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The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents 'Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas'
FORT WORTH, TX.- The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents a major retrospective exhibition of Sean Scullys most significant works from the 1970s to the present. Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas, organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, closely examines the Irish-born American artists contribution to the development of abstraction in various media over a span of nearly five decades. These works, rarely shown together, highlight the close relationship between the artists paintings, drawings, prints, and pastels. The exhibition will be on view June 20 through October 10, 2021, then will be presented at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the spring of 2022. Timothy Rub, the George D. Widener Director and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art said, This exhibition will convey the richness and complexity of Scullys vision and will ... More

Golden Age comics collection keeps its promise with earth-shattering $7 million debut at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions made history Friday morning when it began bringing to market The Promise Collection, which consists of high-grade Golden Age comic books that haven't been seen since they were purchased off newsstands in the 1940s. The Promise Collection is the highest-quality pedigree collection, book for book, to debut in our hobby in the last 25 years, says Heritage Auctions' Senior Vice President Ed Jaster. When it made its eagerly anticipated debut during the third session of Heritages three-day Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction, which opened Thursday with a record-setting first session, the stunning assemblage kept its word: Over the span of four hours, just 181 comic books sold for a total of $7.1 million. That is but a mere fraction of a fraction of the 5,000-plus comic books that make up The Promise Collection, ... More

Kohn Gallery opens an exhibition of works by California Light and Space artist Joe Goode
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Kohn Gallery opened 20 Years Later, an exhibition featuring historically significant paintings by prominent California Light and Space artist, Joe Goode. Created at the turn of the last century from 1999 to 2003, the works on view belong to Goodes three seminal series: Oil and Water, Night and Day, and Cause and Effect. Investigating duality and the sublime qualities of nature these works present the paradox of opposing natural elements, the passage of time, and the consequences of human interaction with the Earths delicate climate. The works in a general way refer back to Goodes sky paintings of the 1970s, but modified with more abstracted atmospheric effects. These works display Goodes ability to imbue painting with resonant subject matter as well as formal beauty. A member of the Los ... More

Curator Maria F. P. Saffiotti Dale retires
MADISON, WI.- The Chazen Museum of Art shares the bittersweet news that Curator of Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts Maria F.P. Saffiotti Dale will retire August 17, 2021, after nearly 22 years of service to the museum and the university. Saffiotti Dales last day at the museum was June 4. Over her more than 20 years at the Chazen, in addition to mentoring students, conducting research, and giving personal tours of the collection (sometimes in Italian), Maria has especially excelled at fostering enduring relationships with faculty and staff across the university, says Chazen Director Amy Gilman, PhD. Highlights of Saffiotti Dales curatorial work at the museum include Hidden Treasures: Illuminated Manuscripts from Midwestern Collections; Italian Drawings from the Joseph F. McCrindle Collection; Restoring a Baroque Painting: ... More

Academy Art Museum publishes catalogues for MirÃ³ and Morgan exhibitions
EASTON, MD.- The Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD has recently published two exhibition catalogues on its current exhibitions, MirÃ³ in New York, 1947: MirÃ³, Hayter and Atelier 17 and Norma Morgan: Enchanted World. MirÃ³ in New York, 1947: MirÃ³, Hayter and Atelier 17 explores a group of little-known etchings Joan MirÃ³ made with influential British printmaker Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17, the New York outpost of his seminal printmaking studio in Paris. Both MirÃ³ and Hayter were key participants in the community of artists in Paris who ultimately formed the core of international movements in contemporary art from the 1930s to 1945. The exhibition is open to the public through July 8, 2021 and viewable online through August 1, 2021. Mehves Lelic, Curator at the Academy Art Museum comments, The catalogue explores a transformative ... More

Anonymous U.S feminist art collective Guerrilla Girls unveil large scale billboards across the UK
LONDON.- Anonymous U.S feminist art collective Guerrilla Girls unveiled a series of large scale billboards across the UK, in iconic locations from outside the Glasgow Barrowlands, and at London Bridge, to countryside locations and seaside towns from 18 June to 18 July 2021. The billboards have been launched as part of Art Night, a contemporary art festival which this summer is taking place across the UK for the first time. The billboards are part of a new commission titled The Male Graze is the artists largest UK public project to date and which explores bad male behaviour through the lens of art history. The work, delivered in partnership with Jack Arts and Ground Up Media, launched in London, Eastbourne, Dundee, Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Cardiff, Warwick, Swansea and Lewes and is on display in partnership with Art Nights friends Compton Verney, ... More

