Landmarks names Kathleen Brady Stimpert as Deputy Director
AUSTIN, TX.- Landmarks announced today the appointment of Kathleen Brady Stimpert as Deputy Director. In this newly established position, Stimpert will oversee Landmarks operational and institutional affairs, managing the organizations performance and growth by leading daily operations including administration, collections management, education programs and communications. Stimpert will also serve as a representative of and chief advisor to Landmarks Director AndrÃ©e Bober and assist with strategic planning, board development and fundraising initiatives. Kathleens extensive background in communications and arts management will be a great asset to Landmarks, says AndrÃ©e Bober, director of Landmarks. As we enter our second decade of bringing exceptional public art to The University of Texas at Austin, we look forward to Kathleens ... More

Huxley-Parlour Gallery opens exhibition of new work from British landscape photographer Jem Southam
LONDON.- New work from British landscape photographer, Jem Southam, has gone on display for the first time at Huxley-Parlour Gallery. After a lifetime of making work solely in the South-West of Britain, the works in this exhibition are the result of a six-week journey in 2018 to document the landscapes of both the North and South Islands of New Zealand. These new photographs build and expand on themes that Southam has explored throughout his forty-year career. They show his continued fascination with the subtleties of colour, with reflection and transience, and with the effects of the shifting seasons and weather on the landscape. Southams work is characterised by its balance of poetry and lyricism within a documentary practice. His photographs present a sociological and physiological investigation into the landscape, touching on mans intervention ... More

University of Richmond Museums opens African wax print exhibition
RICHMOND, VA.- Wandering Spirit: African Wax Prints opens February 13 through April 28, 2019, at the Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature, University of Richmond Museums. The exhibition is a tribute to the centuries old handmade designs and patterns on textiles that originated in Indonesia and were copied and industrialized by Europeans and exported to Africa. The exhibition traces the developmental pathway of the African wax print and tells how these fabrics reflect the stories, dreams, and personalities of the people who wear them. The process for handmade batiks was invented in eighth-century China, then expanded to India on the coast of Coromandel. The technique was then imported to Java by traders in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Batik is a Javanese word that refers to a traditional technique of wax-resist dyeing, in ... More

PHOTO L.A. draws a crowd of over 10,000 at its 27th edition
LOS ANGELES, CA.- PHOTO L.A. recently concluded its 27th Annual collaborative platform hosting photography dealers, collectors, and art enthusiasts in its new home at the historic Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA. The highly coveted photography fair welcomed over 10,000 guests and patrons throughout the week from January 31st - February 3rd, 2019 at the 35,000 sq. ft. Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, CA. The opening night celebration to benefit Venice Arts hosted an attendance of 2,500 VIP guests and patrons. Launching the evening, VIP attendees were treated to a personalized docent tour of PHOTO L.A. by Weston Naef, Curator Emeritus, Department of Photographs, J. Paul Getty Museum. As the evening continued the whos who of the photography and art world enjoyed the evening and a stellar selection of works present by exhibitors. ... More

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art opens exhibitions of works by Don Coen and Karen Kitchel
BOULDER, COLO.- Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art announces its Spring 2019 Exhibitions: Don Coen: The Migrant Series and Karen Kitchel: Grasslands. Don Coens larger-than-life portraits emphasize the pride and humanity of migrant workers people who are directly connected to the land. Karen Kitchel expresses concern for the changing environment around us through her meticulously rendered grass paintings. These exhibitions are guest curated by Ann Daley. Don Coen paints what he knows. He was raised on a ranch near Lamar, Colorado where he was part of every aspect of ranch life, including appreciating the work of migrant workers in the fields nearby. In addition to major paintings illustrating the ranch life of cows, trucks, and animals, in 1990, Coen started traveling to photograph, and to ultimately paint, the hard-working migrants who picked ... More

Jeu de Paume announces newly commissioned works by Julie BÃ©na, Ben Thorp Brown and Daisuke Kosugi
PARIS.- How does space determine the way we feel? Predicated on a sense of a threatening and hostile environment, one of the basic definitions of architecture is the provision of shelter and comfort for the human body. The common idea of dwelling as surrogate skin stems from Gottfried Semper, who described the animal pen, made of woven skins and leaves, as the origin of architectural private space. Today, this understanding of architecture as an enveloping spatiality, the modern desire to provide a place of refuge, no longer holds. Social, technological, demographic and environmental change has increasingly led to the management of the environment, the standardisation of lifestyles, the displacement of people due to conflict, persecution and gentrification, the surveillance of private sites of living, and ultimately the negligence ... More

