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Triumph of Love, Titian Via ArtInfo

While the key aim of the exhibit is locating the use of paintings as reverses and covers during Italian Renaissance, the main attraction of it- is Titian’s rediscovered “Triumph of Love.”   “Triumph of Love” (mid 1540s maybe) has undergone conservation and cleaning and will be publicly displayed for the first time in 50 years. It was last shown at the Royal Academy in 1960. The painting will be moved to the Ashmoleon Museum in Oxford after the show at the National Gallery is over September 20, 2009.

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Titian’s “Triumph of Love” [artinfo]
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Clean-up casts new light on £1m Titian handed to museum to settle tax bill [GuardianUK]
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Titian’s Triumph o Love [The National Gallery]
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Titian’s “Triumph of Love” saved for the nation [Oxford Thinking]
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An Allegory of Prudence, Titian vie National Gallery

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Liubov Popova’s magazine cover design for Questions of Stenography, at SMCA. Via The Guardian.

Greece’s State Museum of Contemporary Art (SMCA) is showing works by “two of the most important artists of the Russian avant-garde,” Aleksandr Rodchenko and Liubov Popova.  The 350 paintings, drawings, constructions, photographs, and essays featured in the exhibition are drawn 15 institutions from around the world, including 60 works which the SMCA donated from the collection of George Costakis.  Showing in the Moni Lazaraston exhibition hall, the exhibition travels to the State Museum from a successful run at London’s Tate Modern, which drew over 102,100 visitors.  After its close at the State Museum on September 20, “Defining Constructivism” will continue its tour of Europe with a move to Madrid’s Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, where it will remain through January 2010.

Related links:
Rodechenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism [SMCA]
Aleksandr Rodchenko on artnet
Liubov Popova on artnet

Aleksandr Rodchenko’s illustration for the Young Guard magazine (1924), at SMCA. Via studio international.

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September (Ben) (2001) by Elizabeth Peyton, via The Guardian

Now on view at the Whitechapel is “Live Forever” exhibiting Elizabeth Peyton’s portraits of pop culture, celebrities and famed performers. The exhibition is the first European retrospective for the artist including more than 100 works made over the last 15 years.  The exhibit includes portraits of British artists such as David Hockney, Jake Chapman and Angus Fairhurst who committed suicide last year as well as images of Michelle Obama.

Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton [Exhibition Page]
Manhattan Rapsodies [The Guardian]
Elizabeth Peyton brings fame and celebrity to the Whitechapel Gallery [The Guardian]
Elizabeth Peyton is a pin-up painter [This is London]
Elizabeth Peyton at the Whitechapel [FT]
Elizabeth Peyton [The Guardian]
Too Cool for Art School [Reuters]

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Dash Snow, Polaroid, Courtesy Peres Projects, Berlin Los Angeles

To commemorate the death of downtown New York artist Dash Snow on July 13, 2009, Deitch Projects has organized an open memorial exhibition at its Grand Street address.  Alerting Snow’s friends and family via email, Deitch Projects asked them to bring in works about Snow or by Snow, to present to the public until August 15, 2009.  These works, which are not identified nor organized in any particular order, occupy one room of the gallery, while the other is kept open for Snow’s friends and admirers to bring additional artworks or texts in his memory during the run of the show.  The exhibit constitutes a portrait of Dash’s multifaceted and ultimately self-destructive personality, by presenting an assortment of the artist’s photographs, drawings and collages, complete with a large recreation of his graffiti tag, “Sacer,” on the exterior of the gallery.

Deitch Projects, 76 Grand Street. Photo by Arrested Motion

Related Links:
Dash Snow – 1981-2009 – A Community Memorial [Deitch Projects]
Images of a Camera-Toting Artist Turn a Gallery Into a Chapel [NY Times]
Terrible End for an Enfant Terrible [NY Times]
Dash Snow Memorial [Arrested Motion]
Dash Snow – Selected Works [Peres Projects]

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Good Times, Eva Rothschild on view at Modern Art Gallery in London. Via Modern Art

Stuart Shave/Modern Art Gallery is currently showing sculptures by Eva Rothschild. The Dublin born artist lives and works in London and her work is represented by the Modern Art Gallery.  Her work has been exhibited in the London gallery in a 2008 group show curated by Alexis Vaillant. Recently Eva Rothschild has been commissioned to fill in the Duveens space by Tate Modern. The show at Stuart Shave/Modern Art Gallery closes August 22, 2009.

