New York/Berlin -- artnet Auctions is pleased to announce Christo, an extraordinary sale of over 40 prints, drawings, photos, and posters by the sculptor Christo (Bulgarian, b.1935) and his late wife, Jeanne-Claude (French, 1935-2009). The auction includes works that span the artists' 50-year career, documenting their most spectacular environmental installations, funded completely through the sale of preparatory drawings and prints.
The Rachel Rosenthal Company (RRC) presents Instant Fairy Tales, a brand new quarterly series of original fairy tales for the 21st century at Espace DbD in Los Angeles. Instant Fairy Tales: The Longest Winter, the series' inaugural offering, which features an allegorical tale about learning to care for the environment, will be held today, January 25 and Sunday, January 26, 2014.
Lehmann Maupin Hong Kong will present an exhibition of new works by Jennifer Steinkamp, on view February 13 – March 22, 2014. The Los Angeles-based artist has been working in digital media for over twenty years and is a pioneer in the field of 3-D animation. Steinkamp's digitally rendered animations of natural phenomenon and movements are projected within architectural surroundings, resulting in immersive environments that blend awareness of the physical and ethereal and challenge the viewer's preconceived ideas of form and space. The artist's first exhibition in Hong Kong, with two new works, furthers her exploration of space, perspective, and digital simulation of the natural world.
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces the opening of Structures of Time and Space, large-scale light installations by internationally exhibited Austrian-born artist Erwin Redl. The exhibition is on view today, January 24-April 6, 2014, at Wood Street Galleries, and it opens in conjunction with Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District 5:30 to 10 p.m., January 24, 2014.
The Artist Series presents the 12th Annual Family Night on Broadway in conjunction with the opening night of BLUE MAN GROUP tonight, January 21, 2014, at the Times-Union Center Lobby, 300 Water Street, Jacksonville, Fla.
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles will present a new configuration of artist Jacob Hashimoto's installation Gas Giant from March 1 to June 8, 2014 at MOCA Pacific Design Center. This exhibition will be the first L.A. presentation of Gas Giant and will mark Hashimoto's first solo museum exhibition in California.
As part of his ongoing critically acclaimed undertaking to retype 100 classic novels, artist Tim Youd is retyping all seven of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe novels. Through Marlowe, the quintessential hard boiled detective, Chandler both defined and transcended the detective fiction genre. Youd's Chandler Cycle will culminate in a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) in La Jolla. The show opens to the public on Friday, May 17, 2014 and runs through August 31, 2014. Chandler lived the last decade of his life in La Jolla, minutes from the site of the museum, making MCASD La Jolla an ideal location for Youd's performance. Youd will kick off the Chandler series with the retyping of the first Marlowe novel, The Big Sleep, beginning on January 15 at the LA Art Show in Coagula Curatorial's booth at the fair.
Regen Projects is pleased to present an exhibition of new sculptures by Los Angeles-based artist Liz Larner. The exhibition brings together her recent navigations of geological poiesis, fissures, folds, curves, and reconfigurations, and includes wall-mounted ceramic slabs, a large stainless steel X sculpture, two paper-based planchette pieces, early photographs, and a new 'culture' sculpture. Larner has shown at Regen Projects since 1989, and this presentation marks her seventh solo exhibition at the gallery.
The Artist Series presents the 12th Annual Family Night on Broadway in conjunction with the opening night of BLUE MAN GROUP on Tuesday, January 21, 2014, at the Times-Union Center Lobby, 300 Water Street, Jacksonville, Fla.
The Board of Trustees of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) announced today that in less than ten months, it has met and exceeded its goal of raising the museum's endowment to an historic high of over $100,000,000, thereby securing independence as the only public museum in Los Angeles dedicated solely to collecting and exhibiting contemporary art. Building on this overwhelming expression of support and commitment to the future of the museum, fundraising continues with the next goal to raise the endowment to $150,000,000.
ACA Galleries has announced Totems & Deities: The Sculpture of Herb Alpert and Anita Huffington, an exhibition of two artists who found early success in music and dance. The exhibition pairs Alpert's abstract bronze sculptures, which can be compared to the freedom and spontaneity of his improvisational work as a jazz musician, with Huffington's figurative bronze work inspired by the fluidity and form of her experience as a ballet dancer.
The Rachel Rosenthal Company (RRC) presents Instant Fairy Tales, a brand new quarterly series of original fairy tales for the 21st century at Espace DbD in Los Angeles. Instant Fairy Tales: The Longest Winter, the series' inaugural offering, which features an allegorical tale about learning to care for the environment, will be held on Saturday, January 25 and Sunday, January 26, 2014.
Regen Projects is pleased to present an exhibition of new sculptures by Los Angeles-based artist Liz Larner. The exhibition brings together her recent navigations of geological poiesis, fissures, folds, curves, and reconfigurations, and includes wall-mounted ceramic slabs, a large stainless steel X sculpture, two paper-based planchette pieces, early photographs, and a new 'culture' sculpture. Larner has shown at Regen Projects since 1989, and this presentation marks her seventh solo exhibition at the gallery.