ARTISTS
Last Week's Major Exhibition Openings
Condo, Staging Action at MoMA, Lichtenstein, Mapplethorpe, Toulouse-Lautrec, Kentridge, Nutt, Tuymans and many more.
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24 Jan, 2011
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George Condo: Mental States (New Museum of Contemporary Art)
Highlighting the breadth of Condo鈥檚 artistic exploration, the exhibition will focus on the specific ideas to which he has returned throughout his career, particularly his ongoing investigation of human physiognomy and its capacity to convey varied 鈥渕ental states.鈥� More...
Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960 (The Museum of Modern Art)
The pictures in this exhibition, selected from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, exemplify the complex and varied uses artists have devised for photography in the field of performance since the 1960s. More...
Lorna Simpson: Gathered (Brooklyn Museum of Art)
Lorna Simpson: Gathered presents photographic and new collage works that explore this Brooklyn-born artist鈥檚 interest in the interplay between fact and fiction, identity and history. More...
Alpine Desire (Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC)
The exhibition dialectically examines the various desires associated with and the abysses hiding behind the cultural-historical subject of the Alps. More...
Kenny Scharf: Naturafutura (Paul Kasmin Gallery)
This exhibition shows a new series of large-scale paintings inspired by the surroundings of Scharf鈥檚 coastal studio in Bahia, Brazil as well as a collection of his iconic donut paintings. More...
The Independent Eye: Contemporary British Art from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie (Flowers, New York)
Spanning four decades, this collection of British art boasts a group of artists who are united in producing powerful, memorable presences. Each has a determination to explore the miracles of color and a commitment to make abstract art that is meaningful, visually arresting and emotionally involving. More...
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John Stezaker (Whitechapel Art Gallery)
This first major exhibition of John Stezaker offers a chance to see work by an artist whose subject is the power in the act of looking itself. With over 90 works from the 1970s to today, the artist reveals the subversive force of images, reflecting on how visual language can create new meaning. More...
Diana Thater: Chernobyl (Hauser & Wirth, Piccadilly)
A new video installation by Diana Thater will fill the interior of Hauser & Wirth鈥檚 Piccadilly gallery with images of the post-nuclear landscape of Chernobyl. More...
Richard Phillips: Most Wanted (White Cube, Hoxton Square)
Solo exhibition of artist Richard Phillips. More...
Claire Fontaine: Fighting Gravity (Regina Gallery)
Fighting Gravity aims to approach the threatening magma deposited inside our lives by the recent economical crisis. More...
All of This and Nothing (Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles)
All of this and nothing is the sixth in the Hammer Museum鈥檚 biennial invitational exhibition series, which highlights work of Los Angeles-based artists, both established and emerging, alongside a number of international artists. More...
Design Preis Schweiz (Architecture and Design Museum Los Angeles)
The Swiss Design Award (Design Preis Schweiz) is a design competition that is open to Swiss designers living both in Switzerland and abroad, and to designers who make their products in Switzerland. More...
Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2011
Art Los Angeles Contemporary, now in its second year, is Los Angeles' international contemporary art fair. More...
Howard Hodgkin: Time and Place (San Diego Museum of Art)
Time and Place explores the most recent work of Sir Howard Hodgkin (born 1932), one of Great Britain鈥檚 most renowned painters of the later 20th century. More...
Robert Mapplethorpe: Portraits (San Jose Museum of Art)
Though known to many for his controversial sexual images, Mapplethorpe鈥檚 most lasting legacy--and the largest portion of his oeuvre--is his striking portraiture. This exhibition includes some one hundred portraits of noted figures. More...
San Francisco Fine Print Fair 2011
Eighteen select fine art dealers from United States and Canada will come together to exhibit and offer for sale inventories comprising five centuries of fine prints ranging from Old Master to Contemporary. More...
Eva Hesse: Studiowork (Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley)
BAM/PFA is extremely privileged to present a group of rarely seen sculptures that show the inner workings of Hesse鈥檚 studio practice. More...
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Jim Nutt: Coming Into Character (Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago)
This exhibition is a retrospective of Jim Nutt's work that emphasizes the development of these important paintings through their precedents in his own work. More...
William Kentridge: Two Films (Saint Louis Art Museum)
This edition of the New Media Series offers two short animated films by acclaimed South African artist William Kentridge. In both films, Kentridge investigates two ongoing themes in his art: the political and the personal. More...
Toulouse-Lautrec and Friends: The Stein Collection (High Museum of Art, Atlanta)
The High Museum of Art announces a gift of 47 works of art, the majority of which are prints and posters by major artists working in fin-de-si茅cle Paris, from prominent Atlanta collectors Irene and Howard Stein. More...
Elizabeth Peyton: Ghost (Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis)
This exhibition will be the first museum show to explore the artist as a critical printmaker. More...
