| Guggenheim presents expansive exhibition of mid-20th century art from the permanent collection | | Exhibition of large-scale recent drawings by Albert Oehlen opens at Gagosian in Rome | | New exhibition at the Morgan explores the brilliance of Winston Churchill's writings and speeches | 
Mark Rothko, Untitled (Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red), 1949. Oil on canvas, 207 x 167.6 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Gift, Elane and Werner Dannheisser and The Dannheisser Foundation© 2012 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Kris McKay/Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- From June 8 to September 12, 2012, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949-1960. Comprising approximately 100 works by nearly 70 artists, the exhibition explores international trends in abstraction in the decade before the Guggenheim's iconic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building opened in October 1959, when vanguard artists working in the United States and Europe pioneered such influential art forms as Abstract Expressionism, Cobra, and Art Informel. In the 1950s, many countries ended their postwar isolationism and entered a phase of cultural openness and ... More | | 
Albert Oehlen, 2012. Artist Portrait© the Artist. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photo: Oliver Schultz-Berndt.
ROME.- Gagosian Rome presents an exhibition of large-scale recent drawings by Albert Oehlen, following an exhibition of paintings at Gagosian New York earlier this year. For Oehlen, the practice of drawing, like painting, is a subject in itself. Considering its natural expressionistic requirements and conditions, he reflects on the mark and its inverse, counteracting the gestural intuitiveness that is intrinsic to the act with an artificiality contrived according to parameters known only to himself. Using elemental charcoal as his only tool, he applies the line vigorously, sometimes doubling on his own trace, smudging the medium, or completely erasing it in parts. Eventually the composition is fixed on the broad expanse of paper. These large works have a raw elegance, composed of apparently informal gestures—bold, sweeping lines, smudges, and swipes—in contrast to sometimes self-consciously awkward capitulations. No ... More | | 
Winston Churchill, 1941© Estate of Yousuf Karsh.
NEW YORK, NY.- —Sir Winston Churchill (1874–1965) is considered by many historians to be among the finest orators and writers of the twentieth century. His speeches galvanized Great Britain at its darkest hour during World War II, and his letters to President Franklin D. Roosevelt were instrumental in building support for the war effort from the United States, the country of Churchill’s mother’s birth. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 for his contribution to the written and spoken word, Churchill became an icon of the post-war age, an internationally recognized leader admired throughout the free world. Churchill: The Power of Words, on view from June 8 through September 23, 2012 at The Morgan Library & Museum, brings to life the man behind the words through some sixty-five documents, artifacts, and recordings, ranging from edited typescripts of his speeches to his Nobel Medal and Citation ... More |
| International exhibition explores impact of photography on Post-Impressionist painters | | Bonhams June Native American Art Auction in San Francisco brings a stellar $1.4 million | | Kemper Museum in Kansas City names current Curator Barbara O'Brien as Director | 
Maurice Denis, Anne-Marie, Bernadette, and Noële under an arcade, Bologna, October−November 1907. Gelatin silver print, 5 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Gift of Mme Claire Denis, through the Société des Amis du Musée d’Orsay, 2006. Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- — An exhibition exploring the influence of the handheld Kodak camera on artists of the Post-Impressionist era will open at the Indianapolis Museum of Art on June 8, 2012. Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard examines how the photographs of seven European artists relate to the paintings and prints for which they are best known. These artists did not consider photographs their official work and never exhibited them during their lifetimes. Featuring more than 200 photographs and 60 paintings, drawings and prints, the exhibition includes work by the painters Pierre Bonnard, George Breitner, Maurice Denis, Henri Evenepoel, Félix Vallotton, and Edouard Vuillard as well as French printmaker Henri Rivière. Snapshot will be on view ... More | | 
