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Meijer Gardens' fall exhibition celebrates Rodin and the contemporary figurative tradition
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.- Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is hosting 17 contemporary figurative sculptors in an exhibition titled Rodin and the Contemporary Figurative Tradition. Auguste Rodin (1840 – 1917) was among the most revolutionary figurative artists in history, and his vast influence continues today. Timed to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of Rodin’s death and his universal recognition as the most avant-garde sculptor of his age, this exhibition examines his relevance and vibrancy among Contemporary figurative sculptors. Central to this exhibition are loans of several of the master’s most compelling works from the Grand Rapids Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Snite Museum of Art and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Works on loan include Age of Bronze, Head of Balzac, Man with Broken Nose, The Martyr #5 and The Vulcan’s ... More

Bronx Museum announces new Deputy Director Klaudio Rodriguez
BRONX, NY.- The Bronx Museum of the Arts announced today that Klaudio Rodriguez will become the Museum’s new Deputy Director, assisting in the management of staff and the implementation of the Museum’s groundbreaking exhibitions and public programming. Rodriguez was most recently the curator at the Frost Art Museum at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, where he worked closely with the Museum’s director and development officer to build membership, develop new revenue sources, actively fundraise, and steward donors. During his tenure, he also developed a broad program of exhibitions and catalogues, including surveys of art from Uruguay, South American geometric abstraction, and video works by women artists, as well as his most recent show, Narciso Rodriguez: An Exercise in Minimalism, a couture exhibition of the Cuban American ... More

The Davis Museum poses universal questions about social culture in new exhibition
WELLESLEY, MASS.- The Davis Museum at Wellesley College will present Life on Paper: Contemporary Prints from South Africa, an exhibition that investigates existential questions raised by diverse artists through works on paper including drypoints, lithographs, screenprints, woodcuts, and more. The exhibition, which honors recent gifts to the collection by the Artist Proof Studio (APS) in Johannesburg, APS Director and University of Johannesburg Associate Professor Kim Berman, APS Manager of Educational Programs Lucas Nkgweng, and Dr. Pamela Allara, Brandeis University Associate Professor Emerita of Contemporary Art, will be on view in the Robert and Claire Freedman Lober Viewing Alcove from September 19 through December 17, 2017. “Taught in both academic institutions and community education centers, printmaking has long held a prominent place ... More

Eiffel Tower starts work on anti-terror upgrade
PARIS (AFP).- Works began Monday to boost security at the Eiffel Tower as an anti-terrorism measure, city hall said, with bulletproof glass walls set to go up around the world's most visited monument. The changes come after a string of jihadist attacks in the French capital over the past two years in which more than 200 people have died. A bulletproof glass wall will be installed around the monument's gardens under the 30-million-euro ($36-million), nine-month works, the city's tourism chief, Jean-Francois Martins, told AFP. Visited by six to seven million people each year, the landmark already has a permanent police patrol. But Paris councillors voted unanimously in March to boost its security due to the "particularly high terrorist threat". Last month a 19-year-old former psychiatric patient leapt over a security barrier at the tower wielding a knife, saying he wanted to attack a soldier. ... More

Exhibition explores sound as a material and its unique power to shape experience and environment
NEW YORK, NY.- From September 14, 2017, to February 25, 2018, MAD presents Sonic Arcade: Shaping Space with Sound, a multi-component exhibition featuring interactive installations, immersive environments, and performing objects that explore how the ephemeral and abstract nature of sound is made material. Bringing together over twenty artists, Sonic Arcade explores sound as substance, framing it as an interdependent material that is physically crafted and transmitted through electronic circuits and signals, radio waves, and resonant bodies that create encounters that are not only heard, but felt. “Sonic Arcade assembles artists, designers, and performers who utilize sound as a material, activating its potential to shape space and environment, while drawing out the ability of the auditory to provide a fresh perspective on how surroundings, and the body, are ... More

Reflex Gallery in Amsterdam exhibits works by Chinese artist Chen Nong
AMSTERDAM.- Reflex Gallery in Amsterdam is presenting an exhibition of Chen Nong. The Chinese artist became internationally recognized with his hand-painted photographs depicting events from the rich Chinese history. The gallery presents two new series: 'Silk Road' and 'Scenes of Reflections'. The exhibition runs from 16 September until 11 November. With his series about the Silk Road Chen Nong conjures up images of fabulous cities and exotic regions of long gone empires and great conquerors. Against the backdrop of ruins from the period of the Silk Road in the western Chinese province of Xinjiang, Chen Nong illustrates the decoration of his imaginative and colourful stories. Apart from his wondrous images about the Silk Road, Chen Nong shows at Reflex Gallery also artistic works of his series 'Scenes of Reflections'. With this impressive series Chen Nong refers ... More

