and Robert Lebeck took photos of Romy Schneider in quite different ways, as a young girl, in her film roles, together with her children, apparently unobserved in everyday situations or in set poses and dressed up in various costumes, merry or pensive, beautiful and fragile. More than 140 pictures will be on show, of which about 40 are being exhibited for the first time. ...More
| | Mapping the Mountains: The Photographs of George Masa Opens at Asheville Art Museum | ASHEVILLE, NC.- The Asheville Art Museum presents today Mapping the Mountains: The Photographs of George Masa, on view through July 5, 2009. George Masa (1881 – 1933) was born Masahara Iizuka in Japan. At the age of 24, Iizuka came...More
| | Evolving Eden: Three Photographic Perspectives at The Sheldon Museum of Art | LINCOLN, NE.- The Sheldon Museum of Art presents today Evolving Eden: Three Photographic Perspectives during Lincoln PhotoFest, a community celebration of photography. Artists Arno Minkkinen, Hans Eijkelboom and Edward Burtynsky express diverse viewpoints and a collective consciousness of the human experience. Minkkinen will open the exhibition with a Keynote Address at 5:30 p.m. followed...More
| | Prominent National Dealers Bring Art World to Inaugural Dallas Art Fair | DALLAS, TX.- In a nod to the city’s burgeoning cultural arts scene and in a first for the city of Dallas, the inaugural Dallas Art Fair will make its debut Friday, February 6 through Sunday, February 8, 2009. A preview Gala will be held on Thursday evening, February 5, benefiting Booker T. Washington School for the Performing ...More
| | Matti Braun Featured at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein | VADUZ, LICHTENSTEIN.- The Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein presents today the first extensive museum exhibition of works by the Cologne based artist Matti Braun. His works enable the viewer to become immersed in atmospheric spaces characterised by an eminently clear and precise aesthetic. With the exhibition title Kola, Matti Braun (*1968) takes us into the Arctic tundra, to the northern shores of the White Sea. On Russia’s Kola peninsula, near the Norwegian and Finnish borders, unique rock formations have remained virtually unchanged for more than two and a half thousand million years. in 1970, the peninsula was therefore chosen as the site for the so-called Kola Superdeep Borehole. By 1994, it had been drilled to a depth of more than 12,000 metres, making it the deepest borehole in the world. At the same time, Kola is threatened by the environmental impact of radioactive waste, both from civilian power plants and from the spe...More
| | Everson Presents Renowned Sculptor Nancy Jurs | SYRACUSE, NY.- The Everson Museum of Art presents the work of sculptor Nancy Jurs in an exhibition titled 50/50: Nancy Jurs, February 7 – May 3, 2009. This exhibition will utilize the Everson’s landmark I.M. Pei building by displaying Jurs’ work in four main gallery spaces. “Nancy Jurs has built an impressive body of work during her 40 year career,” said Debora Ryan, Everson Museum of Art Senior Curator. “We are excited to bring such a dynamic exhibition of sculpture to Syracuse.”...More
| | ICA Boston Presents First Museum Survey of Street Artist Shepard Fairey | BOSTON, MA.- Shepard Fairey, the Los Angeles-based street artist behind the red, white, and blue Obama campaign image that swept the globe-is the subject of an exciting new exhibition organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. The 20-year retrospective, the first solo show of the artist's work, explores the breadth of Fairey's career. In addition to the now iconic Obama poster, the exhibition includes approximately 200 works, ranging from Fairey's renowned Obey Giant stencil to screen prints of political revolutionaries and rock stars, to recent mixed-media works and a major new commission for the ICA. Pedro H. Alonzo, a longtime champion of Fairey's work in the U.S. and Europe, is the ICA's guest curator of the exhibition. In complement to the exhibition, Fairey will be creating public art works at sites around Boston. Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand opens Feb. 6 and runs through Aug. 16, 2009. The exhibition ...More
| | Animals in the Drawing Room: Portraits by Mari Kloeppel at Crocker Art Museum | SACRAMENTO, CA.-Personalities, thoughts and sometimes even a sense of humor shine through in Mari Kloeppel's animal portraits. Ten of the artist's works will be on display in her first museum exhibition in Animals in the Drawing Room: Portraits by Mari Kloeppel, on view at the Crocker Art Museum from February 6 through May 31, 2009. Inspired by the color, detail and draftsmanship of the old masters, such as Jan van Eyck, Albrecht Dürer and Johannes Vermeer, Kloeppel's technique is certainly traditional, but her approach to painting animals is not. These are portraits. For each painting she studies her subjects thoroughly, looking for just the right pose and expression that captures their distinct identities....More
