The Kimbell Art Museum presents an innovative collaboration with filmmaker Philip Haas, an exhibition of five specially commissioned film installations. The installations both interpret works in the collection and stand as powerful works of art in themselves. They are shown for the first time as an exhibition this summer, after which the Museum will use them occasionally within collection displays in the galleries and in modified forms in various kinds of education and outreach. This ... Read More

artnet Auctions sale of Icons: 20th-21st Century Photographic Portraits showed strength in the photographs market as the ten-day online photographs auction concluded June 25 with $135,000 in sales (including 10% buyer’s premium). The sale featured over 200 original fine art photographs of legends of fashion, film, music, politics, sports, arts and literature from Marilyn Monroe to Madonna. Screen stars led the sale with spirited bidding for photographs of Hollywood legends Audrey ... Read More

Museum seeks creative solutions to redesign of exterior plaza and building perimeter Tacoma Art Museum received 95 submissions in response to its recent call for design concepts to redesign the museum’s plaza and perimeter and create a landmark civic space that enlivens downtown Tacoma. Submissions were received by individuals and firms from Tacoma, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Richmond, VA, and New York. The shortlist of finalists are BCRA (Tacoma, design team led by David Wright), ... Read More

Houston’s nationally-ranked Bayou City Art Festival Downtown, set for October 10-11, primes the heart of the city for a weekend of art in the city. The juried fine art festival, framed by Houston’s world-class skyline, is a one-of-a-kind outdoor gallery with its highly acclaimed mix of visual, performing, culinary and interactive arts. “Based on our award-winning reputation, Bayou City Art Festival attracts the ‘best of the best’ artists from all over the ... Read More

Eva Rothschild has been invited to create the next installation for the Tate Britain Duveens Commission 2009, supported by Sotheby’s. Her new work, created especially for the Duveen Galleries at the heart of Tate Britain, will be on display until 29 November 2009.Artists who have previously undertaken the Commission include Martin Creed (2008), Mark Wallinger (2007), Michael Landy (2004), Anya Gallaccio (2002) and Mona Hatoum (2000). Rothschild comments, “’I'm excited about ... Read More

The Harwood Museum of Art announces its official groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 10:00 am at 238 Ledoux Street in Taos. After several years of fundraising and planning, the Harwood Museum is delighted to celebrate the beginning of construction on a 10,000 square foot expansion. This day will also be the introduction of the newly appointed museum Director, Susan Longhenry, to the community. This expansion will provide additional gallery space, a 135 seat ... Read More

The art colonies of New England played a key role in the creation of an American national identity in the early 20th century. Art colonies in Old Lyme and Cos Cob, Connecticut and Ogunquit and Monhegan, Maine were inspiration for nationally recognized artists including Edward Hopper, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, and George Bellows, among others. Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England will chronicle the development of impressionist Connecticut and modernist Maine and features 73 ... Read More

Sotheby’s london Contemporary Art Evening Auction realised the strong total of £25,549,540 ($41,911,318/€29,823,964), near the top pre-sale expectations for the sale (Estimate: £19,755,000-27,435,000). More than 380 clients registered to bid and 37 of the 40 lots offered found buyers, with 92.5% sold by lot – establishing one of the highest sell-through rates ever achieved for an Evening Auction of Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s London – and a sold-by-value rate of 97.2%. ... Read More

Bloomsbury’s summer sale of Books, Manuscripts, Prints & Original Artwork on 9th July, caters for all interests and all pockets. Amongst the English manuscripts are fascinating letters as well travelogues; lot 59 for example is a charming manuscript of 1849 with ‘naive’ pen and ink sketches of a husband and wife’s journey around the English lakes and Scottish lochs (estimate £200-300). A good set of 18 original pen over watercolour illustrations of Dickens ... Read More

Olympic Sculpture Park’s railroad bridge is now named the “Mimi Gates Bridge.” The Seattle Art Museum has announced that 20 works of art have entered the museum’s collection in honor of outgoing director Mimi Gates. Gates, whose last day at the museum is June 30, 2009, has been the museum’s director since 1994 and leaves behind a distinguished legacy. The SAM Board of Trustees also recently announced that the bridge that spans over the railroad tracks at the Olympic Sculpture ... Read More

Buckinghamshire County Museum recently acquired their first watercolour by the famous Regency artist Thomas Rowlandson. The Beauties of Stowe: Bacchantes dancing and lounging by the Temple of Ancient Virtue, c1804-5 was purchased from a London Art dealer for £22,500, with generous assistance from the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund (£10,000), The Art Fund, the UK’s leading independent art charity, (£5000), and the Patrons of Buckinghamshire County Museum (£4,500). Thomas ... Read More

Artek is honoured to be the sponsor of La Biennale di Venezia and realises part of the furniture and furnishings for the premises of Palazzo delle Exposizioni della Biennale. The assignment includes a bookshop, a cafeteria and additional furniture elements for an educational area, that are submitted respectively by three artists, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tobias Rehberger and Massimo Bartolini, all selected for the 53rd International Art Exhibition. For over a century the Venice Biennale has ... Read More

Tobias Rehberger was awarded the Golden Lion as best artist at the 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. Tobias Rehberger received the price for the cafeteria, for which he collaborated closely with Artek using customized Artek furniture in an ingenious way. The cafeteria created by Rehberger is a complex scheme of geometric forms with contrasting colors, a visually disorienting environment that draws from a specific example from the past: razzle dazzle or dazzle ... Read More

Around 1900, in sculpture, there was a pressing desire to find a new formal approach: “It seems that a modern kind of statuary is still to be created.” Sculptors aspired to rediscover the laws of their art: “We have to discover the ruling principle, through a lifetime of often desperate effort”, Bourdelle would say. Maurice Denis pointed out the predominant “feeling for form, for the beauty of line, for geometric perfection” in Maillol’s work, for his only guide was “an ... Read More

Architectural renderings ranging from façade drawings to engineering plans will be displayed at an exhibition exploring the works of Plan of Chicago architects Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett and others opening July 9 at the DePaul University Art Museum in Chicago. “Building the Business of Architecture: the Burnham Brothers and Chicago in the Golden Twenties,” which runs through Sept. 16, traces the inside view of the history of Chicago’s iconic skyline through architectural ... Read More