NEWS

New York- Nayland Blake @ Matthew Marks Gallery

(February 2nd-March 8th, 2008) Nayland Blake makes a virtue of inconsistency. His work is rocky, tumultuous, uneven; it operates according to fitful, perverse logics. Still, some consistencies (or, perhaps, themes) can be found in this, Blake's eighth solo exhibition at the gallery: an emphasis on routine habits in the face of trauma and uncertainty, and a steady cultivation of deliberate, magpie assemblage over the superficially spectacular. Probably better known for his work in video and performance (such as Gorge, 1998, in which a shirtless Blake is fed continuously for an hour, and Coat, his 2001 collaboration with A. A. Bronson), this show, featuring the dulcet title "What the Whiskey Said What the Sun is Saying," finds him making drawings and sculptures that explore quieter territory. (Matthew Marks Gallery)


London Art Fair 2008- A modern and contemporary art fair where collectors at all levels of experience can browse and mingle in style

London Art Fair once again launches the art world year in the UK. Celebrating its twentieth year, you will find over one-hundred galleries at this year's Fair showing exceptional work from Modern British artists and international contemporary talent. (London Art Fair 08)

Kunstart 08- 5th International Modern and Contemporary Art Fair

(Bolzano, Italy, May 22nd-25th, 2008) A fascinating cultural calendar is coming to Bolzano, the capital city of South Tyrol, in late spring 2008. This modern multicultural center, located at the crossroads of Italy, Austria and Germany, is preparing itself to inaugurate the 5th edition of Kunstart 08 - the Modern and Contemporary Art Fair- at the new and prestigious MUSEION. Bolzano will also host Manifesta 7, the favourite international biennial for dealers and collectors worldwide, which will be held in Italy for the first time. As strategic crossroads, Bolzano is becoming a sparkling stage, surrounded by new and highly dynamic structures where generations of collectors and art lovers follow one another. A great opportunity to have a look on the best novelties in an exceptional meeting point.(Kunstart 08)

Antonio Lopez Garcia Retrospective at Museum of Fine Arts Boston

(Boston, USA, April 13th-July 27th, 2008)- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), will present the first retrospective at an American museum of the works of contemporary Spanish artist Antonio López García during an exhibition to run April 13 through July 27, 2008. Antonio López García will feature approximately 45 paintings, drawings, and sculpture by the celebrated artist of the realist school, including nine works from the MFA's collection and loans from European and American museums and private collections.

Barrett's Gift to Texas's Two Largest Museums: DMA and MFAH

(Dallas, USA) - The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) today announced that Nona and Richard Barrett of Dallas have given more than 100 works from their outstanding private collection of contemporary Texas art to the permanent collections of both museums. The Barretts' gift to Texas's two largest museums, and to two of the nation's most prominent artistic institutions, represents artwork from the 1970s to the present, with the majority of the pieces dating from the 1980s and 90s.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Exhibition

(San Francisco, USA, March 29th-June 29th, 2008)- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) opens a daring new exhibition titled The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics which showcases the politically charged work of a new generation of women who use creativity as a form of empowerment or a means for making social change. Curated by Berin Golonu, YBCA's associate visual arts curator, The Way That We Rhyme features twenty artists and artist groups who unapologetically assert themselves and address a range of issues from the personal to the global. While the works are influenced by the feminist ideologies and activist movements of the past, they also speak loudly and clearly to the issues facing women right now.

The Armory Show: New York City, Pier 94- 150 International Galleries Featuring New Art by Living Artists

(New York, USA, March 27th-March 30th, 2008) The Armory Show, The International Fair of New Art, is the world's leading art fair devoted exclusively to contemporary art. In its tenth annual exhibition, The Armory Show 2008 will celebrate the spirit of contemporary art. The exhibition includes many of the most important contemporary dealers showcasing new art from around the world. (The Armory Show)

ROMA - The Contemporary Art Fair - has been tailored as a unique, exclusive show: a different, new way to exhibit and promote modern and contemporary art.

