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• The James Cohan Gallery Shows Solo of Tabaimo's Video Art
• The Guggenheim Museum Shows Pop Objects & Icons From its Collection
• The Museo Picasso Málaga Shows "Cartoons on the Front Line"
• J. Paul Getty Museum Surveys the Birth of the Los Angeles Art Scene
• "Henri Matisse: In Two & Three Dimensions" at The Weatherspoon Art Museum
• Phillips de Pury & Company Offers a Major Auction of Photographs in October
• The Armory Center for the Arts Presents Wallace Berman & Robert Heinecken
• The Chelsea Art Museum To Host World Photography Organisation Events
• Pavilion of Art & Design London to Field World's Most Prominent Dealers
• The Weserburg Museum of Modern Art In Bremen, Germany Is Toured By Our Editor
• Seattle Art Museum Presents an Intimate Tribute to the Late Andrew Wyeth
• Major Picasso Exhibition for Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 2012
• Hammer Museum presents " Rachel Whiteread Drawings" in a Retrospective
• Deutsche Guggenheim to show 'Picturing America ~ Photorealism'
• Montenegro Pavilion at Palazzo Zorzi showcases the famous Dado ~ "The Zorzi Elegies"
• Major Survey of Anselm Kiefer's Works at SFMOMA
• "Workshop Missoni ~ Daring to be Different" opens at The Estorick Collection
• Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau opens Exhibition Covering Entire Oeuvre of Herlinde Koelbl
• The Centre Pompidou Dedicates An Exhibition to Women: elles-at-centrepompidou
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The James Cohan Gallery Shows Solo of Tabaimo's Video Art Posted: 01 Oct 2011 10:07 PM PDT New York City.- The James Cohan Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition by Japanese artist Tabaimo running through October 29th. This is the third solo gallery exhibition by the 35-year old Tabaimo, who is recognized as one of Japan's leading artists and is well-known for her hand-drawn animations whose coloration bring to mind traditional ukiyo-e prints. Currently, Tabaimo is representing Japan at the 54th Venice Biennale with her work "teleco-soup" an immersive multi-media environment that transforms the Japan Pavilion into the interior of a well, where the reflected world is inverted and boundaries between water and sky, self and world, real and imagined are fluid. Taking on both the roll as social critic and voice of those born in the mid 1970's, Tabaimo strives to understand the space between the generations. As globalization has reached the island nation that once prided itself on its isolationism, the traditional life of the communal is breaking down and the contemporary desire towards individualization is taking over. Tabaimo's work offers an unblinking look at contemporary Japanese society as a mirror in which to view herself and the other members of her generation caught in the crossfire of these societal shifts. Her works capture the anxiety that is a constant reality in a land whose terra firma is less than stable, while their tone remains detached and low-key. Her images of oft repeated motifs including cityscapes, interior spaces, hands, brains, hair, insects, plants and water hover between the disturbingly surreal and the stylishly cool. Two of the works on view at James Cohan Gallery "Blow" and "danDAN" were first shown in 'Tabaimo: Danmen' a solo exhibition in 2009 that originated at the Yokohama Museum of Art and travelled to the National Museum of Art, Osaka. These two works are multi-channel video and sound installations presented on elaborately built stage sets. In addition, the exhibition features Guignorama which is a single-channel work first exhibited in the artist's solo exhibition at the Hara Museum in 2006. This gallery exhibition marks the first time these works are shown in the United States. The central work in the main gallery, "Blow", 2009 depicts a watery world projected onto a curved, double half pipe ramp. The viewer is invited to walk through the seamless, multi-channel projection that moves across this bowl-shaped cross-section, in which human bones, organs and blood vessels emerge from a watery world and transform into flower blossoms that recall the origins of life emerging from the primordial soup. In Gallery 3, "danDan", 2009 is a work projected onto three angled panels that run vertically from floor to ceiling to create a deep perspective. It portrays the interior space of a housing complex of multiple dwelling units with a cut-away view into different apartments—the viewer peers into the rooms inhabited by a slob next to those of a neat-nik. In what appear to be still domestic spaces, strange events happen; birds fly inside rooms, a woman spins in a washing machine, a man walks into a refrigerator, the peck of a bird's beak causes blood to flow from of a bed, and clothes turn into birds and fly away.In the front gallery, "Guignorama", 2006 is a single channel work projected on a wall where blue-veined hands grasp, grapple and lock together in an ever-moving diorama—the pulsating blood vessels creating an emotionally fraught landscape. The artist had severe eczema as a youth and as a result of her suffering from this itchy disease, hands and skin have come to represent the boundary between interior and exterior worlds—individual and communal, self and society. Other works by the artist, although not in the exhibition, are available through the gallery. Tabaimo was born in Kobe, Japan in 1975. Her work has been exhibited and collected widely around the world. Recent important solo exhibitions include: Tabaimo: teleco-soup, Japanese Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, 2010; Tabaimo: Boundary Layer, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London, 2010; TABAIMO: Danmen, Yokahama Museum of Art, Tokyo, (travelled to the National Museum of Art, Osaka) 2009-10; Tabaimo, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2009; Tabaimo, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, 2006; YOROYORON: Tabaimo, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2006. International group exhibitions include: the Yokohama Triennale, 2001; the Sao Paolo Biennale, 2002; the 15th Biennale of Sydney, Australia, 2006; and the 52nd International Venice Biennale, 2007. Among the museums that have collected Tabaimo's work are the Yokahama Museum of Art, Tokyo; National Museum of Art, Osaka; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; MUSAC, Spain; Fondation Cartier, Paris; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. James Cohan Gallery opened in New York City in September 1999 with an inaugural exhibition of early photo-pieces by Gilbert & George. The focus of the gallery is on international contemporary art with an on-going exhibition programs that includes the work of established and emerging artists. In addition to representing and building the careers of artists on the roster, the gallery maintains an active business in the sales of works and selected exhibitions by other modern and contemporary masters. Alongside the vibrant program of solo artists' exhibitions, the gallery distinguishes itself through the mounting of thematic group exhibitions that explore topics throughout history. Past exhibitions titles include; The Passions, Between the Lines, Realm of the Senses, Cosmologies and Mask. James Cohan Gallery Shanghai opened July 2008 in the French Concession quarter of Shanghai with a group exhibition entitled, Mining Nature. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.jamescohan.com

