Eric Fischl poses in front of his bullfighting series Corrida in Ronda, currently on view at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Malga Spain. ArtJetSet saw this seires of 10 large format paintings last spring at Jablonka Gallery in Berlin.

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The Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany presents Curious? which opens tomorrow. Germany has a great tradition of wonderful private collections which are multi-use spaces where collectors open parts of their home to the public. This exhibition brings together the best of contemporary art from their most cherished collectors. Collections:About Change, Collection * ArtJetSetSammlung Boros *Sammlung Evergreen BerlinSammlung Falckenberg, HamburgCollection Antoine de Galbert, ParisCollection Marc et Josée Gensollen, MarseilleSammlung GoetzSammlung HaubrokSammlung KiCoSammlung Paul Maenz, Berlin*Olbricht CollectionPrivatsammlung […]

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Love this image by Diango Hernandez We Can’t Celebrate, part of a history of commodity in photography show currently en view at Haus der Kunst

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Beloved and influential New York gallerist Jeffrey Deitch has been appointed as the LA MOCA’s new director. Deitch pioneered the banking world’s art advisory businesses, co-founding Citibank’s art advisory and art finance practices in 1979. he has a 30-year career as an independentcurator who has produced innovative exhibitions at museums and galleries around the world. As an art advisor to some of the world’s leading institutional and private collectors. A very strong reaction to Jeffrey Deitch’s new appointment, click video […]

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Held from December 3 to 6, the 8th year of Art Basel Miami Beach brought the best of the international art world to Miami’s Convention Center. Where last year the event locales were scattered throughout the Beach, this year ABMB enveloped the entire convention center, adapting a more user friendly floor plan. Highlights included Olafur Eliasson’s installation in the UBS VIP lounge. Silvester Stalon’s painting debut at Gmurzynaska. James Nares at Paul Kasmin Bischoff Weiss installation Doug Aitken at Regen […]

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Launching at Art Basel Miami 2009, the Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art New York is publishing a limited edition of 500 numbered Artists on Their Bicycles New York Calendar. January Philip-Lorca diCorciaFebruary Collier SchorrMarch Ugo RondinoneApril Richard PhillipsMay Amy GranatJune Rainer GanahlJuly Rita Ackermann / Aurel SchmidtAugust NNSeptember Maurizio CattelanOctober Ryan McGinleyNovember Pierre HuygheDecember David Byrne / Cindy Sherman Editors Emma Reeves and Gianni JetzerPhotography Lukas Wassmann, Design Li, Inc. Publisher Swiss Insitute / Contemporary Art, New YorkPrice: $ 45

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The November round of Contemporary auctions in New York brought about astounding results and renewed confidence in quality works achieving record prices.Sotheby’s hit well beyond the global high estimate for this sale, while Christies lagged a bit but recovered on some key pieces. Top 3 works, Andy Warhol, Peter Doig, and Jasper Johns.

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Italy’s MAXXI national museum of 21st century art opens in Rome. Designed by the architect du moment Zaha Hadid, the building took 10 years to complete and is situated at the site of the former montello military barracks. With two distinct collection departments, focusing at once on Art and on Architecture, the mission is to present the national and international artistic production, with special attention to the experience and realities linked to the Italian context.

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I was on my way home from Laguardi airport, and saw this Felix Gonzales-Torres billboard Bed. Getting off a 6am flight, this was the warmest welcome back to NYC. I have a fondness for the Bed Iconotgraphy. Felix Gonzales-Torres was a Cuban-born American, artist who lived and worked in New York Citry. This is a new reinstallation by the MoMA preparing for the retrospective of his work opening soon.

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A part of the 57th Street gallery night, Eric Aho opened a solo show at DC Moore Gallery. The space was thematically divided, on one side large paintings of ice floats and baren winter landscapes, and on the other fierce blazing paintings of California wild fires. Especially liked the swimming pools, some kind of tranquility of calming ice blue within a chaotic blazing landscape.