"Baggage Claims" and "Virtual Views: Digital Art from the Thoma Foundation" open in Orlando
ORLANDO, FLA.- This fall, the Orlando Museum of Art unveiled two contemporary art exhibitions. Baggage Claims highlights the work of 18 international artists who use suitcases, trunks and crates to create works of art that express provocative ideas about the mobility of global culture. Virtual Views: Digital Art from the Thoma Foundation examines the growing importance of electronic media in art. This exhibition presents the work of an international group of 18 artists who explore the impact of the vast scale of population mobility. While baggage has always symbolized migration and freedom, in the context of the current global atmosphere it has become an emblem of uncertainty, fear, and change. On an intimate level, baggage transports and holds personal belongings, and by implication is a rich metaphor for individual and family histories. The term ... More

Maddox Gallery opens its third London gallery space with a solo exhibition of works by David Yarrow
LONDON.- Maddox Gallery opened its new Westbourne Grove gallery space with an inaugural exhibition dedicated to the work of the world’s leading wildlife photographer, David Yarrow. The exhibition, The Untouchables, at the new 4,000 square foot Maddox Gallery, Westbourne Grove, opened to the public from 15 September for a three week run until 5 October. David Yarrow has built a world-class reputation for producing images of the planet’s most remote landscapes, cultures and endangered animals. His methods for enticing dangerous animals near enough to his lens for the best photograph include researching which animal is most attracted to which scent and then coating his camera in it as he lays in wait. In August 2017 Yarrow travelled to North Korea in his relentless pursuit to photograph some of the world’s most uncharted territory. Travelling to the hinterlands ... More

First U.S. retrospective of artist and designer Nathalie Du Pasquier on view in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia is presenting Nathalie Du Pasquier: BIG OBJECTS NOT ALWAYS SILENT, a retrospective exploring the prolific creative practice of artist and designer Nathalie Du Pasquier. A founding member of the Italian design collective Memphis, Du Pasquier’s work across painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, and design demonstrates a unique and considered interpretation of space and objects. The exhibition at ICA is co-curated by Alex Klein, the Dorothy and Stephen R. Weber (CHE ’60) Curator at ICA; and Luca Lo Pinto, curator at Kunsthalle Wien in Austria, where the first iteration of the retrospective was initially conceived and presented by Lo Pinto last fall. Featuring more than 100 works spanning from the early 1980s to the present, including a number of new ... More

Susan Inglett Gallery exhibit a room size fabric and ceramic installation by Beverly Semmes
NEW YORK, NY.- Susan Inglett Gallery opened the season with “Bow,” a room size fabric and ceramic installation by Beverly Semmes. The exhibition runs from 13 September to 21 October 2017. On Saturday, October 14 at 5 pm, the Gallery will debut the CarWash label, a collaboration between Semmes and fashion designer Jennifer Minniti. CarWash Collective considers the deeper dynamics of fashion and politics as Minniti designs clothing incorporating imagery culled from Semmes FRP (Feminist Responsibility Project) series. The gallery and street level window will become runway for a capsule collection of limited editions. The event is open to the public. Ethereal blue tulle dresses line the gallery walls shoulder to shoulder. Bent or bowed at the waist, attenuated sleeves sweeping the floor, the forms suggest a deflation of breath and anticipated inhalation. Gently disturbed ... More

The work of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub on view at Akademie der Künste
BERLIN.- The Akademie der Künste is dedicating an extensive two-month programme cycle to the oeuvre of Danièle Huillet (1936-2006) and Jean-Marie Straub (*1933). Tell It to the Stones - The Work of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub opens up new perspectives on the cinematic work of both filmmakers by placing the films in an interdisciplinary context: The two-month exhibition highlights their working method, relating it to current artistic positions. To talk about and debate the films had always been an integral part of the practice of Huillet/Straub. During the exhibition, multi-day Rencontres will invite the public to take up diverse ways of speaking and forms of debate. The second week of October highlights the references to the composer Arnold Schönberg which are of central importance for several films. The programme is rounded off and accompanied ... More