ART DUBAI, one of the most important contemporary art fairs in the United Arab Emirates, has officially opened at the luxurious Madinat Jumeirah Hotel in Dubai. The third installment of the fair showcases 68 galleries (from over 250 applicants) from the Middle East and around the globe. The fair has three main components: two exhibition halls, the underground project space ‘Art Park’, as well as[…..]
Lalla Essaydi‘s mesmerizing calligraphic portrait series, Les Femmes du Maroc, explores and empowers Arab female identity by cleverly employing the sacred Islamic art form reserved for men. A product of cultural fusion, Essaydi was born in Morocco and lived in Saudi Arabia for several years before moving to Boston to receive her B.F.A. from Tufts University in 1999. She then received her M.F.A. in Painting[…..]
Travelers, 2008, oil on linen, 77 x 62 x 1 1/4 inches David Zwirner in Chelsea is currently presenting several recent large scale oil paintings by contemporary American figurative painter Lisa Yuskavage in her second solo show at the gallery. Since receiving her M.F.A. at Yale in 1986, Yuskavage has shown her work across the world and is included in several major museum collections. Works[…..]
This year, Honor Fraser Gallery from Los Angeles presented the work of Alexandra Grant in their booth at The Armory Show in New York. Grant has contributed to the Watts House Project, an artist run neighborhood revitalization program determined to ameliorate the lives of residents around the historic watts towers in South Central Los Angeles. The project, an effort to regenerate the cultural activity and[…..]
The Armory Show-The International Fair of New Art officially closes later today in New York City, with hundreds of galleries exhibiting thousands of artists in the West Side’s Pier 94. The Armory Show was introduced in 1999 and took place at the 69th Regiment Armory, the site of the famed Armory Show of 1913 that introduced modern art to America. This year’s show introduced The[…..]
Galeria OMR, a Mexico City gallery representing several prominent and emerging Mexican and international contemporary artists, is a participating exhibitor in this years Armory Show at Pier 94. The gallery, which represents Mexican and Canadian electronic artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, whose work is represented above, is showing several interactive works including a piece by the artist composed of a video sensor and LED screen, similar to[…..]
Candice Breitz‘s cinematic new work, Him+Her, is currently showing at Yvon Lambert in New York. The exhibition includes two seven channel installations, Him (1968-2008) and Her (1978-2008). Breitz gleaned footage from the distinguished film careers of Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, uniting 23 Jacks from forty years of acting into conversation with one another in one room of the gallery, and 28 Meryl Streeps from[…..]
