artnet AG and the Federal Association of German Galleries and Editions (BVDG) are pleased to announce their collaboration. As an information service provider for the international art trade, artnet offers the most extensive survey of the worldwide art market and enables art experts and enthusiasts to find and evaluate art quickly and easily. The BVDG represents the legal, commercial and cultural interests of German gallery owners and art publishers in public and on a political scale. It ... Read More

The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) has been awarded a grant of $400,000 from the Terra Foundation for American Art to help implement the exhibition “Prendergast in Italy.” The exhibition, organized by WCMA in partnership with the Terra Foundation, will open in the summer of 2009 and travel to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. The grant is the largest the museum has ever received for an ... Read More

The Kresge Foundation, long known for its national support of the arts, announced Kresge Arts in Detroit October 16 during a press conference and reception held at the Detroit Institute of Arts for more than 160 attendees representing the area’s civic and arts communities. Kresge Arts in Detroit is an $8.8 million commitment to Detroit’s Wayne, Macomb and Oakland counties and is designed to develop and financially support individual artists, arts and cultural organizations ... Read More

Environmentally-friendly art is the talk of the town in Highland Park, NJ, following Main Street Highland Park’s fourth annual Arts in the Park art festival. The Sept. 21 festival featured a “Green Art” category for the second straight year. Some of the most original pieces at the festival were entered into the category, including Lisa Bagwell’s “Sitting Man,” a half-size human body made of discarded, non-recyclable plastics, coffee cups, bottle caps ... Read More

The seventh edition of the Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art will take place at the historic Fortezza da Basso in Florence from 5-13 December, 2009. Marina Abramovic, the acclaimed performance artist, will be the honoured guest at this edition and she will be awarded the Lorenzo il Magnifico prize. 800 artists coming from 80 countries will be exhibiting more than 2,500 artworks and there will be an extraordinary meeting of cultures, languages and diverse artistic styles. The Florence ... Read More

The exuberant expressionist paintings of Tiffany Birch will be celebrated in an artist reception at Menlo Park’s new GC Cafe on Thursday, November 13 from 7 to 9 p.m. Birch’s paintings shout, sing, cry and question, even chant in sonorous tones, then grin as you turn to look at another one. “I feel, see and hear color,” says Ms. Birch. “Color moves through me, exploding on to the canvas.” The first time she walked into GC Cafe, Birch knew what her next ... Read More

The Sovereign Art Foundation has announced the winner the third annual Sovereign European Art Prize, selected by the judges from the 30 short-listed entries representing some of today’s most exciting contemporary European artists. The quality of all the submissions was exceptionally high, and the judges’ final votes were extremely close. But their unanimous choice to win the €25,000 first prize was Nadia Hebson’s ‘Valzer’. Her elegantly melancholic painting of a shipwreck ... Read More

Roughly 3 months after launch artists.de proudly announces that more than 4.000 artists have uploaded more than 20.000 pieces of art. At artists.de, the fast growing online art gallery, artists get the chance to present their artwork to a growing number of art collectors and art gallerists and of course users with an interest for exciting new art. Gallerists and collectors can search with the comfortable search engine in the database for a variety of criteria (technique, price, name of ... Read More

READING, UK – The John Madejski Art Gallery at the Museum of Reading is proud to present the works of former Reading resident and Royal Academician Sir Terry Frost (1915-2003). The exhibition includes large paintings, collages, constructions, sculptures and sketchbooks from his career, including some previously unseen canvases. This exhibition of vividly coloured and epic scale works is a fitting tribute to a local hero. Frost was a much loved longstanding teacher at the ... Read More

artnet is pleased to announce the launch of the new artnet France website, www.artnet.fr. This new site features an independent French daily online magazine with editorial content provided by artnet France’s expert staff of art writers and critics. The magazine includes news, reviews and other topics of interest covering both the French and international art markets. The site also offers artnet’s complete range of products and services, including artnet’s illustrated ... Read More

Wayne County Community College District’s (WCCCD) Brown and Juanita C. Ford Gallery will host the Opening Exhibition of ECO d’ART on Thursday, October 23, 2008, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. at 1001 West Fort in the Downtown Campus of WCCCD. The gallery will exhibit 13 artists’ works from October 23 – December 19, 2008. The public is welcome to attend the opening reception to meet the artists at no charge. ECO d’ART will feature 13 artists who are exhibiting art ... Read More

PARIS – The Musée de la musique dedicates an exhibit to Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991) at a time when his popularity is expanding internationally. While in London and New York, contemporary pop is discovering the poetic and melodic talents of this “French artist”, Tokyo is experiencing a veritable “Gainsbourgmania” through the mixing and sampling of his compositions. This exhibition is organized thanks to the remarkable loans granted by the family, and particularly ... Read More

For the 35th edition of the Fiac (Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain) and in partnership with Axa Art, Artprice, Fiac’s press partner, publishes an exclusive reference report on the contemporary art market worldwide. This book delivers key information to understand what is at stake on the international art market. It will be distributed to the media and to all the visitors coming to the Grand Palais and the Carre du Louvre from 23 to 26 Oct. 2008. The 180-page study ... Read More

On Saturday November 22, 20:08, Lullalee, a 501 (c)(3) promoting literacy for children, will host its 1st Annual Art for Literacy Benefit Concert and Silent Art Auction at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, California. “Art for Literacy” is a fundraising reception in the Grand Ballroom showcasing 15 Bay area artists presenting over 50 original works for auction in a beautiful exhibit including painting, sculpture, and photography. Meet the artists who include among others ... Read More

ArtsTech – A Center for Youth Enterprise presents the Original Art Flea Market in the Crossroads Art District from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays from Nov. 1to Dec. 20. Located just blocks from the Power and Light District and Sprint Center at 1522 Holmes, the Original Art Flea is a new venue for buying local art priced from $1 to $50 just in time for the holidays. We call it the Art Flea because everything for sale will be sold at flea-market prices. Some premium items will also be ... Read More