MusÃ©e cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne opens an exhibition of works by Jean Otth
LAUSANNE.- A pioneer of video art in Switzerland, Jean Otth (19402013) began using in the 1960s the visual possibilities being made available by the new technologies of the day, i.e., the slide as a projected and dematerialized image; television and its particular idiom; and the shifting experimental character of video. Whether we are talking about Otths moving images, paintings, drawings, or installations, it is the questions and issues of representation itself that lie at the heart of his experiments more than his attachment to any one medium in particular. The show offers an overview of nearly fifty years of artmaking, all mediums included. It allows visitors to take stock of both the depth and diversity of a body of work that is centered on the dialectic tension between representation and nonrepresentation, visibility and obliteration, presence ... More

First exhibition in the UK by the American artist Karin Gulbran on view at MASSIMODECARLO
LONDON.- MASSIMODECARLO presents Somnambulist, the first exhibition in the UK by the American artist Karin Gulbran and her second with the gallery. Karin Gulbran, initially trained as a painter, turned her interests towards ceramics during the early stages of her career. Seamlessly shifting from two to three dimensions, her works reveal fantastic and figurative scenes on hand-built pots and vases, that feature wide-eyed creatures, lush nature, and inhabited waters. Gulbrans expressive beasts and creatures crawl around the edges of the works, the artists hand navigating the bumps and hollows of the surface with an ease that demonstrates her ability as a painter. The artworks in Somnambulist evoke a landscape of water and woods. The theme of the Somnambulist has interested the artist for a long time, inspired by the tradition of late nineteenth century ... More

Birmingham Museums acquires work by leading contemporary artist
BIRMINGHAM.- Birmingham Museums has acquired a sculpture by leading contemporary artist Hew Locke for the citys collection. Made in 2019, Souvenir 9 (Queen Victoria) is the first work by the artist to be acquired for the city. To coincide with the acquisition, a free event with artists Hew Locke and Matt Smith will explore commemorating and contesting Empire with Victorian ceramics, discussing the ways they have responded to 19th-century ceramics in their own work. The conversation between the two leading contemporary artists will take place online on Friday 25 June, 11am 12 noon, and will be chaired by Dr Sadiah Qureshi, Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Birmingham, who is a cultural and social historian of race, science and empire in the modern world. Hew Locke is a Guyanese-British sculptor whose work across a range ... More

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein hosts a solo presentation of Dara Birnbaum's work
BERLIN.- Dara Birnbaum is a pioneer of video art who has profoundly influenced the genres visual vocabulary since the 1970s. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the n.b.k. Video-Forum, founded in 1971, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein hosts the first solo presentation of Birnbaums work in Germany in over 20 years. The exhibition focuses on works by the artist that have been in the n.b.k. Video Forum collection since the 1980s. With her work Birnbaum vigorously and convincingly championed the establishment of video as an art medium, thereby expanding the boundaries of the art world. Her practice proved to be groundbreaking for subsequent generations of artists, both conceptually and aesthetically. With this presentation of her work, n.b.k. continues its support of critical positions using video as a means of artistic expression. Birnbaums ... More

Maureen Paley opens second solo exhibition by Felipe Baeza
LONDON.- Maureen Paley is presenting the second solo exhibition by Felipe Baeza at the gallery. At the heart of Felipe Baezas work is the body: abstracted, dismembered, remembered, obscured, suspended, floating, drowning, sprouting wings, feathers, leaves, both human and celestial, entrapped and expansive, unbound and unruly. In his series of collages Gente del Occidente de MÃ©xico II, for instance, Baeza renders the body grotesque and monstrous. Human limbs, torsos, and mouths are conjoined with photographs of pre-Columbian art objects to create totemic, hybrid entities that straddle multiple temporalities. They are at once more-than-human and anti-human as they scramble logics of self and other, male and female, subject and object. Disjointed, hyper-sexualized human body parts both male and female, replete with stereotypical ... More