BALERNA.- Welcome to the world of Salvador Dali, in three dimensions! ‘Dali in the Third Dimension’ is a newly published study of three dimensional artworks by Salvador Dali. This impressive hardback book, 334 pages long, contains over 250 beautiful colour photographs detailing more than 150 artworks. The reader is invited to admire this exciting collection of sculpture and to discover the history behind their creation. From the delicate shimmering beauty of the surrealist glass Daum sculpture, to majestic awe inspiring Monumental bronze sculpture, this book is at once an intellectual meditation and an exciting addition to any Dali afficionados library. ‘Dali in the Third Dimension’ details the vast Collection amassed by Mr Levi, President of the Stratton Foundation, who has dedicated over forty years of his life to researching, identifying and collecting Dalí artworks. The book is at once the story of an incredible Collection and a historical testimony of
Captivating Exhibition Exploring the Notion of Time in Photographs Opens in Melbourne
MELBOURNE.- The National Gallery of Victoria presents Timelines: Photography and Time, a captivating exhibition exploring the notion of time in photographs. Timelines features almost forty photographs from the NGV Collection by both Australian and international photographers including work by Diane Arbus, Micky Allan and Bill Brandt. Isobel Crombie, Senior Curator of Photography, NGV said photography has a unique role to play in capturing the way that time passes. “The camera’s ability to ‘stop the clock’ enables the medium to direct our consideration towards the mechanics and poetics of this pervasive and mysterious cosmic force. “The instant that the photograph captures can be a potent reminder to seize the day rather than dreaming about the past or worrying about the future,” said Dr Crombie. The exhibition also looks at how photographers have extended a sense of time and duration through imag
Johnny McIntosh Appointed Chief Financial Officer at Birmingham Museum of Art
BIRMINGHAM, AL.- The Birmingham Museum of Art welcomes a new chief financial officer. Johnny McIntosh, former president and chief operating officer of the successful Southern Living at Home direct sales business, assumed responsibility for business and financial operations at the Museum on April 26. “The Museum has been looking for someone with the financial skills and experience to help us build an overall stronger organization,” said Gail Andrews, director of the Birmingham Museum of Art. “Johnny’s expertise in budgeting, forecasting and financial planning will enable us to couple our superb artistic program with a corresponding financial plan of the same caliber. “Johnny’s work with Southern Living at Home proves he’s a very creative thinker,” Andrews said. “We look forward to his applying that creativity to our mission, our work, and our business model at the Museum.” McIntos
Mark Bradford Featured in First Museum Survey at Wexner Center
COLUMBUS, OH.- The Wexner Center premiered its exhibition Mark Bradford, the first museum survey devoted to the work of the Los Angeles–based artist, one of the leading figures in contemporary art, from May 8 to August 15, 2010. Organized by Wexner Center curator Christopher Bedford, the exhibition features more than 50 works in a variety of media spanning the years 2000–2010. Following its presentation in Columbus, the show will travel to four major venues in the U.S. A 2009 MacArthur Foundation “genius” award recipient, Bradford (b. 1961) is best-known for large-scale abstract paintings made from a variety of collaged materials, including billboard paper, permanent-wave end papers, newsprint, carbon paper, and other papers layered together (or stripped apart) and then manipulated with nylon string, caulking, and sanding. Often incorporating
Solo Gallery Debut of Hilary Berseth at Eleven Rivington
NEW YORK, NY.- Eleven Rivington presents the solo gallery debut of Hilary Berseth, on view through May 22, 2010. The exhibition features new copper sculptures and paintings. Berseth’s work has been featured in past group shows at Leo Koenig, Mary Boone, and Guild & Greyshkull. Featured in the exhibition are two series of works that explore the formal possibilities of growth by marrying process with programs or systems. The four copper sculptures are grown over weeks in tanks filled with a bath of soluble copper using an electroplating process. Starting as squares or circles of copper, the sculptures develop coral-like fronds and formations as their electromagnetic field interacts with the random movement of copper ions in the bath. The three paintings, collectively titled the Automata series, similarly build over time, using programs familiar to computer
Picasso’s “The Actor” Returns – Repaired and Glazed -After Four Months