The Guggenheim Museum Shows Pop Objects & Icons From its Collection Posted: 01 Oct 2011 10:06 PM PDT New York City.- The Guggenheim Museum is pleased to present "Pop Objects and Icons From the Guggenheim Collection" on view at the museum until February 8th 2012. Pioneered in Europe in the late 1950s, the American Pop art movement took off after finding support from critics such as Guggenheim curator Lawrence Alloway. Encouraged by the economic vitality and consumerist culture following World War II, artists including Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, and Andy Warhol explored the image world of popular culture and took inspiration from advertisements, pulp magazines, billboards, movies, television, and comic strips. This focused exhibition demonstrates various artists' engagement with Pop art and the Guggenheim's ongoing interest in the legacy of the style.

The Museo Picasso Málaga Shows "Cartoons on the Front Line" Posted: 01 Oct 2011 10:05 PM PDT Málaga, Spain - The Museo Picasso Málaga is proud to present "Cartoons On the Front Line", now on view at the museum. In January 1937, Pablo Picasso began to work on 'Sueño y mentira de Franco', eighteen scenes etched on two plates. He created them in protest at the military uprising of July 1936 and with the aim of collecting funds for the Republican cause by selling the prints in the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris World's Fair. Each plate consists of nine vignettes, organised in a format that recalls cartoons and comic strips in which Picasso portrayed themes such as violence, the destruction of art, the consequences of totalitarianism, the confrontation and the effects of the Spanish National drama in innocent people, in a language in which avant-garde and popular styles join in a project of denouncing war and its barbarism. The plates were completed by June the same year. From the first vignettes to the last, satire and parody are employed to represent the crudeness of the drama of war, scenes in which the viewer will recognise the iconography of one of Picasso's great masterpieces, Guernica, on which he started to work in May that year so that it could be exhibited in the Spanish Pavilion in the Paris World's Fair.

