State of the Art: Major Exhibition Openings (Dec. 13-20)
Among this week's openings: Warhol, Rockwell, Metsu, Smith, Dean and many more.
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Dec 13, 2010
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Warhol--Motion-Pictures/0F699D6CEDF2E0CA">Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures (The Museum of Modern Art)
For this exhibition, a selection of Warhol鈥檚 films made between 1963 and 1966 has been transferred from 16mm film to DVD at the speed of sixteen frames per second, and projected onto screens and monitors in a gallery setting. More...
Jacob Kassay, Robert Morris, Virginia Overton (Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Chelsea)
This exhibition juxtaposes works by each artist that explore the interplay between material, process, and form. More...
Five from L.A. (Galerie Lelong, New York)
Galerie Lelong is pleased to present Five from L.A., an exhibition of paintings by five emerging and mid-career artists, who each uniquely employ bold and saturated colors, an elusive sense of space, and fluid movement between abstraction and representation. More...
Felipe Jesus Consalvos (Andrew Edlin Gallery)
The display will feature his trademark large-scale collages, several which are double-sided, and a selection of sculptural objects 鈥� including a grouping of collaged kaleidoscopes and binoculars, a guitar and jeweled violin. More...
Callum Innes/Colm Toibin: Water/Colour (Sean Kelly Gallery)
For the first time in the gallery鈥檚 history, we will mount an exhibition that will focus on a collaborative project between an artist and a writer. More...
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Norman Rockwell's America (Dulwich Picture Gallery)
Norman Rockwell鈥檚 America exhibits a remarkable collection of selected original art spanning his six decade career. More...
Simon Starling: Never The Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts) (Camden Arts Centre)
The exhibition will bring together works by 30 artists and designers, revisiting the rich history of the Centre by showing fragments of exhibitions from the past 50 years. More...
Keeping it Real: An Exhibition in 4 Acts: Act 3: Current Disturbance (Whitechapel Art Gallery)
This installation by renowned British-Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum, whose ambitious work in sculpture and video is rooted in her early performances, emanates a pervasive sense of threat as much as it generates an alluring spectacle. More...
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Hanne Darboven: Wunschkonzert (Regen Projects II, Los Angeles)
Originally shown in Documenta 11 (2002) as a collection of loose pages in folders, this monumental piece consists of 1008 pages of uniform size divided into 4 Opus's (Opus 17a and b and Opus 18a and b). More...
Tacita Dean: Merce Cunningham performs STILLNESS鈥� (six performances, six films) (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis)
This exhibition showcases a recent addition to the Walker鈥檚 collection鈥攁nd its first acquisition by British artist Tacita Dean. More...
Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972-2008 (Portland Museum of Art, Maine)
Featuring more than 30 works, many of them multiple-part canvases, the exhibition will feature his minutely detailed paintings of exterior and interior panoramic scenes of the American land- and urbanscape from 1972 to 2008. More...
Face to Face: 150 Years of Photographic Portraiture (University of Arizona Center for Creative Photography, Tucson)
Including over 70 portraits from the Center for Creative Photography, this exhibition will include work by some of the greatest portraitists and photographic image-makers of the 19th, 20th, and 21st century. More...
Einfluss: 8 from D眉sseldorf (Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco)
Hosfelt Gallery will introduce a group of eight artists associated with D眉sseldorf and its art academy in exhibitions, first in New York and then in San Francisco. More...
Robert Brady: New Work (Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco)
Robert Brady's exhibition of sculptures and drawings continues his rigorous and elegant inquiry of figurative abstraction. More...
XX-XY: Gender Representation in Art (Orlando Museum of Art)
The exhibition draws upon the OMA鈥檚 Permanent Collection and from important local, private and public collections to examine the roles of men and women and how they are portrayed visually. More...
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Gabriel Metsu: A Master Rediscovered (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
This autumn at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam the work of Gabriel Metsu (1629- 1667), one of the most influential Dutch genre painters of the 17th century, will be put back in the spotlight. More...
W. Eugene Smith: More Real than Reality (Foam Fotografie Museum, Amsterdam)
This winter, Foam presents a retrospective containing work by W. Eugene Smith (US, 1918-1978). Smith has been hailed as the founder of the photographic essay. More...
Russia鈥檚 Unknown Orient: Orientalist Painting 1850-1920 (The Groninger Museum, The Netherlands)
Russia's Unknown Orient tells the story of Russia's (art-)historical bond with its southern neighbours: Uzbekistan, Georgia, Armenia and the Crimean peninsula. More...
Wine, Women and Song (The Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga)
The show is an encounter of artistic testimonies dating from various ages, revealing their respective historical period and environment, as well as tracing the stylistic zigzags of the Latvian art More...
Silke Wagner: When Saturday Comes (Kunstverein in Hamburg)
For the most part, neon signs are used in the urban space for outdoor advertising to generate attention and convey a message in a vivid manner. With her neon works, Silke Wagner, too, engages in a form of pictorial information transmission. More...
Birgit J眉rgenssen Retrospective (Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna)
The approximately 250 works in this long awaited retrospective 鈥� including many as yet unknown from her legacy 鈥� may at last demonstrate how intensively irony, wordplay and the pleasure in transformation infuse an oeuvre that unfolds within the great tradition of enlightenment and women鈥檚 emancipation. More...
21st Century: Art in the First Decade (Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane)
This major exhibition project will occupy the entire GoMA building and focus exclusively on works created and acquired between 2000 and 2010. The exhibition will be broad in its geographic and generational scope including over 200 works by more than 140 artists from over 40 countries. More...
History of Russian Video Art. Volume 3 (Moscow Museum of Modern Art)
Volume 3 is an unprecedented attempt to offer the widest possible overview 鈥� in total, more than five hundred works are to be shown 鈥� of the way Russian artists today use video technology to express their feelings and present their views of the world we live in. More...
Charles Thomas: Sirin and Alkonost (Pobeda Gallery, Moscow)
The ballerinas featured in these images are captured at that very moment of transformation, where bird wings have yet to appear, yet the human body has already achieved flight. More...
COSMOSCOW 2010 (Moscow)
Thirty major galleries, approximately one third of which are Russian and two thirds International, are set to build the most significant bridge yet between Western contemporary art and the fast-emerging Russian market. More...
Miss Van: Twinkles (Galerie Magda Danysz, Shanghai)
With this new series Miss Van has undergone a beautiful evolution towards a more mature and refined style of painting, but without ever losing touch with her street art origins. More...
Taryn Simon: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar (Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand)
The Govett Brewster鈥檚 new exhibition is a fascinating collection of photographs revealing hidden sites from around the United States. More...
Aki Sasamoto: Stange Attractors (Take Ninagawa, Tokyo)
Inspired by the mathematical concept of the Lorenz Attractor in Dynamical Systems, Strange Attractors addresses topics including doughnuts, hemorrhoids and psychics. More...
Ali Omar Ermes (Meem Gallery, Dubai)
Meem Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of the recent work of Ali Omar Ermes. Ali Omar is internationally renowned for his beautiful paintings based on Arabic literature and letterforms. More...
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