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national arts journalism summit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdgLay2xXRc&feature=PlayList&p=1E45E13EF8230749&index=0&playnext=1

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Produced by U.S. Biennial, founded by Dan Cameron, Prospect New Orleans is the first biennial art fair in the United States. Situated in New Orleans, it is has been a successful artistic and economic stimulator to the region following the catastrophe of Huricane Katrina. Prospect 2 will launch Novermber 3, 2010, and run till February 12, 2011.Presenting work of local, national, and international artists, from more than 20 countries and diverse cultural generational and artistic backgrounds.

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Marian Goodman presents new works by Jeff Wall. This exhibition features large format large scale prints typical of Wall’s work, with an approach moving towards ‘near-documentary’ conception. Traditionally Wall practice has been a more photographer as witness to spontaneous and fantastic situations, that were staged by the artist to look as if the viewer has intruded in on the moment. These new works move more towards a purity of the documentary tradition away from his narrative cinematic practice.

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Subway Love Letters is an new interactive installation work by Sophie Calle launched in Toulous France. Transport Amoureux allows passengers to send love messages on station screens through a specific website, as away to announce fleeting love to another train rider. We have seen different incarnations of subway poetry programs, but this one is compelling since it is interactive and instantaneous.

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Gagosian Shop is due to open tomorrow at 988 Madison Avenue in New York, selling posters, t-shirts, artist multiples, books and catalogues. The 2500 sq foot space will feature limited editions by John Currin, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Anselm Reyle, to name a few. The stre will also offer a reading lounge with out of print catalogues and video installation of the current gallery exhibitions. Art collector Aby Rosen is a principal in RFR Realty LLC which owns […]

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J. Crew’s current winter catalogue features artists Ryan McGinness, Chris Dorland, Vito Acconci, Stephen Shore, Lucien Smith, Glenn Ligon, and Billy Sullivan in their studios…. posing for J.Crew talking about art and fashion. Yes, Gap did the Red Campaign, and collaborations with artists for charity is not new…. but this J.Crew feature seems all a bit contrived. Especially with the few too many shots posed non- chalantly drinking Starbucks. At least the reportage was very sincere and unedited. The “what’s […]

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On view at PaceWildenstein‘s 22nd Street location is an entrancing large-scale installation by Maya Lin In Three Ways of Looking at the Earth, Lin has subjected three very different topographies(two real and one imagined) to dramatic shifts in scale that allow a re-imagining of our natural world as threedimensionalenvironments recreated in the interior space of a gallery. Lin further transforms viewers’ perspectives about the land and the sea by inviting them to navigate around, through and under these site-related installations. […]

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Afro Margin, an exhibition of eight pencil drawings by Chris Ofili.Known for his bold paintings incorporating fantasy, black figuration, and urban ethnic dialogue, Ofili distinguished “afro heads,” as a signature motif he began working with in the early 1990s. This a soft departure from his bright vivid paints, possible reflection of calm manifest of his move from London to Trinidad.

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I am writing my memoirs… à la James Frey…. short sweet machine gun rhythm… thanks to Joe Doucet‘s Blackbox printer. MDR LOL LMFAO TTYL BRB A+

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Measuring the Universe, by Slovakian artist Roman Ondák, is a performative collaboration which engages and incorporates the viewers in the evolution of the installation. Over the course of the exhibition, museum docents mark the visitors’ heights, first names, and date of the measurement on the gallery walls. Beginning as an empty white space, over time the gallery gradually accumulates the traces of thousands of people.

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Black Light at Deitch Projects presents preliminary photo compositions that Wiley uses to create his stunning heroic large scale paintings of urban youth. Moving away from the triumphant religious iconography, these warmer romantic portraits capture a early Dutch still life subtlety.

