ArtNews Magazine – Artists, Museums, Galleries, Exhibitions
ConteArt Fine Art News visual arts world, covering international contemporary art news artists, museums, galleries exhibitions around the globe by Topalski
SYDNEY.- Sydney artist, Craig Ruddy has won the 2010
Archibald People’s Choice Prize for his portrait of writer/director
Warwick
Thornton. In 2004 Craig Ruddy was awarded both the Archibald Prize and
the
People’s Choice for Sydney and Melbourne exhibitions for his popular but
contentious portrait of actor David Gulpilil. This is the 22nd year of
the
People’s Choice Prize, 23,376 people voted this year. Apple Yin’s
portrait of
Terry English was the second most popular painting.
MADRID.- The Archaeological Team of the
Terracotta
Warriors and Horses in the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum in Xi’an, 2010 Prince
of
Asturias Award Laureate for Social Sciences. The Jury for the Award
announced
its decision today in Oviedo. Considered one of the most important
archaeological discoveries of the 20th Century, the site of the
terracotta
warriors, also known as the warriors of Xi´an, is a rich source of
information
about the Chinese civilization. The nomination was put forward by Carlos
Blasco
Villa, Ambassador of Spain in China.
Taos, New Mexico
– Erin
Currier, whose art has long been concerned with issues of human rights,
devotes
her new work to portraits of a number of persecuted women heroes of
independent
media abroad, and one of a noted advocate for honest journalism here in
the
States. Journalistas Unembedded, an exhibition
of Currier’s new series, opens June 12 at Parks Gallery in Taos, New
Mexico.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The exhibition On the
Road takes
its title from the legendary book by American poet and novelist Jack
Kerouac,
which describes the author’s adventurous road trip across the United
States in
the late 1940s. The exhibition investigates the myth of the American
road trip
as it started to develop from the early 1920s onwards due to the immense
expansions of highways and roads, particularly in the West of the
country. On
the Road explores the fascination that artists, especially in the
Southwest,
have had for a culture that emerged in between highways, gas stations,
diners,
and motels and examines how much they influence a particular
iconography.
WASHINGTON, DC.- One of the 20th century’s
most
influential artists, Yves Klein (French, b. Nice, 1928; d. Paris, 1962)
took the
European art scene by storm in a prolific but brief career that lasted
only from
1954 to 1962. “Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers,” on view at the
Hirshhorn
Museum from May 20 through September 12, 2010, is the first major
retrospective of the artist’s work in the United States since 1982.
Co-curated by the Hirshhorn’s deputy director and chief curator Kerry
Brougher
and Dia Art Foundation director Philippe Vergne, formerly chief curator
and
deputy director at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, the exhibition is
co-organized by the Hirshhorn and the Walker and developed in full
collaboration
with the Yves Klein Archives in Paris.
LONDON.- The work of L.S. Lowry (1887-1976) holds a special
place in the heart of the British public and Sotheby’s sale of 20th
Century
British Art on Wednesday, 26 May 2010, will present four exceptional
works by
the much celebrated British master. The pictures come from three
different
private collections and have never been seen on the auction market
before. With
a combined pre-sale estimate of £920,000-1,480,000, the four paintings
are
instantly recognisable as Lowry compositions as they incorporate all of
the
signature elements of the artist’s greatest works. They cast him as an
observer
of humanity – in all its moods.
WOLVERHAMPTON,
UK.- “Stories” is a captivating mix media
show which is hosted by Wolverhampton Art Gallery this summer. Featuring
the
work of 9 artists from varied creative backgrounds, works inspired by
fairytales, mythology and childhood memories are displayed for an
engaging
summer experience. Including paintings, sculpture, installations and
textiles
the show has a range of diverse artworks for visitors of all ages to
explore.
From the large scale light installations of Aether and Hamera to the
drawing
based textiles of Maria Holohan, the gallery space is set to be
transformed. On
view until 4 September, 2010.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New York City
Department of
Parks & Recreation, The Broadway Mall Association, Marlborough
Gallery, and
the New York City Department of Transportation are pleased to announce a
public
exhibition of monumental sculptures by Spanish artist Manolo Valdés from
May 20,
2010 through January 23, 2011. The exhibition will include sixteen
bronze
sculptures along Broadway from Columbus Circle to 166th Street. Each
sculpture
will include signage that displays mobile phone access numbers for an
English
and Spanish language audio tour with informative descriptions of the
works.
DUBLIN.- An exhibition presenting artworks
recently acquired for IMMA’s Collection, marking the first occasion that
these
works have been shown at the Museum as part of that Collection, opens to
the
public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 19 May 2010.
Collecting
the New comprises some 42 works which have, for the most part, been
acquired
since 2005, through purchase, donation and loans. Twenty-six
Irish and
international artists are represented, including Amanda Coogan, Patrick
Hall,
Stefan Kürten, Catherine Lee, Janet Mullarney, Makiko Nakamura, Hughie
O’Donoghue, and Susan Tiger. The exhibition reflects the Museum’s
acquisition
policy that the Collection should be firmly rooted in the present,
concentrating
on acquiring the work of living artists, but also accepting donations
and loans
of more historical art objects with a particular emphasis on work from
the 1940s
onwards.
MEXICO CITY.- A scientific team discovered inside a pyramid
the tomb of a dignitary that may be the earliest in Mesoamerica. It was
located
in Chiapa de Corzo Archaeological Zone, in Chiapas; preliminary studies
reveal
an age of 2,700 years approximately. Osseous rests of 4 persons, 2 of
them
richly adorned with jade beads and pearls; ceramic utensils and other
objects
that were treasured in that time and place were discovered at the Zoque
affiliation site. According to researchers the academic importance of
the
finding lies in the possibility it gives of adjusting Maya and Olmeca
development stage chronologies as well as confirming the custom of using
pyramids as funerary precincts goes back in time to an earlier age that
thought.
