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Why Old Women Have Replaced Young Men as the Art World’s Darlings
Tuesday, 20 June 2017 17:17Shared via Artsy | Artsy Editorial By Anna Louie Sussman Alex Logsdail, international director of Lisson Gallery, remembers the first time his father encountered Carmen Herrera’s work. It was 2008, and the painter Tony Bechara had brought some of her canvases to London for the Pinta art fair. None of them sold, says Logsdail, but […]
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SECRET GARDEN // The Female Gaze on Erotica
Saturday, 17 June 2017 16:00The Untitled Space gallery is pleased to present “SECRET GARDEN: The Female Gaze on Erotica” a group exhibition of female identifying artists exploring figurative works of nudes and erotic art. Curated by Indira Cesarine, the exhibit will be on view from June 27 – July 30 and will include works of painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, pottery, sculpture, collage, mixed media […]
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Helen Frankenthaler, AFTER ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM, 1959–1962
Wednesday, 7 June 2017 16:40Opening reception: Friday, June 9, 6–8PM June 9–September 16, 2017 4 rue de Ponthieu 75008 Paris Gagosian is pleased to present “Helen Frankenthaler: After Abstract Expressionism, 1959–1962.” The first major exhibition of Frankenthaler’s work in Paris in more than fifty years, it includes paintings and works on paper, several of which have not been exhibited since […]
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Takesada Matsutani at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles
Thursday, 25 May 2017 18:37Takesada Matsutani Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, South gallery 1 July – 17 September 2017 Opening reception: Saturday 1 July, 6 – 9 pm Los Angeles… Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles is honored to present ‘Takesada Matsutani,’ the first Los Angeles solo exhibition for the Osaka-born, Paris-based artist Takesada Matsutani. Opening 1 July 2017 and […]
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Revealing Reality / Andres Serrano
Sunday, 21 May 2017 14:38The oeuvre of the prominent artist Andres Serrano (New York, 1950) is both provocative and fascinating. In terms of scale, composition and subject matter his works of art show strong similarities to the work of the Old Masters, but unlike these old paintings Serrano’s work confronts us powerfully and directly with contemporary reality. Serrano has a deep interest […]
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Figures Toward Abstraction Sculpture 1910 to 1940
Thursday, 18 May 2017 16:09FIGURES TOWARD ABSTRACTION: SCULPTURE 1910-1940 ORGANIZED BY DANIELLA LUXEMBOURG AND DANIEL LIBESKIND MAY 12 – JULY 1, 2017 LUXEMBOURG & DAYAN, NEW YORK 64 EAST 77TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY would not, from all the borders of itself, burst like a star: for here there is no place that does not see you. You must […]
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57th Venice Biennale review – the Germans steal the show
Tuesday, 16 May 2017 16:22Venice Biennale 2017 The Observer Migrant boats, vulnerable teens, a teeming Faustian hell… conscience pervades the Biennale’s big pavilions, while the main international exhibition slips into something more comfortable High in the Caucasian mountains, beneath a canopy of blazing blue sky, a tightrope walker inches between two peaks. Nothing prevents him from plummeting but his […]
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Frieze New York 2017 Expands Scope
Tuesday, 9 May 2017 16:29Frieze New York 2017 Expands Scope and Builds Strong Sales Across the Fair’s Main and Curated Sections 2017 Edition of Fair Marks Inaugural Acquisition for the Frieze Brooklyn Museum Fund The sixth edition of Frieze New York closed on Sunday, May 7, having brought together more than 200 leading galleries from 31 countries […]
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57th International Art Exhibition
Tuesday, 2 May 2017 15:47VIVA ARTE VIVA 13 May > 26 November 2017 The 57th International Art Exhibition, titled VIVA ARTE VIVA and curated by Christine Macel, is organized by La Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta. The Exhibition will be open to the public from Saturday May 13th to Sunday November 26th 2017, at the Giardini and […]
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Vito Acconci
Friday, 28 April 2017 18:41I knew Vito in the late sixties and participated together in Street Works. It was solitude, obsession and fear to push the boundaries and stay away from labels and categories where you were defined and pigeon hold. He refused to be called “artist” even into the 70’s and 80’s. I was sorely distracted by his […]