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Gagosian Gallery presents “Roy Lichtenstein – Still Lifes”

Roy Lichtenstein - “Still Life with Silver Pitcher”, 1972 - Oil and magna on canvas, 50 x 60 in. © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Promised gift of the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum.

NEW

YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents “Roy Lichtenstein:
Still
Lifes,” the first exhibition devoted solely to Lichtenstein’s still life

paintings, sculptures and drawings, which span from 1972 through the
early
1980s. Although Lichtenstein will always be synonymous with Pop Art, he
continued to make inventive new work for almost three decades beyond the
1960s,
during which he had become famous for his distinctive use of popular
cartoon
images and commercial painting style. On exhibition 8 May through 30
July,
2010.

Sotheby’s May Auction Sale of American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture

Georgia O’Keeffe - "Inside Clam Shell" - Oil on canvas, 24 by 36 in. Painted in 1930. - Est. $3 / 5 million. Photo: Sotheby's.

NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s auction of
American
Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture on 19 May 2010 will offer collectors a
rich
array of works by American artists from the 19th and 20th centuries. The
auction
contains a strong selection of modern pictures, with many paintings that
are
both rare and fresh to the market. Works from the sale will be exhibited
at
Sotheby’s New York galleries beginning 15 May.

Galerie Adler presents New Work by Sebastian Gögel

Sebastian Gögel - Maschine, 2009 - Oil on canvas - Diptych, 270 x 380 cm. - Image courtesy Galerie ADLER Frankfurt / New York

Frankfurt,

Germany – The great philosophical questions are actually banal, says
Sebastian
Gögel, because everyone asks them. In fact, the only reason they’re
considered
“great” is because everyone asks them. In the works of the
Leipzig-based
artist they are at any rate omnipresent: life and death, becoming and
passing,
accompanied by the whole panoply of human fears and needs and the states
that
summon them. They all take – in some cases drastic – shape here, but
never in a
way that would convey a moral judgement. Exhibition on view at
Galerie Adler from 8 May
through 26 June,
2010.

“Pick-up Sticks” Fun at Beaver Street Gallery in Flagstaff

Students try to find the best way to remove sticks, Opening Night, Just for Fun at Beaver Street Gallery, Flagstaff, AZ.

Flagstaff, AZ – Founded in
2001,
Beaver
Street is Northern
Arizona’s premier fine arts gallery, with scheduled exhibitions
year-round.  Beaver Street Gallery represents artists from both the US
and
abroad, and in addition, BSG’s own collection includes work by some of
the best,
and best-known, contemporary artists from around the world, including
Rudy
Autio, Christo and Jean Claude, Jun Kaneko, Paul Soldner, Peter Voulkos,
Andy
Warhol, and Betty Woodman, among others.

Sculptor Doris Salcedo Awarded the Velázquez Visual Arts Prize 2010

A visitor walks past the installation - a crack in the floor entitled 'Shibboleth' - by Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo, in the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern in London. - AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis

MADRID.- The Spanish Ministry of Culture has
distinguished Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo, with the Velázquez
Visual Arts
Prize 2010, worth 125,000 euros. The jury has unanimously acknowledged
“the
maturity of the career of Doris Salcedo and quality of her work. The
jury took
into account the decisive role in opening up the international stage of
the work
of a new generation of artists in Latin America and the rigor of its
proposal,
both in the formal and in terms of its social and political values” .

The British Museum opens “The Printed Image in China”

Tchien Loong - print; Mariano Bovi (Print made by); Portrait of the Qianlong emperor based on a Chinese prototype. 1795 Aquatint and etching, printed in colour.  Collection of The British Museum

LONDON – “The Printed Image in China” presents
for the first time highlights
from the entire collection of Chinese prints at the British Museum. The
collection is one of the most comprehensive and finest in
Europe.According to
present knowledge, printing on paper was invented in China around 700
AD, making
China the country with the longest history of printing in the world.
About 120
prints will illuminate the history of printing from its inception to the

present, and explore the role of the Chinese pictorial print in various
cultural
contexts. On exhibition 6 May through 5 September, 2010.

Monet Masterpiece Donated to the National Gallery of Canada

Claude Monet - "Rock Needle Seen through the Porte d'Aval, Étretat", 1886 - Oil on canvas, 65.2 x 92.1 cm. Gift from the Marjorie and Gerald Bronfman Collection, Montreal, 2009. - Photo: ©NGC

OTTAWA.- The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) has acquired a
spectacular Monet Masterpiece thanks to the generosity of Montreal fine arts’
connoisseur, philanthropist and National Gallery of Canada Foundation patron
Marjorie Bronfman. Claude Monet’s, “Rock Needle seen through the Porte d’Aval”,
1886 is considered an innovative, daring and provocative painting created in the
remote resort town of Étretat towards the end of a prodigious campaign on the
Normandy coast. It is now on view in the NGC permanent collection galleries that
are devoted to the Realists, Impressionists and Post-Impressionists.

Four Nominees Announced to Compete for Britain’s Turner Prize

Otolith III - The Otolith Group, 2009 - comprising Anjalika Sagar, 42 and Kodwo Eshun, 44, who both live and work in London on the short list for The Turner Prize.

LONDON (REUTERS).- Berlin-based Susan Philipsz,
whose artworks center around recordings of her voice singing folk songs in
public spaces, is one of the four nominees for Britain’s top art award. The
Turner Prize, awarded to British artists under the age of 50 for an outstanding
exhibition or other presentation, is handed out annually and traditionally
attracts popular debate about the nature and role of art. Also on the shortlist
is the Otolith Group comprising Anjalika Sagar, 42 and Kodwo Eshun, 44, who both
live and work in London.

Van Gogh Masterpiece Travels to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) - "The Sower", 1888 - Oil on canvas, 32 x 40 cm. - Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Vincent van Gogh Foundation.

BOSTON, MA.- Imitation may be the
sincerest form
of flattery, but for Vincent van Gogh, it was a means of self education
for the
artist in the 1880s, who copied numerous works by Jean-François Millet
to teach
himself how to draw and paint. The visual dialogue that ensued between
master
and student is the focus of Visiting Masterpieces, an ongoing series at
the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), which showcases great art from
museums and
private collections around the world within the context of the MFA’s
encyclopedic collection.
To inaugurate the series, the Museum
welcomes
van Gogh’s “The Sower” (1888), on loan from the Van Gogh Museum in
Amsterdam, to
Boston for juxtaposition with the work that inspired it, Millet’s The
Sower
(1850), one of the MFA’s celebrated masterpieces. The paintings,
which
have never before been seen together in Boston, will be on view from May
11 to
August 8 in the Impressionist Gallery.

Museum Quality Photographs Featured at Swann Galleries’ Auction

Helmut Newton’s provocative Rue Aubriot, Paris, silver print, 1975 ($14,000 to $18,000) Photo: Courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries, NY

NEW YORK, NY.- On Thursday, May 20, Swann
Galleries will conduct a two-part auction of Photographic Literature
&
Important Photographs that features many scarce and significant
works—both
individual photographic images and books. The auction will begin at
10:30 a.m.
on Thursday, May 20 with Photographic Literature, and will continue at
2:00 p.m.
with Important Photographs. The photographs and books will be on public
exhibition at Swann Galleries Saturday, May 15, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.;
and
Monday, May 17 through Wednesday, May 19, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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