LONDON - 'Emblems and Urban Regeneration' will showcase some of the best artists presently representing India. Alok Bal, Sachin Karne and Sculptor Vinod A Patel who live and work in Baroda together with B. Manjunath Kamath and Pratul Dash of New Delhi. Their work exhibits the best examples of contemporary art not only from India but from around the world. Emblems and Urban Regeneration demonstrates without doubt the power and talent being produced at the top end of the Indian contemporary art scene.

New York City - Political, economic, and social turmoil shaped Germany’s short-lived Weimar Republic (1919–1933).  These pivotal years also became a most creative period of 20th-century German culture, generating innovation in literature, music, film, theater, and architecture.  In painting, a trend of matter-of-fact realism took hold in Germany like nowhere else in Europe.  Disillusioned by the cataclysm of World War I, the most vital German artists moved towards a Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), in particular its branch known as Verism.  These artists looked soberly, cynically, and even ferociously at their fellow citizens and found their true métier in portraiture, as seen in the 40 paintings and 60 works on paper featured in Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s.  The presentation, which opens at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on November 14, 2006, features gripping portraits by ten renowned artists: Max Beckmann, Heinrich Maria Davringhausen, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Karl Hubbuch, Ludwig Meidner, Christian Schad, Rudolf Schlichter, Georg Scholz, and Gert H. Wollheim.

New York City - The first major exhibition in a quarter century to explore luminism in nineteenth-century American landscape painting, Luminist Horizons: The Art and Collection of James A. Suydam, will be on exhibit until 31 December at the National Academy Museum. 

New York City - Photographs by Eugene de Salignac, selected from an archive of some 20,000 glass plate negatives and 10,000 vintage prints will be on view at the Museum of the City of New York through September 4.  New York Rises: Photographs by Eugene de Salignac will exhibit for the first time a treasure trove of images made by an obscure municipal employee.  A systematic record of a period of unprecedented growth in New York City—1906 through 1934—the photographs are remarkable not only for their technical virtuosity and aesthetic quality, but for their historic significance.  The photographs document the creation of the city’s modern infrastructure, and they portray everything from nuts and bolts to cantilevered sections of the city’s most iconic bridges as they were being built; from workers surveying construction sites to the elegant geometry of steel beams and concrete girders; from the fretwork of cables supporting the Brooklyn Bridge to an early image of the hotspot now called DUMBO with the Manhattan Bridge only partially completed; the opening of the Queensboro Bridge and the 50th anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge; and much more.

New York City - Among the victims of Hurricane Katrina is the venerable New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA).  According to recent assessments, the flooding following the storm inflicted more than $6,000,000 in damage on NOMA’s physical plant and its adjacent five-acre sculpture garden.  The museum’s Director, E. John Bullard, its Deputy Director Jacqueline Sullivan and their Board of Trustees now have to cope with an absolute catastrophe in terms of the financing of their daily operations.  Indeed, every day they are faced with the question of their museum’s very survival.  Sources of revenue have been drastically curtailed, as the museum can expect little funding from either the municipal government of New Orleans or the state of Louisiana; both are economically overwhelmed by the realities of physical destruction and population displacement.  Some key sources of individual and corporate funding have dried up.

Rockland, ME - On Saturday, June 20, the Farnsworth Art Museum, in Rockland, will open a major exhibition entitled Robert Indiana and the Star of Hope which will run in the museum’s Morehouse Wing and Crosman Gallery through October 25. The opening of Robert Indiana and the Star of Hope will be celebrated at a Live at Night at the Farnsworth party at the museum on Friday, June 19, with a members’ only preview and reception from 6:30 to 8 p.m. followed by a free public party from 8 to 9:30 p.m. The exhibition on renowned American artist Robert Indiana is drawn almost exclusively from his extensive holdings at his home and studio, the Star of Hope Oddfellows Lodge on the island of Vinalhaven, Maine. The show explores the vast range of Indiana’s work from the 1950s to the present, focusing on what he has done since 1978, when he moved permanently to the Star of Hope Lodge, a late nineteenth-century building listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 

New York, NY - The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, acquired by the Museum in 2005, is an extraordinary collection of over 2,500 contemporary works on paper. Through a selection of more than three hundred works, this first comprehensive presentation of the gift surveys the various methods and materials within the styles of gestural and geometric abstraction, representation and figuration, and systems-based and conceptual drawings. On exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA) through 4 January, 2010.

New York City - Tamarind Art is pleased to announce Time Transcendent, an exhibition featuring four new media artists who will be showing work that is video performance and installation based.  Featured in this show will be works by Manoj Sardar Baviskar, Pratul Dash, Kausik Mukhopadhyay, and BV Suresh. On exhibition 18 December through 6 February, 2009.

PORTLAND, MAINE.- André Kertész (1894–1985) is recognized as one of the world’s most significant and influential photographers. André Kertész: On Reading is a collection of 104 black-and-white photographs that highlight Kertész’s signature style of visual poetry and choreography in everyday life. The photographs were taken during a 50-year period, beginning in 1925. André Kertész: On Reading will be on view August 30 through November 16, 2008 at the Portland Museum of Art.

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