| Laguna Art Museum opens a retrospective on artist Clarence Hinkle and The Group of Eight | | New Jersey-born Artist Dan Colen's first solo exhibition in Paris opens at Gagosian Gallery | | First comprehensive exhibition in three decades of George Bellows' prolific career to open at National Gallery of Art | 
Clarence Hinkle, In the Hammock, 1929. Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches. Payton Family Collection.
LAGUNA BEACH, CA.- —In summer 2012, Laguna Art Museum presents a retrospective on artist Clarence Hinkle (1880–1960) in Clarence Hinkle, on display June 10-October 7, 2012. On display concurrently as a complementary exhibition is Modern Spirit and the Group of Eight. Hinkle was a member of the Group of Eight. Curated by Janet Blake, Curator of Collections at Laguna Art Museum, Clarence Hinkle features over one hundred paintings dating from the early 1900s through the 1950s. A full-color, hardcover book accompanies both the Hinkle exhibition and the complementary exhibition Modern Spirit and the Group of Eight. Clarence Hinkle was an early twentieth-century artist who radiated the spirit of modernism. Born in Auburn, California in 1880, Hinkle was one of only a few native Californians of his generation who became nationally known artists. His ... More | | 
Work by Dan Colen. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
PARIS.- Gagosian Gallery announced Dan Colen's first solo exhibition in Paris. "Out of the Blue, Into the Black" is a eulogy in three parts comprising paintings, installation, and a sculpture. The title conflates two songs that open and close Neil Young's 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps: "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" and "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)", with its famous line "It's better to burn out than to fade away," which Young wrote in reference to his personal fears of becoming obsolete and, correspondingly, to the then-recent deaths of Elvis Presley and Sid Vicious, and which was invoked many years later by Kurt Cobain in his suicide note. Similarly, Colen has used the lyrics here to evoke a fear of the erosion of influence, to point to the ways in which death inflects celebration, and to remind us of what we try to hold on to, even as it eludes our grasp. Colen began making "confetti" paintings in the wake of his fr ... More | | 
George Bellows, Madeline Davis, 1914. Oil on panel, 76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.). Lowell and Sandra Mintz.
WASHINGTON, DC.- When George Bellows died at the age of 42 in 1925, he was hailed as one of the greatest artists America had yet produced. The first comprehensive exhibition of his career in more than three decades premieres in Washington, DC, from June 10 through October 8, 2012. George Bellows includes some 130 paintings, drawings, and lithographs of tenement children, boxers, and the urban landscape of New York, as well as Maine seascapes, sports images, World War I subjects, family portraits, and Woodstock, NY, scenes. "George Bellows is arguably the most important figure in the generation of artists who negotiated the transition from the Victorian to the modern era in American culture," said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. "This exhibition provides the most complete account of his achievements to date and will ... More |
| The San Diego Museum of Art presents exhibition of monumental Gothic tapestries | | Chopin document selling the copyrights to two of his finest works to his English publishers up for sale | | Butler Institute of American Art presents last works by master painter Joan Mitchell | 
Probably produced under the direction of Passchier Grenier, tapestry merchant, Tournai (Belgium), 1470s, Assault on Asilah (detail), 1475-1500, wool and silk, Diocese of Sigüenza-Guadalajara and Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, Pastrana, Spain. © Fundación Carlos de Amberes. Photograph by Paul M.R. Maeyaert.
SAN DIEGO, CA.- The Pastrana Tapestries, among the finest surviving Gothic tapestries in the world, will be on view at The San Diego Museum of Art from June 10 to Sept. 9, 2012 in an exhibition titled The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries. The impressive exhibition is comprised of four recently restored, monumental tapestries measuring 12 feet by 36 feet. Woven in Tournai (in modern-day Belgium) at the end of the 15th century, the tapestries were commissioned for the Portuguese Royal Court and commemorate King Afonso V's conquest in 1471 of the Moroccan cities of Asilah and Tangier, located near the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar. They are among the rarest and earliest examples of tapestries ... More | | 
A rare one-page document signed by Chopin is currently up at auction.