Related Links:
Go See: London: Eva Rothschild Tate [Art Observed]
Eva Rothschild Exhibition [Modern art]
Eva Rothschild awarded Tate commission [Guardian]
Eva Rothschild Bio [The Saatchi Gallery]

Us Women (Detail), Eva Rothschild at Modern Art Gallery. Via Modern Art

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Hang This Rebel, Konstantin Shamanov (Chapman). Via Orel Art

Orel Art, a gallery in London that specializes in Russian contemporary art, hosts an exhibition titled “Good News!”  The show presents works that are no longer dictated by the fluctuating ideas on what is considered “good” or “bad” art; ideas that have been defined throughout Russian history by the equally fluctuating reigning political regimes. The gallery attempted also, to showcase works that break free from the habitual presence of national identity in Russian art.  There is, however, a catch. “The break from national identity” may have exceeded the expectations of Orel Art. Shamanov brothers, whose work is at the core of the exhibit, are really the British Chapman brothers. The show ends September 26, 2009.

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Exhibition View “Good News” show in OrelArt, sculptures by Shamanov (Chapman) brothers. Via Orel Art

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Yuri and Konstantin Shamanov bio [Orel Art]
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Jake and Dino Chapman bio [White Cube]
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How to of Britain’s leading artists duped the art world by pretending to be Russian [Daily Mail]
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What a Sham… [Guardian]
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Artistic Gags with Yuri and Konstantin Shamanov [This is London]
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Unmasked, the famous brothers whose disguise duped art world [This is London]
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Jake and Dinos Chapman sham exhibition Good News [Times online]
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Good News, Galérie Orel Art, London [Financial Times]

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Chapman brothers disguised as fictional Yuri and Konstantin Shamanov. Via Artchronika

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“Extremities (smooth, smooth),” Pipilotti Rist’s contribution to “Walking in My Mind,” the Hayward Gallery. via The Guardian.

Currently showing at the Hayward Gallery are the minds of ten artists — or, at least, how the artists feel they can represent the melding of product and creative process.  Ten installation artists from around the world are featured in the show.  Some are relative newcomers who are showing new pieces at the Hayward, like Swedish Bo Christian Larsson and Japanese Chiharu Shiota, who exhibit for the first time in London, and Dutch artist Mark Manders, who shows for the first time in a major British exhibition. Others are more well-established, including Yayoi Kusama and Turner prize-winner Keith Tyson, as well as the late controversial American artist Jason Rhoades.  Also exhibiting are Charles Avery (UK), Thomas Hirschhorn (Switzerland), and Pipilotti Rist (Switzerland).

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Hayward Gallery: Walking in My Mind
Art Review: Walking in My Mind Hayward Gallery, London SE1 [The Observer]
Thoughts go astray at the Hayward Gallery’s Walking in My Mind show [The Guardian]
Dark delights from the lonely mind of Japanese genius Yoshitomo Nara [The Independent]

Yoshitomo Nara in “Walking in My Mind.” Via The Guardian.

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Piotr UklaÅ„ski’s “Untitled (Pink Placenta)” 2009 via Gagosian

The Gagosian Gallery will be presents Piotr UklaÅ„ski’s first solo exhibition in London since 1998 entitled “Brut.”  The title of the exhibition refers to the term art brut, conceived by artist Jean Dubuffet in 1945 and roughly translates as “rough” or “crude” art.  The show, which opened June 11th, debuts contemporary mediums of work envisioned by UklaÅ„ski’s interest in a certain set of European aesthetics and politics from the post-war era. The exhibition runs through July 31, 2009.

Related Links:
Piotr UklaÅ„ski “Brut” [Gagosian Gallery]

Piotr UklaÅ„ski’s “Untitled (Lava)” 2009 via Gagosian

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From “White Noise,” a group show at the James Cohan Gallery.

The James Cohan Gallery is hosting “White Noise,” a show that incorporates pieces by various artists that focus on silence.  Can one write silence? portray it in art? Is silence merely the absence of sound or an entity in itself? These are among the questions which the performance artists, painters, photographers, installation artists, and video artists of “White Noise” confront, in an exhibition that features an additional four new works specially commissioned for the show.  Nick Cave, Simon Evans, Brendan Fowler, and Fred Tomaselli present exhibition-specific works, alongside those by well-known artists Laurie Anderson, Robert Morris, Joseph Beuys, Yoko Ono, and more.

Related links:
James Cohan Gallery : WHITE NOISE
Exhibition of Sounds to be Looked at and Objects to be Heard at James Cohan Gallery [artdaily]

Jack Pierson, “Silence,” at James Cohan Gallery.