J. Paul Getty Museum Surveys the Birth of the Los Angeles Art Scene Posted: 01 Oct 2011 09:52 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, CA.- —In recent decades, Los Angeles has shed its stereotype as the land of sunshine, palm trees, and movie stars to become an artistic powerhouse and an increasingly important international creative capital. This fundamental shift in the cultural landscape of the city dates back to the 1950s and 1960s, a period of critical importance in art history that has never before been fully studied and presented. On view October 1st – February 5th, at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950–1970 chronicles the rise of the Los Angeles art scene through a focused examination of painting and sculpture produced in Southern California during this crucial period.

"Henri Matisse: In Two & Three Dimensions" at The Weatherspoon Art Museum Posted: 01 Oct 2011 09:11 PM PDT Greensboro, NC.- The Weatherspoon Art Museum is proud to present "Henri Matisse: In Two and Three Dimensions". An artist whose radical style left a lasting mark on modern art, Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954) was attracted to the female human body and used it as one of the primary themes in his work. In paintings, works on paper, and sculptures, the artist created figures that are emotionally powerful without necessarily being anatomically detailed or accurate. This exhibition presents side-by-side displays of two- and three-dimensional work by Matisse to showcase how the artist linked themes, imagery, and processes over the course of his career. The combined works reveal complex interactions between illusion, anatomical reference, and formal inventiveness—the primary hallmarks of Matisse's distinct style.

Phillips de Pury & Company Offers a Major Auction of Photographs in October Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:42 PM PDT New York City.- Phillips de Pury & Company is pleased to announce its upcomiong auction of photographs at 450 Park Avenue in New York on October 4th. "The Arc of Photography: A Private East Coast Collection" is consistently buttressed by outstanding works depicting touchstones in the field of photography over 150 years, especially in the genre of identity and performance. Indeed, the strength of the collection lies in its breadth, providing a cohesive, chronological narrative addressing the various permutations the field has undergone while consistently addressing the topic of self-presentation, be it that of the photographer or the sitter. Amassed since 1997, the collection reflects a keen observational eye, supported by a strong scholastic acumen, which has meticulously secured the foundations that have provided inspiration for countless photographers on both sides of the Atlantic. Upon careful inspection, the dialogue between classic and contemporary photographers in the presentation of identity and its performative underpinnings becomes more evident.

The Armory Center for the Arts Presents Wallace Berman & Robert Heinecken Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:41 PM PDT Pasadena, CA.- The Armory Center for the Arts is proud to present "Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken, 1961 - 1976", as part of "Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-1980". This unprecedented collaboration, initiated by the Getty, brings together more than sixty cultural institutions from across Southern California for six months beginning October 2011 to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene. "Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken, 1961 - 1976" will be on view at the Armory from October 2nd through January 22nd 2012.

