Author: Darko Topalski

Baden-Baden, Germany – Nature is making its appearance at the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden. The new show, that runs through February 08, 2009, is entitled “Nature. Contemporary art from the Altana Art Collection”. The exhibition displays a selection of approximately 80 exhibited works by painters such as Georg Baselitz, Herbert Brandl, Franz Gertsch, Roni Horn, Axel Hütte, Alex Katz, Karin Kneffel, Wolfgang Laib, Norbert Tadeusz, Robert Longo and Markus Lüpertz, showing the variety of ways and methods, in which artists of the 20th and 21st century deal with the subject “nature” and man’s interference with it.

ROANOKE, VA.-
The Taubman Museum of Art just opened an exciting exhibition.
Peter Henry Emerson led the naturalistic photography movement in order to
prove that photography could stand alone as a fine art. Born in
Cuba to an American father and an English mother, Emerson relocated with
his family to England as a teenager, where he studied science. At age 26,
Emerson took his camera in hand and began to experiment with the medium by
reacting to and against the various photographic styles that had grown up
alongside the first uses of the camera. Peter Henry Emerson and
American Naturalistic Photography on view through August 17,
2009

NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents Mike
Kelley’s “Horizontal Tracking Shots,” his first show in New York devoted
entirely to painting. Evoking painting as a series of experiences akin
to the movie camera gliding through space, capturing action as it goes, Kelley
has devised a spatial push-pull effect through the arrangement of large
polychrome panel paintings and smaller framed canvases. In the untitled colored
reliefs, individual colors pop or recede in relation to each other. The colors
of the flat support panels are determined by key colors in the organically
shaped panels that are attached to them. On  view through 23
December, 2009.

San Francisco, CA –  Warhol’s Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered will be on view at the Contemporary Jewish Museum from October 12, 2008 through January 25, 2009. The series depicts ten luminaries of Jewish culture: Sarah Bernhardt, Louis Brandeis, Martin Buber, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, George Gershwin, Franz Kafka, the Marx Brothers, Golda Meir, and Gertrude Stein. This exhibition will be the first showing on the West Coast of a complete set of paintings that Warhol made in this series. Also on view are an edition of the final-silk-screen print portfolio, the photographs that Warhol used as source images, several preliminary sketches, and a preparatory collage. The drawings and source photographs have not previously been exhibited alongside the finished pictures.

PARIS – Christie’s will offer two impressive works at the auction of Victorian and Traditionalist Art on 5 June 2008 in London; Jasmine by Albert Joseph Moore (estimate: £600,000-800,000) and The Triumph of Love, a painting on 4 canvases framed as one by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (estimate: £400,000-600,000). Both works are offered from the non-core collection of Watts Gallery, Surrey, in order to raise money for the collection endowment fund at the Gallery to safeguard the future of its core collection.