AMHERST, NH.- Frederic Chopin, a Polish composer (1810–1849) considered one of the great masters of Romantic music. His piano works are often technically demanding, with an emphasis on nuance and expressive depth. A rare one-page document signed by Chopin is currently up at auction, from New Hampshire based RR Auction in June. A receipt, dated March 1840, for the sale of the copyrights to two of his musical compositions. In part: “Received of Messrs. Wessel & Co.…Frith Street, Soho Square, London, at the price or sum of Sixteen Pounds…all my Copyright and Interest, present and future, vested and contingent or otherwise, for all the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland of and in the following works.” A secretary has filled in the title and a brief description of each work, “Grande Valse brillante Opus 42,” and “Quatre Mazurkas, Op 41,” including a musical staff showing the meter, key, ... More | | 
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992), EDRITA FRIED, 1981 (detail). Oil on canvas in four parts, 117 x 300 inches, © Estate of Joan Mitchell. Courtesy Joan Mitchell Foundation and Cheim & Read, New York.
YOUNGSTOWN, OH.- The Butler Institute of American Art, located at 524 Wick Avenue in Youngstown, will present works by famed American Abstract Expressionist painter Joan Mitchell beginning June 10 and continuing through August 5, 2012. This premier exhibition, titled Joan Mitchell (1925-92): The Last Decade, will be seen within the Butler’s Beeghly Schaff and Ford Galleries, located on the main level of the museum. This works in this exhibition include oils on canvas and limited editioned lithographs. All the works are from the collection of the Joan Mitchell Foundation, courtesy of Cheim & Read Gallery (both located in New York City). According to Butler Director Dr. Louis Zona, “The Butler Institute, our country’s first museum of American art, is honored ... More |
| "Seeing the World Within: Charles Seliger in the 1940s" opens at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice | | Prized painting owned by high society writer, editor and painter, Fleur Cowles, for sale at Bonhams | | Flip Your Field: Exhibition of Abstract art from the University of Michigan Museum of Art Collection opens | 
Sentinel (Sentinella), 1947. Oil on canvas, 33 ½ x 29 ½ inches (85.1 x 75 cm). Collection of Elaine Weitzen.
VENICE.- This exhibition brings to Venice and to Italy for the first time a corpus of works—thirty-three paintings and drawings—by American Surrealist painter, Charles Seliger (1926-2009), working in the 1940s, the beginning of his career, that trace his rapid development from youthful enthusiasm and talent to a mature artist, confident in his own, original artistic vision. As an adolescent Seliger showed an precocious interest in painting and modern art. By the time he was 20 he had developed a vocabulary and syntax of his own which were to be the basis of his future career. The fantastic imagery, inventive processes and creative freedom peculiar to Surrealism enthralled him, and led him, between 1942 and 1950, the period to which the works in this exhibition belong, towards his own aesthetic maturity. Seliger’s theory and practice were profoundly indebted to Surrealist themes and to Surrealist automatism as a key to unlocking the creative impulse. Convinced of ... More | | 
Fleur Cowles was a leading light in the worlds of design, publishing and advertising. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A strikingly colourful surrealist painting from the collection of Fleur Cowles is to go on sale at Bonhams Impressionist and Modern Art sale on 19th June at New Bond Street, London. Enrico Donati’s stunning painting Fleurs surréalistes, which is estimated at £20,000 – 30,000, formed part of Fleur’s cherished collection, comprised of works by artists she knew personally. Fleur Cowles was a leading light in the worlds of design, publishing and advertising, establishing her name as an important high society editor with Flair, her short-lived but hugely influential magazine. She developed a legendary A-list address book, counting among her friends a suite of American presidents and celebrities including Elizabeth Taylor and Princess Grace of Monaco and was asked by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to be his special envoy to Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953. A painter herself, Fleur’s works we ... More | | 
