The Oasis sponsored London Fashion in Film Festival 2008, which is running till the end of May, comprises a series of films sharing the running theme of how fashion, costume and styling are used in film to add an air of chic decadence. The films will be screened at five major London arts venues, the ICA, BFI, Tate Modern, Cine Lumiere and Horse Hospital. The festival also offers a series of talks, film introductions and Q&As. These will feature the American film scholar Tom Gunning, ... Read More

Agora Gallery is proud to present Dominique Salm in United in Art – an Exhibition of Fine Art from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. About Dominique Salm: Dominique Salm’s animal portraits present a contemporary spin on traditional wildlife painting. Her remarkably naturalistic watercolor renderings of animal subjects are projected against a stark white background, which not only creates a dramatic graphic image, but conveys her modern aesthetic. Each watercolor has a snap-shot ... Read More

MOSCOW – With a Picasso on sale for nearly £10 million and diamond necklaces going for almost twice as much, the opening of the Moscow World Fine Art Fair on Tuesday night was proof that the balance of power in the art world is shifting inexorably eastwards, reported Adrian Blomfield from The Telegraph. The art fair has been visited by many people now that it has been made fashionable to buy art as was demonstrated two weeks ago when Roman Abramovich bought Francis Bacon’s ... Read More

LYNCHBURG, Va – The first of four paintings that Randolph College intends to sell to bolster its financial situation is up for auction. Rufino Tamayo’s “Troubadour” will be offered at Christie’s Latin American art auction Wednesday evening in New York. Opponents of the sale of paintings that were given to the college’s art collection obtained an injunction to block the college’s plans in November. But they dropped the case while they pursued a court challenge to ... Read More

Agora Gallery is proud to present Graeme Swanson in United in Art – an Exhibition of Fine Art from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Exhibition Dates: June 3, 2008 through June 24, 2008 Opening Reception: Thursday, June 5, 2008, 6-8 pm Gallery Location: 530 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York Gallery Hours: Tues – Sat, 11am – 6pm About Graeme Swanson: Whether creating drawings, screen prints, acrylics on paper, oils on canvas, or etchings, Graeme Swanson’s independent ... Read More

LOS ANGELES – “Hendrix Revealed: A Life Through The Lens” opens Thursday, May 29 at the Celebrity Vault gallery in Beverly Hills, and represents the largest exhibition of photographs of Jimi Hendrix ever shown in the Los Angeles area. Acclaimed in London earlier this year, the show was produced and curated in association with U.K.-based Raj Prem Fine Art Photography. This week, Celebrity Vault co-founders Klaus Moeller and Cole Sternberg announced that ten percent of ... Read More

LIVERPOOL – A vast painting of Liverpool is on display from 24 May to 2 November 2008 at the Walker Art Gallery. The exhibition, Ben Johnson’s Liverpool Cityscape 2008 and the World Panorama Series, will form part of the city’s celebrations as European Capital of Culture. The monumental painting, by internationally-renowned artist Ben Johnson, has been commissioned by National Museums Liverpool, with the Liverpool Culture Company and Professor Phil Redmond CBE and Alexis ... Read More

Los Angeles based ministry, Arts and Entertainment Ministries (AEM), is now accepting submissions for their October 3rd show “An Evening of Arts & Entertainment” in Los Angeles, California. Artists who are Christians from all over the world are invited to submit their work (visual and performing arts as well as film and media) for the show. Submissions will be accepted from now through June 10, 2008. In order to submit for the show, you must go to AEM’s website, ... Read More

ALBANY, NY – Latin American and Caribbean Art: Selected Highlights from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) opens at the New York State Museum. On view through October 13 in the Museum’s West Gallery, the exhibition is the 19th installment of the Bank of America Great Art Exhibition and Education Program, which brings art from New York State’s leading art museums to the State Museum. This also is the fourth exhibition in the Bank of America Great Art Series drawn from ... Read More

Through August 3, the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York, is presenting a unique exhibition of ephemera, “Japonisme in American Graphic Art, 1880-1920.” Featuring more than twenty-five rarely seen works on paper from the Brooklyn Museum’s permanent collection, this exhibition explores the impact of Japanese art on the graphic arts of America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During this period, Americans were avidly discovering, studying, and collecting the ... Read More

LONDON – From Wednesday 4 to Friday 6 June 2008 Christie’s will host British Art Week, a series of auctions, lectures and events dedicated to the history of British art and furniture. British Art Week presents a selection of paintings, watercolours, furniture and sculpture representing over 300 years of British art which will be offered over four sales held between 4 and 6 June. Highlights include works by many renowned artists, including Burne-Jones, Heron, Hepworth, Lowry, ... Read More

Marlborough Fine Art (London) presents Matthew Carr – New York, on view 25 June – 19 July 2008. Following a successful show in New York in 2006, Matthew Carr’s new exhibition in London has a markedly literary content. Carr’s preferred way of working is, as he describes it, “very intense blasts of concentration with no distraction” and this exhibition includes penetrating portrait drawings of some thirty writers, publishers and literary agents including ... Read More

Friday 30 May to Sunday 1 June 2008 Melbourne art-lovers are in for a treat with Bonhams & Goodman set to host an exhibition in their Melbourne rooms featuring renowned icons of twentieth century Australian art from private collections throughout Australia. This extraordinary exhibition will reunite prized paintings with pairs or companion works which, in many instances, have not been shown together since they were first created. Several works have not been seen by the public ... Read More

LONDON – The Art Fund and fair organisers, Clarion Arts, are urging visitors to the fair to contribute towards the fundraising campaign to secure the future of the Pompeo Batoni portrait. A target amount of £15,000 towards the £300,000 sale price of the painting will be raised through donations for pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle, a replica of the portrait, made by Wentworth. Ranging from £5 to £1,000 the pieces will be on sale over the ten day period.The painting brings ... Read More

The American Scene : Prints from Hopper to Pollock at the British Museum reviewed by artrepublic.com the artrepublic.com exhibition review team are delighted to present The American Scene exhibition, running from April 10 2008 until September 07 2008 at the British Museum in London. Featuring spectacular images of American society and culture made during a period of great social and political change from the early 1900s to 1960, there are 147 works by 74 artists, including the work of ... Read More