(Rome, Italy, February 28th-March 2nd, 2008) The eternal city, that has charmed the whole world with the millenary enchantment of its monuments and the richness of its artistic treasures, will host, from February 28th through March 2nd 2008, a new, unique event: ROMA - THE Contemporary Art Fair. It's an art show conceived as no other, a non-conventional art fair; it's rather a fascinating exhibition project, an exciting challenge for artists, gallery directors and visitors to experiment an emotional dialogue between history and contemporaneity.
(Roma Contemporary Art Fair)

ARCO 08- International Contemporary Art Fair

(Madrid, February 13th-February 18th, 2008)- The city of Madrid will hold, again for yet another year, ARCO, the International Contemporary Art Fair, which in this occasion changes its space and presents a reorganisation of its programme. Having past editions' excellent results as backdrop, and with the prestige granted by its artistic offer's level, ARCO has become one of the main references in the international contemporary art market, and a strategic platform for the trade and promotion of Latin-American art.

McDermott & McGough retrospective at Irish Museum of Modern Art

(Dublin, Ireland, February 6th-April 27th, 2008)- A retrospective of the entire photographic work of the American-born artists McDermott & McGough, covering two decades of their highly-original output in that medium, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday, February 6th, 2008. An Experience of Amusing Chemistry: Photographs 1990 - 1890 comprises some 120 works created using a wide range of historic photographic techniques, including the use of palladium, gum, salt and cyanotype prints.

Palm Beach: America's International Fine Art & Antique Fair

(Florida, USA, February 1st-February 10th, 2008) Palm Beach: America's International Fine Art & Antique Fair is a major destination for both seasoned and new collectors! Glittering vernissage headed by International Honorary Chairs Viscount and Viscountess Rothermere, Mrs. Martin Gruss as Gala Chair with Interior Designers Mario Buatta, Michael Simon and Campion Platt.

Designboom visits the 2007 Singapore Design Festival!

Designboom recently visited the 2007 Singapore Design Festival which featured international designers and architects uniting to celebrate the emerging Singapore design scene. We also made the trip to Seoul Design Week 2007 in South Korea which included an exhibition of results from our 'Love your Earth' competition. (Designboom)

Art of AFrica ' at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park

(January 25th-May 4th, 2008, Grand Rapids, USA)- Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, the most significant sculpture and botanic experience in the Midwest and an emerging cultural destination on the national scene, is pleased to host a major museum presentation of works from Africa. The exhibition, Art of Africa: Objects from the Collection of Warren M. Robbins is open from January 25 through May 4, 2008.

University Museum shows paintings by Kan Tai-keung

(Hong Kong, January 23rd-March 9th, 2008)- The University Museum and Art Gallery of The University of Hong Kong is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by the internationally renowned designer and painter Kan Tai-keung. The exhibition features over thirty paintings by the artist, dating from the 1970s to 2007. On exhibition January 23rd to March 9th 2008.

Shadowy- Nadine Feinson, Hilde Grandalen and Andrew Hladky

(London, England, January 18th-February 16th, 2008) Standpoint Gallery

Brian Alfred- Millions Now Living Will Never Die!!!