The Chelsea Art Museum To Host World Photography Organisation Events Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:22 PM PDT New York City.- The Chelsea Art Museum will host the Sony World Photography Awards and the World Photography Organisation (WPO) "New York Events" from October 13th through November 12th. After its highly successful iterations in Shanghai, São Paulo, San Francisco and London, the WPO makes its mark in New York – fittingly in the heart of Chelsea. The Events and Exhibition – which will feature WPO photography competition winners from an open call for both amateur and professional photographers in New York and abroad – celebrates the launch of the exhibition as much as the WPO's rich history of promoting young students, educators and emerging artists and providing a platform upon which to create, share, and collaborate with one another. Throughout its rich history, CAM has provided exposure for over 1,000 new and thriving voices of all art disciplines through artist talks, dance performances, musical recitals and more than 150 exhibitions. This project directly supports our mission to deepen and foster new and existing partnerships with other well-established, like-minded cultural institutions such as the London-based WPO, which shares our commitment of highlighting emerging artists in unexpected and groundbreaking ways. The NY Events Schedule includes City Projects and Student Focus, which are comprised of collaborative lectures, critiques, editing workshops and one-on-one sessions with professional and renowned photographers. Students and artists will be encouraged to venture out into the streets and find images that they feel embody the the vibrant and perpetually-evolving streets of New York City. Leading these intimate programs will include internationally-established reportage photographer Jez Coulson, street culture photographer Cheryl Dunn, The New Yorker photographer Steve Pyke and British-based street photographer Nick Turpin. In addition, a juried selection of images produced from City Projects will be displayed in the Museum galleries. The WPO's In the Photographer's Studio Artist Talk will feature emerging Argentinean photographer Alejandro Chaskielberg that invites viewers to interact with and discuss the current state of contemporary art and the direction of photography as an art form. The Chelsea Art Museum (CAM) is located in the heart of Chelsea at 556 West 22nd Street at 11th Avenue. The three-story, red brick building — each floor 10,000 square feet — has large windows with views of the Hudson River and abundant natural light. An open glass staircase joins the gallery spaces. The complete renovation of the building was planned and supervised by Alfredo Caraballude and Michel Morris of the CMA Design Studio. The building, erected in 1850, stands on a parcel of land that was once owned by Clement Clarke Moore, renowned author of "Twas the Night Before Christmas". In 1915, the Church Temperance Society leased the building as a rest home for longshoremen, many of whom were Irish, Italian or German immigrants working the foreign commerce lines on the Chelsea piers. Longshoremen waiting for shape-ups (work calls) spent hours out doors in all kinds of weather. The only alternative was the saloon. The Rest offered them reading materials, games and light refreshment, provided the men respected the rights of others. A description of the building at the time reported, "Often more than a hundred of the denizens of the waterfront can be seen at one time, reading, sitting about in groups playing games, or formed into circles outside the groups, following the play with words of encouragement or derision" (The Longshoremen by Charles B. Barnes, published by the Russell Sage Foundation). Prior to its renovation CAM housed a factory for Christmas ornaments. The museum is committed to an exploration of "art within a context."  This approach favors a program of exhibitions which reflect contemporary human experience across a broad spectrum of cultural, social, environmental and geographical contexts. CAM's exhibitions, each supported by a rich series of related cultural events and educational programs, seek to support in both its artists and audiences a sense of creativity, community and cultural exchange.  Co-founder and President, Dr. Dorothea Keeser, describes CAM's curatorial vision as, "a commitment to art as a living entity which reacts and interacts with us and changes the way one continues to live one's daily life". In collaboration with a network of museums and visual arts institutions both national and international, CAM seeks to present important, but relatively unexplored dimensions of 20th and 21st Century art, particularly focusing on artists that have been less exposed in the United States than in their home countries. The museum, a 30,000 sq. foot renovated historic building in the heart of Chelsea, is located opposite the piers which served as entry for the arrival and assimilation of foreign cultures into New York.  This location provides a powerful symbol of the museum's mission: to be a meeting point, a destination for exhibitions and works from Europe, the Americas and Asia and returning CAM generated exhibitions to those partners both overseas and within the United States. CAM also serves as the home of the Miotte Foundation which is dedicated to archiving, preserving, presenting and making available for exhibitions the work of Jean Miotte.  Rotating selections of Miotte's work are shown on a regular basis, as are selections from the permanent collection which includes rare holdings of such artists as Pol Bury, Mimmo Rotella, and J.P. Riopelle. The Museum also presents film, performance and frequent artist talks and round-tables which seek to foster cross cultural and interdisciplinary debate. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.chelseaartmuseum.org