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Raised Eyebrows/ Furrowed Foreheads: Two Arms (Pointing in Opposite Directions), John Baldessari. Via Mai 36

Mai 36 Gallery in Zürich is currently exhibiting works by John Baldessari. Baldessari is one of the leading figures in the contemporary American art scene with more than 200 solo shows to his name, numerous awards and retrospectives of his work. He also is a teacher who has influenced generations of artists. John Baldessari’s series “Raised Eyebrows/ Furrowed Foreheads” are currently being shown at Mai 36, the exhibition closes August 8, 2009.

Related Links:

Mai 36 Galerie: Press Release [Mai 36]
John Baldessari at Mai 36 [Contemporary Art Daily]
John Baldessari [John Baldessari Website]

John Baldessari Exhibition View at Mai 36. Via Mai 36

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Gilbert & George, “Jackshit,” at White Cube Mason’s Yard.

The White Cube is hosting Gilbert & George’s “Jack Freak Pictures,” the largest series ever by the artists.  Both the Hoxton and Mason’s Yard galleries will be home to the paint collection, of selections also showed at Berlin’s Arndt & Partner.  The exhibition quite literally makes freaks of Jack as in the Union Jack.  Set in the East End of London, “Jack Freak Pictures” is peopled with medals, maps, street-signs and other recognizable symbols of British identity.  The series is in line with other works by Gilbert & George, who subsume identity questions surrounding sexuality, religion, and nation into the provocative colors which their grid pictures confine.

Related links:
White Cube – JACK FREAK PICTURES
Gilbert & George, the Terrible Two, Freak Out in London Shows [Bloomberg]
Gilbert and George: the odd couple [The Guardian]
How Gilbert and George make history [The Guardian]
Gilbert & George: The Jack Freak Pictures, White Cube [The Independent]
Gilbert & George: ‘There’s nothing wrong with patriotism’ [Independent]
Gilbert and George’s Jack Freak Pictures Arrive in Berlin for First Solo Exhibition in 14 Years [Artdaily]
Arndt & Partner – Jack Freak Pictures

The Telegraph on Gilbert & George’s “Jack Freak Pictures,” currently showing at White Cube.

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Paul Cézanne, “Gardanne (vue verticale)” (1886), showing as part of “Picasso/Cézanne” at Musée Granet. Via the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Showing at Musée Granet are paintings by Picasso and Cézanne.  Organized in collaboration with the Communauté du pays d’Aix and the Réunion des Musées Naitonaux, the show comprises more than a hundred paintings, drawings, watercolors, engravings, and sculptures.  The exhibition closes on September 27.

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Musée Granet – Aix-en-Provence
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Granet Museum Opens Exhibition Focusing on Subtle Links Between Picasso and Cézanne [Artdaily]
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Pablo Picasso’s Château de Vauvenargues [The Telegraph]
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Summer of Picasso [Wall Street Journal]

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Picasso’s “Le village de Vauvenargues” (1959), showing as part of “Picasso/Cézanne” at Musée Granet. Via atelier

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From “May,” a Philippe Parreno show at Kunsthalle Zürich.

On view at Kunsthalle Zürich are works by video artist Philippe Parreno.  This is the first of a series of retrospectives of the artist, to be hosted successively at Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; and the CCS, Bard College, New York.  The exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich runs through August 16.

Related links:
Kunsthalle Zürich
Philippe Parreno [bio courtesy Air de Paris]
Solo Exhibition for Philippe Parreno at Kunsthalle Zürich [Artdaily]
Vernissage has video of Philippe Parreno’s “May.”

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Installation view of ‘Your Gold Teeth II’ via Marianne Boesky

“Your Gold Teeth II”, an exhibition curated by Todd Levin and named after a Steely Dan song, is being shown in the Marianne Boesky Gallery through August 15, 2009. Including eminent works by featured artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Yoko Ono, Rosemarie Trockel, and Franz West, the pieces display a juxtaposition of art and craft where “boundaries are being tested, and rules of art conducted are being subverted…by craft itself.” In his curator statement, Todd Levin explains just how the art is challenged in Your Gold Teeth II-not through a deliberately simplistic method which has become a prevalent theme in the art world (as in the recent Whitney Biennial and Unmonumental exhibitions) but through the art itself.

YOUR GOLD TEETH II [Marianne Boesky]
Art in Review [NY Times]
Summer in the City: Group Shows [ArtInfo]
Bones’ Beat: Chelsea Summer Season Begins with Your Gold Teeth II at Marianne Boesky [Village Voice]

Franz West’s ‘Paßstück’ via Marianne Boesky

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Luc Tuymans, “Against the Day I,” courtesy of Wiels, which is hosting a show by the artist.

