NEW WEBSITE AND BLOG

We now have a NEW website and blog !!!
This blog will stay up but will not be active so please start going to our new site to to read our blogs.
See you on the other side.

GLASSTIRE MENTION

Glasstire mentions our forthcoming show by Michael Craig-Martin.

MICHAEL ROOKS NAMED CURATOR OF THE HIGH

Michael Rooks has been named curator of modern and contemporary art at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. He takes over from Jeffrey Grove who is now the senior curator of contemporary art at the DMA.

LA MOCA HIRES JEFFREY DEITCH AS DIRECTOR

Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art has confirmed that it has hired the commercial art dealer Jeffrey Deitch as its new director.
Deitch will take over from Jeremy Strick who left to become the director of the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas.
Deitch opened his gallery, Deitch Projects in 1996 and has had many cool exhibitions and worked with many artists.
Tyler Green conducts an interview with Mr. Deitch and talks about his future plans for the museum.
Deitch Projects will close by June 1st.

RYAN MOSLEY @ ALISON JACQUES

Young Brit artist Ryan Mosley presents his first exhibition at Alison Jacques Gallery, London.
The show opens on January 12th and will run through February 13th.

Already acknowledged as one of the most distinctive of the ʻNewspeakʼ painters, British artist Ryan Mosley presents his first exhibition at Alison Jacques Gallery. Admired for what Art Review has described as ʻhyperfigurative psychocubismʼ, and an approach to painting which is at once both historical and fantastical, Mosleyʼs work simultaneously acknowledges a profound debt to the received genres and traditions of art history and an exuberant willingness to subordinate such categories to a uniquely personal painterly vision.

This exhibition develops Mosleyʼs ongoing fascination with the aesthetics and motifs of various chapters in the canon of art history, whilst being faithful to a visual vocabulary entirely of his own making. The Renaissance collages of Arcimboldo and Hogarthʼs morality tales, Degasʼs dancers and Gauguinʼs exotic landscapes, Ensorʼs carnivalesque and the coarse ebullience of Guston are among the differing images and cultural episodes from which Mosley draws inspiration and to which he pays homage. Yet these subversive stylistic echoes of past
masters, which are very often blended on the same canvas into dynamic art historical conversations, are not deployed simply to offer an idiosyncratic gloss on eras and artists which intrigue Mosley. Rather, they provide tools and contexts in which he can dramatise ad absurdum his interests in form and the fluid diffusion of narrative, and construct otherworldly scenarios and characters which are every bit as amusing, menacing, likeable and bewildering as the world we inhabit.

DALLAS CONTEMPORARY DELAYS OPENING

Please ignore our last post because we have just received a call that the Dallas Contemporary has had to postpone their show for tomorrow night due to the lack of an occupancy certificate. It will be rescheduled for a future date. So sorry James Gilbert....we love you!!

JAMES GILBERT TO OPEN NEW DALLAS CONTEMPORARY

The Dallas Contemporary announces their inaugural exhibition at their new location at 161 Glass Street.
L.A. artist James Gilbert will mount a scaled-down version of a tri-part detached Boeing 747. The fuselage will be large enough for viewers to pass through. It sounds very exciting.

The show opens tomorrow night (Friday 8th) from 7:30 onwards.

James will be in attendance so please come along and support the new Dallas Contemporary.

2010

We're back and ready for action in 2010. Look out for our new website coming any day now and soon our new location.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

We will be taking a little break over the holidays and will be closed from Dec 24 - Jan 4 2010
See you next year !!

SIMON STARLING @ CASEY KAPLAN

Simon Starling's new show at Casey Kaplan is def worth checking out although it closes on December 19th. So only a few days to see it. We are watching him closely.

Simon won the Turner prize in 2005

NEW LOCATION COMING SOON

Don’t panic if you see a “for lease” sign in front of the Goss-Michael Foundation world headquarters on Cedar Springs. The Foundation, created by Kenny Goss and George Michael, is on solid ground and getting ready to announce their move to new, bigger, better space in Dallas.

The February 2010 exhibition featuring renowned UK artist and teacher Michael Craig-Martin will be the last show in the old location.

Stayed tuned for more details regarding to the new GMF space and new website that will launch any day now ! !

TOP OF LIST @ DMN

PHILLIP LAI @ MODERN ART

Phillip Lai is one of our favorite artists right now. He has a fantastic new show up at Modern Art. The show is through 20 November - 19 December so only a few days left to catch this great show.

BEST EVENTS FOR WEDNESDAY IN QUICK

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MARC QUINN ARTLIES REVIEW

Great review in Artlies click on image to read.

GEORGE MICHAEL SPECIAL SCREENING

Heads up George Fans!! This is your chance to experience the singing sensation on the big screen, and do something good for those in need, too! All ticket sales benefit the Goss-Michael Foundation’s scholarship program. With funds raised, we will create a brand new scholarship for college students so they can continue their education and complete their degree. A portion of the proceeds will also be donated to the North Texas Food Bank. The doors will open at 6:45 and the feature will begin at 7:15.

GEORGE MICHAEL: LIVE IN LONDON

Special Screening

December 16, 2009

Studio Movie Grill, Royal Lane
Doors open at 6:45pm

Please purchase your tickets now through our online store

NEW WEBSITE COMING SOON ! !

