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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Last Chance: Andrew & Peter Sutherland
Supreme Management Being has posted an interview with Andrew and Peter Sutherland, whose current show Amateur Hour at ATM (New York) closes this weekend. Check out a slideshow of the exhibit on Peter’s blog here.
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Thomas Campbell Surfaces with New Exhibit and Feature Film
We are extremely excited for Thomas Campbell’s forthcoming gallery show, opening Oct. 30 at V1 in Copenhagen. Campbell has spent the past few years focusing on his surf-film projects, and hasn’t held a major exhibition since his 2006 shows at Museum Het Domain (Netherlands) and Roberts and Tilton Gallery(Los Angeles). His latest movie, The Present, will also be screened for the first time in Scandinavia on Oct. 28.
Thomas Campbell – UMMMM
Oct. 30 – Nov. 11
V1 Gallery
The Present Film Film Premier
Oct. 28, 8:30pm
Grand Teatret
Copenhagen, Denmark
Monday, October 19th, 2009
Swoon Returns to Brooklyn
(All Images © Luna Park via Robots Will Kill)
Here’s a new street piece by Swoon, who has recently returned home to Brooklyn, NY after participating in several projects overseas.
Monday, October 19th, 2009
Last Chance :: Murakami’s Picture of the Blessed Lion
Takashi Murakami – A Picture Of The Blessed Lion Who Stares At Death, 2009. (Image © Gagosian Gallery)
If you are in New York, there’s only a week left see A Picture Of The Blessed Lion Who Stares At Death, Takashi Murakami’s new grand-scale painting, on view in it’s own room at Gagosian Gallery – 24th St. until Oct. 24. Not in the area? – Click here for a video look at the piece.
Sunday, October 18th, 2009
After 20 Years Rothko Murals Return to Tate Liverpool
Alexander Liberman – Rothko in his Studio, New York, 1964. (Alexander Liberman Photographic Collection & Archive Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California (2000.R.19) © J. Paul Getty Trust)
In 1988 Tate Liverpool opened it’s doors for the very first time with an exhibition of Mark Rothko’s The Seagram Murals. More than 20 years later the painting have returned to the museum, where they are on display now through March 21, 2010. On Thursday, Oct. 18, Achim Borchardt-Hume, formerly of Tate Modern where he was responsible for curating the recent Rothko exhibition, and now Chief Curator at Whitechapel Gallery, London, will give a unique talk concerning the museum’s long term relationship with Rothko. More event info here
Mark Rothko – Black on Maroon, Mural, Section 3, 1959. (Tate © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko ARS, NY and DACS, London)
Sunday, October 18th, 2009
Shepard Fairey Exhibit Opens Amidst New Legal Controversy
(All Images via Obey Clothing)
After a hugely successful run at the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, Shepard Fairey’s museum retrospective opened today at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. The exhibit premiers just as new and disheartening information surfaces about the artist’s ongoing legal battle with the Associated Press.
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Sunday, October 18th, 2009
FAILE Debuts New Works with New Gallery
(All Images © FAILE)
After debuting a new installation at Perry Rubenstein in September, FAILE have officially announced the gallery is now representing them in the U.S. The artist duo will unveil the below series of Wood Paintings with Rubenstein at FIAC, Paris, which runs Oct. 22-25. FAILE also alerts us to a new print release through Paper Monster sometime this week. Stay tuned… Read the rest of this entry »
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
Contest :: Win a Signed + Illustrated Brendan Monroe Book
Observer (sitting), 2009.
After a recent relocation to Stockholm, Sweden, Brendan Monroe returns to California for his third exhibit with Richard Heller Gallery. Places Between Here and Here opens Oct. 17 and features new painting and wood sculpture installations. To celebrate the occasion, TAC is giving away a signed and hand-illustrated copy of Brendan’s recent monograph, B. Monroe, out now on Paper Museum Press. To enter our drawing, sign up to follow us on twitter, or if you already do, email us (info@theartcollectors.com) with the twitter name you currently follow us with. We will take submissions through Wed., Oct. 21 and announce a winner shortly thereafter.
Check out the photo gallery below for a preview of some of Brendan’s paintings for the upcoming show.
B. Monroe book cover and inside illustrated+signed page.
Brendan Monroe – Places Between Here and Here
Oct. 17 – Nov. 14
Richard Heller Gallery
2525 Michigan Ave. B-5A
Santa Monica, CA 90404
art@richardhellergallery.com
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Elizabeth Peyton Retrospective Travels to Netherlands
Democrats are more beautiful (after Jonhatan Horowitz), 2001, oil on board. Collection Laura and Satfford Broumand, © Elizabeth Peyton.
Elizabeth Peyton: Live Forever, the museum retrospective which premiered at the New Museum in NY one year ago, opens Oct. 16 at the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastrciht, Netherlands. A comprehensive hard-cover exhibition catalog co-published by the New Museum and Phaidon is now available. For more commentary, see our previous post.
Flower Liam, 1996, oil on board. Private collection Courtesy Zwirner & Wirth, New York, © Elizabeth Peyton.
Jackie and John (Jackie fixing John’s hair), 1999, oil on board. Collection Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey R. Winter, © Elizabeth Peyton.
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Lori Early at Opera Gallery, London
(All Images: © Lori Early via Curated Mag)
Lori Early opens Laments and Lullabies this Friday, Oct. 16, at Opera Gallery’s London location. The event marks her first solo show since exhibiting at Jonathan LeVine in the winter of 2008. Check out Curated Mag’s new interview with the New York based painter.
Lori Early – Laments and Lullabies
Oct. 16 – Nov. 14
Opera Gallery London
134 New Bond Street,
London, W1 2TF
london@operagallery.com