Pavilion of Art & Design London to Field World's Most Prominent Dealers Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:19 PM PDT LONDON.- Now in its third year, the Pavilion of Art & Design London – an expansion of DesignArt London – makes an impressive return to Berkeley Square from 14 to 18 October with the participation of 45 of the world's most prominent dealers in the fields of Modern Art, Decorative Arts and Design from 1860 to the present. The strong presence of international exhibitors combined with a high concentration of London‐based galleries this year makes it the largest and ever‐expanding event of its kind to take place during Frieze week. Galleries from Paris, London, Brussels, Milan, New York, Barcelona and Geneva will bring to the capital the most coveted and iconic design, jewellery, decorative art and fine art pieces, showcased in a rigorously curated and sophisticated setting for an anticipated audience of 25,000 visitors. Rare canvases by 20th Century Masters, from Léger, Picasso, Calder, Soutine and Matisse to Warhol, Fontana, Dubuffet, Hantai and Moore will fill the universe of fine art representatives Lefèvre Fine Art . (London), Galerie Vedovi (Brussels), E&R Cyzer Art (London), Galeria Manuel Barbié (Barcelona), Faggionato Fine Arts (London), Connaught Brown (London), Galerie Jacques de la Béraudière (Geneva), Osborne Samuel (London), Lefèvre Fine Art (London), Galerie Berès (Paris), David Grob (Parracombe, UK), Martin Summers Fine Arts Ltd (London) and Van de Weghe Fine Art (New York). Contemporary works by Gerhard Richter at Custot Gallery Ltd (London), Candida Höfer at Ben Brown Fine Arts (London) and Toshio Shibata and Nobuyoshi Araki at Michael Hoppen Gallery (London) extend the historical panorama to today. Design newcomers Gordon Watson (London) and Galerie Olivier Watelet (Paris) will join returning galleries Anne Autegarden (Brussels), Galerie Downtown François Laffanour (Paris), Galleria Rossella Colombari (Milan), Rapin – Müllendorff (Brussels) and Alain Marcelpoil (Paris) in bringing the finest assortment of post‐war design furniture. Carpenters Workshop Gallery (London) will present radical pieces by contemporary designer Sebastian Brajkovic – winner of last year's DesignArt London‐Möet Hennessy Prize whose creation is now held in the Victoria & Albert collection – and the multi‐functional units of Atelier Van Lieshout. Leading design and art dealers Barry Friedman and Marc Benda (New York) will make a strong first appearance at the fair with outstanding pieces by Wendell Castle, Forrest Myers and Ettore Sottsass. Decorative arts will be represented by Paris‐based Galerie Martel‐Greiner with sculptural steel works by Claude Mercier, while Adrian Sassoon (London) will feature precious glass, ceramic and metal pieces of unparalleled quality, including Michael Eden's parody of traditional vase forms, Julian Stair's minimalist pottery and Giovanni Corvaja's delicate gold masterpieces. The exquisite collection of vintage Art Deco pendants by Jean Desprès and Ruth Franquen at Jean‐David Botella (Paris) will bring jewellery to the fore, a trail culminating with striking contemporary pieces commissioned by Louisa Guinness Gallery (London) from leading artists including Antony Gormley, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, and Anish Kapoor. Complementing this at Didier Antiques (London) will be jewellery created by post‐war artists and sculptors such as Salvador Dalí, Lucio Fontana and Louise Bourgeois. The Moët Hennessy‐Pavilion of Art & Design London Prize, which sponsors the donation of a winning decorative art piece to the prestigious collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, remains a key highlight of the fair. The eminent judging panel, chaired by architect and designer Nigel Coates this year, and including personalities such as Mark Jones, David Collins, Bella Freud, Julian Treger, Tom Dixon, and Allegra Hicks, amongst others, will also honour two galleries with the title of 'Best Exhibit' and 'Best Stand'. To crown this landmark event, the Pavilion of Art & Design London will bring about an extraordinary collaboration between its charity sponsor, the NSPCC and Francis Sultana Ltd. Miniature chairs for children, produced in limited editions and decorated by leading international designers such as Zaha Hadid, Philippe Starck and Mattia Bonetti, will be at the core of this project curated and supported by Francis Sultana, in association with Outset. The chairs will be sold at the fair with all proceeds donated to the NSPCC.