| | Rubin Museum of Art Presents First Exhibition Devoted to Historical Tibetan Artist | NEW YORK.- The same year that Sir Joshua Reynolds painted Samuel Johnson, a venerable lama in the southeastern-most province of Tibet ordered silver finials for a set of paintings on cloth called thangkas. By that time in 1772, the 72-year-old Situ Panchen Chökyi Jungne had already single-handedly revitalized an entire Tibetan artistic tradition. Situ Panchen's artistic achievement and influence will be explored by the Rubin Museum of Art from February 6 to August 17, 2009 in Patron and Painter: Situ Panchen and the Revival of the Encampment Style. As the first exhibition ever, anywhere, to examine the oeuvre of a historical Tibetan artist and his workshop, the exhibition paints a picture of a brilliant polymath who greatly influenced the painting, literary arts, ...More
| | George Eastman House fills Conservatory with flowers Feb. 6-21, Mirroring George Eastman's 1909 Order | ROCHESTER, N.Y.- George Eastman House presents virtual springtime, with the 15th annual exhibition The Dutch Connection: George Eastman's Conservatory in Winter Bloom, on view Friday, Feb. 6 through Saturday, Feb. 21. This colorful, interpretive exhibition will feature thousands of flowering bulbs, re-creating Eastman's 1909 display of flowers from Holland — ordered from the same Dutch company Eastman used. The two-week display is a welcome treat for the eyes and nose in the midst of winter. The Conservatory display each week will feature more than 2,000 tulips, hyacinths, daffodils, amaryllis, and freesias, in vibrant shades of white, yellow, rosy pink, soft orange, salmon copper, scarlet, plum, lavender, and deep blue — the same colors Eastman featured 100 years ago. In addition, tropical orchids will be displayed throughout the restored rooms of Eastman's house, courtesy of the Genesee Region Orchid Society. Al...More
| | The Hand and the Soul - LeWitt, Slutzky, Iliescu Opens at UVa Art Museum | CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- The University of Virginia Art Museum presents today The Hand and the Soul - LeWitt, Slutzky, Iliescu, on view through April 19, 2009. Conceptual Art (1969) reads: "Once the idea of the piece is established in the artist's mind and the final form is decided, the process is carried out blindly. There are many side effects that the artist cannot imagine. These may be used as ideas for new works." Robert Slutzky defines as his aesthetic foundation a theory of transparency in which "the transparent ceases to be that which is perfectly clear and becomes instead that which is clearly ambiguous." LeWitt's and Slutzky's assertions of artistic process are central to The Hand and the Soul: LeWitt, Slutzky, Iliescu, an exhibition that includes a wall and a line drawing by LeWitt, one of Slutzky's grand canvases, and a set of Sanda Iliescu's collages. In each artist's imagery, rational order gives rise to se...More
| | Thomas Bayrle. I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore | BARCELONA.-Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona presents today Thomas Bayrle. I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore, on view through April 19, 2009. This exhibition offers an overall vision of the praxis of German artist Thomas Bayrle (Berlin, 1937) from the end of the 1960s until now. The beginnings of his work were conceived in a key historical, (political and social maybe get rid of politican and social – 'historical' should do the trick) moment in the recent history of Europe, at the end of the 60s. This was a moment defined by the need to create a new conception of the cultural identity and aesthetic sensibility of a country in a state of upheaval, Germany. Frankfurt, the city Thomas Bayrle was ...More
| | Sotheby's Spring Sale of Indian & Southeast Asian Art to be Held March 18, 2009 | NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s auction of Indian and Southeast Asian Art will be held on March 18th, 2009, during the Spring Asia Week sales. The sale consists of 120 lots, including fine examples of Modern and Contemporary painting and photography, Indian Miniatures, and ancient Himalayan and Indian Works of Art of ...More
| | Museum of American Finance Announces Search for New Director | NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of American Finance announced it has begun the search for an executive director to provide leadership in advancing a compelling vision for the Museum in partnership with the staff and trustees. Key issues include expanding the Museum’s board of trustees, broadening the base of ongoing ...More
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