art on paper is moving inside to Pier 36, launching this March 5 - 8

Your Complimentary Fair Pass for Art on Paper art on paper is thrilled to announce our 2015 exhibitor list. With 55 galleries from around the world bringing the best in paper-based art to New York City's Pier 36, this year's art on paper is guaranteed to be March's top destination for collecting, learning, looking, and celebrating. Pier 36 will be a dynamic hub of creativity with innovative presentations of paper-based art enhanced by museum-quality installations, exciting lectures and demonstrations, andexclusive access to favorite local restaurants, music, and cocktail programs. We are honored to have such incredible artists as Michael Scoggins, Wayne White, Dave Eggers, Mia Pearlman, and William Beckman activating art on paper's public spaces with their ground-breaking installations that will, in the words of The Art Newspaper, challenge the notion of "what a work on paper can be." art on paper will launch Thursday, March 5 with an opening night celebration supporting Beneficiary Parter Brooklyn Museum and its school programs. Morris Sandwich Shopwill feature their famously decadent, local & seasonal grilled cheeses and house-made cocktails throughout the evening. The beloved food truck's brick and mortar spot may be new to the scene, but it's already an institution, hitting Eater's Brooklyn Heatmap just last week. Brooklyn-based Live Footage, the two part jazz + classical = electronic band, will set the scene with their cinematic hip hop performance. Opening night guests, including top collectors, curators, museum directors, and artists, will have the first look atart on paper and the chance to support one of the city's most important institutions. Programming will continue throughout the weekend with a live demonstration of metalpoint by artist Susan Schwalb. The National Gallery of Art and the British Museum are currently featuring Schwalb's work alongside drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Jasper Johns in a comprehensive examination of the history of metalpoint, so this is an opportunity that shouldn't be missed. Presenting Partner The Wall Street Journal will offer exclusive tours, receptions and complimentary passes for WSJ+ members, as well as free daily copies of the paper and WSJ. magazine to everyone at the fair. art on paper's Creative Director Sasha Wolfhas assembled a collection of limited edition artist books from around the country that will be available to the public at her beautifully curated art on paper bookstore in the upstairs lounge. We look forward to welcoming the public to what Artnet has dubbed "a new kind of art fair" on Pier 36 in a few short weeks. #fineartmagazine

Catinca Tabacaru Gallery presents Gail Stoicheff: Distressed Blonde, March 1 - 29, 2015

Detail of Installation, Poisson, 2015, oil and dye on linen and canvas, Hydrocal, 61 x 52 inches Gail Stoicheff: DISTRESSED BLONDE March 1 - 29, 2015 250 Broome Street, New York, NY 10002 OPENING Reception: Sunday, March 1, 6PM-8PM Catinca Tabacaru Gallery presents Gail Stoicheff: Distressed Blonde, an exhibition of 13 white rabbits, one phoenix, a handful of medium-sized paintings and two large scale works for which the artist demanded new walls be built. This marks Stoicheff’s first solo exHibition in New York as well as the gallery’s first show with the Brooklyn based painter. Stoicheff is a material alchemist with two broken fingErs. In her hands, base elements of linen, velvet, gypsum, dye and oil paint are transformed into an unknown alloy. Like a heavy case of jemais vu, she conjures weirdness from the familiar through quasi-magical imagery, mysterious surfaces and smalL cast objects. The work is simultaneously serious and Playful, often calling into question which is which---cute becomes ominous, common becomes strange. The pieces presented here are visually bountiful. The large works evoke flags of imaginary countries with questionable ideologies or leftover artifacts from a commune that has collapsed into a cult. Her Manipulations of canvas manifest trompe-l’oeil hellish cave walls and dark sacred geometry one moment and bright hippie mysticism the next.  Upon these, marks of the painting process are allowed to coexist with intentional gestures, adornment and defacement at once. Small rabbits cast in Hydrocal or painted in oil populate the gallery, leaning against or sitting aloft larger works, inviting us to follow them down the rabbit hole that is Stoicheff’s eclectic practicE. Fifi (detail), 2015, oil and dye on velvet and canvas, Hydrocal, metal chain, 96 x 72 inches Raised in a small town in rural Pennsylvania, Stoicheff received her MFA from Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, in 2005. She was the recipient of Robert Motherwell’s prestigious Daedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting, as well as The Elaine DeKooning Painting Award, and was recently the featured cover artist for Little Star Weekly literary journal. She has been with the gallery since its inception.  250 Broome Street Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 6pm T 212-260-2481      www.catincatabacaru.com #fineartmagazine

