THE HAGUE.- The new work of New York-based artist Cecily Brown (b.1969) features a medley of grey, red, orange and earth colours applied with vigorous gestures to canvases of many different sizes. Initially, the explicitly sexual content of her picture…
OPORTO.- The Serralves Museum in Oporto, Portugal presents an exhibition titled “To the arts, citizens!” Inspired by the refrain from the ‘Chant de guerre pour l’armée du Rhin’ [The War Song of the Army of the Rhine] , this exhibi…
CHICAGO, IL.- Addressing the cultural shift toward a greater level of audience engagement and participation with works of art, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, presents Without You I’m Nothing: Art and Its Audience on view through May 1, …
DENVER, CO.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver presents Orphan Paintings: Unauthenticated Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, a large-scale exhibition. Orphan Paintings is an exhibition that explores fundamental assumptions about art by presenting a c…
JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) announced the joint acquisition of Ann Lislegaard’s Crystal World (after J.G. Ballard) (2006), a silent two-screen video installation from a trilogy …
LONDON.- The sale of 20th Century British Art at Sotheby’s in London established a new auction record for a work by Sir Stanley Spencer (in pounds – see note at foot of email), when his Hilda and I at Pond Street sold for £1,430,050 ($2,249,…
JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) announced the joint acquisition of Ann Lislegaard’s Crystal World (after J.G. Ballard) (2006), a silent two-screen video installation from a trilogy …
NORTH MIAMI, FL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami presents the first major solo museum exhibition in the United States for German artist Jonathan Meese, renowned for his multi-faceted work, including wildly exuberant paintings that m…
CHICAGO, IL.- Jessica Labatte, the 100th artist to participate in the UBS 12 x 12 series, explores the color and shape of everyday objects and materials to create an installation that combines the traditions of collage and still life with the illusi…
NORTH MIAMI, FL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami presents Bruce Weber: Haiti/ Little Haiti from November 19, 2010 through February 13, 2011. This extraordinary exhibition of photographs of Miami’s Haitian community by celebrate…