A Powhoge storage jar, San Ildefonso variety, on a rounded base, painted in three registers of design panels worked in stylized feather elements and complementary crescents. Height 17 1/2in, diameter 18in. Sold for $43,750; Est. $25,000-35,000. Photo: Courtesy of Bonhams.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Bonhams announced a strong sales result of $1,456,776 from its Native American auctions, June 4 in San Francisco. Approximately 500 lots of rare art and artifacts from three sales, the Robert “Trader Bob” Bayuk Collection of Native American Art, the G. Lorenzo Fritz Collection of Historic Native American Photographs, and a various owners sale of Fine Native American Art, attracted a great audience of varying collecting levels. The Robert “Trader Bob” Bayuk Collection, which featured an important selection of Native American basketry, took in $716,250. It was led by the $35,000 sale of a Chumash polychrome basket. Seldom-seen offerings from the Chumash tribe of Southern California, whose last known weaver passed away in the early 20th century, did well in the sale, with several lots taking top ... More | | 
O’Brien is a curator and critic with a strong record of scholarship and advocacy in the contemporary art arena. Photo: Bruce Mathews.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- The Board of Trustees of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art announced that Barbara O’Brien, the Museum’s current chief curator and director of exhibitions and collections, will become the Kemper Museum’s new director effective immediately. O’Brien is a curator and critic with a strong record of scholarship and advocacy in the contemporary art arena. Until the end of the year, she will serve as Director and Chief Curator. “The Museum’s trustees and I are excited to promote from within the organization,” said R. Crosby Kemper, founder and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Museum. Kemper added, “Barbara O’Brien brings a wealth of curatorial and executive experience to the position.” O’Brien said about her appointment, “I am honored to be asked by the Board of Trustees to lead the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art as it approaches its twentieth anniversary. My career has taken me fr ... More |
| "On Vacation with Winslow Homer: Wood Engravings of an American Master" at Morris Museum | | First UK solo exhibition of American artist Nancy Holt opens at Haunch of Venison | | 53 Galleries, the introduction of artists from Spain and Portugal and worldwide launch of PINTA Design | 
Winslow Homer, Low Tide, 1870. Wood engraving on paper, Private Collection ( Every Saturday magazine, August 6, 1870)
MORRISTOWN, NJ.- This summer, visitors to the Morris Museum can enjoy the pleasures of the seashore and countryside, as seen through the eyes of American master Winslow Homer. The Morris Museum is pleased to announce the new exhibition, On Vacation with Winslow Homer: Wood Engravings of an American Master, which will be on view from June 7 – October 7, 2012. Focusing on the artist’s early career as an illustrator, the exhibition features twenty-eight wood engravings. The selected works reflect the timeless appeal of Homer’s love of country life at its simplest and his delight in depicting children and adults in a range of vacation activities such as bathing, hiking, fishing, clambakes, picnics, games, and 4th of July fireworks. Winslow Homer (1836-1910) began his career as a graphic artist, and to a large extent he remained one his entire life. Early on, Homer demonstrated an observant eye, intuitive perc ... More | | 
Nancy Holt, Sunlight in Sun Tunnels, 1976. (detail). Composite of thirty photographs of sunlight and shadow in one tunnel photographed every half hour from 6.30 AM to 9.00 PM in 14 July 1976 Composite inkjet print taken from original 35mm colour transparencies; printed on archival rag paper 2012.
LONDON.- Haunch of Venison presents the first UK solo exhibition of American artist Nancy Holt Nancy Holt is one of the leading artists of her generation and a pioneer in site-specific art and film and video work. She is one of a group of important international artists who initiated the Land art movement in the late 1960s. This exhibition will include over one hundred photographs from 1967 onwards, many seen for the first time in public. Early Land artists, such as Michael Heizer, Richard Long, Walter de Maria and Robert Smithson, made revolutionarysteps when they began to work outside of the studio and gallery and instead physically made work in the landscape. The movement was, in part, a rejection of the materialistic modern world and an exploration of our human rela- ... More | | 
Leonora Carrington, En esta casa, 1957. Image courtesy of Oscar Roman, Mexico.