The Weserburg Museum of Modern Art In Bremen, Germany Is Toured By Our Editor Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:18 PM PDT The Weserburg Museum of Modern Art is Bremen's museum of modern art _ one of the largest museums in Germany with an international reputation _ is located in the middle of the Weser River in the heart of this Hanseatic city. The institution does not only consider itself in the middle of the river geographically: constantly alternating presentations of works from famous private collections as well as special exhibitions show the dynamic development of modern art from the sixties to the present. A supporting program consisting of weekly guided tours, concerts, lectures, performances, discussions with artists, and film screenings make the Weserburg one of the liveliest place of fine art in town. The idea for a collector's museum, an institution in which the collector is not only the lender but a committed mediator of modern art, was implemented for the first time in Europe in Bremen, a concept that clearly sets the Weserburg apart from traditional art museums. Various focuses have been selected from several German collections that provide insight into the world of art that is as personal as it is diverse. The private collector's individual passion for art is combined with the scholarly eye of the museum in the special atmosphere of this historic building. In an impressive tour, visitors do not follow a path alongside art-historical developments, rather they follow dialogues between the individual works of art. The appeal lies in the interaction between the individual private collections. When strolling through the exhibition spaces, the juxtaposition and coexistence of different collection concepts under one roof enables experiencing contemporary art from ever new, in part surprising angles of vision. Since it opened in 1991, the Weserburg Museum has presented art from a number of private European collections, which enables viewers to perceive the spirited variety of contemporary art in a special way. Unlike public institutions, as art lovers, private collectors are only committed to their own preferences. By pursuing their personal ideas and passions, collections are created with an unmistakable character of their own. While one collector systematically follows the work of an artist over decades or is particular enthusiastic about a single art movement, another is constantly on a quest for certain themes and motifs or aims at a dialogue between different artistic stances. In this way, the Weserburg creates a space in which divergent perspectives can encounter each other and be discussed publicly. The museum has been working closely with most of the collectors for many years. This has resulted in a mutual trust that allows presenting the various aspects of the collections to an interested audience in large-scale special exhibitions and smaller presentations. On September 6, 1991, the New Museum Weserburg Bremen opened its doors under the directorship of Thomas Deecke. The museum was an absolute novelty in Europe. It was the first time that the concept of a collector's museum has been implemented in which the permanent exhibition consisted exclusively of works from private lenders. Thomas Deecke's extraordinary commitment was pivotal in the long-term securing of several outstanding collections from both Germany and abroad. Works of contemporary art have since been presented in numerous exhibitions and collection presentations on 6,000 square meters of exhibition space. We can look back on successful exhibitions such as Die Kunst und das schöne Ding (1995), Picasso, Guston, Miró, De Konnning (1997), or Fondation Maeght: Südliche Kunst unter nordischen Himmel (2003). In addition, many of the exhibitions developed by curators from the Weserburg have been shown by well-known international museums. The museum's exhibition Minimal Maximal (1999), for example, toured via Spain all the way to Japan and Korea.

Seattle Art Museum Presents an Intimate Tribute to the Late Andrew Wyeth Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:17 PM PDT SEATTLE, WA.- Opening this summer the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) will present Andrew Wyeth: Remembrance, a tribute to one of America's most celebrated artists who passed away earlier this year. On view June 25 through October 18, 2009, at SAM downtown, the exhibition focuses on seven paintings that span Wyeth's career and show his favorite subjects: his wife Betsy and the land around their farm in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania; his neighbor Karl Kuerner; and Kuerner's nurse Helga Testorf. Ms. Testorf was Wyeth's favorite model and the subject of the famous series of Helga pictures, watercolor and tempera portraits made over an eighteen year period.

Major Picasso Exhibition for Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 2012 Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:16 PM PDT EDINBURGH.- The first exhibition to explore Pablo Picasso's lifelong connections with Britain will be the highlight of the summer season at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 2012. Picasso and Britain will examine Picasso's evolving critical reputation here and British artists' responses to his work. Originating at Tate Britain, this pioneering show marks the first time that the two organisations have collaborated on a major exhibition. Opening in August 2012 at the height of the Olympic celebrations, Picasso and Britain will comprise over 150 works from major public and private collections around the world, including over 60 paintings by Picasso. Highlights will include masterpieces from all periods of his career such as his great 1925 painting, The Three Dancers, which the Tate acquired from the artist following his 1960 exhibition and major cubist paintings from the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Hammer Museum presents " Rachel Whiteread Drawings" in a Retrospective Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:15 PM PDT Los Angeles – This winter the Hammer Museum presents a retrospective of drawings by Rachel Whiteread , the first large-scale museum survey of work on paper by the British artist. Organized by Allegra Pesenti, curator of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, this exhibition includes key examples of the artist's sculpture displayed alongside her drawings. The exhibition features 155 drawings, 8 sculptures, and a vitrine filled with roughly 200 objects selected by Whiteread. Although her sculpture is well-known and widely published, Whiteread's work on paper has remained largely behind the scenes until now. On view January 31 through 25 April, 2010.