(Berlin, Germany, January 12th-March 22nd, 2008) Haunch of Venison

Ruby Osorio Looking- Through the Blind

(California, USA, January 12th-February 16th, 2008) Cherry and Martin

Khalif Kelly- Recess

(New York, USA, January 11th-February 10th, 2008) Thierry Goldberg Projects

Clive Barker Apocalypses: Paintings and Works on Paper

(Chicago, USA, January 11th-February 20th, 2008) Packer Schopf Gallery

Robert Jack- Before and Aftermath

(New York, USA, January 10th-February 23th, 2008) Josée Bienvenu Gallery

Travis Somerville: Authentic Facsimiles of a Nation-
Caren Golden Fine Art

(New York, USA, January 3rd-February 9th, 2008) Travis Somerville has shown extensively with numerous solo and group exhibitions in both galleries and museums. His work has been presented at, amongst others, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C, the Laguna Art Museum and the university art museums of Virginia and Arizona State. He is currently participating in “Beyond the Mountaintop” at the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, CT. He has garnered critical attention in numerous publications including The Washington Post, Art in America, FlashArt and The Los Angeles Times. Authentic Facsimiles of a Nation, Somerville’s first solo exhibition with Caren Golden Fine Art, will be on view from January 3 through February 9, 2008.



Canvas Education

(Dubai, January 19th-21st, 2008 - Abu Dhabi January 20th-22st, 2008 - Kuwait City January 22nd-24th, 2008) For the first time in the Middle East, art lovers will be able to select from a range of intensive one-day courses. Presented by internationally renowned experts, experience the beauty of original works of art and jewelry up close and personal.
(Canvas Education)



"Don’t Fence Me" In presents work by the twelve female artists

(Culver City, Colorado, December 15th, 2007-January 26th, 2008) Don't Fence Me In presents work by the twelve female artists who have shown at Bandini Art during its first year. Artists Sharon Ben-Tal, Castillo, Jennifer Celio, Jessica Curtaz, Ashley McLean Emenegger, Mitra Fabian, Susan Holcomb, Robin McCauley, Laura Ricci, Lana Shuttleworth, Jennifer Vanderpool and Leslie Yagar each approached the group show differently, some taking the opportunity to push the boundaries with one-off experiments, others working through their signature styles to make pieces that define their individual oeuvre. A spirit of expansiveness and empowerment informs all the works. True to the adventurousness of Bandini's distaff side, works are on the walls, the floor and hung from the ceiling in materials as diverse as felt and plastic, paper and breath, acrylic, ink, graphite, hair, PVC, and dryer lint. Laura Ricci contributes a live pine tree in all its beauty and power, bringing into focus the underlying mythology of the midwinter season. The exhibition is a celebration of the extraordinary talent of these women and thrilling glimpse of things to come in 2008. (Bandini Art)

Dionisio Gonzalez- Interdictory Spaces

(Paris, France, December 15th, 2007-February 2nd, 2008) Galerie Xippas

From India to Japan - 10 years of the Guimet Museum acquisitions, 1996-2006

(Paris, France, December 15th, 2007-February 29th, 2008) The years 1996 - 2006 were particularly rich in new acquisitions for the Guimet Museum. The exhibition layout, displayed within the permanent collections, emphasises the exceptional enrichment, in quality as much as quantity that the museum enjoyed during this period. First established at the inauguration of the Guimet Museum in Paris in 1889 by the donations from the founder Emile Guimet, the collections have never stopped growing since. Acquisitions, donations, successive contributions from scientific expeditions or archaeological digs, as well as the transfer of collections previously allocated to other institutions, allowed the Guimet Museum to present an increasingly vast panorama of Asian arts. (Musée National des Arts Asiatiques Guimet)

"The new meeting point among arts, industry and society: the new Triennale Design Museum open its doors in December 2007"

Photo: Fabrizio Marchesi

(Milan, Italy, December 14th, 2007) The new Museum is the first one entirely dedicated to design in Italy, and opens on the premises of the Triennale di Milano event complex in Milan. The famous Triennale di Milano has always focused on design, architecture, decorative arts and crafts and also industrial production, fashion, and visual communication. Now, the new restored Museum whose construction began in 2004, opens with a design library and a documentation center. The museum's architectural highlight is an entrance bridge allowing access to the museum both independently and from the Triennale complex. The museum opens with Che cos'è il design italiano? written by Andrea Branzi with the participation of Peter Greenaway and Italo Rota, also with the special contribution of Ermanno Olmi, Antonio Capuano, Pappi Corsicato, Davide Ferrario, Daniele Luchetti, Mario Martone e Silvio Soldini.

