NEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Silverstein Gallery announces representation and a new exhibition of the work of Mark Cohen. The exhibition, Lost/Found, features Cohen’s work from the 1970s and ‘80s that focuses on the artist’s extensive fascinatio…
Indian Artist Zarina Hashmi’s First Solo Show in Paris Opens at Jaeger Bucher Gallery
PARIS.- First presented as part of the inaugurated exhibition in our new space in the Marais in October 2008, Zarina Hasmi was subsequently exhibited at the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea in 2008. From 26 March to 21 May 2011, the Jaeger Bucher Galler…
Third Streaming Presents an Exhibition of Alvin Baltrop "Photographs 1965 – 2003"
NEW YORK, N.Y.- In the 1970s, the abandoned piers along the hudson river in manhattan became a conduit and locus for artistic experimentation. while Gordon MattaClark, Vito Acconci, Richard Serra, Dan Graham and many others produced collaborative and m…
Lisson Gallery in London Presents the First Solo Exhibition in London by Haroon Mirza
LONDON.- Lisson Gallery presents the first London solo exhibition by Haroon Mirza, on view from Feb. 15th through Mar. 19th. Working with video, sculpture, light and sound, Mirza creates large scale installations and assemblages that explore moments in…
Maria Altmann, Who Recovered Gustav Klimt Paintings Looted from Her Family, Dies
LOS ANGELES (AP).- Maria Altmann, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria who successfully fought to recover Gustav Klimt paintings looted from her Jewish family, has died. She was 94. Altmann died Monday at her home in the Cheviot Hills area of Los Ange…
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History Collects Tony Hawk Skateboard
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History acquired a skateboard deck ridden by renowned skateboarder Tony Hawk following the closing ceremony of the Quiksilver All 80s All Day Vert Challenge Jan. 7. The board is a 1986…
Smithsonian Collects Tony Hawk Skateboard
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History acquired a skateboard deck ridden by renowned skateboarder Tony Hawk following the closing ceremony of the Quiksilver All 80s All Day Vert Challenge Jan. 7. The board is a 1986…
Exhibition of Works by Multi-Talented Artist Robert Rehfeldt on View at Weserburg Museum
BREMEN.- Robert Rehfeldt was one of the most well-known and most important artists in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) of the 1970s and ’80s. He was a draughtsman, graphic artist, painter, filmmaker, action artist, visual poet and mail artist….
Things Get Ugly, Sensual and Raw with "The Wild 80s" Exhibition at ARKEN in Copenhagen
COPENHAGEN.- The young eighties generation of Danish artists had a bone to pick with the cool, politicizing art of the 1970s. They visualized the new thinking on “the death of the grand narrative,” the collapse of hierarchies of value, the elimination…
First Solo Show in South America of Works by Georg Baselitz Opens in Sao Paulo
SAO PAULO.- The Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo is presenting the exhibition Georg Baselitz: Pinturas Recentes [Georg Baselitz: Recent Paintings]. The first solo show of the artist’s works in South America, it features a set of 30 paintings pro…