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Young Curators, New Ideas II is a collaboration examining new voices in contemporary art through the perspective of seven New York based curators at P.P.O.W. Highlights, Norma Markley’s Pom-Pom Clouds in dialogue with Tom Fruin’s Untitled neon nooses. Las Hermanas Iglesias Lost Glove, collection of 62 single gloves found in Paris, with a hand made replacement of the lost partner made of gouache on paper. Taylor Baldwin’s I ain’t afraid of no ghosts, mixed media installation has many great elements […]

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British artist Yinka Shonibare was born in London to Nigerian parents, and grew up between UK and Nigeria. His sculptural work features typically headless mannequins that are dressed in eloborate costumes. Refrencing English painting and literature of Wilde and Hogarth, Shonibare creates a fictious narrative by use of Africanized fabric design (Dutch wax printed cotton) and colours in creating his brilliantly tailored elaborate victorian dresses. The best part of this exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum is Shonibare’s infiltration of the […]

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Fairs in Basel Switzerland Art Basel Volta05 Biennale 53rd Venice Biennale titled Making Worlds, directed by Daniel Birnbaum. Art Parties and Fundraisers Whitney Museum Art Party and Auction Eyebeam Non-profit Digital Media space

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38 Galleries, 38 Openings 1 – 3 May 2009. The slogan for Gallery Weekend Berlin is Feel Invited and Be Surprised Here is a little selection of interesting shows from ZIMMERSTRASSE Contemporary Art – Georg Herold Klosterfelde – Hanne Darboven Galerie Max Hetzler Arndt & Partner – Ralf Ziervogel Young German Art Galerie Barbara Weiss – Rebecca Morris Wentrup – Gregor Hildebrandt Volker Diehl Gallery- Frauke Eigen Galerija Gregor Podnar – Attila Csorg Konrad Fischer Galerie – Jan Dibbets Upstairs […]

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Green Pink Caviar is the second Marilyn Minter solo show at Salon 94. Minter examins glamour and its underbelly in a lush, subtly erotic juxtaposition in her photorealistic paintings and painterly photographs. Absolute must see video http://www.greenpinkcaviar.com

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Dror Studios and Dov Talpaz for Yigal Azrouel Men Collection F/W 2009 Dror Studio created □2 , a structural system of four identical L-shaped pieces requiring no fasteners. These panels, at first frame the catwalk, are the □2 that pop into dimension and become the constructed wall. The mural is painted by Dov Talpaz, his prints are also incorporated into Yigal Azrouel garment design. Not just a metaphor, the harmony of the 3dimentional creating a solid, strong, and unity, is […]

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Skulls…. still all the rage! We’ve seen them in bone, diamond encrusted, and now duct tape! On view at D’Amelio Terras Gallery

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Lehmann Maupin showing Mr. a Japanese artist, discovered by Takashi Murakami in 1995 and since then has been involved with Murakami’s art studio and enterprise Kaikai Kiki. The exhibition of paintings, photos, and a film installation, is an examination of the Otaku subculture in Japan, which emerged in the 1970s and mainly consists of obsessive males whose fetishes include cuteness or kawaii. Mr. highlights these typical Japanese kawaii girls weilding plastic guns in technocoloured camoflauge army fatigues, being cute and […]

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For the first time in a long time it was a great pleasure to watch an entire video piece. This was a captivating and seductive glance through the keyhole, into the lives of a group of women. Canada New York Gallery presents Lily Ludlow’s Sowing Circle, a 3 screen installation showing the intimate and mundane moments of a group of women. Effectuated in a cinematgraphic vibrance and nostalgia, the music fluid and rhythmic, your eyes transition across the screens as […]

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Held at Metro Pictures, Postcards From the Edge is a Visual AIDS benefit show and sale of original, postcard-sized works on paper by established and emerging artists. All works are sold on a first-come, first-served basis for $75 each. The works are signed on the back and exhibited so the artists’ signatures cannot be seen. While buyers receive a list of all participating artists, they don’t know who created which piece until purchased. All proceeds support the work of Visual […]

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