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Steven Gregory at Opus
The exhibit is on view from June 27 to August 3, 2008
Opus
West Avenue
Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 4ES
www.opus-art.com
T: 0191 213 0295
John Copeland at WERKSTÄTTE
Guest Curator Eddie Martinez
The exhibit is on view June 26 – August 2, 2008
WERKSTÄTTE
55 Great Jones Street
New York, NY 10012
T: 212.228.2996
Florian Süssmayr opens at kestnergesellschaft
The kestnergesellschaft presents the exhibition back to black, a unique diversity of works to analyze the significance of black in contemporary painting. It was only at the beginning of the twentieth century that black was again accepted as something real and substantial. As late as the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it did not exist from an academic perspective and was even looked down upon. The painterly issues pursued by such artists as Velázquez, Rembrandt and Frans Hals were simply ignored.
The exhibit is on view from May 30, 2008 to August 10, 2008
kestnergesellschaft
Goseriede 11
Hannover, Germany, 30159
www.kestner.org
T: 49-511-70120-0
McDermott & McGough at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Featured in this May’s The Old, Weird America at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston are several works by McDermott & McGough. The show which features the work of 17 artists, explores the resurgence of folk themes in new contemporary works. Exhibited by McDermott & McGough are such paintings as In Praise of Sham, 1915 and Divine Fury, 1932. Also featured, is a toppled, cracked vase enclosed in a glass vitrine entitled San Francisco Earthquake Box, 1906 and the painted wood sculpture Sacred Love, 1960. After Houston, the show will travel onto the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis.
The Old, Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art
is on view May 10 – July 20, 2008
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
5216 Montrose Boulevard
Houston, Texas 77006
T: 713.284.8250
Contemporary art to "connect" China
The Art Newspaper, International Edition
The new US embassy in Beijing, opening just before the start of the summer Olympics in August, will include art by Jeff Koons, Cai Guo-Qiang, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Rauschenberg, Qin Feng, and others. In total, it will display work by at least 18 American and Chinese contemporary artists. The collection has been overseen by Virginia Shore, chief curator of the Art in Embassies programme.
Qin Feng at the Museum of Contemporary Art Beijing
Qin Feng’s Qin Feng to Bada Shanren exhibition includes installation, paintings, sounds, and other platforms. It is a conclusive exhibition after the artist’s years of conceptualization of contemporary Chinese art, and after years of experiences living and working in Europe and the United States. Allof the works at the exhibition reflect aspects of the artist’s life. Also exhibited are authentic works by Bada Shanren.
Qin Feng to Bada Shanren is on view April 26, 2008 to September 11, 2008
Museum of Contemporary Art Beijing
500 Daxing Zhuang Village, songzhuang Town,
Tongzhou District, Beijing, China
T: 86-10-89578367
McDermott and McGough in Ireland
This exhibition is 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. 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.
An Amusing Experience of Chemistry: Photographs 1990-1890
is on view until April 27, 2008
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Royal Hospital Kilmainham
Dublin, Ireland
www.modernart.ie
T: +353-1-6129900
Nicholas Robinson Gallery invited to exhibit in NEXT Art Fair
Nicholas Robinson Gallery will exhibit at NEXT, a new invitational fair in Chicago that will take place in conjunction with Art Chicago 2008. The fair will offer focused curatorial visions of some of the most important developments in contemporary art. Organized by critic/curator Christian Viveros-Faune and dealer Kavi Gupta, the advisory team is from the Merchandise Mart Properties, the same group responsible for The Armory Show, Art Chicago and Volta Show.
Dates: April 25 - 28, 2008 11am - 7pm
NEXT Art Fair
Merchandise Mart
Chicago, IL 60654
www.nextartfair.com
www.artchicago.com
Nicholas Robinson Gallery invited to exhibit in Art Chicago 08
Nicholas Robinson Gallery will exhibit at Art Chicago 2008, an annual contemporary and modern art fair which features over 140 of the world's leading galleries. The fair, which is enjoying its fifteenth year as one of the premier international contemporary art fairs, brings together a selected group of established and emerging galleries to present a comprehensive international show with exceptional work. Merchandise Mart Properties, the group that is producing Art Chicago 2008, is also responsible for The Armory Show and Volta Show.
Dates: April 25 - 28, 2008 11am - 7pm
Art Chicago 2008
Merchandise Mart
Chicago, IL 60654
www.artchicago.com