Author: Darko Topalski

LONDON.- Two purchases funded by the UK’s leading
independent art charity The Art Fund, through its £5 million funding scheme Art
Fund International, are going on display for the first time at a new exhibition
at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow. The works by Lothar Baumgarten
and Emily Jacir form part of the exhibition ‘Unsettled Objects’ which features
pieces from Glasgow’s collection of contemporary art, and runs from 10 December
2009 until March 2011.

MIAMI,
FL.- The eighth edition of Art Basel Miami Beach closed on Sunday,
December 6, 2009. More than 250 galleries from North America, Europe, Latin
America, Asia and Africa exhibited works by over 2,000 artists.
With a program of special exhibitions, panel discussions, private
collection tours, and events featuring film, performance, and video, the show
attracted 42,000 visitors. Visitors included art collectors, museum
directors, curators and cultural journalists from all over the United States and
the rest of the world. A great number of artists also attended the event, among
them Chuck Close, Ingar Dragset, Claire Fontaine, Matthew Day Jackson, Kris
Martin, Marilyn Minter, James Rosenquist, Fred Tomaselli, Ai Weiwei, Pae White,
and Kehinde Wiley. Over 100 museum and institution groups also visited
the show, as did private collectors from the Americas, Europe and many emerging
markets of the artworld.

PORTLAND, ME.- As an abstract painter, Maine
artist Frederick Lynch (born 1935) uses a system of repeated geometries and
mathematical divisions to create his art. “Division and Discovery: Recent Work
by Frederick Lynch”, on view February 27 through May 16, 2010, will
feature 30 works in a range of media including paintings, works on paper, wooden
sculptures, and painted reliefs. Fred Lynch has lived in Maine for more than 35
years. He served as a faculty member of the Art Department at the University of
Southern Maine from 1981 to 2006, and has exhibited widely throughout New
England and beyond.

CHAMPAIGN, IL.- Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead
Pavilion will present Stranger in Paradise: The Works of Reverend Howard
Finster. A self-proclaimed “Man of Visions,” Finster was one of America’s most
widely known and prolific self-taught artists, producing over
46,000 pieces of art before his death in 2001. Born in rural Alabama in
1916, Finster went on to become a preacher, tent revivalist, and “master of 22
different trades” before building his roadside tribute to inventors, the Plant
Farm Museum. Later dubbed “Paradise Garden” by Esquire magazine, this rock- and
junk-encrusted wonderland was the focus of Finster’s life work. On view
29 January through 28 March, 2010.