June Harwood, Louis Stern Fine Arts

JUNE HARWOOD (1933 – 2015) “My paint application was (always) uniform, that is to say that no brush strokes were evident, creating impeccable, flat surfaces. Thus there would be no distraction from the intent, which was to create an interplay of ‘colorforms.’ Jules (Langsner) used this term to mean that color and form are one. One would not exist without the other.” - June Harwood in interview June Harwood made a name for herself in the 1960s as an inventive Hard Edge painter. She was included in nearly every important Hard Edge exhibition in and around Southern California, most significantly in California Hard Edge Painting curated by Jules Langsner in 1964 and in Dave Hickey’s invigorating 2004 homage to “The Los Angeles School” exhibited at Otis College of Art and Design. Harwood was born in Middletown, New York and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University and Master of Arts from California State University at Los Angeles.  Her training at Syracuse University, with an emphasis on the formal aspects of painting, reasonably predicted her interest in Hard-Edge- the term having been coined by her late husband, art critic Jules Langsner. Harwood has exhibited widely on the West Coast, and her work is included in numerous private, corporate and public collections including University of Southern California, University of California Santa Barbara, California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles Valley College, Long Beach Museum of Art, Newport Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, Cedars Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, Home Savings and Loan, Los Angeles, and Western States Producing Company, San Antonio. In addition to her career as an artist, Harwood was a celebrated educator in the arts for many years, including her 1972-1994 tenure as Professor of Art at Los Angeles Valley College. June Harwood is represented exclusively by Louis Stern Fine Arts. 3fineartmagazine

The Lone Art Space: Tancredi Mangano Da Una Certa Distanza (B69) Feb. 27-April 3

	Tancredi Mangano Da Una Certa Distanza (B69) 27 Febbraio / 3 Aprile 2015 Lun. / Ven. ore 10.00-13.00 - 14.30-19.00    Inaugurazione: Giovedì 26 Febbraio ore 18.30
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Scope 2015 March 6-8

ALEX YANES, Untitled, 2014
Mixed media sculpture, installation
Courtesy of Joseph Gross Gallery

12 February 2015, Amsterdam – King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands officially opened the Late Rembrandt exhibition at the Rijksmuseum today.

12 February 2015, Amsterdam – King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands officially opened the Late Rembrandt exhibition at the Rijksmuseum today. The Rijksmuseum’s Director and General Manager Wim Pijbes and Head of Visual Arts Gregor Weber accompanied King Willem-Alexander on a tour of the exhibition highlighted by masterworks including the Portrait of Jan Six (Six Collection), Self-Portrait with Two Circles (Kenwood House, London) and the Family Portrait (Herzog Anton Ulrich-museum, Braunschweig). Late Rembrandt is the Rijksmuseum’s first ever presentation of a major exhibition dedicated to Rembrandt’s late works.  The exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of Rembrandt’s output between 1651 and his death in 1669 – including over one hundred works, all of which created in Amsterdam.  Complementing Rijksmuseum’s extensive collection of Rembrandt are works on loan from leading international museums and private collections, many never before shown together. Late Rembrandt is created in collaboration with The National Gallery London, where the exhibition was held 15 October 2014 – 18 January 2015. Image Caption:  King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands (l) and Rijksmuseum director Wim Pijbes (r) in front of Rembrandt self-portrait at the opening of Late Rembrandt exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. For further information and images: rijksmuseum.nl/en/late-rembrandt

Tami Curtis,Per Portriats for Valentines Day

Yonker Art Gallery

Tagore Gallery to present a landmark retrospective of work by Edith Schloss (1919-2011),

NM announces major retrospective of Edith Schloss (1919-2011)

on January 22, 2015

Norte Maar is pleased to announce its collaboration with Sundaram Tagore Gallery to present a landmark retrospective of work by Edith Schloss (1919-2011), one of America’s greatest expatriate artists whose paintings, assemblage, collage, watercolors and drawings border on the bittersweet, fragile, intimate and naïve. Intrinsically linked to the milieu of Postwar American Art, every aspect of the artist’s eccentric personal iconography will be on view for rediscovery. This is the first show of the artist’s work in New York in twenty-five years. This exhibition continues Norte Maar’s mission of re-presenting the work of under represented emerging, mid-career and historic artists.

