Author: Darko Topalski

AUBURN, AL.- Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art announces
that the Louise Hauss and Davis Brent Miller Audubon Gallery will be
closed for renovation February 15 through March 26 to allow for an upgrade of
the lighting system. We are installing new track lights that will provide more
flexibility in illumination of the exhibitions and ensure better control over
light levels and UV filtering to further safeguard the collections. We
apologize for the inconvenience, but think you’ll be delighted with what you see
at the grand reopening of the galleries — an exhibition based on one of JCSM’s
Audubon treasures, never before exhibited at the museum. On
view 27 March through 3 July, 2010.

LONDON.- Haunch of Venison London will present an
exhibition of new work by the Indian artist Jitish Kallat. Following his
acclaimed exhibition at Haunch of Venison Zürich in 2008, Kallat’s new work
showcases the full range of his visual vocabulary incorporating video,
sculptural installation, photography and the large format paintings for which he
is best known. Tackling his foundational themes of sustenance, survival
and mortality in the contemporary urban environment of Mumbai, Kallat offsets a
vivid, hand-made aesthetic with digitised renderings of streets fit-to-burst,
where the cumulative impression of daily existence is pushed to the
extreme. On view 15 February through 27 March, 2010.

MONTREAL.- While Vancouver and Toronto may have boasted
the most vibrant art scenes in Canada in the 1980s and 1990s, Winnipeg took over
in the 2000s, spurred on by artist Marcel Dzama. He quickly carved out an
international reputation for his unclassifiable, disconcerting art that reveals
a fanciful, anachronistic world. Marcel Dzama – title (Of Many Turns),
which offers a critical survey of his haunting yet outrageous work, is the
largest solo exhibition of Dzama’s art by a public gallery. It will be presented
at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal from February 4 to April 25,
2010.

PORTLAND, OR.- Among the most important and
influential artists of his generation, Cy Twombly has used mark-making and
written language as the core of his artistic practice since the late
1950s. Twombly’s work has come to define an important branch of
gestural abstraction that conflates painting and poetry, line and word. The
exhibition showcases three recent works—two virtuosic paintings and a bronze
sculpture—that illuminate the artist’s continuing engagement with process and
content, the immediacy of materials, and the continuum of history.

PALM BEACH, FL.- International Fine Art
Expositions (IFAE) founders and AIFAF organizers David and Lee Ann Lester
reported that a record 5,100 collectors attended the opening Vernissage honoring
the Norton Museum of Art Tuesday evening at the Palm Beach County Convention
Center. Sales during the first day of the fair indicate that the US art
economy is rebounding strongly – consistent with very strong auction sales in
New York on Wednesday – where a Giacometti sculpture sold for a record $105
million – a new high for any work of art. The American International
Fine Art Fair continues its run through February 8.

LONDON.- Sprüth Magers London announced an exhibition
of work by the legendary filmmaker and artist Kenneth Anger, in his first solo
show in London in over five years. Making films continuously since the
late 1940s and considered a countercultural icon, Kenneth Anger is widely
acclaimed as a pioneering and influential force in avant-garde cinema. His
groundbreaking body of work has inspired cineastes, filmmakers and artists
alike. Many channels of contemporary visual culture, from queer iconography to
MTV, similarly owe a debt to his art. On view 19 February though 27
March, 2010.