The Wiels Contemporary Art Center is now hosting Luc Tuymans’s first solo show in Brussels.  “Against the Day” features twenty new paintings, completed specifically for the show.  This is the culmination of a triptych which began with “Les Revenants,” a series about the Jesuit order, and “Forever. The Management of Magic,” about Disney and its influence mass media.  After its close at Wiels, the exhibition will travel to Rooseum-Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

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Wiels Contemporary Art Center – Luc Tuymans “Against the Day”
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Against the Day: Luc Tuymans Opens at Wiels, the International Laboratory for Creation and Diffusion of Contemporary Art [Artdaily]
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Luc Tuymans: Against the Day [Art Review]
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Luc Tuymans Captures the Moment [Wall Street Journal: interview]

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Luc Tuymans, “Against the Day II,” courtesy of the gallery.

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Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, Black Acid Co-op installation view via Deitch Projects

Until August 15, “Black Acid Co-op,” a collaboration between New York artists Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, transforms Deitch Projects’ SoHo space into a series of interconnected room-size installations, creating a walk-in simulation of the grungy interior of a house whose occupants have been producing crystal methamphetamine.  After signing a liability waiver, visitors penetrate into a warren-like series of rooms and corridors, ranging from a greenhouse, a charred kitchen, or a Chinatown variety store, that give off a strong vibe of decrepitude and paranoia.  In this labor-intensive and highly-detailed project, Freeman and Lowe transform medicine into meth, detritus into art, gallery space into drug den.

Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, Black Acid Co-op installation view via Deitch Projects

Related Links:
Exhibition Page [Deitch Projects]
Down a Rabbit Hole to Meth and its Dysfunction [NY Times]
Acid House [Artforum]
“Black Acid Co-op” at Deitch Projects [Vogue.com]

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From “Projects: Done,” the Candida Höfer show at Museum Morsbroich.

The Museum Morsbroich is currently showing 14 projects by the photographer Candida Höfer.  “Projects: Done” will draw from both famous series by the artist, including “Twelve” (2001), and relatively unknown work, like the 1973 photographic collection “Flipper.” The show runs through August 2.

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Museum Morsbroich
Candida Höfer: Biography [courtesy Rena Bransten Gallery]

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Huang Yong Ping, “Tower Snake,” at Barbara Gladstone Gallery.

The Barbara Gladstone Gallery is hosting a large-scale installation by Huang Yong Ping.  This is the artist’s second show at the gallery, following an exhibition in  2007.  “Tower Snake” was created specifically for the 2009 show, which closes on July 31.

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Gladstone Gallery
Eyeteeth has video of the exhibition here

Huang Yong Ping, “Tower Snake,” at the Barbara Gladstone Gallery.

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Ed Ruscha’s ‘Vital to the Core’ via STAGES

On view now at Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris is ‘STAGES,’ a fundraising exhibition organized by Lance Armstrong’s Livestrong, featuring artists such as Ed Ruscha, Shepard Fairey, Richard Prince, and a number of others. The exhibition runs concurrently with the Tour de France, which ends on Sunday, July 26th. In addition to the gallery exhibition, which is planned to tour the world after its run at Emmanuel Perrotin, Livestrong has teamed up with Nike and Supertouch to curate a line of artist-designed bikes for Lance to ride during the Tour. Those artists include KAWS, Yoshitomo Nara, and Damien Hirst, who designed the bike for the final stage of the Tour de France. ‘STAGES’ runs July 15-August 8, 2009 at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, after which it will open at the Armory Center in New York on October 2, according to the LA Times.

The Bike Shepard Fairey designed for Lance Armstrong via Supertouch

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Hirst to Help Lance Armstrong’s Health Charity Raise $4 Million [Bloomberg]
Damien Hirst Has Designs on Lance Armstrong’s Bike [NY Times]
Nike Livestrong STAGES Exhibition [High Snobiety]
Preview: Lance Armstrong’s LIVESTRONG x Nike Stages Exhibition @ Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin [Arrested Motion]
Lance Armstrong x Nike Sportswear – “Stages” Touring Art Exhibition Supporting Livestrong [Arrested Motion]
Lance Armstrong x Nike Sportswear “Stages” Touring Art Exhibition [Hypebeast]
Lance Armstrong x Trek x Damien Hirst Stages Project Bike [Limited Hype]
Marc Newson for Lance Armstrong – TREK Art Bike [Freshness]
Lance Armstrong’s New Trek Madone Bikes By Kaws & Barry McGee [High Snobiety]
Tom Sachs‘ Lance’s TequilaBike For Girls [The World’s Best Ever]
Stages exhibition, Paris [Wallpaper]
Interview: KAWS @ Stages, Paris [DailyduJour]
AFC+: Will Damien Hirst Remind Lance Armstrong of His Mortality? [Art Fag City]
PARIS///LANCE ARMSTRONG’S TREK ART BIKES COME TO LIFE IN THE WINDOW OF COLETTE [Supertouch]
NEWS///LANCE ARMSTRONG SURGES BACK TO ACTION IN THE TOUR DE FRANCE ON A MARC NEWSON TREK TTX ART BIKE [Supertouch]
ANNOUNCING “STAGES”: LANCE ARMSTRONG’S SUPERTOUCH-CURATED ANTI-CANCER ART SHOW OPENING JULY 16TH [Supertouch]
Lance Armstrong rides bike decorated by Damien Hirst [Art Review]
L.A. artists lend a hand to Lance Armstrong [LA Times]
Livestrong x Stages | Recap [Limited Hype]
Trek Lance Armstrong STAGES Bike by Yoshitomo Nara [Hypebeast]

