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BARCELONA.- Recent works by Antoni Tàpies can be seen at Toni Tàpies Gallery, owned by the son of the Contemporary Spanish artist. This new exhibition gathers 17 new paintings, some of them in large format, but all of which take on the theme that has surrounded the artist since many years ago: symbols and signs. Almost of all of the works have been created during his stay at Campins, at the foot of Montseny. A new element in these recent works is the use of marble powder, which adds substance to the paintings, together with collages and mixed media. At 86, Tàpies said about his Works: “It is the same Tàpies, but more synthesized, more condensed.” Antoni Tàpies is one of the famous artists of European abstract expressionism. After studying law for 3 years, he devoted himself from 1943 onwards only to his painting. He is perhaps the best-known Catalan artist to emerge in the period since the Second World War.

LONDON.- Eleven will present “Artificial Paradises”, a new exhibition by Natasha Kissell. Borrowing its title from Charles Baudelaire’s eponymous book, this new show opens up multiple windows into a fanciful world. Kissell embraces an altered reality, her paintings function like psychedelic visions inviting viewers into a dream-like space. In her previous exhibition at “Eleven: The Magic Hours”, each work was a trigger for a particular state of mind. This new body of works is freed from any links to the real world, it maps a utopia, a highly desirable and yet frustratingly unreachable place. In this fantastic universe, everything is enhanced; the colours are more intense, flowers are as large as trees, and ‘60s pod houses are dotted around like strange jungle vegetation. These works oppose two understandings of modernity. Kissell contrasts the slick ines of modernist architecture – a main feature of her works

STANFORD, CA.- Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University presents 75 drawings, watercolors, and small oil studies made during the 50-year career of one of America’s most famous landscape artists. The exhibition “William Trost Richards—True to Nature: Drawings, Watercolors, and Oil Sketches at Stanford University” opens June 23 and continues through September 26, 2010. “The works on view in this exhibition are highlights from a collection of nearly 250 artworks by Richards, inherited in 1905 by his youngest son and eventually given to the Cantor Arts Center in 1992 by M. J. and A. E. van Löben Sels. When Richards died, the artworks in his studio were divided among his five children. Each cluster contained luminous watercolors of the sea and shore, drawings in pencil and pen-and-ink, sketchbooks with highly refined drawings, and small oil studies that essentially surveyed the artist’s career,” explaine

LONDON.- A new photographic display will celebrate the work of Format Photography Agency, the only solely female agency in British photographic history. The seventeen portraits on display will reflect the scope and achievement of this agency and this will be the first display devoted to Format at the National Portrait Gallery. Format was established in1983 by eight founding members: Anita Corbin, Sheila Gray, Pam Isherwood, Jenny Mathews, Maggie Murray, Joanne O’Brien, Raissa Page and Val Wilmer. During its history the agency represented twenty leading women photographers. Portraits by photographers Melanie Friend, Roshini Kempadoo, Joanne O’Brien, Brenda Prince and some of the founders will be included in this display. The Format ethos aimed to encourage its members to develop their creativity and careers, while remaining sensitive to the context in which their images were used and distributed. It portrayed people and issues tha

DALLAS, TX.- A child of China’s 1960s Cultural Revolution, internationally renowned artist Yang Jin Long will make his American museum debut with an exhibition entitled “Seizing the New World, Recent Paintings” by Yang Jin Long, at the Crow Collection of Asian Art. The exhibition opens Sat., Jan. 23 and runs through Sun., April 18, 2010. Yang Jin Long’s contemporary paintings reflect his experiences since moving to the United States from China in 2006. In his most recent works, Yang has explored his new surroundings by creating vibrant, provocative and imaginative paintings. Born and raised in China, Yang Jin Long grew up in a society that stifled creativity and forced its intellectuals and artists to be “re-educated” to serve as laborers in the fields and factories. Now he filters the traditions of his homeland through a Western pop sensibility, often pairing hypermodern and fabled human figures wit

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- The University of Virginia Art Museum is the final venue of a two-year tour of “Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University,” an exhibition organized by the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery of Columbia University. Touted as “eye-opening” by Roberta Smith, art critic at the New York Times, the exhibition is curated at U.Va. by Dorothy Wong, associate professor of East Asian art in the McIntire Department of Art. Highlighting one of the notable collections of Chinese stone sculpture in the United States, ‘Treasures Rediscovered’ includes 21 monumental sculptures – steles, full figures and heads of divinities, as well as funerary objects – that provide a comprehensive view of how art manifests ritual practice and reveals, through iconography, the transmission and transformation of culture from the Han (206 B.C.–A.D. 220)

NEW YORK, NY.- 303 Gallery will present their third exhibition of new paintings by Inka Essenhigh. The artist’s latest body of work touches on notions proffered by 18th century Romanticist William Blake, who wrote, “Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.” The ostensible subject of the paintings is landscape, the natural world. The paintings’ lush backdrops (most directly drawn from her studio in coastal Maine) are rendered almost 3-dimensionally, bathed in a celestial light that gives the scenarios a hazy, hypnagogic quality. Yet the work is imbued with a sense of the hidden spirits revealed by profound communion with one’s

MOSCOW.- The “Spectrum of life” exhibition by Alexander Aizenshtat will be on view in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art at Tverskoy Boulevard from January 15. His name is not widely known to the public, since the master deliberately avoids active exhibition activities. The renunciation of success and vanity is the artist’s policy. The wonderful phenomenon of the master lies in the unique “space of silence”, surrounding his whole oeuvre. Not only because the talent of Aizenshtat demands silence and concentration from the viewer. Perception of his genre paintings receives a philosophic aspect. Regardless of the plot, the ontological importance, correlation with the highest principle is perceptible in them.

GREENWICH, CT.- The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, demonstrates the powerful relationship between traveling and art, both in its making and collecting in “Exotic Encounters: Art, Travel, and Modernity in the Collection of the Bruce Museum”, a major, new exhibition drawn from highlights of its own collection on view in the Museum’s main galleries from Saturday, January 23, 2010, through Sunday, April 25, 2010. Exotic Encounters reveals a little-recognized but key aspect of modern aesthetics, featuring approximately 70 rare, rich and wondrous objects brought back from journeys all over the word that now reside in the collection of the Bruce Museum. For the artist and collector, the physical displacement of a journey is a thrilling yet frustratingly evanescent experience.

LONDON.- Scream Gallery will present a major solo exhibition of internationally acclaimed artist Russell Young. Fresh from his exhibition of ‘Diamond Dust Paintings’ in Palm Beach, Florida, Young will sprinkle a bit of fairy dust over the Scream Gallery in Mayfair. Key works in the show are Young’s ‘Diamond Dust’ works on linen, including new screen prints of a triptych Goddess of the Hollywood Golden Age Marilyn Monroe, and musical icon Kurt Cobain, both historical figures who met premature and tragic ends. Familiar faces from contemporary culture will populate the gallery walls including; a youthful Mick Jagger with strawberry-coloured pout; a glittering Elizabeth Taylor; a 70’s era Keith Richards striding towards his limo in “I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police”; and the young Ronnie Woods captured in “When