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Toulouse-Lautrec and Friends at High Museum of Art (Atlanta)

Toulouse-Lautrec and Friends: The Stein Collection
High Museum of Art
January 29, 2011 –
The High Museum of Art today announced a gift of 47 works of art, the majority of which are prints and posters by major artists working in fin-de-siécle Paris, from prominent Atlanta collectors Irene and Howard Stein. The Stein collection includes many rare and extremely prized works by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, such as “La Clownesse au Moulin Rouge” (1897), one of only a handful of impressions of this color lithograph, and “Miss Loïe Fuller” (1893), a ghostly image of the famous American dancer that incorporates powdered gold. The gift also includes important prints and drawings by Pierre Bonnard, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Honoré Daumier and Paul Signac, and sculptures by Pieter Xavery, Martin Desjardins, Charles Cordier and Jules Dalou. In celebration of this gift, the High will mount a special exhibition titled “Toulouse-Lautrec and Friends: The Stein Collection,” which will open in January 2011.

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Henri Cartier-Bresson at High Museum of Art (Atlanta)

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
High Museum of Art
February 19–May 29, 2011
The High Museum of Art will host “Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century,” the first major retrospective in the U.S. in more than 30 years of one of photography’s most original and influential masters. On view from February 19 through May 29, 2011, the exhibition comprises more than 250 photographs dating from 1929 to 1989—at least one-fifth of which are previously unknown to the public—and focuses on the photographer’s most productive decades, the 1930s through the 1960s. Also included is a generous selection of original issues of Life, Paris Match and other magazines in which many of the photographs first appeared.

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Will Maclean at The Fleming Collection (London)

Will Maclean: A Survey Exhibition 1970-2010
The Fleming Collection
8 March – 4 June 2011
An important retrospective exhibition of works by the renowned Scottish artist Will Maclean is to be held at The Fleming Collection, 13 Berkeley Street, London W1 from 8 March to 4 June 2011. The show, entitled Will Maclean: A Survey Exhibition 1970-2010, will include loans from public and private collections as well as works from The Fleming Collection’s own holdings. It will coincide with the publication of a new book Will Maclean: Collected Works 1970-2010 by The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation, the charity which runs The Fleming Collection.

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Merry Christmas from …

Merry Christmas from
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art with Madonna and Child of Giovanni Bellini
The Metropolitan Museum of Art with Neapolitan Baroque Crèche
Denver Art Museum with Madonna and Child with Saints of Bernardo Zenale
The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal with Postérité-les-Bains (Usine de sapins), 2009 (Entrance Hall) of BGL
Cartoon Art Museum with Hanna-Barbera Christmas card
Dulwich Picture Gallery with No Christmas Problem Now – Santa with a Parker Pen of Norman Rockwell

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Gulumbu Yunupingu: winner of the 2010 People’s Choice Award

Gulumbu Yunupingu from Yirrkala in North East Arnhem Land, has won the People’s Choice Award of $5,000 in the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards 2010.
Our diverse Gallery audience have responded to the talent and delicate sensibility of Yunupingu’s artworks. Her entrancing paintings on bark and carved wood of Garak, The Universe and Ganyu, Stars , depict an infinite universe of stars, shared by all. They show true innovation, while embodying understandings of Yolngu belief systems and contemporary life.

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VoTH at Moscow Museum of Modern Art

VoTH
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
December 18, 2010 – January 16, 2011
VoTH is a project of cultural exchange between Russia and the Netherlands, initiated by Dutch curators Marjan Teeuwen and Ine Lamers (Marjan Teeuwen / KW_14 is responsible for the organization of the exhibitions and the catalogue).

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Lee Lozano at Hauser & Wirth (New York)

Lee Lozano Tools
Hauser & Wirth
12 January – 19 February 2011
Lee Lozano has been described as one of the least known great artists of the New York scene of the 1960s and early 1970s. Navigating the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art, from Minimalism to Conceptual Art, she created a radical, overtly sexual, and aesthetically provocative body of work in a male-dominated art world.

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Rob Pruitt’s 2010 Art Awards: the winners

At an awards ceremony and dinner on December 8, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum announced the winners of Rob Pruitt’s 2010 Art Awards, the second annual celebration honoring notable individuals, exhibitions, and projects that made a significant contribution to the field of contemporary art during the past year. Awards in 15 categories were presented at a fundraising event benefiting the Guggenheim Foundation and visual arts nonprofit White Columns on Wednesday, December 8, 2010, at the nightclub and music venue Webster Hall.

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Fred Comegys Photographs at Delaware Art Museum (Wilmington, USA)

Fred Comegys Photographs
Delaware Art Museum
February 12, 2011 – May 1, 2011
For more than 50 years, photographer Fred Comegys has captured international celebrities and local kids for the pages of The News Journal, Delaware’s most prominent newspaper. His distinctive images present national news and local interest stories, and perhaps most memorably, the intersection of the two. Born and raised in Delaware, he comes by these local angles naturally. The Delaware Art Museum is pleased to present Fred Comegys Photographs, featuring 60 images taken by Comegys over the last four decades, on view February 12, 2011 – May 1, 2011.

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Contemporary Ceramics at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, USA)

Collecting with Passion: Contemporary Ceramics from the Lennie and Jerry Berkowitz Collection
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
15 December 2010 – 10 April 2011
Contemporary works in clay from the outstanding collection of Lennie and Jerry Berkowitz will be on view at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in an exhibition that opens Dec. 15 in the Bloch Building. Collecting with Passion: Contemporary Ceramics from the Lennie and Jerry Berkowitz Collection features works of art by such noted American artists as studio potter Ken Ferguson and sculptor Akio Takamori.

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Nippon at Lugano (Swiss)

Nippon
23 october 2010 – 27 february 2011
Lugano, Swiss
The new cultural centre named LAC takes off for its voyage. The ceremony of laying the cornerstone of the new building took place with a great show on May 8th; now the first season of exhibitions is about to be opened under the new LAC brand.

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