Photography- San Pietro

(Rome, Italy, December 14th, 2007-March 30th, 2008) The exhibition features some 90 spectacular shots of the Basilica of Saint Peter in Rome. (Museo di Roma)

Design Laboratory: Vitra Edition

(London, England, December 13th, 2007-January 31st, 2008) Twenty years ago Rolf Fehlbaum, Chairman of the Swiss furniture design company Vitra, invited a group of architects, designers and artists, from Frank Gehry to Richard Artschwager, to create experimental furniture, objects and interior installations, escaping the restrictions imposed by the furniture production industry. This year, to mark the twentieth anniversary of the groundbreaking project, Vitra commissioned a second group to revisit the idea of limited edition design. (Design Museum London)

Toulouse-Lautrec and the Belle Epoque in Paris and Athens

(Athens, Greece, December 12th, 2007-May 4th, 2008) At the center of this exhibition is a rare collection of approximately 70 original works on paper by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, which the organizers have placed in the historical, social, artistic, and aesthetic context of the time (1800 to the beginning of the 20th century). Furthermore, there has been an effort to approximate the prevailing historical and artistic conditions of urban Athens of the same era, with the goal of revealing the influence of the French Belle Epoque on the social and artistic life of Athens and to establish a number of obvious parallels. (Herakleidon Art)

Photography: Whitechapel Laboratory - Nick Waplington

(London, England, December 12th, 2007-January 20th, 2008) One of Britain's leading contemporary photographers, Nick Waplington is well known for photographs of his family and friends, of places and events that he has witnessed first hand. For the Whitechapel, he has created an installation which continues this investigation, leading from the Gallery out into the streets of Whitechapel. (Whitechapel)

December 12th,2007

  • Russian sculptor Anatoly Osmolovsky won the Kandinsky Prize ( the Russian recognition for contemporary arts in its first edition) with a bronze inspired by a Soviet tank turret.
  • Mark Wallinger wins the Turner Prize for State Britain his replica of the one-man anti-war protest in Parliament Square, State Britain.
  • The winners of the Lorenzo il Magnifico Award 2007 ( in a highly argued Florence Biennale): Painting category First Prize to Nafisa Naomi and Second to Moises Castillo Cruz (with a fantastic piece that everybody loved); Sculpture and Istallation 1° Award Jackie Sleper and 2° Award Lucia Nebel; Mixed Media and Works on Paper 1° Award Ismail Acar and 2° Award Monica Hernandez Cardenas; Photography 1° Award Sumio Inoue and 2° Award Suvi Mannonen; New Media 1° Award Federico Diaz and 2° Award Sylvia De Gennaro (Florence Biennale)

Depero e il Teatro musicale (1914 - 1930)

(December 11th, 2007-January 31st, 2008) The exhibition is entirely devoted to the futurist works for theatre by Fortunato Depero, key figure of the Futurism, the first avant-guard movement in Italy. (Auditorium Parco della Musica)

Exhibition in Basel: Homage to Hildy and Ernst Beyeler

Photo: Serge Hasenböhler
(Basel, Switzerland, December 7th, 2007) To mark the 60th anniversary of Galerie Beyeler, and the already 10-year success story of Fondation Beyeler, an unprecedented look back in the form of an exhibition is planned. Conceived as an homage to gallery owners and museum founders Hildy and Ernst Beyeler, the presentation brings together more than 130 of the masterpieces that were entrusted to their care, and puts these in a dialogue with the outstanding Fondation Beyeler collection. About 16,000 paintings, drawings and sculptures - not including graphic art and editions - have passed through the Basel gallery at Bäumleingasse 9, still at its original location.