New Director of Liverpool Biennial appointed
LIVERPOOL.- The Trustees of Liverpool Biennial announced today that Fatoş Ãstek has been appointed as the new Director of Liverpool Biennial. She will take up her position in May 2019. Fatoş Ãstek (1980, Ankara, Turkey), curator and art writer, is regarded as one of the rising stars in the international art scene. Having been associate curator for the 10th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea in 2014, she went on to curate the internationally acclaimed fig-2, 50 projects in 50 weeks, in London the following year and then Art Night 2017 in East London. She is an external member of the Acquisitions Committee for the Arts Council Collection (2018-2020). Most recently she curated Do Ho Suhs largest commission in the UK for Art Night and Sculpture in the City. She is currently Director and Chief Curator of the David Roberts Art Foundation. Fatoş ... More

Melanie Sheffield appointed Chief Development Officer at the Harvard Art Museums
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The Harvard Art Museums announced the appointment of Melanie Sheffield as Chief Development Officer, a new leadership position in the museums Office of Institutional Advancement; she will assume the role on March 4, 2019. The Chief Development Officer will provide strategic direction for the planning and execution of all functions related to development, in alignment with the museums mission, vision, and goals. Sheffield comes to the museums from Boston Ballet, where she has served since 2013: first as Director of Individual Giving and then as Director of Development, a promotion she received during her first year with the organization. She is returning to the museums for this new role, having previously served as Assistant Director of Membership and Special Programs in 200506. With over 17 years of fundraising and ... More

SprÃ¼th Magers opens exhibition of works by Otto Piene
BERLIN.- Otto Piene counts among the pioneers of 20th century art. As co-founder of the international ZERO movement, he had a fundamental impact on how classical art forms such as painting and sculpture are perceived. His early smoke, grid and fire paintings, light ballets and light rooms enabled him to incorporate time, light, space and movement into the production of art. His interdisciplinary projects in Germany and the US and most especially his move to the United States at the end of the 1960s opened new horizons in his experimental practice. Starting in the 1970s, Piene developed a large number of projects as director of the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies (1974-1993). Working at the interface of art and technological innovation, Piene collaborated with artists, scientists, and technicians and created gigantic, but ephemeral works. Process- ... More

Iconic Victorian masterpiece by William Powell Frith offered for sale the first time in 135 years
LONDON.- For the first time since its original purchase in 1883, The Private View at the Royal Academy, 1881, by William Powell Frith, RA (1819 1909), one of the most popular artists of the Victorian age, is to be offered for sale. Friths extraordinary painting depicts many of the most influential figures of the day including Prime Minister William Gladstone, artists Lord Leighton and Millais, writer Oscar Wilde and actors Henry Irving, Ellen Terry and Lily Langtry. This historically important record and celebrated satire is the artists response to the Aesthetic Movement which challenged the artistic tradition that Frith and his circle held dear. William Powell Frith was a stalwart of the Victorian art scene, his ambitious scenes of modern life attracting huge public interest and achieving the highest figures ever paid at that time to a living artist. The Private View ... More

Exhibition presents works selected from Kiki Smith's exceptional donation to the Pinakothek der Moderne
MUNICH.- With the exhibition TOUCH. Prints by Kiki Smith, the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung MÃ¼nchen is honoring the internationally acclaimed artist Kiki Smith of New York for her extraordinarily generous donation: Kiki Smith has donated her oeuvre of published printssingle sheets, series, and artists booksto the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung MÃ¼nchen. If the series and books are counted as single prints, this amounts to the considerable number of 800 prints. Known internationally as one of the most renowned museums for works on paper, the Graphische Sammlung considers itself fortunate for this demonstration of faith, as it now has the largest holdings of prints by Kiki Smith in the world. Moreover, the artists generosity extends into the future as well, since she intends to donate a copy of every new edition to Munich. In the exhibition rooms ... More