Deutsche Guggenheim to show 'Picturing America ~ Photorealism' Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:14 PM PDT   Berlin, Germany - At the end of the 1960s, a number of young artists working in the United States began making realist paintings based directly on photographs. With meticulous detail, they portrayed the objects, people, and places that defined both urban and suburban contemporary American life. Various terms were used to describe this art, chief among them Hyperrealism and Photorealism. On view 07.03.2009 - 10.05.2009 at Deutsche Guggenheim.

Montenegro Pavilion at Palazzo Zorzi showcases the famous Dado ~ "The Zorzi Elegies" Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:13 PM PDT VENICE.- For half a century, the well-known Montenegrin-born artist Dado (b. Cetinje, 1933) has been creating a world of delicate horror and intricate fantasy in every medium from painting and fresco to drawing, engraving and book illustration. The commissioner for the exhibition is Michael Peppiatt, formerly editor of 'Art International' and best known for his books and exhibitions on Francis Bacon, Alberto Giacometti and other major 20th-century artists.

Major Survey of Anselm Kiefer's Works at SFMOMA Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:12 PM PDT San Francisco, CA - The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth from October 20, 2006, to January 21, 2007.  The first North American survey of this influential contemporary German artist's oeuvre in 20 years, this traveling exhibition brings together more than 50 major works, many of which have never before been seen in the United States.  Organized by Michael Auping, chief curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth completes its international tour in San Francisco in a presentation overseen by SFMOMA Curator of Painting and Sculpture Janet Bishop.

"Workshop Missoni ~ Daring to be Different" opens at The Estorick Collection Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:11 PM PDT LONDON.- Missoni is one of the leading and most distinctive fashion houses in the world. The Missoni style has evolved out of a long-standing collaboration between the husband and wife team of Ottavio and Rosita Missoni. In the late 1940s, Ottavio Missoni established a workshop producing jersey tracksuits that were sported by the Italian Athletic Team at the 1948 London Olympics, where Ottavio himself qualified for the final of the 400m hurdle race. The exhibition is curated by Luca Missoni. It is accompanied by The Black and White of Colour, a thirty-minute documentary profile produced by Maggie Norden of the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. On view at the Estorick Collection through 20 September, 2009.

Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau opens Exhibition Covering Entire Oeuvre of Herlinde Koelbl Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:11 PM PDT BERLIN.- Berlin's Martin-Gropius-Bau is mounting the first exhibition of works by the German art photographer Herlinde Koelbl. This is the first time her oeuvre is being shown in all its variety. The exhibition presents over 450 photographs covering a period of three decades, including famous icons of portrait photography, as well as many hitherto unknown shots. Herlinde Koelbl began her career as a photographer in 1976. She soon discovered her passion for the medium and how it could enable her to get particularly close to people. With great vitality and energy she went her own way, pursuing projects at her own risk without the financial back-up of a contract. This exhibition tells the story of how Herlinde Koelbl's unusual vision and productive curiosity made her one of Germany's most important art photographers.

