Eye On Art

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“Pure Land”

Christopher Reilly

“Dress Envy”

James Allen, Georges Dambier, Tori Ellison, Jessica Craig-Martin, Mielle Riggie, & Margeaux Walter

Tags: Christopher Reilly, Dress Envy, winston wachter, Winston Wachter Seattle.

Tags: Margeaux Walter, winston wachter, Winston Wachter New York.

Work by Mielle Riggie, currently on view in Winston Wachter Seattle’s show Dress Envy, has been reviewed by The Glass Quarterly Hot Sheet Blog.

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The Armory Show

Pier 94 & Pier 92 (modern)

March 4-7, 2010

Artists, galleries, collectors, critics and curators have come to New York for the Armory Show and the dozen or so art fairs in it’s orbit.  This year The Armory Show features 267 galleries from 31 countries and the “art community focus section” of the fair will be Berlin.

TICKETS AT THE DOOR
General admission: $30,
$10 for students

The ADAA Show (Art Dealers Association of America)

Park Avenue Armory @ 67th Street

March 3-7, 2010

The international art world will converge in New York City during the 22nd annual Art Show, organized by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) to benefit Henry Street Settlement. The 2010 edition of The Art Show continues ADAA’s tradition of bringing the highest quality artworks to one monumental art exhibition space at the Park Avenue Armory.

Other art fairs opening this week:

Independent
548 West 22nd Street
March 4 – 7

Pulse New York
330 West Street @ W. Houston
March 7-10

Scope
Lincoln Center Damrosch Park
62nd Street and Amsterdam (10th Avenue)
March 3 – 7

Red Dot
Skyline NYC
500 West 36^th Street at 10^th Ave.
March 4 – 7

Pool
Gershwin Hotel
7 E 27th Street
March 5 – 7

Verge
The Dylan Hotel, 52 East 41st Street
March 4-7

Fountain
Pier 66 @  26th St & West Side Hwy
March 4-7

**Please check all fair websites to confirm addresses and hours

Tags: ADAA, Armory Show, Art Fairs New York, Verge.

The paintings Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto by Italian Renaissance painter Titian (1488/1490 – 1576) are headed to the United States as part of a four-year partnership with the National Galleries of Scotland and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.

Diana and Actaeon, 1556-1559, oil/canvas, 73 x 80 in.

The National Galleries of Scotland, who jointly purchased Diana and Actaeon with the National Gallery in London is hoping to raise the money necessary to acquire the other Diana painting, Diana and Callisto.  The Duke of Sutherland, current owner of Diana and Callisto has agreed to included the piece, along with another Titian from his collection in an effort to aid in the fundraising.

The two Titians have never left the UK since their arrival back in 1798.  The two Diana paintings will be the center of the upcoming exhibition “Venetian Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland”.  After the 2010 showing in Atlanta, the exhibition will travel to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.

Diana and Callisto, 1556-1559, oil/canvas, 74 x 81 in.

Tags: Diana and Actaeon, Diana and Callisto, Duke of Sutherland, Titian, winston wachter.

The Tate Modern in London is currently showing a retrospective show of the work of Arshile Gorky.  Gorky is both known for his noteworthy contribution to mid-20^th century art, as well as his tragic life story and untimely death.

"The Artist and His Mother", c.1926-36

Armenian born, he fled to the United States during the World War I.  He was largely self-taught looking to Kandinsky, Cezanne, and Picasso for inspiration, but becoming a creative presence in his own right.  Gorky became known as a significant American painter and an important influence on Abstract Expressionism.  After a tragic turn of events, suffering from cancer, injuries from a car crash, and separation from his wife, Gorky hung himself in Sherman, Connecticut in 1948, at the age of 44.

The retrospective takes a look at a variety of Gorky’s work, from his early portraits of himself and his mother, his surrealist works, and his later works that point toward Abstract Expressionism. The retrospective was organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where it has already shown, in association with the Tate Modern in London and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, where the tour ends with a final show from June 6 – September 20, 2010.

"Garden in Sochi", 1943

"Waterfall", 1943

Tags: Arshile Gorky, MoCA, Tate Modern, winston wachter, Winston Wachter Fine Art.