Photographic exhibition titled “Garden of Eden”, by Andrzej Maciejewski, will be presented in The Camerawork Gallery in Portland Oregon, from August 20th to September 23rd, 2011. Andrzej Maciejewski – Garden of Eden: Still Life with 4024(USA), 4025(USA), 4049(Honduras), 4410(USA) and 4026(USA).

It’s 1912, and Pablo Picasso is in Paris, thinking: All right, what’s next? A few years earlier he painted a killer picture, “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.” People had thrown up their hands in alarm; his friends hardly knew what to say. Energized by the fuss, he punched out variations on the theme: paintings of sharp-elbowed, wood-brown [...]

File photo of British artist duo Italian Gilbert Proesch (L) and George Passmore (R) Telephone kiosks, tourist postcards, advertisements for prostitution and the urethra are the subjects of the latest art exhibition from British art duo Gilbert and George. “The Urethra Art of Gilbert and George”, on show at London’s White Cube gallery, features a [...]

French painter Paul Gauguin gets his first major exhibition in Britain for over 50 years this week, and early reviews suggest it was worth the wait. A woman walks by French artist Paul Gauguin’s artwork ‘Aha oe Feii? (What! Are You Jealous?)’, at the Gauguin: Maker of Myth exhibition, at the Tate Modern, in London. [...]

JMW Turner, Sun Setting over a Lake circa 1840 It will be interesting to see whether Tate Britain’s new director, Penelope Curtis, can do anything about the curse of the Clore Gallery. This museum-within-a-museum housing Turner’s bequest to the nation of 300 oil paintings and more than 20,000 works on paper opened in 1987 to [...]

Leonardo DaVinci, La Belle Ferroniere Leonardo da Vinci: Painter At The Court Of Milan is said by the gallery to be the most complete display of Leonardo’s rare surviving paintings ever held. The Trafalgar Square gallery is borrowing works including La Belle Ferroniere from the Louvre museum in Paris, the Madonna Litta (also known as [...]

Agnolo Bronzino’s was the hand to hire for a power portrait in mid-16th-century Florence. He could turn toddlers into potentates and make new-money Medicis look like decent people. His painting shaped late Mannerism, the profane, twisty, prosthetic style that erupted, like a repressed libido, between the humanist sanctities of the Renaissance and the smells and [...]