NEW YORK, NY.- The works of Farida Batool serve as
metaphors for the political upheavals and tumultuous history of her country.
They identify with the fear that is spread throughout Pakistan and the
many citizens who have suffered at the hands of the regime; yet when away from
it, Batool is constantly confronted with her own feelings of guilt, and
nostalgia for her homeland. She magnifies and examines these emotions in
her use of lenticular prints (3-d holographic photographs) as a medium. Their
double-faceted layering allows the viewer to reflect upon the artist’s duel
perspective, where the injustices of living in both the East and West are
scrutinised.

Mumbai, India -
From 25-27th
September 2009, the cosmopolitan financial capital of India, Mumbai
will be hosting the celebrated Indian contemporary Art Expo. Leading Indian and
international art galleries will be taking part in this event.
The Art Expo promises to be a significant cultural and social event in the
Indian Subcontinent. The discussions at the Art Expo feature prominent
international art world personalities including Kay Saatchi, Judith Greer,
Princess Tatjana zu Schaumburg-Lippe, Kirsty Ogg
and many other Museum curators, consultants and collectors. Now in its 2nd year,
it is the largest art fair devoted to modern and contemporary Indian Art.
Organised at the Nehru Centre in Mumbai, this year’s show exhibits a wide mix of
cutting edge, eclectic and exciting art works. A series of interactive
conversations with experts will demystify the language & knowledge of art to
visitors.

SEDALIA,
MISSOURI – The Daum Museum of
Contemporary Art on the State Fair
Community College campus
will present the exhibition Androgyny: New Work by Sergei Isupov from Oct. 3rd
through Dec. 6th, 2009. Isupov, a native of
Russia, is internationally renowned
as a technically accomplished ceramic sculptor. The exhibition will
feature his latest body of work, including 14 large-scale painted and sculpted
heads and related drawings. The facial expressions on each of
the colorful pieces reveal individual character traits. The heads, about three
feet high, also feature small, hand-painted vignettes, as well as hidden surrealist and dream-like vignettes on the bottoms of
every piece.

NEW YORK, NY.-
Phillips de Pury & Company presents LATIN AMERICA, a theme
auction offering a cross section of quality works of contemporary art,
design and photographs for sale on October 3rd at the company’s Chelsea
galleries in New York. Building on the success of our established
core auctions, the theme sales are a new global program which will
commence with the first theme auction NOW: Art of the 21st Century in
London on September 26, 2009 (viewing date start on the 19th of
September).

BRUSSELS.- The Scottish enlightenment scientist Lord
Kelvin asked the question about how space could be most efficiently bounded by
an enclosing geometry the answer being found in those most elusive and fugitive
of things: bubbles and foams which forms nesting cell structure of polyhedra.
Bubbles form an intriguing geometry with tetrahedral nodes with elements
combining at angles slightly less than 120 degrees. The breakthrough
work: Aperture gives it’s name to and is the key to this Antony Gormley
exhibition. It has an extraordinary relationship with a room,
seeming a gap in space filled with the behavioural geometry of the bubble
matrix. The outer edges of this form dynamically grasp the air.

LOS ANGELES, CA - The theft of 10 silkscreen
paintings by Andy Warhol has the Los Angeles Police Department searching for
clues, but it has people in the art world scratching their heads, too. Why were
just Warhols stolen, and not other more valuable art at the same
location? Also what art thieves in their right mind would steal well
known Warhols that are realistically un-marketable anywhere in the world ? “It’s
hard to say what they want to do with them, but it looks like somebody knew
about these pieces,” Detective Hrycyk said Saturday. He said that there was no
sign of forced entry and that other valuable artwork and possessions had not
been taken.

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art
(MoMA) presents Monet’s Water Lilies from September 13, 2009, to
April 12, 2010, an installation that features the full group of late
paintings by Claude Monet (1840-1926) in the collection
for the first time since the Museum’s reopening in 2004. In 1955
MoMA became the first public collection in the United States to acquire
one of Monet’s large-scale Water Lilies compositions. Since then, the
history of their reception has been intertwined with the history of the
Museum, both because of the water lilies’ importance for scores of
contemporary artists, and for the beloved position they hold for the
general audience.

LONDON.- Returning for the third and final time
during Frieze week, The Free Art Fair promises to be bigger, better and more fun
than ever. Staged at the Barbican Centre, The Free Art Fair will use the format
of a curated museum scale exhibition, with a difference: on the
last day of the show, the visiting public will be able to take away one piece of
art of their choice . . Free. Visitors are invited to select the
artwork they like the most. On the closing day, Sunday 18th, the public will
queue to claim their choice; the first to choose a particular piece of art will
be the lucky Free Art Fair Collector to take it home, until all the works have
been allocated. Open to the public 12 October to 18 October,
2009.

LONDON.- The second of Sotheby’s bi-annual
Scottish Sales will take place in London on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 and it
will bring to the market more than 150 works from many of the leading names in
the field of predominantly 20th Century Scottish Art. The Scottish
Colourists will feature strongly, as will Anne Redpath, Joan Eardley, Peter
Howson and Jack Vettriano and the sale is estimated to bring in the region of £4
million. All of the sale’s offerings will be exhibited at Edinburgh’s
Mansfield Traquair between Tuesday, September 15 and Thursday, September 17 and
this exhibition is open to the public.

NASHVILLE, TN.- The highly acclaimed art of Dale
Chihuly, exploring the visual relationship of glass and nature, will appear in
the glorious setting of Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art opening
May 25, 2010 and on display through October 31, 2010. The show, Chihuly
at Cheekwood, features thousands of stunning, hand-blown glass sculptures on
display throughout the botanical garden at Cheekwood, in various ponds and
within the Museum of Art and Frist Learning Center. Chihuly’s
spectacular creations are found in more than 200 museums worldwide including
: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, London’s Victoria and Albert
Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Garden exhibitions of his work
have been mounted at the New York Botanical Garden, Fairchild Tropical Botanic
Garden, Atlanta Botanical Garden and the Royal Botanical Gardens.