Peter Hujar

(Boston, USA, December 5th, 2007-January 27th, 2008 This is the first UK retrospective for Peter Hujar, one of the most important American photographers of the 70s and early 80s, whose work shows the life of New York at a time when the city was financially impoverished but artistically rich. Hujar, who died in 1987, is most associated with his black-and-white portraits of the city's avant-garde stars, but his subjects also include nudes, animals and the streets of night-time Manhattan. (ICA - The Institute of Contemporary Art of Boston)

Photography Retrospective - Ugo Mulas. La scena dell'arte

(Rome, Italy, December 4th, 2007-March 2nd, 2008) A major retrospective entirely dedicated to the Ugo Mulas' works, presented first in Rome and later in Milan and Turin.
(Maxxi Museo Nazionale Delle Arti Del XXI Secolo)

Excellent Results for Art Basel Miami Beach 2007

(Miami Beach, Florida, December 4th-9th, 2007) The sixth edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, the international art show, closed on Sunday, December 9th, 2007. With a record number of 43,000 visitors from every continent plus 1,600 journalists, the show attracted more people than ever. Many thousands of guests were seen at the surrounding cultural exhibitions and events. Celebrated artists and leading art-world personalities participated in the programs of Art Basel Miami Beach. Over 100 museums from the USA, Europe, Latin America, and Asia attended with delegations from their boards of trustees. The 200 galleries from 30 countries exhibited works by over 2,000 artists. The galleries were selected from a record number of over 850 applicants, the highest number since the show was founded in 2001. In initial surveys exhibitors reported satisfaction with sales results and new contacts. Art Basel Miami Beach proved that the interest in contemporary art is growing worldwide and that the art market remains strong.

Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century

(New York, USA, December 1st, 2007-March 30th, 2008) The exhibition explores the reemergence of sculptural assemblage. It focuses on a specific form of contemporary sculpture that juxtaposes disparate elements for suggestive effect. These sculptures display an additive quality that gives them a distinct informality: conversational, provisional, at times even corroded and corrupted, they are un-heroic and manifestly unmonumental. (New Museum of Contemporary Art)

Photography- Jeff Wall

(London, England, November 27th, 2007-January 19th, 2008) White Cube Mason's Yard is pleased to announce an exhibition of new photographs by Jeff Wall. Featuring six black-and-white pictures and three colour light-boxes, this is the artist's first exhibition in a private gallery in the UK since showing The Giant at White Cube Duke Street in 1994, and his first in London since his celebrated retrospective at Tate Modern in 2005. (White Cube Mason's Yard)

Photography- Lo sguardo della bellezza

(Rome, Italy, November 22nd, 2007-February 17th, 2008) The exhibition is dedicateed to the German photographer Herbert List (1903-1975). From the 1930's to the 1950's List created a personal and beautiful body of work, exhibited now for the first time in Rome. (Musei Capitolini)

Masterpieces from The Forbidden City: Qian Long and his Court

(Rome, Italy, November 20th, 2007-March 20th, 2008) Being shown for the first time in Italy are 300 masterpieces from The Forbidden City, one of the most majestic and impressive museum complexes in the world, to tell the story of the life of the court and the splendour of China under the reign of the Emperor Qianlong (1711-1799), literally king of the "Great Universe", considered the political and cultural heydey of the last royal dynasty of the middle countries (1644-1911). (Museo del Corso)

Joseph Wright of Derby - The Artist's Liverpool Days

(Liverpool, UK, November 17th, 2007-February 24th, 2008) A major exhibition examines the three years Joseph Wright of Derby spent in Liverpool at the start of the town's cultural Renaissance and growing status as a major world port. Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool is on view through 24 February 2008 gives a fascinating insight into a previously little-known period of the artist's life. Today he is known for his stunning candlelight paintings such as Experiment with Bird in an Air Pump and The Orrery. However, Wright came to Liverpool at the urging of a friend who recognised that there was a growing market for portrait painting among the town's burgeoning merchant class. (Walker Art Gallery)