The bike Yoshitomo Nara designed for Lance Armstrong for the Tour de France via Hypebeast

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Untitled (Sleeping Puppets), Peter Fischli/David Weiss at Eva Presenhuber

The Eva Presenhuber gallery in Zürich is currently showcasing works by Peter Fischli and David Weiss.  The gallery has previously worked with the duo in 2005 and 2007.  The show will feature video, sculpture, photography and more by the duo. One of the videos being shown is a short film where the artists are wearing animal costumes yet assume roles and engage in experiences that stay within the realms of humans.  The show closes on July 31.

Related links:
The Odd Couple – Interview with Peter Fischli and David Weiss [Frieze]
Eva Presenhuber

Chain, Peter Fischli/David Weiss. Via Eva Presenhuber

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Dirck van Baburen, Young Man Singing (1622), part of the current exhibition at The Städel Museum. Via Art Knowledge News.

Through July 26, The Städel Museum is showing forty works by Caravaggio and his contemporaries in genre, the so-called Utrecht Caravaggists. Sponsored by Stiftung Flughafen Frankfurt/Main für die Region, the exhibition includes paintings by Henrick Terbrugghen, Gerard van Honthorst, and Dirck van Baburen, whose 1622 painting of a disheveled musician recently joined the Städel’s holdings.

Related links:
Caravaggio in Holland – Current Exhibitions – Städel Museum
The Städel Museum shows Caravaggio in Holland: Music and Genre in the Utrecht Caravaggists [Art Knowledge News]

Caravaggio, The Coronation with Thorns, at The Städel Museum. Via ArtTattler.

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Daniel Richter’s Angel of Death Metal, part of “Oh La La,” an exhibition of the artist’s works at CFA Berlin.

CFA Berlin is currently showing paintings by Daniel Richter.  “Oh la la” will be the artist’s sixth solo exhibition at CFA Berlin, which has represented him since his first solo show there in 1995.  Other works by the artist are also on display at Essl Museum, Klosterneuberg.

Related links:
CFA Berlin – CFA Exhibition – Daniel Richter – “Oh la la”
Daniel Richter [Artinfo]

Daniel Richter, Frag Mal, Eiene Frau, at CFA Berlin.

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John McCracken, Swift, 2007. Via David Zwirner Gallery

6 works, 6 rooms is an installation that currently occupies two of David  Zwirner’s gallery spaces. The amount of space that the show affords each work allows for novel consideration of each individual piece and the movements, Conceptualism and Minimalism, to which the works are attributed. The exhibition features the work of Dan Flavin, On Kowara, Sol LeWitt, John McCracken, Fred Sandback and Richard Serra.

6 Works, 6 Rooms [David Zwirner Gallery]

Dan Flavin, Monument 4 for those who have been killed in ambush, 1966. Via David Zwirner Gallery.

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Donald Judd, Untitled, in “Boule to Braid” at Lisson Gallery. Via the Telegraph

The Lisson Gallery is hosting “Boule to Braid” through August 15.   The exhibition draws exclusively from the collection of Nicholas Logsdail, Lisson Gallery’s young founder.  Featured are Carl Andre, Paul McCarthy, Donald Judd, Tony Cragg and more.

Related links:
Lisson Gallery – Exhibition – Boule to Braid: curated by Richard Wentworth
Art Sales: dealer who opened Saatchi’s eyes [the Telegraph]
Richard Wentworth on ‘Boule to Braid’ [Interview, artreview.com]
Boule de Braid: Private View with Adrian Searle [Guardian]

Tom Sachs, Supreme Allied Commander Moon Rock Box, in “Boule to Braid” at Lisson Gallery.

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