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BARCELONA.- Galeria Joan Prats is presenting “Adult Contemporary”, Carles Congost’s first solo exhibition in Barcelona since 2005. The new works of multifaceted artist Carles Congost bring forth a variety of ways to approach the production of images related to the miscellaneous imaginarium of pop culture. In his recent photographic works he combines the sketch with the photo romantic novel in stories that allow aesthetic and character association in dissonant social circumstances. His visual references go from the comic strip genre, portraying camp super heroes, to celebrities from the European show

Yoshitoshi’s “Aspects of Daily Life” on View at the San Antonio Museum of Art

SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Taiso Yoshitoshi (1839-1892), one of the greatest Japanese woodblock print artists, pursued varied subjects in his prints, ranging from nightmarish ghosts to scenes of domestic harmony. The set of thirty-two prints which comprise fūzoku sanjūnisō, or “Thirty-two Aspects of Daily Life” are among his greatest artistic achievements. These lavish prints were issued in 1888 and are a testament to both his technical brilliance and aesthetic sensitivity. “Seasons of Beauty: Yoshitoshi’s Thirty-two Aspects of Daily Life” will be exhibited in four seasonal rotations. Each seasonal rotation will present eight prints

Fleming Collection Announces it will Show all its Scottish Colorist Paintings Together

LONDON.- The Fleming Collection is to show all its Scottish Colourist paintings together in its gallery for the first time as part of a series of exhibitions during 2010 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its foundation as a charity. More than 30 works by Samuel John Peploe, Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, George Leslie Hunter and John Duncan Fergusson will go on public display at The Fleming Collection at 13 Berkeley Street, London W1 from January 19 to April 1, 2010. “The Colourists have been recognized as key players in the introduction of modern art to Britain and have become some of the most internationally popular artists that Scotland has ever produced,” said Selina Skipwith, Keeper of Art at The Fleming Collection, which started as a corporate collection and has evolved into the only museum entirely devoted to Scottish art in the United Kingdom. “It will be an exciting way to mark our first

MCA Presents Ann Lewis Gift Spanning Five Decades of Contemporary Art

SYDNEY.- “Almanac: The Gift of Ann Lewis AO” provides an extraordinary road map of Australian art practice over the last 50 years, shaped by the vision of one of Australia’s best regarded collectors and arts supporters. Running December 8, 2009 until April 18, 2010, Almanac presents the generous donation made to the Museum of Contemporary Art by Ann Lewis AO. Thanks to Ann’s roles as collector, philanthropist and gallerist, visitors to this exhibition can enjoy a collection of works built at the forefront of cultural production across five decades. The exhibition also draws upon the major gifts by Ann Lewis

Dallas Museum of Art Celebrates the Work of Jacob Lawrence

DALLAS, TX.- For the first time in nearly 25 years, the Dallas Museum of Art presents the work of one of America’s leading modern figurative painters, Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917–June 9, 2000), in a new exhibition, “Jacob Lawrence: The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture”. Opening on December 6 in the DMA’s Focus Gallery II, the exhibition will showcase a series of fifteen dramatic and colorful silkscreen prints based on a series of forty-one paintings entitled “The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture”, Lawrence’s first multi-part narrative series, which was completed in 1938. Rarely exhibited together, the prints, on loan from the Curtis E. Ransom

National Gallery Innovative Art Project For Stroke Suvivors to Restore Creativity

There are many other Ageing Creatively art projects planned for other parts of the UK over the coming months. © National Gallery, London

LONDON.- An innovative art project developed by the
National Gallery is giving a group of stroke survivors the chance to get their
creative juices flowing. Ageing Creatively is an outreach
programme that aims to make it possible for people who may be isolated,
vulnerable or unable to visit the Gallery independently, to access and enjoy the
collection. During November, members of the Greenhill Aphasia Group
took part in four outreach workshops at the Greenhill Centre in Newham. Aphasia
is a difficulty speaking or understanding speech, reading or writing. It occurs
following damage to the brain and is most common after a stroke.

Museum Kunst Palast Opens Exhibition by Swiss Artist Caspar Wolf

Caspar Wolf, 1735-1783 - "Der Lauteraargletscher mit Blick auf den Lauteraarsattel", 1776 - Oil on canvas, 54 x 82 cm.

DUSSELDORF.- Running in parallel with the Per
Kirkeby show, Museum Kunst Palast is holding an exhibition of 83 paintings and
84 drawings by the Swiss artist Caspar Wolf (1735-1783). A number of
interesting parallels emerge from the simultaneous showing of the two artists.
After all, Wolf has been described by the Danish artist as one of his !old
favorites” and indeed as a “tip for insiders”. “Wolf is a painter of the lofty,
gentle, yet terrifying beauty of Switzerland. He penetrated more deeply into the
ice and snow of the Alps and their snow-clad peaks than any enthusiast or artist
before him.” (Karl Gottlob Küttner, 1786). On view 26 September through
10 January, 2010.

Susanne M. Winterling at GAK Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst in Bremen

BREMEN.- Susanne M. Winterling works primarily in
film, collage and photography. The various media of the individual installations
developed for each of the exhibition contexts lead, altogether, to a
whole. Her works produce thereby a system of concrete references,
without resulting in the telling of a distinct story or following any clear
narrative threads. But instead, meaning emerges in a delicate weave of
references; narrative volatilizing and branching out. Literature, music, art,
architecture and in particular film history become artistic materials for
Winterling in just the same ways as everyday objects are staged in her works.
They can be of a porcelain cup from an erstwhile family manufacturer, a bird’s
feather that changes colour in differing light, the delicate flying fiery spikes
of a sparkler or of the historical inscription discovered at an exhibition site.
On exhibition at GAK through 7 February, 2010.

China Institute Gallery to Fully Explore Confucius: His Life and Legacy in Art