Gran Torino: Italian Contemporary Art (The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami)
The exhibition will present the work of a selected group of Torino artists that are representative of not only the local, but also of the Italian perspective, with their own national characteristics in an open and stimulating debate with the international scene. More...
Anatomy Now (The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia)
The artists exhibited in Anatomy Now emerge from a great variety of artistic roots. They use anatomy as a tool for drawing and constructing their figures, as well as a source of inspiration, beauty, narrative, symbol, expression and pictorial organization. More...
Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968 (Tufts University Art Gallery, Boston)
Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968 examines the impact of women artists on the traditionally male-dominated field of Pop art. It reconsiders the narrow definition of the Pop art movement and reevaluates its critical reception. More...
Cindy Sherman: Works from Friends of the Bruce Museum (Bruce Museum, Greenwich)
The exhibition is comprised of approximately 30 works, including large-scale black-and-white and color photographs, drawn from ten local collections in Greenwich and the surrounding communities. The exhibition features the artist鈥檚 favored themes and suggests something of the chameleon-like diversity of her art. More...
KAWS: Companion (Passing Through) (The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, CT)
KAWS presents a more than sixteen-foot-high sculpture of his Companion, which sits in the Museum's Sculpture Garden with both gloved hands covering its face. More...
The Spectacular of Vernacular (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis)
The exhibition embraces the rustic, the folkloric, and the humbly homemade as well as the crass clash of street spectacle and commercial culture. More...
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Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (Mus茅e du Louvre, Paris)
Explore the world of this great German sculptor and expert portraitist, whose caustic humor and audacity won the hearts of the contemporary public. More...
Roy Lichtenstein: Black & White 1961- 1968 (Albertina Museum, Vienna)
The Albertina presents the black-and-white drawings in conjunction with selected black-and-white paintings for the first time in this special exhibition. More...
Agathe Snow: All Access World (Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin)
Agathe Snow: All Access World takes as its subject the world's monuments, landmarks, and historical sites, focusing on the ways they shape collective memory and serve as potent touchstones of national identity. More...
Orientalism in Europe: From Delacroix to Kandinsky (Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich)
With some 150 paintings and sculptures, the major exhibition Orientalism in Europe: from Delacroix to Kandinsky presents the diverse interpretations of the Islamic Orient, North Africa and the Middle East by almost 100 western European artists. More...
Nancy Spero: Works of the 1980s (Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich)
This exhibition explores Spero's work from the 1980s. More...
Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Specific Objects without Specific Form (Museum f眉r Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main)
Including both rarely seen and more known paintings, sculptures, photographic works, and public projects, this major exhibition reflects the full scope of the Gonzalez-Torres鈥檚 short but prolific career. More...
Marisa Merz (Gladstone Gallery, Brussels)
Consisting of drawings and sculptures, this exhibition continues to investigate Merz鈥檚 unique and intimate vision of finding meaning within the possibilities of the everyday. More...
Luc Tuymans (Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp)
Luc Tuymans presents his work at Zeno X Gallery. More...
Extra Muros: Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts Projects Buildings (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, MuHKA)
The exhibition highlights the most significant trends in contemporary museum architecture, displaying 29 projects by internationally renowned architects and architectural firms. More...
Rosemarie Trockel: Drawings, Collages and Book Drafts (Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh)
This exhibition is the largest display of works on paper to date by the internationally renowned artist. More...
Georges Ad茅agbo: The Mission and the Missionaries (Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Le贸n, Spain)
The show shows the intercultural and intertextual 鈥渁ssemblages鈥� of a figure who is key for understanding contemporary art, in Africa as well as on the international scene. More...
Color: Red (The Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga)
After black and white, red was the next colour to be understood by people. Its power is seen in contrasts. In a positive sense, the colour relates to blood, life, happiness, joie de vivre, energy, activity, love, power and fire. In the negative sense, the colour red represents that which is banned. This exhibition explores the color's many sides in art. More...
The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914-1918 (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice)
This is the first exhibition devoted to this London-based movement to be presented in Italy, and the first to attempt to recreate the three Vorticist exhibitions mounted during World War I that served to define the group鈥檚 radical aesthetic for an Anglo-American public. More...
Arte Fiera Art First 2011 (Bologna)
Arte Fiera Art First has become Italy鈥檚 largest and most important art fair. More...
Art Herning 2011 (Denmark)
Art Herning is the first major art event in Denmark. There are artworks from around 260 Danish and international artists - well-known names as well as new, emerging talents on the art scene. More...
Roy Arden: UnderTheSun (CAG Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver)
Roy Arden is well known for his austere photographs of Vancouver's cityscape. UNDERTHESUN will shed light on the other aspect of his practise centred on found images, collage and the archive. More...
New Generation: Photographers of Taiwan (MOCA Taipei)
Through the artists' works, the exhibition aims to depict the image perspective of the new era, which goes beyond the traditional and conservative notion of photography held by past generations. More...
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