Author: Darko Topalski

LONDON.- Already acknowledged as one of the most
distinctive of the ʻNewspeak’ painters, British artist Ryan Mosley’s first major
solo exhibition opened at Alison Jacques Gallery. Admired for
what Art Review has described as ‘hyperfigurative psychocubism’, and an
approach to painting which is at once both historical and fantastical, Mosley’s
work simultaneously acknowledges a profound debt to the received genres and
traditions of art history and an exuberant willingness to subordinate such
categories to a uniquely personal painterly vision. On exhibit until 13
February, 2010.

SEDONA, AZ – For its “1^st
Friday Gallery Tour” reception on February 5th, 5-8 pm, Sedona’s Lanning Gallery
celebrates art that begins not with a blank canvas, the usual
‘something from nothing’ one associates with artistic creation, but with art
that represents ‘something from something else.’ Found object art can make potent
statements about resurrection and reinvention and four of the gallery’s most
individual artists make this process into, literally, a fine art.

LONDON.- This exhibition of 42 paintings draws on
the Royal Collection’s rich holdings of Dutch 17th-century landscapes, including
works by Jacob van Ruisdael, Aelbert Cuyp, Jan van der Heyden and Meyndert
Hobbema. By the 17th century, landscape painting was well established
as a distinct art form and one in which Netherlandish artists excelled. The fine
detail and meticulous finish of Dutch pictures appealed to British taste, and 34
of the works in the exhibition were acquired by George IV when Prince Regent
between 1809 and 1820. The ability of Dutch artists to depict mood and emotion
through landscape and the subject matter drawn from everyday life influenced the
great British painters John Constable and JMW Turner. Constable admired the
‘acres of sky expressed’ in Ruisdael’s Evening Landscape: A Windmill by a
Stream, and on seeing a seascape by Willem van de Velde the Younger, Turner
remarked, ‘Ah! That made me a painter’.

New York City – Art restorers at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will soon begin repairs to a prominent
Pablo Picasso painting damaged by a visitor last week in an unusual
accident. A visitor
attending a class at the museum last Friday lost her balance and fell into the
canvas, creating a 6-inch tear in the lower right hand corner of “The Actor,” a
more than 6-foot tall painting depicting a pink-hued acrobat.
The painting was immediately taken to
the Met’s paintings conservation department, where masterpieces are brought for
cleaning, restoration, and in rare cases, repair, the museum said in a
statement. Some reports put the painting’s value at $130 million. Another
Picasso picture from 1905, “Garcon à la Pipe,” sold for $104.2 million at
Sotheby’s in 2004.

LONG BEACH,
CA.-The Long Beach Museum of
Artannounced that 2010 marks the 60th
Anniversary of the Museum’s impressive permanent collection. To
celebrate this exciting milestone, the Museum will present an extended
exhibition series titled Celebrating Sixty, which will feature eight rotating
exhibitions that respectively highlight specific elements of the rich history of
the Museum’s collection.The first
installment of Celebrating Sixty will offer a glimpse into the past of the Long
Beach Museum of Art when they open to the public on Friday, February 5,
2010. The exhibitions will highlight the extraordinary legacy of the
Museum, offering the public an opportunity to view a variety of works from the
permanent collection and gain a more thorough understanding of the tremendous
impact that the Museum has had on the history of contemporary art in Southern
California since 1950. Many of the works presented in Celebrating Sixty have not
been seen in decades.