LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster 1964-1966, exploring an essential yet often overlooked period of the artist’s work. Throughout much of her career, Vija Celmins has been internat…
Exhibition Offers Sculptures, Paintings from All Phases of Alberto Giacometti’s Career
ZURICH.- From 11 March to 22 May the Kunsthaus Zürich presents an exhibition entitled ‘Alberto Giacometti: The Art of Seeing’. Sight is the foundation of all visual art, and no artist has focused so centrally on the process of seeing as Albe…
Paintings and Drawings by Maira Kalman’s Light Up New York’s Jewish Museum
NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP).- You may think you’ve never heard of Maira Kalman, but you have. In 1981 her doodles appeared on the cover of a solo record by Talking Heads lead singer David Byrne and she is the author of a dozen children’s books, some featuring …
Famous Movie Theater in Alabama Inspires Robert Cottingham for New Exhibition at Forum Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- A famous movie theater in Montgomery, Alabama, the site where Rosa Parks started the Civil Rights Movement, is the subject of an exhibition of new work by Robert Cottingham at Forum Gallery from February 24 through April 9, 2011. Empire …
Famous Movie Theater in Alabama Inspires Robert Cottingham for New Exhibition at Forum Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- A famous movie theater in Montgomery, Alabama, the site where Rosa Parks started the Civil Rights Movement, is the subject of an exhibition of new work by Robert Cottingham at Forum Gallery from February 24 through April 9, 2011. Empire …
Jim Nutt at Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago Jim Nutt Coming into Character January 29–May 29, 2011 Seeing is a Kind of Thinking A Jim Nutt Companion January 29–May 29, 2011 Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago 220 East Chicago Avenue Chicago, IL 60611 mcachicago.org Known for his fantastical invention, biting wit, and distorted figuration, renowned American […]
Sketchy Intelligence: Artist Unveils Study of MI6
LONDON (AP).- Security chiefs complain intelligence is often sketchy — and here’s the proof. Artist James Hart Dyke on Monday unveiled a series of paintings and drawings completed during a rare 12-month study of Britain’s overseas spy agency MI6. …
Recent Paintings by Artist Laurie Fendrich at Gary Snyder Project Space in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Gary Snyder Project Space presents the exhibition, Laurie Fendrich: Recent Paintings, opening February 10th, 2011, and continuing through April 2nd, 2011. Fendrich’s work is the subject of a retrospective exhibition, Sense and Sensa…
Jim Nutt: Coming Into Character on View at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
CHICAGO, IL.- Known for his fantastical invention, biting wit, and distorted figuration, renowned American painter Jim Nutt has focused on portraits of female heads for the past two decades. These imaginary portraits are similar in some ways, yet each …
A Gathering Quiet: Metalpoint Paintings and Drawings by Susan Schwalb at Galerie Mourlot
NEW YORK, NY.- Galerie Mourlot presents its second solo exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Susan Schwalb. Susan Schwalb’s new series of carefully constructed silverpoint paintings uses delicate horizontal lines and bands, drawn across la…