The exhibition will open with a public reception on Thursday, February 26, 6-8pm and will continue through March 28. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11-6pm. A lecture in advance of the exhibition will be held at the Art Students League, Tuesday, February 10, 7pm. More information on the lecture here.

Curated by Jason Andrew and organized in collaboration with the Brooklyn-based nonprofit arts organization Norte Maar, this exhibition represents the most comprehensive showing of the artist’s work, offering historic examples from all genres of her career beginning with early still lifes of the 1950s and painted scenes of Penobscot Bay in Maine, to seascapes from her beloved studio in Lerici, Italy, and finally to the mythological abstractions she painted up until her death.

The exhibition also includes a gallery dedicated to Edith’s friends and acquaintances, with work by Ellen Auerbach, Nell Blaine, Rudy Burckhardt, Joseph Cornell, Alberto Giacometti, Willem de Kooning, Helen DeMott, Rackstraw Downes, Philip Pearlstein, Yvonne Jacquette, Fairfield Porter, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, Cy Twombly, Jack Tworkov and Francesca Woodman among others (full list of artists can be found at the end of this release).

Additionally a selection of ephemera including letters, photographs and diaries from the Edith Schloss Estate archive will be on view.

Art is a nourishment which is made from the fabric of our daily life but lifts us beyond it to make us see a world bigger than ourselves.—Edith Schloss, La Serra, 1976

What I really do is what any painter worth his salt has always done. I abstract color and line from life around me, and make another life out of it.—Edith Schloss

Schloss’ work is beautiful and explosive, moved at once by strength and lightness, by a vibrating breath contained in spaces that can be as small as the palm of a hand.—Toni Maraini, Rome, 2011

About Edith Schloss.
Edith Schloss is best known for knowing “everyone who counted in Manhattan’s legendary postwar art scene.” From the moment she was first introduced to Willem de Kooning by her friend Fairfield Porter, she became an integral member of the Chelsea New York art scene, which flourished around the New York School and included photographer and filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt (whom she married in 1947) and the Jane Street Group around Nell Blaine.

Born in Offenbach, Germany, Edith studied languages and art as a young student. In Florence she learned about the Renaissance and in Frankfurt she saw her first Van Gogh. In London, while working as an au pair, she learned English and was inspired by the great Greek sculptures at the British Museum, which also reinforced her dream to become an archeologist.

Edith Schloss, Ravenna, 1947. Photographer unknown. Courtesy Estate of Edith Schloss

During the London Blitz, Edith sailed to America in a convoy. Arriving in New York she met the political refugee Heinz Langerhans, who introduced her to Bertolt Brecht, prominent Communist Ruth Fischer and others. She listened to lectures by American pragmatists like John Dewey at The Cooper Union and other great thinkers at The New School for Social Research. There never seemed to be a moment when she didn’t consider herself an artist. “Somehow I always drew, made pictures,” she wrote. From 1942 to 1946, she studied at the Art Students League of New York with Will Barnet, Harry Sternberg and Morris Kantor.

In 1945 Edith met Willem de Kooning through painter Fairfield Porter. It was a turning point. In turn she met the poet Edwin Denby, the photographers Ellen and Walter Auerbach and the filmmaker Rudy Burchkhardt. Elaine de Kooning became a staunch ally. “I happily absorbed the Chelsea climate apart from politics,” she wrote, “and I’ve settled down to paint for painting.” And she settled into loft living on West 21st Street.

Around the same time Edith met painter Nell Blaine. Together they spent “long winter nights listening to bebop records” and raced uptown and downtown “listening to Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Lester Young and Miles Davis in person.” Edith liked jazz for its “intuitive purity and improvisation,” qualities that became important elements in her maturing work. She joined the Jane Street Group, New York’s first artist cooperative gallery founded by Blaine, Hyde Solomon, Leland Bell, Louisa Matthiasdottir, Albert Kresch and Judith Rothschild. In 1947, her first one-person show opened at the Ashby Gallery.

