Beyond Limits is an excellent exhibition of contemporary sculpture from auction house Sotheby's, on display in the gardens of Chatsworth house in Derbyshire, a short country drive from London. The house is the seat of the Duke and Dutchess of Devonshire, and now features works by Kiki Smith, Zadok Ben-David, Richard Hudson (above), and Robert Indiana, among others. See more in this striking video.
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The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008 is the first project built in England by architect Frank Gehry, and it is open to the public this weekend only (October 18-19). Gehry was inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s wooden catapults as well as summer beach cabanas for the structure, which acts, in Gehry’s words, like “an urban street running from the park to the existing Gallery. The Pavilion is much like an amphitheater, designed to serve as a place for live events, music, performance, discussion, and debate."
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Moving through the Gehry structure and into the Serpentine Gallery itself is a brilliant installation of German artist Gerhard Richter's 4900 Colours, 196 square panels of color that can be combined in various ways. For the Serpentine, Richter developed 49 paintings of 100 squares each.
Sylvain Deleu
Provocateur art collector Charles Saatchi gave up his lease on the Thames in 2005 and immediately began seeking a new home for his controversial works, including Damien Hirst's shark in formaldehyde and Chris Ofili's Virgin Mary covered in elephant dung. He found it in Chelsea, and has opened the doors to his new 70,000 square foot space. The inaugural exhibition is "The Revolution Continues: New Art From China" (through January 18), featuring 30 top artists from Beijing and beyond.
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Those who missed sculptor Richard Serra's fantastic retrospective at the New York MoMA last year will have a second chance to see his steel works at the Brittania Street outpost of Larry Gagosian's gallery (October 4-December 20). Serra is showing three new sculptures along with a collection of "forged drawings" - small steel plates with paint applied to the surface.
Photo Joshua White, courtesy Gagosian Gallery
The Tate Modern in London has long had a tremendous “Rothko Room” featuring several of the American painter's iconic color-tone abstracts originally commissioned for the Seagram Building in New York. For this giant retrospective (September 26-February 1)-the first in the UK for over 20 years-the Tate breaks out the Seagram series again along with many works from Japan.
Mark Rothko, Untitled, Mural for End Wall 1959
The annual Frieze Art Fair will feature 150 galleries from October 16-19. There were nearly 70,000 visitors last year, including curators, artists, collectors, gallerists, and critics, as well as the general public.
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