László Moholy-Nagy (United States, 1895–1946), Abstract Composition (Abstrakte Komposition), circa 1925. Watercolor, India ink, and collage on off-white wove paper. Museum purchase, 1953/2.9
ANN ARBOR, MICH.- When University of Michigan Museum of Art Director Joe Rosa brought up the idea of organizing an exhibition of material completely removed from her field of expertise as part of the Museum’s new Flip Your Field series supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Celeste Brusati jumped at the chance. As UM Professor of History of Art, Women’s Studies, and Art and Design, whose scholarly interests center around seventeenth-‐century Dutch art and culture, she is well versed in multiple methodological and conceptual approaches to works of art. And according to Professor Brusati, though seemingly a world apart, in many ways twentieth-century abstract prints and Dutch realist imagery share more than meets the eye. “I believe all figuration involves abstraction; one has to abstract in order to make a very precise, naturalist, realist image, we just don’t recognize it as such,” sa ... More |
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| British artist Craigie Horsfield's Slow Time and the Present opens at Kunsthalle Basel | | Walter Maciel Gallery opens first solo exhibition of paintings by Colin Doherty | | Catalina Island Museum announces Rock n' Roll Symposium dedicated to the British Invasion | 
Craigie Horsfield, Film still.
BASEL.- The exhibition Slow Time and the Present is posited on the idea that the past, as we conceive it, is part of the present, a present that has dimension, a deep or profound present in which our thinking about the past accounts for parts of our experience for which we have no other resource. The seeming otherness of the past, its separations from us, both its strangeness and its familiarity, are not aspects of a past that is elsewhere and distant but of a present that is complex and often opaque. The title Slow Time and the Present concerns a sense of the duration of our attention and of life as something other than the busy and often frenetic onrush of everyday experience and our consequent separations from a consciously lived present. it concerns the notion of a present we may inhabit, a dilated or deep present. About twenty years ago, ideas of “slow time” that I had been working with since the late sixties began to be associated with the earlier work of histori ... More | | 
Colin Doherty, Little red rincon 30 x 30. Photo: Courtesy Walter Maciel Gallery.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Walter Maciel Gallery present the first solo exhibition of paintings by Colin Doherty who recently moved to Lexington, Kentucky after 15 years of living in Los Angeles. Doherty’s work was introduced last summer in the group exhibition Size Matters. The paintings for this exhibition were started in January upon Doherty’s arrival to the Commonwealth of Kentucky and reflect his observations and experience living in a new rural community deep within the Ohio valley. The subjects range from the ever changing moods of the area’s large sky, rolling hills and archaic architecture during winter and spring which starkly differed in comparison to the temperament and contemporary landscape of Southern California. Having spent most of his adult life living near the ocean, the confines of the impending landscape and the unpredictable weather led to a new approach to his painting with a conde ... More | | 
Peter and Gordon.
