10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch
10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch
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Sep 17, 2014
Affordable Art Fair, New York
at The Affordable Art Fair
New York, NY, USA
Sep 25, 14 - Sep 29, 14
An amazing 17,500 of you came to the fair and fell in love with an incredible $4m worth of art. Thanks to everyone who helped make it our best fair yet! The Affordable Art Fair returns to the Tunnel this September 25-29, and we’re looking forward to making the fall edition 2014 even better!Our concept is simple, yet unique: an inspiring and friendly atmosphere in which you can find thousands of original paintings, prints, sculptures and photographs all under one roof, ranging from $100-$10,000, with more than half priced under $5,000. The work of young, emerging artists hangs alongside some of the biggest household names, while our Recent Graduates Exhibition provides a chance to snap up work by a future art world star. read more...
FOLKLORIC ACID: The work of Einar and Jamex de la Torre
at Mindy Solomon Gallery
Miami, FL, USA
Sep 19, 14 - Oct 31, 14
Mindy Solomon Gallery presents 'FOLKLORIC ACID: The work of Einar and Jamex de la Torre,' September 19th-October 31st. The work of Einar and Jamex, a.k.a. the de la Torre Brothers, has recently evolved through the use of digital and lenticular printing. The Opening Night Reception on Friday, September 19th from 6-9pm, will include a tequila tasting with the de la Torre brothers in attendance, sponsored by Gramps bar. read more...
The Manchester Contemporary 2014
at Buy Art Fair
Manchester, UK
Sep 26, 14 - Sep 28, 14
The Manchester Contemporary is an invitational art fair that gives a platform to emerging galleries and their artists, using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.Now established as a regular feature in the Manchester calendar, it is returning for the fifth consecutive year, with a new home at Old Granada Studios.The only gathering of high–calibre, world-class contemporary art galleries outside London, The Manchester Contemporary brings together art lovers and buyers with the best of critically engaged contemporary art from regular exhibitors and new additions as well as offering guided tours and visitor programmes. read more...
Emily Carr & Landon Mackenzie: Wood Chopper and the Monkey
at Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Sep 20, 14 - Apr 06, 15
Over the past three decades, Vancouver-based painter Landon Mackenzie has produced an impressive body of large-scale painting that addresses the way we situate ourselves in the world. This exhibition traces correlations between different bodies of her work and the paintings of Emily Carr, an artist who has been a touchstone for Mackenzie throughout her career. Taking its title from images in both artists' work, the exhibition uses the wood chopper as a metaphorical figure who "clears a path" for those to come and the monkey as an emblem of the sense of loss and whimsy that is rarely discussed in Carr's work. read more...
Julije Knifer: No Compromise
at Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Zagreb, Croatia
Sep 20, 14 - Dec 06, 14
Preparations are underway at the Museum of Contemporary Art for the mounting of the first retrospective exhibition of the work of Julije Knifer (Osijek, 1924 – Paris, 2004), an artist whose unconventional approach to the medium of painting marked the second half of the 20th century. A selection of key works from the MSU's in-house collection will be joined at the exhibition with works borrowed from numerous private and public collections, including some of the world's leading collections of modern and contemporary art – New York's MoMA, Paris' Centre Georges Pompidou and Geneva's Mamco among others. read more...
SED TANTUM DIC VERBO (JUST SAY THE WORD)
at Blain Southern, Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Sep 20, 14 - Dec 20, 14
The Directors of Blain|Southern are delighted to announce the group exhibition SED TANTUM DIC VERBO (JUST SAY THE WORD), conceived and curated by the American writer and editor Glenn O’Brien. The exhibition examines the use of words in art and brings together artists from the 1960s to the present day who all have/had a strong relationship to the curator. In the following paragraphs Glenn O'Brien describes his personal selection: „The transformation of the media landscape over the last half-century created a revolution in communication, not merely mass communications, but how individuals perceive the world and express themselves in return. read more...
Mark Rothko
at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
Den Haag, Netherlands
Sep 20, 14 - Mar 01, 15
From rosy pink and jubilant yellow to bright blue to sombre black – face one of the vast canvases created by Mark Rothko (1903-1970) and you feel yourself being sucked into his world. Constructed layer upon shimmering layer, his colour fields are of unparalleled intensity and communicate universal human emotions such as fear, ecstasy, grief and euphoria. Rothko was an intensely committed painter who invested his whole being in his art and, like many other great artists, led a difficult life. read more...
ArtInternational Istanbul 2014
at ArtInternational Istanbul
Beyoglu - Istanbul, Turkey
Sep 26, 14 - Sep 28, 14
ArtInternational launched in September 2013 at the Haliç Congress Centre in Istanbul to strong acclaim. Bringing together leading international and local galleries, this leading modern and contemporary art fair in Istanbul offers unrivalled access to exciting new art from Turkey, Europe, the US, the Middle East and beyond. Drawing on its unique geographic location as a gateway between ‘East’ and ‘West’, the fair is fast becoming a cultural bridge across the global art world. read more...
Dave Muller: Sublime Memory Garden
at Blum & Poe, Tokyo
Shibuya-ku - Tokyo, Japan
Sep 19, 14 - Nov 15, 14
Blum & Poe is pleased to announce the inaugural exhibition of its Tokyo gallery at 1-14-34 Jingumae. Dave Muller: Sublime Memory Garden will be the Los Angeles-based artist’s ninth solo exhibition with the gallery and his first solo presentation in Japan. Dave Muller’s acrylic-on-paper paintings and multimedia installations are rooted in his deep fascination with music, how it infiltrates and shapes our realities, and the communal dialogue it generates across cultures. read more...
Rebecca Baumann: Once More With Feeling
at Starkwhite
Auckland, New Zealand
Sep 20, 14 - Oct 18, 14
Starkwhite is pleased to present Once More With Feelingan exhibition by Perth-based artist Rebecca Baumann from 20 September to 18 October, 2014. "There is something intensely joyous in Rebecca Baumann's artworks, celebratory moments of colour and action and curious puzzles that can, intriguingly, never be solved," says critic John Barrett-Leonard. "She mixes intense colour, simple mechanical devices and moments of time, or perhaps moments out of time, in creating artworks that use colour and motion to point within, at a complex and varying field of emotion and experience. read more...