Ferdinand Hodler

(Paris, France, November 13th, 2007-February 3rd, 2008) Ferdinand Hodler was considered during his lifetime as a leading artist in the Modernist movement. Born in Berne in 1853, he lived in Geneva until his death in 1918. He was a member of the great Secessions and saw his work acclaimed in Vienna, Berlin and Munich. His triumph in Paris came in 1891 when his seminal painting Night (Berne, Kunstmuseum), was banned by the city of Geneva for reasons of obscenity. Holdler is also an uncompromising portrait painter and unequalled landscape painter. (Musée d'Orsay)

Sculptures- Il Tempo grande scultore

(Rome, Italy, November 11th, 2007-November 21st, 2008) The exhibition is an homage to Marguerite Yourcenar. 50 artworks (paintings, sculptures and installations) by 5 artist: Georges de Canino, Paola Crema, Luciana Fortini, Roberto Fallani and Alessandra Pescetta.
(Centrale Montemartini)

Let the World In: Prints by Robert Rauschenberg

(Washington, USA, October 28th, 2007-March 30th, 2008) Robert Rauschenberg's boundless experimentation and his rich collaborations with talented printers will provide the focus for Let the World In: Prints by Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition will present 58 outstanding prints, including some never before seen in a museum. (National Gallery of Art)

Space for you Future

(Tokyo, Japan, October 27th, 2007-January 20th, 2008) The exhibition presents a program aimed at providing support to young artists and expanding access to art, using the extensive 7400 m2 of exhibition space at Museum of Contemporary Art. (MOT Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo)

Sculptures- Canova e la Venere Vincitrice  

(Rome, Italy, October 18th, 2007-February 3rd, 2008) The exhibition aims to illustrate the complex relationship between Canova and Prince Camillo Borghese, and between Canova and the Bonaparte family, for whom Canova developed the particular typology of the glorified sculpture portrait; through the extraordinary assembled collection of fifty other works from museums worldwide, it demonstrates at the same time the constant re-interpretation on the theme of Venus that continued to the end of the 18th Century. Other works in marble, drawings, tempera paintings, monochrome pictures, paintings, clay objects, plaster casts to thoroughly illustrate Canova's working method. (Museo e Galleria Borghese)

Pop Art

(Rome, Italy, October 26th, 2007-January 27th, 2008) The exhibition comprising over 100 works by some 50 artists is designed to tell the story of the movements that made art history and culture in the second half of the 20th century in the four corners of the western world.
(Scuderie del Quirinale)

Walter Sickert: The Camden Town Nudes

(London, England, October 25th, 2007-January 20th, 2008) The paintings of the female nude produced by Walter Sickert (1860-1942) in and around Camden Town between 1905 and 1912 are among the artist's most significant contributions to 20th century British art. This exhibition brings together a selection of over twenty-five of his finest canvases and related drawings from public and private collections to provide the first major account of his reinvention of the nude as a subject for modern painting. (Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery)

Renaissance Siena: Art for a City

(London, England, October 24th, 2007-January 13th, 2008) This exhibition offers the first opportunity in the UK to see Sienese Renaissance works of art in the artistic, cultural and political context of the volatile last century of the Sienese Republic. Renaissance Siena: Art for a City showcases the bravura techniques and virtuoso inventiveness of two of the greatest Sienese artists of this period, Francesco di Giorgio and Domenico Beccafumi, alongside many of their contemporaries. Around one hundred beautiful paintings, sculptures, drawings, manuscripts and ceramics are included in the exhibition. (The National Gallery)

Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The Killing Machine & Other Stories

(Miami, Florida, October 21st, 2007-January 20th, 2008) Through multi-media installations described as everything from "physical cinema" to "audio sculptures," Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller entice participants into alternate realities through the use of sound and voice. Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: The Killing Machine and Other Stories 1995-2007 presents ten installations that weave together independent but complimentary experiences. (Miami Art Museum)