AVALON.- On December 10, 1963 the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite introduced the American public to an obscure band from Liverpool that was causing near riots among teenagers in Great Britain. The following day disc jockeys in America were inundated with calls from anxious teens to play the music of The Beatles. When the band played on the Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964 nearly half of all American television sets were tuned to the broadcast. Two months later, the “British Invasion” was in full swing, and Beatles songs held the top 5 spots of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, a feat that has never been equaled. During the next three years British groups dominated British and American charts. Groups and individuals like Peter and Gordon, The Animals, Manfred Mann, Petula Clark, Herman’s Hermits, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Dave Clark Five, Donovan and the Spencer Davis Group changed the course of American ... More |
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 Institute for Contemporary Culture celebrates Beethoven's beloved piano sonatas with Luminato TORONTO.- The Institute for Contemporary Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is pleased to announce the world premiere of Beethoven 1-32 by Jorinde Voigt. Displayed on the Museum's Level 3 from June 9 to October 12, 2012, this exhibition is presented in partnership with Luminato. Beethoven 1-32, commissioned by Luminato as part of its 2012 festival, features a series of 32 original drawings by Voigt, a rising star of the German art scene. It complements Luminato’s presentation of Stewart Goodyear: The Beethoven Marathon, Goodyear’s highly anticipated performance of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas, performed all in one day, in the order in which they were composed. Voigt’s works provide their own distinct visual interpretation and expression of the emotive power of Beethoven’s piano music. The exhibition opens just prior to the Luminato festival and runs ... More Megan Whitmarsh's rendered sculptural and painted objects on view at Jack Hanley Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- Jack Hanley Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Megan Whitmarsh. Using hand-stitching and embroidery, Whitmarsh renders sculptural and “painted” objects that evoke popular culture as well as abstract and gestural painting. The result, a giant fabric collage of personal and cultural ephemera, reckons both past and present imagery in a rueful Pop art. The word “revolution” to the cultural mind may signify a permanent change to existing conditions, but the literal meaning is to rotate back to a point of departure. Something can be transformed, but not eliminated entirely - a rule of thumb. To Whitmarsh, this reading provokes a needed multiplicity and contrast. By faithfully recreating and re-interpreting familiar objects and forms from the 70s to today, her work acknowledges and projects the shifts in our collective material history. Megan Whitmarsh lives ... More Hunterdon Art Museum presents Nancy Cohen: Precarious Exchange CLINTON, NJ.- The Hunterdon Art Museum, the region’s premier venue for contemporary art, craft and design, is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of the work of Jersey City based artist Nancy Cohen. The exhibition will open on June 10, 2012 and continue through September 9, 2012. There will be an opening reception for the artist on Sunday, June 10 from 2pm-4pm. Nancy Cohen creates forms that embody opposing forces. Her sculptures, comprised of glass, resin, handmade paper, wax, metal, and other found objects, are rooted in nature and in the world around us. By using materials as diverse as cement, glass and transulscent cords, for example, Cohen explores such opposing themes as fear and desire, and weight and lightness. For her exhibition at the Hunterdon Art Museum, Cohen will show several new works. Her sculpture “Metamorphic Traces” ... More Artistic positions that focus on the critical analysis of violent conflicts in the media at Haus der Kunst MUNICH.- The exhibition presents artistic positions that focus on the critical analysis of violent conflicts in the media, beginning with the First Gulf War of 1991 to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and ending with the events of the Arab Spring of 2011. Because pictures are never perceived in isolation but rather in the context of other, existing ones, the selected works also explore the pictorial tradition in which such images exist and the content they address beyond that of the individual image. The title Image Counter Image refers to the phenomenon of visual arms races, i.e. to the fact that media images compete with each other, simultaneously supplant each other, and "battle" other images. According to Susan Sontag, the "framing" of an event as an image has a "determining influence in shaping what catastrophes and crises we pay attention to, ... More Haroon Mirza awarded Daiwa Foundation Art Prize 2012 LONDON.- The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation announced Haroon Mirza as the winner of the Daiwa Foundation Art Prize 2012. The Prize offers a unique opportunity for a British artist to gain exposure to Japan’s visual arts sector. Mirza is now invited to hold a solo exhibition at SCAI THE BATHHOUSE in Tokyo in autumn 2012. In addition, he receives a £5,000 participation fee plus travel and accommodation costs for a seven-day period in Japan to coincide with the opening of the exhibition. Mirza was awarded the Northern Art Prize in 2010 and held a solo exhibition at London’s prestigious Lisson Gallery in 2011. His work attempts to isolate the perceptual distinctions between noise, sound and music and explore the possibility of the visual and acoustic as one singular aesthetic form. These ideas are examined through lo-fi yet complex assemblages and installations that employ ... More |
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