In 1947, Edith married Rudy Burckhardt and the couple set off to tour Europe where they met Jean Arp, Meret Oppenheim, and briefly Giacometti, Brancusi and Max Bill. Upon their return to New York, she exhibited with the Pyramid Group and American Abstract Artists. Summers were spent with Fairfield Porter and his family on Great Spruce Head Island, Maine. This retrospective includes watercolors exploring the summers on the bays and shores of Maine.

In 1949, her son Jacob was born. One of the first paintings in the retrospective, Egg Eater, c. 1952, features a bird’s-eye view of a young Jacob standing before a breakfast table set with a scattering of white antique dishes including a bowl of fruit. It’s a naive painting with historical references yet the versatility of the composition demonstrates modern avant-garde ideas.

Edith Schloss (1919-2011) “Agon,” 2000, Oil on canvas, 27 1/2 x 23 5/8 in. (70 x 60 cm). Courtesy Estate of Edith Schloss

Edith Schloss (1919-2011) “Air Mail,” 1966, Oil on canvas, 23 3/4 x 19 3/4 in. (60 x 50 cm). Courtesy Estate of Edith Schloss

As Abstract Expressionism took hold in New York and action painting grew more dogmatic, Edith set aside her figurative intensions and turned to collage and assemblage “because it was in an avant-garde technique it was considered alright by the abstractionists.” Assemblage bridged her interest in writing and art and for a time, she become better known for her boxes than for her paintings. In 1961, she was included in The Museum of Modern Art’s landmark exhibition The Art of Assemblage. These boxes housed the precious things she found on beaches and on walks through the city. Sailor or Countryman (1962) is a small cupboard containing rocks, a wood carving of a boat, and a sea horse.  Night Voyage: Homage to Joseph Cornell (c. 1962) is the perfect tribute to Edith’s friend, complete with a collaged gallery label from Cornell’s exhibition at the Charles Egan Gallery in the early 1950s.

Over the years she exhibited in New York at the Tanager Gallery, Green Mountain Gallery and Ingber Gallery.

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UNIT A ARTWALK FEBRUARY 6TH 6-10PM

UNIT A ARTWALK FEBRUARY 6TH 6-10PM   Works will be on display by internationally recognized painter Marcus Jansen at Unit A, which will be open for a public reception during ART WALK on February 6, 2015 from 6-10pm.   Marcus Jansen is in the studio preparing museum works for a world tour launching this year with major museum solo exhibitions in Europe, China and the United States.   Besides Jansen's work recently being included in the U.S. Department of State, Art in Embassies Program, UNESCO in Paris France, Jansen is listed in Who's Who in American Art and is collected in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Russia, The New Britain Museum of American Art, The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. He is represented in the UK, Italy and the United States.   Visit us online at http://unitaspace.com

Announced Athena Film Festival Award Winners

Announced Athena Film Festival Award Winners 

 The Athena Film Festival which runs Feb. 5-8, is proud to announce the recipients of the 2015 Athena Film Festival Awards.

 The 2015 Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award Winner is actress/director Jodie Foster. Celebrating her extraordinary 49-year career including Academy Award-winning performances in The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs, Foster’s influence also extends behind the camera as an acclaimed director and producer. Foster joins previous Ziskin honorees, recognized for their leadership, creative vision, and commitment to women in filmmaking, Sherry Lansing, Gale Anne Hurd, and Julia Barry who accepted for her late mother, Laura Ziskin. Barnard Alumna and President of HBO Documentary Films, Sheila Nevins will receive the President’s Visionary Award and Oscar-winning producer, Cathy Schulman (Crash, The Illusionist) and writer/director Gina Prince-Bythewood (Beyond the Lights, The Secret Life of Bees) are honored with Athena Film Festival Awards. Winners of the Athena List, an annual list of screenplays with strong female protagonists, will also be announced at the awards ceremony. This year’s lineup includes a number of great films including the Opening Film, Dreamcatcher, a portrait of Brenda Myers-Powell, a former prostitute who helps women and girls break the cycle of abuse; the world premiere of Rosie O’Donnell, A Heartfelt Stand-Up followed by a panel with O'Donnell; and our Centerpiece Film, Beyond the Lights where Director Gina Prince- Bythewood will join the audience for a Q & A. The festival’s closing film is Difret, a moving story about an Ethiopian woman’s search for justice and the clash between traditional culture and law. Tickets and passes are now on sale at AthenaFilmFestival.com, as well as a full schedule of the 40+ movies, panels, workshops and receptions. We hope you join us at this year's Festival to watch incredible films featuring women leaders in real life and the fictional world. A great opportunity to network with extraordinary women who share your interests in changing what leadership looks like. For more information on the Athena Film Festival,
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ATHENA FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES LINEUP OF NARRATIVE, DOCUMENTARY AND SHORT FILMS: February 5 – 8