Biedermeier - from Craftsmanship to Design

(Paris, Farnce, October 18th, 2007-January 14th, 2008) The Biedermeier, developed in central Europe between 1815 and 1848, was highly original. The aim of this exhibition is to underscore the singularity of this movement as a harbinger of many aspects of modern aesthetics, including the age of industrial design. The objects presented include furniture, silver, crystal and porcelain pieces, wallpapers and textile samples, together with depictions of interiors, botanical studies and a few paintings. (Musée du Louvre)

L'atelier d'Alberto Giacometti

(Paris, France, October 17th, 2007-February 11th, 2008) The Centre Pompidou is presenting, in collaboration with the Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation in Paris, an original retrospective of Alberto Giacometti's works (1901-1966). For the first time, all the facets of the artist's creations will be presented in reference to the area where he created, his studio, and illustrated by rare works, that the general public do not often see, like painted plaster casts or fragments of the walls of his three main studios in Paris, Stampa and Maloja. (Centre Pompidou)

Pop Art Portraits

(London, England, October 11th, 2007-January 20th, 2008) This major international exhibition is the first to explore the role and significance of portraiture within Pop Art, one of the most important and popular artistic movements of the twentieth century. Presenting a visual dialogue between American and British Pop, the exhibition focuses on key portraits by leading artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Peter Blake and Richard Hamilton. (National Portrait Gallery)

A l'apogée de l'impressionnisme, la collection Georges de Bellio

(Paris, France, October 10th, 2007-February 3rd, 2008) The exhibition offers the possibility of admiring the significant collection of works by 18th century French, Italian and Flemish masters and also the Impressionist painters. Georges de Bellio's collection of art is now largely dispersed: over three hundred paintings, pastels, watercolours and sketches by renowned artists such as Monet, Renoir and Pissarro that are now on show in this major event. (Musée Marmottan)

Louise Bourgeois

(London, England, October 10th, 2007-January 20th, 2008) The first major survey in the UK of the work of the French born artist Louise Bourgeois (b.1911). The exhibition spans seven decades of varied and prolific artistic output ranging from small scale experimental works to large scale installations from the 1980s and 1990s; drawings, prints and paintings, more than 200 works in many different materials, including her most recent works using fabric. (Tate Modern)

Stardust ou la dernière frontière

(France, October 4th, 2007-January 13th, 2008) The exhibition presents works by artists such as Guy Allot, Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, Davide Bertocchi, Etienne Chambaud, Julien Discrit, Serge Guillou, Vincent Lamouroux, Bernard Moninot, Jacques Monory, Melik Ohanian, Bruno Peinado, Didier Rittener, Stéphane Sautour, Bridget Smith, Mark Wallinger, Jane & Louise Wilson.
(MAC VAL - Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne)

Installation- Shirana Shahbazi

(London, England, October 4th, 2007-January 20th, 2008) A striking new installation by Iranian born, Zurich based artist Shirana Shahbazi combines imagery from various genres of art, which she reproduces in dramatic wall paintings and digital photographic prints mounted on the 80 metre long wall of The Curve. (Barbican Centre)

The Incomplete

(New York, USA, October 2nd, 2007-January 12th, 2008) The Incomplete, drawn from the Neumann Family Collection, explores four generations of living contemporary artists in a new context. Emerging artists connect into a genre that began in the mid 1980s with Ashley Bickerton and Jeff Koons and continue today with Haluke Akakce, John Armleder, Kristin Baker, Vanessa Beecroft, Michael Bevilacqua, Ashley Bickerton, James Busby, Sydney Chastain-Chapman, Nigel Cooke, Devon Costello, Justin Craun, Benjamin Edwards, Jeff Elrod, Manuel Esnoz, Wendell Gladstone, Ridley Howard, Chris Johanson, Karen Kilimnik, Jeff Koons, JP Munro, Erik Parker, Charlie Roberts, Justin Samson, Tom Sanford, Christian Schumann, Haim Steinbach, Meyer Vaisman, Xavier Veilhan, Aye Uekawa, and Kelli Williams. (Chelsea Art Museum)

