EDINBURGH.- Narcissus Reflected is the latest in The Fruitmarket Gallery’s series of group exhibitions made by invited scholars, writers and artists. Its prime mover and chief curator is David Lomas, an academic and exhibition-maker known for his work …
The Myth of Narcissus in Surrealist and Contemporary Art at the Fruitmarket Gallery
EDINBURGH.- Narcissus Reflected is the latest in The Fruitmarket Gallery’s series of group exhibitions made by invited scholars, writers and artists. Its prime mover and chief curator is David Lomas, an academic and exhibition-maker known for his work …
The Jonathan LeVine Gallery Presents ‘Van Arno: The Minstrel Cycle’
New York.- The Jonathan LeVine Gallery is pleased to announce ‘The Minstrel Cycle’, new works by Van Arno in what will be the Los Angeles-based artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery and most ambitious show, to date. The opening reception wi…
Comprehensive Survey of Women as Protagonists at Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza
MADRID.- The Museo Thyssen‐Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid present Heroines, a comprehensive survey of the depiction of women as the protagonists of key roles and as manifestations of the gender identity crisis in western art. The exhibitio…
Indian Comic Book Pioneer ‘Uncle Pai’ Dies at 81
By: Katy Daigle, Associated Press
NEW DELHI (AP).- Anant Pai, a comic book pioneer whose colorful adaptations of Hindu mythology have been cherished by Indian children for nearly half a century, has died of a heart attack in a Mumbai hospital, his publ…
Artist Zach Harris Presents a "Nocturnal" Survey of the L.A. Art Scene at Meulensteen
NEW YORK, NY.- To launch the 2011 season at Meulensteen, artist Zach Harris presents a “nocturnal” survey of the Los Angeles art scene. Taking his cue from “Midnight at Malibu”, a song written in the 1950s by his Los Angeles based Tin Pan Alley-musici…
ATLAS: How to Carry the World on One’s Back? on Display at the Museo Reina Sofía
MADRID.- The exhibition Atlas proposes to shed light on the new framework of thought that Aby Warburg introduced to Western knowledge of history and images. The exhibition aims to demonstrate that after Warburg and his “Bilderatlas”, images w…
ATLAS: How to Carry the World on One’s Back? on Display at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
MADRID.- The exhibition Atlas proposes to shed light on the new framework of thought that Aby Warburg introduced to Western knowledge of history and images. The exhibition aims to demonstrate that after Warburg and his “Bilderatlas”, images w…
Polly Morgan’s Psychopomps on View at Haunch of Venison
LONDON.- Psychopomps is Polly Morgan’s first solo exhibition with Haunch of Venison. It consists of four suspended taxidermy sculptures, each poised between metamorphosis and flight. Named Psychopomps after the mythical creatures that conduct soul…
British Filmmaker John Akomfrah Presents a Powerful New Film Installation
LONDON.- Mnemosyne by celebrated British filmmaker and artist John Akomfrah (b.1957) is a powerful new film installation which focuses on the experience of migrant labour in the UK – a poetic essay on the themes of memory and migration. To make it Akom…