PASADENA, CA - “The Storyteller’s Art” collects more than 200 examples of leading graphic designer Kit Hinrichs’ work for a 40-year retrospective. An alumnus of Art Center College of Design (Advertising, 1963), Hinrichs is the San Francisco partner of Pentagram, the celebrated international design firm. His vast influence on America’s graphic landscape is visible across a broad spectrum of media, from annual reports and magazines to signage, exhibitions, and environmental programs.

Chicago, IL - Tony Wight Gallery is pleased to announce Half Life, Half Light, a solo exhibition of paintings by Leslie Baum. This will be the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery.The works in Half Life, Half Light extend Baum’s ongoing engagement of oppositional tensions present within painting—abstraction and representation, the somber and the celebratory, transparency and opacity, mass and atmosphere. On view 27 February through 11 April, 2009.

LONDON - Conceptualised by the Rome-based art curator and journalist Daniela Bezzi in association with EJB Communications, London, this exhibition will document over 20 years of creative collaboration with Indian craftspeople by the noted contemporary Italian artist, architect and art professor Nicola Strippoli, better known by his Sanskrit name: Tarshito.

MADRID, SPAIN - The new sculpture by Richard Serra "Equal Parallel/Guernica-Bengasi" can now be seen at the Museo Reina Sofia, where the old library has been specially prepared to house the work of art, which substitutes the one created in 1986, which disappeared in 2006. The new sculpture has been reinstalled in a new atmosphere of the permanent collection of the Reina Sofia after having formed part of the exhibition "Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years", at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York during the summer of 2007.

Charlotte, NC - Garden of Earthly Delights beckons you into a world of fantasy. Although each artist interprets landscape in a unique way, there is a certain mystery to these captured moments in time. Forgotten stories and tales of lore come to life through scenery rich in depth.

NEW YORK, NY - Shepard Fairey, the artist who designed the now famous Barack Obama Hope poster has filed a lawsuit in New York against the Associated Press. Last week the Associated Press challenged Fairey when it declared that the poster was based on an image taken by AP photographer Mannie Garcia.

CHADDS FORD, PA - The family of Andrew Wyeth and the Brandywine River Museum invite the public to a celebration of the life and work of Andrew Wyeth, who died on January 16. This special event will be held Saturday, January 31, from 9:30 to 4:30 p.m. Complimentary admission will be offered to all visitors on this day.

Missoula, MT - Missoula Art Museum (MAM) / MAM is honored to present the serigraph prints, drawn from the MAM Collections, by Sister Corita Kent (November 20, 1918 - September 18, 1986). The works are indicative of Kent’s use of text and typography as an essential element of the composition. Kent was an activist in the 60’s and was known as a poet-artist. This is the first time the MAM has shown this collection of works. The recently published book “Come Alive! The Spirited Art of Sister Corita” is available in the MAM Bookstore. Sign Language: The Pop Art of Sister Corita.

STUTTGART, GERMANY - In the new Porsche Museum. in Stuttgart,  the final preparations are made for the opening on Saturday 31 January 2009. At last, now that the scaffolding has been removed, it is possible to see to the full extent the bold architecture of the building at the head office premises of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG in Zuffenhausen: The 5,600 square metres of exhibition space are supported on just three so-called cores of reinforced concrete – hence just seeming to hover in space. Inside the building the majority of approximately 80 exhibits are already in place.

FIGUERES, SPAIN - The Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí received the temporary loan of Salvador Dalí's most famous oil painting, The Persistence of Memory, also know as "The Soft Watches", thanks to its owner, the MoMA in New York. It will be seen in Room 22 until next 18 March and will coincide two weeks of January with the other temporary loan: the Metamorphoses of Narcissus, on show in Room 6, coming from the Tate Modern, London.