Tasende Gallery

05/12/2026

On view.....Armando Romero - Paintings & Sculpture

05/07/2026

Preview this evening: Armando Romero - Paintings & Sculpture. An intimate look at the artist's work in celebration of his participation at the 2026 Venice Biennale

04/30/2026

Born on this day in 1904—Willem de Kooning was one of the most celebrated and prolific draftsmen of the 20th century.

De Kooning was born and raised in Rotterdam and showed early talent in traditional drawing techniques while still in his teens. Dreaming of becoming an illustrator in the US, he stowed away on a freight ship when he was 22 and eventually arrived in New York City. There, he found work as a house painter, freelance commercial artist, and window display designer before ultimately becoming a key figure of the movement that would become known as “Abstract Expressionism.”

Join us on June 14 for the opening of “Willem de Kooning Drawing,” the first exhibition to examine the expansive drawing practice of this renowned artist.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4tNmpSu

Image:

Photograph by Harry Bowden. "Willem de Kooning sitting with charcoal drawings scattered on the floor in his studio at 85 Fourth Avenue, New York," 1946.

04/30/2026

Armando Romero - Paintings & Sculpture - May 7 2026
Presentation in celebration of the artist's participation in the 2026 Venice Biennale

04/28/2026

Ambitious art projects abound across the streets—and islands—of Venice

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/28/from-monumental-glass-sculptures-to-a-lagoon-in-the-sky-what-to-see-beyond-the-venice-biennale-pavilions

04/28/2026

04/28/2026

To use the British Museum Reading Room, you had to be admitted. That meant applying for a ticket and signing a declaration in the register that you would follow the rules.

Oscar Wide was 24, recently out of Oxford, and at the beginning of his life in London. His first collection, Poems, would appear two years later.

In the register, he records his full name and address:
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde of 13 Salisbury Street.

In 1895, following his conviction, his reader’s ticket was revoked and he was barred from the Reading Room.

In 2016, that decision was symbolically reversed by the British Library, which now holds the Museum’s former library collections.

04/18/2026

In 1935, after Alberto Giacometti broke his affiliation with André Breton’s French Surrealist group—with which he had made common cause in the late 1920s— it took him another decade or so to hone the works with which he remains most widely and abidingly associated. ⁠
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Giacometti’s elongated, upright figures persist as some of the most recognizable works of the post-World War Two era. Their solitude, solemnity, and seemingly wounded surfaces invited endless projections about the predicament of humanity following the Holocaust and Hiroshima. They have also been taken ever since as the almost preordained culmination of the artist’s oeuvre—the yardstick by which we measure his work and its response to modern life.⁠
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But what separates the two major phases of his career, the Surrealist and the Existentialist?⁠
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Joanna Fiduccia’s new book “Figures of Crisis: Alberto Giacometti and the Myths of Nationalism” frames the period between 1935 and 1945 not as an interlude but a fulcrum, not an abeyance but a lightning rod. “The result is a book which not only excavates an underexamined period in twentieth-century aesthetics, but dynamizes our understanding of modernist figuration and its relationship to politics,” Ara H. Merjian writes.⁠
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Read more: https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/giacometti-sculpture-joanna-fiduccia-figures-of-crisis-1234781283/

01/13/2026

On view....La Jolla

12/23/2025

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2026!