This month we will be launching our new website so please keep checking back with us.
Its going to be brilliant but not boombastic.

STEVE MCQUEEN TO DIRECT FELA

Focus Features has picked Steve McQueen to direct Fela, a feature film based on the life of African musician and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti—the subject of the recently opened Broadway musical Fela!

McQueen, the British artist who made his feature directing debut last year on the Irish hunger strike with the drama Hunger, will write the script with Biyi Bandele, based on the Michael Veal book Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon. The recent musical is not connected to the film project: Focus is basing its picture on a rights package consisting of screen rights to Fela’s music and his life story, plus Veal’s book.

Fela lived large—with some twenty-seven wives—and paid a high price for speaking out against oppression in Nigeria. In one attack on his home, Fela’s seventy-eight-year-old mother was killed after being thrown from a second-story window. Fela responded by placing her coffin on the steps of the Nigerian leader’s residence.

RICHARD WRIGHT WINS 2009 TURNER PRIZE

Scottish artist Richard Wright is the winner of the 2009 Turner Prize.

For his main piece in the Turner Prize show he has filled a whole wall of a big gallery with a symmetrical abstract design that looks like a giant inkblot in a Rorschach test. Painted in gold leaf, it shimmers on an end wall, like a mirage that might disappear at any moment.

He is represented by Modern Institute Gallery

NEW CURATOR FOR FRIEZE 2010

London-based Sarah McCrory has been announced as the new Curator of Frieze Projects, the unique programme of artists’ commissions which takes place annually as part of Frieze Art Fair.
McCrory is known for her support and work with emerging, young and underrepresented artists. In the past she has worked with artists including Charles Atlas, Nairy Baghramian, Spartacus Chetwynd, Enrico David, Donald Urquhart and Cathy Wilkes.

THE OBSERVER UK MARC QUINN & GMF

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TRACEY EMIN: ONLY GOD KNOWS I'M GOOD

Tracey Emin opens a new show at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in NYC.

BRITISH ARTS COUNCIL OPPOSES LONDON MAYOR

Boris Johnson and the Arts Council, London are battling it out. Earlier this month, the mayor was thwarted in his attempt to nominate a political supporter, Veronica Wadley, as head of the council. Critics including current Arts Council England head Liz Forgan said that Wadley had “almost no arts credibility,” while culture secretary Ben Bradshaw blocked the nomination, saying it violated conventions against cronyism.

Boris Johnson has refused to back down. After at first threatening to leave the post open, he has now started the search to fill the position from scratch, suggesting that he would pick Wadley if she applied again.

DALLAS SCORES AGAIN

Good article in Art in America.
Dallas is an exciting place to be right now.

BRITISH ARTS COUNCIL SELECTS 12 ART PROJECTS FOR UK's 2012 OLYMPICS

A giant human puppet of Lady Godiva and three thirty-foot crocheted lions are among the artworks selected to showcase British culture at the 2012 Olympics, reports the BBC. The selected artists and groups are: the Pacitti Theater Company, Shauna Richardson, Alfie Dennen and Paula Le Dieu, the Owl Project and Ed Carter, Anthony McCall and Fact, Brian Irvine and John McIlduff, Craig Coulthard, Lone Twin, Alex Hartley, Marc Rees, Imagineer Productions, and Leeds Canvas.

More than two thousand entries were received in what the Arts Council dubbed the most ambitious and wide-ranging art prize in the UK.

The twelve winning designs, from Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the nine English regions, will share nearly nine million dollars. Each project is inspired by its location and celebrates the Olympic Games.

The twelve winning commissions will be developed across 2010 and 2011, among them a full-size football pitch created within woodland in the Scottish Borders and an environmentally sustainable watermill.

FEW PICS FROM FRIEZE

Here are several highlights from the Frieze art fair in London that took place last week.

Walead Beshty at Thomas Dane

Nigel Cooke at Modern Art

Ed Kay at Dicksmith Gallery

Sarah Lucas at Sadie Coles

Eva Rothschild

Damien Hirst at Tate

TWO BY TWO FOR AIDS AND ART

This weekend is the amfar 2x2 annual gala which is held at The Rachofsky House

There are some amazing artits on view and for purchase.

Click here to find out more about the charity.

Thanks to the phenomenal support of the participating artists, dealers, sponsors and patrons, Two by Two for AIDS and Art’s annual gala and art auction has raised $21 million in its first decade in support of amfAR’s AIDS research initiatives and the DMA’s contemporary art acquisition program. An eagerly anticipated event that quickly sells out, the benefit features a seated dinner for 400 guests with both a live and silent auction of major works of contemporary art and unique luxury items.

Two by Two is such a successful event because it provides an opportunity to support two very worthy organizations. amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, has made great strides in essential AIDS research initiatives over the last 25 years, and Two x Two has become amfAR’s largest fundraiser in the United States. The Dallas Museum of Art has added over 70 major works of contemporary art to their permanent collection with Two x Two proceeds donated to their Contemporary Art Acquistion Fund. Two x Two is also the DMA’s largest annual fundraiser.