MADRID.- The Galería Javier López – Mário Sequeira is opening its new gallery with a retrospective of Alex Katz (b. New York, 1927), one of the great names in painting in the second half of the twentieth century. The spacious proportions of the gall…
Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-66 on View at the Menil Collection in Houston
HOUSTON, TX.- Throughout much of her career, Vija Celmins has been known for her captivating paintings and drawings of starry night skies, fragile spider webs, and barren desert floors – quiet, expansive worlds meticulously executed in gradations …
Thirteen New Paintings by Scottish Artist Christopher Orr on Display at Hauser & Wirth Zürich
ZÜRICH.- Thirteen new paintings by Scottish artist Christopher Orr are on display at Hauser & Wirth Zürich. The small intense canvases depict phantasmagoric landscapes populated by figures from an earlier time. Fiction and formalism go hand in hand i…
Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-66 on View at the Menil Collection
HOUSTON, TX.- Throughout much of her career, Vija Celmins has been known for her captivating paintings and drawings of starry night skies, fragile spider webs, and barren desert floors – quiet, expansive worlds meticulously executed in gradations …
Oasis of Colour in Contemporary Aboriginal Painting at the Art Gallery of South Australia
ADELAIDE.- The first exhibition to chart the evolution of Australia’s most influential art movement is showing at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Desert Country reveals the extraordinary development of the Australian desert painting movement a…
Ambitious Show Including Over 150 Embroidered Canvases by William Earl Kofmehl III at Lombard Freid Projects
NEW YORK, NY.- Lombard Freid Projects presents William Earl Kofmehl III: Dear Father Knickerbocker, I Just Googled You, the gallery inaugural exhibition at 518 West 19th Street. Kofmehl’s ambitious show includes over 150 embroidered canvases, a sc…
New Sparsely-Colored, Figurative Paintings by Belgian Artist Luc Tuymans at David Zwirner
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new paintings by Luc Tuymans, on view at the gallery’s 525 West 19th Street space. Belgian artist Luc Tuymans is widely seen as having contributed to the revival of painting in the 1990s. His …
Sotheby’s Presents Highlights from Its Autumn Sales of Impressionist & Modern Art
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s autumn Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art in New York on 2 November 2010 will present a superb offering of works across the period. From an early painting by Eugène Boudin from 1868 to a Pablo Picasso canvas from …
Solo Exhibition of Dynamic New Work by Nobu Fukui at Stephen Haller Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Stephen Haller Gallery presents a solo exhibition of dynamic new work by Nobu Fukui – canvases vibrant with invention. The exhibition is accompanied by a full color catalogue with essay by Carter Ratcliff. Fukui’s work reads as non-…
Hirshhorn Museum in Washington Presents Major Guillermo Kuitca Retrospective
WASHINGTON, DC.- For more than 30 years Guillermo Kuitca (Argentinean, b. Buenos Aires, 1961) has forged a distinctive path as an artist, creating visually compelling works that reflect his intense and often ambivalent relationship to his primary mediu…