LONDON.- At PINTA London 2012, visitors can expect to see seminal work from the artists of Latin America in this third UK edition of the show. Particular highlights will include Brazilian Lygia Clark, one of the most original artists of the 20th century, and Chilean Matilde Perez, one of the most celebrated female artists of the kinetic genre. For the first time, PINTA will present the works of Spanish and Portuguese artists as well as the launch of the inaugural PINTA Design, a staple of future shows in London and New York. PINTA will welcome 53 international galleries specialising in Latin American art, from Durban Segnini in Miami and Luciana Brito Galeria in Sao Paulo, to Max Wigram in London. Artist highlights at the show will include the Brazilian Lygia Clark exhibiting with Alison Jacques Gallery, presenting a range of her most iconic performances. Lygia is renowned for transforming the practice of geometric abstr ... More |
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| Swiss duo Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs open photography exhibition at Foam in Amsterdam | | First solo exhibition in the UK of new paintings by the Swedish artist Anna Camner at Faggionato Fine Art | | "Dan Walsh: Uncommon Ground" opens at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art | 
Book Cam, 2011 © Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs.
AMSTERDAM.- The Swiss duo Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs (1979) are viewed by many as one of the most promising teams in contemporary photography. Since 2003 the pair have worked together on a variety of projects on the cutting edge of photography, sculpture and installation art. Their work provides intelligent and often ironic commentary on the history of photography, the nature of photos, how cameras operate and the role of the photographer. Few subjects remain untouched in their complex yet highly accessible work where reality collides with fiction and humour converges with seriousness. This summer Foam will be the first museum in the Netherlands to organise an exhibition of work by Onorato & Krebs, consisting of a unique presentation of new work and objects from their previous projects. Tayio Onorato and Nico Krebs became acquainted during their studies at the Zurich University of the Arts. Typical of their oeuvre is the interplay ... More | | 
Anna Camner, Untitled, 2012 (detail). Oil on Board, 34 x 38 cm. Photo: Courtesy Faggionato Fine Art.
LONDON.- Faggionato Fine Art announced the first solo exhibition in the UK of new paintings by the Swedish artist Anna Camner. The show titled Dust, Dirt and Dingy Weeds builds upon the recent success Camner has achieved, exhibiting internationally in Europe and America. On the outskirts of Stockholm, Sweden, Camner's childhood home became the arena from which she began to explore the wonders of the natural world. It is these experiences that sowed the seeds and continue to inform her representation of the magic central to her childhood. She noticed that as winter gave way to spring, and the blossoms and leaves of summer were addressed by the autumn fall, that vital to this cycle was the decay of beauty. In this context, the animistic interpretation of the natural environment is almost impossible to avoid. Camner's paintings are neither purely botanical, nor fantastical: not wholly naturalistic, and yet not com- ... More | | 
Dan Walsh, Stall, 2011. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.