Focus: Alexander Calder

(New York, USA, September 15th, 2007-February 18th, 2008) Alexander Calder is best known for his mobiles-abstract sculptures made of independent parts that incorporate natural or mechanical movement. This installation, which includes early mobiles and wire sculptures, focuses on works created between the late 1920s and the late 1940s, prior to Calder's shift to monumental constructions and public works. (MOMA The Museum of Modern Art)

Max Ernst- In the Garden of Nymph Ancolie

(Basel, Switzerland, September 12th, 2007-January 27th, 2008) The exhibition in Basel assembles around 150 of Max Ernst's works, some of which, on loan from international museums and galleries as well as private collectors, have rarely, and in certain cases never before, been shown in public. This will therefore be the first comprehensive overview of the multifaceted ouvre of this painter, collagist and sculptor to be held in Switzerland since several decades.
(Museum Tinguely)

Reinstallation of the South Asia Galleries Gandhara, Mathura, Andhra and Gupta Sculpture

(New York, USA, August 10th, 2007-August 10th, 2008) These galleries explore the South Asian emergence of Buddhist and Hindu sculptural traditions between the 2nd century B.C. and the 8th century A.D. More than 160 works from the permanent collections are juxtaposed to trace the range of stylistic and iconographic developments in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India during a period that witnessed great ideological ferment and international exchange.
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Hockney on Turner Watercolours

(London, England, June 11th, 2007-February 3rd, 2008) The exhibition provides a rare opportunity to see some of Turner's most spectacular works. Usually outnumbered by his grand oil paintings, around 150 of Turner's watercolours are displayed, giving a comprehensive view of the artist's astonishing use of watercolour, his techniques and his influences. At the heart of the exhibition another seminal British artist, David Hockney, presents his own selection of Turner's unique colour studies or "beginnings" and also provides commentary on the artist's techniques. (Tate Britain)

Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia

(Washington, USA, April 7th, 2007-January 7th, 2010) Approximately 200 diverse and visually striking ceramic vessels from Southeast Asia are on long-term view. The clay pots and jars form the most enduring record of human activity in this part of the world, during the prehistoric period to the present. (Freer and Sackler Galleries: the National Museums of Asian Art)

"Artist not sure how his work fits into Iraq Museum show"

(Montreal Gazette, Bill Brownstein, July 9, 2006) Montreal artist Erik Slutsky did what many other artists do in their spare time. He checked out his name on Google a few days ago and discovered, to his amazement, that his work was being showcased in the Iraq Museum International Poster Exhibition. He figured it was probably another Eric Slutsky, until he visited the museum website and saw his art on display.
What makes Slutsky's inclusion a little more intriguing is that the theme of this exhibition is The Cultural Heritage of Iraq and the Middle East expressed in posters and prints. And Slutsky, for the life of him, can't fathom how his painting Two Hassids fits into that theme. Or, for that matter, why organizers would select the work of a Jew, albeit a secular one, for such a show.
"OK, so perhaps the current regime may be more tolerant toward Westerners and, sure, some of my relatives might have passed through Babylon a few thousand years ago, but it's still quite the stretch to be included there,"says Slutsky from his Mile End studio. "But there I am, along with such paintings as the Code of Hammurabi. Some of my paintings in the show feature Montreal women without their clothes on, which I wouldn't think would reflect the theme of the cultural heritage of Iraq."
On the other hand, Slutsky notes that organizers didn't include two of his other works, Christ with a Yo-yo and Am I a Jew? He also points out that although all is legit - arranged by an international rep - he was never personally asked to participate. But he wouldn't have refused. "Who knows? This could open up big new doors for me."
Slutsky will be having a major solo show in November at the Gora Gallery downtown. The exhibition will reflect his take on Montreal from a "Jewish ethnic perspective."Maybe the Iraq Museum will try to pick the show up after its run here, but Slutsky isn't holding his breath.

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