ATHENA FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES LINEUP OF NARRATIVE, DOCUMENTARY AND SHORT FILMS

 FILMS INCLUDE BEYOND THE LIGHTS, DREAMCATCHER, DUKHTAR, OBVIOUS CHILD, QUE CARAMBRA ES LA VIDA & WE ARE THE BEST! AMONG OTHERS

 The festival runs from February 5 – 8

 New York, NY (January 9, 2015) – The Athena Film Festival announced today its 2015 lineup, featuring an array of narrative, documentary and short films.  The festival and its upcoming slate honor extraordinary women in the entertainment industry and spotlight films that showcase women’s leadership in real life and the fictional world.  Now in its fifth year, the festival runs from Thursday, February 5 through Sunday, February 8 on the Barnard College campus in Morningside Heights. Regina K. Scully, the Phoebe Snow Foundation, and the Artemis Rising Foundation are the festival’s Founding Sponsors.

 The festival opens on Thursday night with the New York Premiere of DREAMCATCHER, a documentary directed by Kim Longinotto.  2015 Athena awardee Gina Prince-Bythewood, director of BEYOND THE LIGHTS, will participate in a Q & A on Saturday night following a screening of the film starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw.

Among the feature films included in this year’s lineup are: OBVIOUS CHILD, starring Jenny Slate and directed by Gillian Robespierre, WE ARE THE BEST!, starring Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin and Liv LeMoyne and directed by Lukas Moodysson, and DUKHTAR, directed by Afia Nathaniel.  The documentary category includes: VESSEL, directed by Diana Whitten, SEPIDEH – REACHING FOR THE STARS, directed by Berit Madsen, QUE CARAMBA ES LA VIDA, directed by Doris Dörrie, and OUT IN THE NIGHT, directed by Blair Dorosh-Walther.  A wide variety of shorts will be featured including: THE LION’S MOUTH OPENS, directed by Academy Award^®-nominee Lucy Walker, MUTED, directed by Rachel Goldberg, STOP TELLING WOMEN TO SMILE, directed by Dean Peterson, and AFRONAUTS, directed by Frances Bodomo.

“We are thrilled to celebrate the fifth year of this unique film festival with an inspiring and diverse range of films,” said Kathryn Kolbert, co-founder of the Festival and Constance Hess Williams Director of the Athena Center for Leadership Studies.  “Where better to celebrate the power and leadership of women in film than on the Barnard College campus in New York, which will be transformed this February with screenings, panels and our annual awards ceremony.”

“These films were selected for the power of their stories to inspire us to think about women's leadership differently,” said Melissa Silverstein, co-founder and Artistic Director of the Festival and founder of Women and Hollywood. “We are proud to unveil a 2015 line-up that continues to provide a place for audiences to learn, experience and connect.”

As previously announced Academy Award^®-winning actress and filmmaker Jodie Foster will receive this year’s Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award.  Additional awardees include Sheila Nevins, President of HBO Documentary Films, Gina Prince-Bythewood, director, writer and producer behind films such as Love & Basketball, The Secret Life of Bees and Beyond the Lights, and Cathy Schulman, Academy Award^® winning producer, President of Mandalay Pictures, and President of Women in Film, known for films including Crash, The Illusionist, Darfur Now and Bernie.

The current lineup follows.  Additional screenings, panels and special events will be announced in the coming weeks. 

Please visit http://www.athenafilmfestival.com for regular updates and to purchase tickets or passes.

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Muse awards luncheon