LONDON.- This week Tate Britain’s Clore Galleries have re-opened to the public following a major re-hang. Romantics, part of the BP British Art Displays, features over 170 key paintings, prints and photographs spread over nine thematic rooms explo…
Romantics Display Opens at Tate Britain Following Major Re-Hang of the Clore Galleries
LONDON.- This week Tate Britain’s Clore Galleries have re-opened to the public following a major re-hang. Romantics, part of the BP British Art Displays, features over 170 key paintings, prints and photographs spread over nine thematic rooms explo…
UCCA Puts the "Squeeze" into Sculpture with Erwin Wurm’s Narrow Mist
BEIJING.- Last week marked the opening of Narrow Mist, Austrian artist Erwin Wurm’s first solo show at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing. A celebrated creator of irreverent and sometimes twisted works of sculpture, Erwin Wur…
Tony Shafrazi Gallery Presents Three Decade Survey of Bill Beckley’s Art
NEW YORK, NY.- Too often, art galleries display only a veteran artist’s most recent production. Such exhibitions block historical perspective, which is necessary when an artist has had a substantial career. By presenting a full survey of three dec…
Destroy this Memory: Photographs by Richard Misrach
NEW YORK, NY.- The photographs in Richard Misrach’s Destroy This Memory (Aperture, August, 2010) are an affecting reminder of the physical and psychological impact of Hurricane Katrina as told by those on the ground, and seen through the lens of a…
Museum of Modern Art Celebrates Four-Decade Career of Sally Potter
NEW YORK, NY.- A retrospective of the films of British
director
Sally Potter (b. 1949) at The Museum of Modern Art from July 7 through
21, 2010,
celebrates her distinct, independent vision, showing all her feature
films,
documentaries, and…
Museum of Modern Art Celebrates Four-Decade Career of Sally Potter
NEW YORK, NY.- A retrospective of the films of British director Sally Potter (b. 1949) at The Museum of Modern Art from July 7 through 21, 2010, celebrates her distinct, independent vision, showing all her feature films, documentaries, and shorts, and …
The Film Forum to Premiere Tamra Davis’s Film of Jean-Michel Basquiat
NEW
YORK, NY.- Film Forum will present the U.S. theatrical
premiere of
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: THE RADIANT CHILD, opening Wednesday, July 21.
Filmmaker
Tamra Davis charts the meteoric rise and fall of her late friend, the
painter
Jean-Mi…
Single-Owner Collection Built Up Over A Lifetime Offered Over Several Sales at Christie’s
LONDON.- Christie’s announced the sale of Property from The Collection of the Late John Appleby, which will be offered from July to November 2010, throughout several specialist sales at Christie’s, as well as a single-owner collection sale to…
Contemporary Photography and Video Featured at Metropolitan Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- Themes of dislocation and displacement in contemporary photography will be explored in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s forthcoming exhibition in the Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography. Drawn almost entirely from the M…