NEW YORK, NY.- Opened on April 27, 2010, a special exhibition of 300 works from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection by Pablo Picasso includes 238 paintings, drawings, and prints framed with Optium® Acrylic Glazing from Tru Vue. Among these, Picasso’s large Rose-period oil painting The Actor (1904–05) returns for viewing. The painting, now protected with Optium Acrylic Glazing, underwent conservation and restoration after being damaged in the galleries in January. In February, Tru Vue began talking with the Museum about glazing all of Picasso’s works on paper, and perhaps, some paintings with Optium. “We are very grateful for Tru Vue’s contribution toward the glazing of the works of art with Optium; the result is marvelous,” says Gary Tinterow, Engelhard Chairman, The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art. As curator
Darren Almond Debuts Six-Screen High-Definition Video at Matthew Marks Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Matthew Marks Gallery presents the exhibition Darren Almond: Sometimes Still at 523 West 24th Street. The exhibition marks the debut of a six-screen high-definition video Almond photographed near Kyoto, Japan, over the past several years. Three new photographs made in the Rwenzori Mountains in Uganda will also be on view in the gallery at 526 West 22nd Street. In Sometimes Still Darren Almond follows a Tendai monk as he engages with the Buddhist process of Kaihogyo, the feat of physical and mental endurance by which these monks attempt to reach a state of Buddhahood. The goal of Kaihogyo is to discover ultimate truth and fulfillment by facing death and being reminded of one’s own mortality. Sometimes Still takes the form of six separate high definition screens. Five of the screens show a novice monk going through aspects of the Kaihogyo ritual, and the sixth screen shows a monk who
Silkscreens from LeRoy Neiman’s Archives at Franklin Bowles Galleries
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Franklin Bowles Galleries presents NEIMAN 2010, a major collection of silkscreens from LeRoy Neiman’s personal archives, accompanied by rare original paintings and works on paper created over the past 50 years. As one of America’s most-collected living artists, Mr. Neiman began his career as a printmaker in the late 1960s. Although Neiman’s output of silkscreens has been prolific—he favors the medium for its ability to capture the vibrant colors, immediacy and movement of his paintings—the artist is also an accomplished practitioner in the fields of etching and lithography. In 1996, The LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies was founded at Columbia University in New York City through a generous endowment from the artist and his wife, Janet; its mission is to promote printmaking through education and the production and exhibition of prints. NEIMAN 2010 is a dramatic exam
‘Museums at Night’ Announced at the National Gallery on May 14
LONDON.- An evening of special events will take place at the National Gallery on Friday 14 May as part of Museums at Night celebrations. The Gallery will be open until 9pm, including current exhibitions Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey and Christen Købke: Danish Master of Light. There will be live music, special talks and guided tours programmed exclusively for the evening. The Danish writer Carsten Jensen will be discussing Christen Købke’s paintings. After his talk the author will be signing copies of his latest book, We, the Drowned (6pm, Sunley Room, free). A Wine, Nibbles and Talk event examines the Antwerp speciality of making paintings of private art collections (6.15pm, £18/£15 concessions, booking essential). Curator Anne Robbins will be giving two half-hour guided tours of the National Gallery’s current major exhibition Painting History: Delaroche and Lady
Ryan Gander Offers a Pin-Ball Like Journey through His Art at Lisson Gallery
LONDON.- For his first solo exhibition at the Lisson Gallery, Ryan Gander has created a body of work which takes the viewer on a pin-ball like journey through an idiosyncratic history of art, film and media. Whether you enter the living room of Ernö Goldfinger, stumble upon Degas’ Dancer, narrowly miss a shower of arrows piercing the gallery floor, or attempt to flee via an escape hatch in the ceiling, each work leads you into a different perceptual space. Gander’s intention to disrupt the perceived limits of the gallery is made apparent with his large-scale installation I taught myself how to grow, 2010 on the glass façade of the gallery. The image looks like advertising for tanning salons: a silhouetted woman stands under a palm tree, turning towards the sun. The image is a cliché of a holiday paradise but here created using thousands of highly coloured