HOUSTON, TX.- Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective, which concludes its national tour at its organizing institution, the Menil Collection, this spring, was made possible in part by a grant of $50,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Ro…
Roy Lichtenstein’s Landscapes in the Chinese Style on view at Gagosian in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of Roy Lichtenstein’s Landscapes in the Chinese Style. Throughout his prodigious career Lichtenstein mined antecedent imagery, taking inspiration from a diverse array of sources, from comic strips …
Warhol’s The Scream (After Munch) and rare drypoint by Rembrandt to headline Sotheby’s sale
LONDON.- Sotheby’s London biannual sale of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints will take place on Thursday, 29 March 2012. Superlative examples by pre-eminent artists who are leaders in the print-making field span a period of over 500 years, fro…
UK’s White Cube opens Hong Kong gallery in pursuit of China’s booming art market
HONG KONG (AP).- Britain’s White Cube gallery, known as an early champion of provocative British artists Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, launched its Hong Kong branch on Thursday, becoming the latest Western gallery to open an Asian outpost in pursuit of…
First major exhibition in Germany on the British architect John Pawson opens in Munich
MUNICH.- The Architekturmuseum der TU München is staging the first major exhibition in Germany on the British architect and ‘ultra-minimalist’ John Pawson. Pawson, born in 1949 in Halifax/Yorkshire, is one of the most exceptional architects …
State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970 opens at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BERKELEY, CA.- The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive presents State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970, the first major survey of California Conceptualism and related practices in their seminal period, 1967 to 1…
Martin Creed transforms the Gallery restaurant at London’s iconic Sketch
LONDON.- Turner Prize winning artist Martin Creed has transformed the Gallery restaurant at London’s iconic Sketch, in the first of a new long-term programme of artist-conceived restaurants at the venue. The project seeks to blur the boundaries be…
New book reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland,
DUBLIN.- Dr. Pat Wallace, Director of the National Museum of Ireland, is pleased to announce the launch of a new book titled Breaking Ground, Finding Graves – reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927 – 200…
Russia’s artists enter political fray in elections
PERM, RUSSIA (AP).- In Vladimir Putin’s Russia, artists have done art and left politics to the politicians. But the wave of protests that followed fraud-tainted parliamentary elections in December generated a lively burst of creativity — from paro…
With more than 175,000 visitors, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art opens its art to the heartland
BENTONVILLE (AP).- A visitor arriving at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art sees a curved concrete facade with the museum’s name and, behind it, a stand of trees on a hillside. Where’s the museum? Get closer, then look down. A series of connected p…