PROVIDENCE, RI.- The Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design announces the upcoming exhibition Dan Walsh: UnCommon Ground, a show of recent paintings and handmade books by New York artist Dan Walsh. UnCommon Ground opens to the public on Friday, June 8, 2012. “UnCommon Ground is Dan Walsh’s first solo museum exhibition in America,” says Museum Director John W. Smith. “His large-scale paintings and handmade books have recently been exhibited in Paris, Seoul, Amsterdam, and Barcelona, and we’re thrilled to show his work in Providence this summer.” Judith Tannenbaum, the RISD Museum’s Richard Brown Baker Curator of Contemporary Art, says that Walsh has been devoted to abstract painting since he arrived in New York in the early 1980s, and continues to explore Minimalism’s basic language of ... More |
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 World record for leading Indian artist at Bonhams Sale of Modern and Contemporary Souh Asian Art LONDON.- A stunning image by one of India’s foremost modern artists Jehangir Sabavala led a strong selection of works by major South Asian artists at Bonhams annual summer sale of Modern and Contemporary South Asian art on 7th June in New Bond Street, London. The highlight of the sale was a serene work by one of India’s foremost modern artists Jehangir Sabavala, Vespers I which had been estimated to sell for £100,000-150,000, but after a saleroom tussle between two buyers in the room, was knocked down for £253,650. Illustrated on the cover of his monograph by Ranjit Hoskote, The Crucible of Painting: The Art of Jehangir Sabavala, Vespers I is one of Sabavala’s most important works, representing a key period of transition in the artist’s oeuvre. It was first exhibited at the Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay and then at his solo exhibition at the Commonwealth ... More First major retrospective of seminal figure in the American studio jewelry movement opens NEW YORK, NY.- Space-Light-Structure: The Jewelry of Margaret De Patta is the first major retrospective of this seminal figure in the American studio jewelry movement. The exhibition, which made its debut at the Oakland Museum of California in February, is a comprehensive overview of her oeuvre offering new scholarship on how this American Modernist influenced studio jewelry as both maker and social activist. Space-Light-Structure: The Jewelry of Margaret De Patta features 50 jewelry pieces as well as ceramics, flatware, photographs, photograms, and newly released archival material. In addition, the exhibition displays Constructivist pieces by such renowned European modernists as László Moholy-Nagy, György Kepes, and El Lissitzky, whose work shaped De Patta’s aesthetic sensibilities and vision. It will be on view at the Museum of Arts and Design through September 23, 2012. ... More South African photographer Pieter Hugo's first retrospective opens at Musée de l'Elysée LAUSANNE.- This Must Be The Place is South African photographer Pieter Hugo’s first retrospective (born in Johannesburg in 1976). Since 2003, Pieter Hugo portrays the everyday life in South Africa, as well as in Sub-Saharan Africa, two territories that he is particularly familiar with. Showing the legacy of the demise of Apartheid, its consequences on the people as well as on the landscape, issues such as the implications of global trading and post-colonialism in Africa give sense to a work that has brilliantly evolved in less than ten years to reach full international recognition. In his vision of contemporary Africa, and by means of specific aesthetics, Pieter Hugo confronts cultural and social differences between black and white, rich and poor. Through very elaborate large formats, often full frontal, he offers a very varied, almost fictional social tableau, showing environments made ... More Fake Empire: Olivo Barbieri, Rob Carter, Susan Giles, Dionisio Gonzalez, and Lee Stoetzel at Mixed Greens NEW YORK, NY.- Mixed Greens presents Fake Empire, a group exhibition curated by Lee Stoetzel. As curator and participant, Stoetzel joins four other contemporary artists who use hyperbole to question our absurd exploitation of important historic sites. Churches, monuments, and ancient architecture are constructed, spliced together, or torn apart to create visually jarring images and objects. Currently, American tourists visiting the Giza Plateau are recommended by Trip Advisor to eat at the KFC/Taco Bell situated at the foot of the Sphinx. If you can’t make it to Egypt, you can stay at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas to visit the half-scale Sphinx and the half-scale Eiffel Tower within a few minutes of each other. Modern buildings are built next to structures hundreds of years old; Disney has made it hard to decipher cartoons from historic precedent; and mashups are de rigueur. Italian ... More Solo exhibition of new work by Ellen Jong opens at Allegra LaViola NEW YORK, NY.- Allegra LaViola presents The Invisible Line, a solo exhibition of new work by Ellen Jong, curated by Mr. and Mrs. Amani Olu. The exhibition continues through July 6, 2012. The Invisible Line uses photography, video and poetry to document how Jong remembers falling in love over a four-year period leading up to her wedding day. The work is intimate and echoes the bold and provocative sentiment of Nan Goldin and Tracey Emin, but with the snapshot aesthetic of William Eggelston. Highly adept at interjecting private moments into a public space, Jong’s work provides a window into realized and uninhibited displays of passion. Where most people fail at being able to completely let go, Jong travels deep into the nether lands of love where her heart acts as a compass. The photographs on view mimic pieces to a larger puzzle, offering micro-details of when and ... More |
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