The Centre Pompidou Dedicates An Exhibition to Women: elles-at-centrepompidou Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:10 PM PDT PARIS - The new hang of the permanent collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne is to be entirely devoted to modern and contemporary women artists – the first time such a thing will have been done by a national museum of art. The exhibition, drawing on one of the world's greatest collections of modern and contemporary art, the largest in Europe, represents a vigorous affirmation of the Museum's commitment to women artists of every nationality, across all the disciplines, returning them to their rightful place at the centre of the modern and contemporary art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Following "Big Bang" in 2005 and "Le Mouvement des Images" in 2006-2007, "elles@centrepompidou" will be the third thematic hang of the permanent collections of the Musée National d'Art Moderne. Organised chronologically and thematically, the exhibition brings together more than 500 works by more than 200 artists, from the early twentieth century to our own day. Drawn from the historical collection, the work of such emblematic figures as Sonia Delaunay, Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Tanning, Joan Mitchell and Maria-Elena Vieira da Silva, among many others, will hang alongside the productions of major contemporary women artists, notably Sophie Calle, Annette Messager and Louise Bourgeois, all recently the subjects of monographic exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou. Within the exhibition, women artists will speak for themselves, with their observations on their own work cited in the extended labels, while the wall texts are given over to the reflections of women writers, philosophers, novelists and historians. Many of the artists will also address the public directly, in talks and discussions. The Centre Pompidou's multidisciplinary programme of accompanying events will consider in greater breadth and depth the various fields of culture that women have made their own over the last century, looking at literature and theory, dance and cinema. A dedicated audio-guide has been produced, offering the public an informed introduction to the exhibition. A 380-page catalogue is to be published by Éditions du Centre Pompidou, in French and English versions. This will include several essays and a chronology of women's art over the past century. A radically innovative website, centred on an interactive plan of the exhibition, will feature all the accompanying events, as well as offering newly commissioned film-portraits of artists and an interactive timeline. ORGANISATION OF THE EXHIBITION The exhibition occupies the two floors of the Museum (extending over 6,000 m2) and is organised in seven thematic sections that reflect historical developments. The first of these in chronological order comprises eight rooms on Level 5. Though rare, marginalized and often struggling, women artists were involved in all the various artistic movements of the first half of the twentieth century. Their engagement with, and their effort to free themselves from, the traditional conceptions of "women's art" led them to develop artistic stances and modes of expression that would become central to the contemporary art of our own day, in performance, in biographical work, in textile installations. At the same time, women architects developed new conceptions of domestic space, based on a more sociologically informed understanding of its users and their lives. Works exhibited (selection): Sailing, 1985, Shirley Jaffe; Chasse interdite, 1973, Joan Mitchell; Philomène, 1907, Sonia Delaunay; Les Lutteurs, 1909-1910, Natalia S. Gontcharova; Mutter, 1930, Hannah Höch; "The Frame" (Self-Portrait), 1938, Frida Kahlo; Ils ont soif insatiable de l'infini, 1950, Judit Reigl; La Chambre bleue, 1923, Suzanne Valadon; A Young Man in Curlers at Home on West 20th Street, 1966, Diane Arbus; Armoire de toilette, 1927-1929, Eileen Gray; Bureau en forme, 1939, Charlotte Perriand; Nusch Eluard, 1935, Dora Maar. "Free Fire" brings together artists, not all explicitly feminist, who cast a critical eye on art and life, from art history to gendered social relations, from representations of the body to the representation of war, from the personal to the political, challenging established boundaries and categorizations. Works exhibited (selection): La Mariée, 1963, Niki de Saint Phalle; Personal Cuts, 1982, Sanja Ivekovic; The Analysis of Beauty, 1986, Karen Knorr; Cogito, ergo sum, 1988, Rosemarie Trockel. DOMESTIC "A Room of Ones Own" – its title taken from Virginia Woolf's book, in which she considers the conditions necessary to creative activity – looks at women's contradictory relation to private space, place of both confinement and liberation. Responding to this complexity in art and design, they have challenged the boundaries between private and public, cultural and functional. Works exhibited (selection): Chambre 202, Hôtel du Pavot, 1970, Dorothea Tanning; Rock, 2007, Tatiana Trouvé; Bloc sanitaire "Savoie", 1972-1974, Charlotte Perriand; L'Hôtel, 1981-1983, Sophie Calle. NARRATIVE "Wordworks" shows how language, central to the Conceptual Art that emerged in the 1960s, has been seen by women artists as a terrain of contestation and reinvention. Old narratives are deconstructed, new narratives constructed. In narrated video, in the captioned photograph and in the artist's book, the autobiographical "I" is brought into art and also put into question. Works exhibited (selection): Signal électronique, 1985, Jenny Holzer; Untitled, 1986, Barbara Kruger; Untitled, 2000, Natacha Lesueur; Untitled (Passage II), 2002, Cristina Iglesias; Shortstories, 2008, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster; Tuuli / The wind, 2001-2002, Eija-Liisa Ahtila. AREA OF THE COLLECTIONS OF FILM AND NEW MEDIA elles@centrepompidou / Women Artists of the Collections of Film and New Media Free access to a selection of over two hundred films and videos, part of the great chapters of the collection as well as the body of works created by the women artists of the Collections of Film and New Media. Videos from the 60's, 70's and from the beginning of the 80's are voluntarily broadcasted on cathode ray monitors in order to respect the aesthetic rules of artworks presentation

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