Saturday, September 19, 2009

Ain Cocke -- 21C Museum, Louisville, Kentucky


Ain Cocke is featured in the current show at the 21C Museum Hotel in Louisville, KY. The show, entitled Creating Identity: Portraits Today, includes Ain's painting Das Geheimnis des Garten. The group show also features art by Kenhinde Wiley, Chuck Close, Yinka Shonibare, Vik Munix, and Catherine Opie, among others. The exhibition will be open until April 2010.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Titus Kaphar at Roberts & Tilton

tryharder blog has posted images of Titus Kaphar's current show at Roberts & Tilton in L.A. Click here for more details.

Mont Blanc Prize awarded to Chiharu Shiota




The Montblanc brand is historically and naturally bound to artistic creation, to the art of writing, of expressing thoughts and staging them. This intellectual dimension of the brand is part of its genes and did not stop developing through its products but also through its communication in its widest meaning. It opened itself at multiple artistic forms as classical music, opera, contemporary painting, and more recently cinema and photography.

Montblanc supports numerous projects in those different domains. Particularly through its Cultural Foundation which rewards every year, since 1992, illustrious Arts sponsors in 11 different countries, of which France of course.

It was thus natural to sponsor the Mont Blanc Docks Art fair prize which distinguishes the best of contemporary artistic creation in such eclectic domains.

Chiharu Shiota, the winner of this year's award, will have an exhibition in October in the new shop of the brand, Place Vendôme, in Paris.

The committee, specially joined together for this occasion, is:

Paul Ardenne, art critic and French curator - Paris

Marc Blondeau, modern and contemporary art expert - Geneva

Olivier Houg, Olivier Houg Galerie director, Docks Art fair art director - Lyon

Hélène Kelmachter, cultural attaché of the French embassy in Japan - Tokyo

Ingrid Roosen, worldwide director of the cultural affairs at Mont Blanc - Germany

Friday, September 4, 2009

Kevin Francis Gray in Quebec


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Type A Opening at G+R

Fall opening season is beginning in Chelsea. G+R will open with a new installation by the artist duo Type A on September 10th. They've been hard at work for the past month installing a complex maze of hanging plumb bobs in the front gallery space. The final result looks fantastic -- stop by next Thursday evening to see the work and chat with Adam and Andrew.