SANTA BARBARA, CA – The Santa Barbara Museum of Art celebrates the gifts made possible by PhotoFutures, the avid collector’s group that has helped to build the Museum’s permanent photography collection as well as support photographic exhibitions. Founded in 1998 by William Brian Little and Mrs. Kingman Douglass, PhotoFutures enters their tenth year. In acknowledgement, SBMA showcases 58 acquisitions with the exhibition Ten: Gifts of SBMA PhotoFutures. While the 35 individuals ... Read More

Clark Fellows, scholars from the Getty Research Institute, and invited experts, including cultural geographers, artists, and art historians, will discuss the relationship between art history and environment during the Clark/Getty Workshop public conversation “Art History and Environment” on Saturday, October 11, at 5:30 pm. Admission to the conversation is free. Held in Stone Hill Center’s Hunter Studio at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. The group will discuss art ... Read More

Two important exhibitions will turn the spotlight on contemporary Chinese art at the Gallery of Modern Art ( GoMA ) next year. Arts Minister Rod Welford said The China Project: Three Decades of Contemporary Chinese Art from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection and Zhang Xiaogang: Shadows in the Soul, would showcase the Gallery’s remarkable collection of contemporary art for the first time. “China’s economic development, the Olympics and the international popularity of its ... Read More

Raised on a diet of Walt Disney World , Ray Harryhausen films, H. P. Lovecraft novels, Comics, and Florida tourist traps, Pooch paints images that seem to exist in a bizarre afterlife. Early on, Pooch was exposed to artists and illustrators, such as Frank Frazetta, MC Escher, Dali, Bosch and HR Giger. A self- taught artist, Pooch owes much of his painting skills to over ten years of daily tattooing and drawing. His art is a visual cocktail mix of Far East mysteries, the magic of ... Read More

San Francisco, CA – Fallen 2-artist show of drawings, new media painting and sculpture opens with a reception for the artists Carlos Huante and Jose Ismael Fernandez on Friday October 10 from 6pm to 10pm. Creator of some of the most innovative monsters and characters for film though his work at Lucas Digital, Carlos Huante unveils for the first time his series of prints alongside classical cast metal sculptor Jose Ismael Fernandez in their 2-artist exhibition at Varnish entitled ... Read More

Currently on view through November 15, the Gallery at Anne Smith Antiques is featuring an Exhibition of American paintings at 222 West Read Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Dating from 1920 to 1940, the paintings represent a variety of subject matter by the following artists: Thomas Attardi, Thomas Barrett, Floyd Butler, Grace Elsie Daggett, Jean De Botton, Claude Gallo, Bertram Goodman, Bertram Hartman and Ruskin Williams. The featured painting is a large autumnal landscape showing a farm ... Read More

DENVER, CO – MCA DENVER proudly presents Damien Hirst’s signature works, including the piece Saint Sebastian, Exquisite Pain, 2007 from the Natural History series, which features animals preserved in formaldehyde and displayed in large glass vitrines. The exhibition opens October 7, 2008 and runs through August 30, 2009. A public reception will be held on Friday, October 10 from 6-10pm. The Hirst pieces at MCA DENVER are on loan from the Artist and the Goss-Michael Collection. ... Read More

Indar Pasricha Contemporary Arts is holding ‘Hidden Delights’, the first solo exhibition of paintings by the American contemporary artist, Conley Harris from 5th until 29th November. The exhibition will feature 30 works that have not been seen in the UK including oils and drawings, all which have been inspired by Harris’ knowledge and deep engagement with Indian and Persian miniatures, with prices starting at £1,500. Although Harris has exhibited in solo exhibitions across the ... Read More

The Agora Gallery (530 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York, NY, 10001) is proud to present Aaron W. Lacey in Beyond Borders: Exhibition of Fine Art from Canada. Scheduled to run from October 1st through October 21st, the collection will feature a captivating selection of Aaron W. Lacey’s unique work. About Aaron W. Lacey: Aaron W. Lacey creates remarkable artworks with a mixed media process that incorporates molding pastes, clothing and acrylic paint. While evoking consumer culture ... Read More

ST. PETERSBURG – The State Hermitage Museum announces the exhibition “Timur’s Territory. St Petersburg – New York. On the 50th Anniversary of the birth of Timur Novikov”, as a part of the “Hermitage 20/21” project. Timur Novikov (1958–2002) is considered to be the great representative of modern Russian art. His works are to be held in the collections of the leading Russian and foreign museums, and are making the real rush at the most famous world auctions of late. At ... Read More

CHICAGO – The exhibition explores similarities and differences in the architectural responses to boom conditions in two centuries and cities. Free and open daily, the exhibition includes photographs, drawings, graphics, models and videos that encourage visitors to travel between eras and continents in order to consider how international networks of architects transform dynamic societies. Chicago was the focal point Fueled by massive immigration, technological innovation and new ... Read More

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has announced the appointment of Peter D. Barberie to the position of Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center, in the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, effective October 1, 2008. Most recently Mr. Barberie was a visiting lecturer in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. He was the Horace W. Goldsmith Curatorial Fellow in Photography in the Museum’s Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs from 2003 ... Read More

CHICAGO, IL – Galleries Maurice Sternberg in Chicago will present “Ian Hornak: A Retrospective” from May 1st, 2009 – July 1st, 2009, the largest U.S. retrospective exhibition since the artists death in 2002. Over the last four decades, Ian Hornak (1944-2002) has become regarded as one of the most distinctive realist painters and draughtsman of his generation. “Ian Hornak: A Retrospective,” a major survey of his work will be comprised of in excess of 30 ... Read More

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – With Studios in New York City and San Francisco, Christopher continues to photograph and create documentary films, while donating his work to raise funds for the arts, including for the Randall Museum, operated by the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, Kips Bay and Southampton Showcases and the University High School’s San Francisco Decorator Showcase. Christopher Flach’s film “Madeleine Castaing,” is the documentary that is ... Read More

BERLIN – Sixty years after the end of the war, looting and restitution of Jewish cultural artifacts is still a topic of burning interest. Numerous open questions and unsolved cases remain and opinions arouse controversy. The exhibition “Looting and Restitution. Jewish-Owned Cultural Artifacts from 1933 to the Present” narrates the historical events, context, and consequences of the looting carried out by the Nazis throughout Europe. The exhibition tracks what happened ... Read More