Every Day's Journey

R.B. Kitaj:  The Exile at Home R.B. Kitaj, Los Angeles No. 7 (Double), 2001, Oil on canvas March 4 - April 8, 2017 Opening reception Saturday, March 4, 2017 6-8pm Marlborough Contemporary is pleased to present R.B. Kitaj:  The Exile at Home  curated, by Barry Schwabsky. R.B. Kitaj (1932-2007) was one of the most prominent painters of his time, particularly in England where the American artist spent some four decades spanning the late 1950s through the late 1990s. Part of an extraordinary cohort who emerged from the Royal College of Art circa 1960, which included Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield, and David Hockney, Kitaj was immediately pegged as one of its leading figures. The London Times greeted his first solo show in 1963 as a long-awaited and galvanizing event: “Mr. R.B. Kitaj’s first exhibition, now that it has at last taken place, puts the whole ‘new wave’ of figurative painting in this country during the last two

GARAGE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ANNOUNCES THE WINNERS OF TRAVEL GRANTS FOR INTERNATIONAL CURATORS   Garage Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce  the winners of its Travel Grants for international curators . These grants will be used to enable the winning curators to attend the first  Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art  which runs from  March 10 to May 14, 2017 . The winners, selected from a diverse international pool of established curators, will spend four days in Moscow, where they will explore the largest survey of contemporary Russian art to date. The winners are:  Riksa  Afiatry  (Indonesia),  Celenk Bafra  (Turkey),  Lizaveta German  (Ukraine),  Jarret Gregory  (United States),  Albert Heta  (Kosovo),  Li Qi  (China),  Joanna Sokolowska  (Poland),  Polly Staple  (Great Britain),  Chen Tamir  (Israel), and  Diana Ukhina  (Kyrgyzstan). Garage received more than 130 applications from 44 countries , including Australia, Brazil,