Sotheby’s auction of Swiss Art will be held in Zurich, on Monday, 7th December 2009, at 6pm. Urs Lanter and Stéphanie Schleining Deschanel, Specialists of Swiss Art at Sotheby’s, will offer 123 lots spanning more than 250 years of Swiss artistic history. The sale highlights classical artists such as Amiet, Anker, Biéler, Bocion, Buchet, Calame, Giacometti, Hodler, Segantini and Vallotton to name just a few; and also includes contemporary artists with important figures like Disler, ... Read More

“Photographs” is the first major survey of the work of American artist Zoe Leonard. In addition to early works from the 1980s and 1990s, the MUMOK exhibition will include “Analogue”, a series of 412 photographs produced between 1998 and 2009 in which Leonard investigates the changes in the urban landscape and economy resulting from a rapidly advancing globalization. Zoe Leonard, Image from Analogue, 1998-2009. 412 C-prints + gelatine silver prints, 28 x 28 cm (11 x 11 in.) ... Read More

Being one of the important addresses of contemporary art in Turkey since 2004, Siemens Sanat is going to host an unprecedented group exhibition in December. Curated by Murteza Fidan and T. Melih Gorgun, Melancholy of Compassion will meet the art lovers between December 5th, 2009 and February 5th, 2010. The exhibition includes the artworks of Muge Akcakoca, Burak Bedenlier, Audrey Bakx, Sukran Mertcan and Petrit Halilaj. The artists interpret the feeling of compassion, an essential human ... Read More

Fillmore Poster, Inc. (www.fillmoreposter.com), the world’s largest dealer in vintage rock ‘n’ roll concert posters, is pleased to announce that its November auction of rare and unusual sixties posters, handbills, and other memorabilia closed on November 22 with strong prices realized in all categories. Auction highlights include: Closed lots and prices realized can be viewed at: https://auctions.fillmoreposter.com The auction also included over 150 additional lots ... Read More

Bonhams New York is pleased to present the Arnold Smoller Collection of Contemporary Livres d’Artiste. A wonderfully astute and varied assemblage of nearly 200 volumes, the collection spans several decades of American and international art. It includes experimental works made of such surprising materials as lead, hair, plastics, and rubber. The works range in date from the Jasper Johns exhibition catalogue with original screenprint wrappers and the rare, beautiful Lee Bontecou ULAE ... Read More

The first U.S. retrospective of the work of Belgian contemporary artist Luc Tuymans—and the most comprehensive presentation of his work to date—will be on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) from February 6 through May 2, 2010, in its only West Coast presentation. Jointly organized by SFMOMA and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Luc Tuymans features approximately 75 key paintings from 1978 to the present and reunites works from important series as initially set out ... Read More

Recently on View in Europe, the Work Is Considered Among the Morgan’s Finest Treasures “The Hours of Catherine of Cleves”, a fifteenth-century Dutch manuscript that is among the most beautiful and sophisticated illuminated works ever created, is the subject of a major exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum, from January 22 through May 2, 2010. Titled “Demons and Devotion: The Hours of Catherine of Cleves”, the show includes nearly a hundred ... Read More

Sotheby’s Paris will offer Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary works from the collection of Pierre Leroy, Co-Managing Partner of Groupe Lagardère. Pierre Leroy’s collection of books and manuscripts is already world renowned; now his modern art collection will be unveiled for the first time, in Paris on December 8/9. Andy Warhol is the foremost figure in Pierre Leroy’s collection of contemporary art, which boasts two works by the Pope of Pop Art – both portraits, but of ... Read More

Working in ambiguously narrative photography and video, Carrie Schneider mines the complexities of relationships — both romantic and familial — nature, and the self. Her images, which often depict herself and her brother, are quietly mysterious and anxiety-provoking as they seductively probe what is considered “appropriate” behavior. Beyond this, the figures can be considered a doubled self which acts as a point of entry for psychological and emotional ... Read More

Open 28 November 2009 – 28 February 2010 With his exhibition and publication on oil, Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has produced a masterpiece. On the basis of monumental and highly detailed color photographs about oil, its extraction and consumption, which Burtynsky has been making since 1997, he reveals the connection between our use of oil and the effect this has on the landscape. Within this context the relationship between the culture of oil consumption and the immense ... Read More

Christie’s New York have announced the sale of Photographs on December 7, this sale will conclude the Fall 2009 season for the category. With viewings open to the public from December 3-6, the sale presents a distinct array of themes varying from the examination of the human form, the western frontier, to decadent and glamorous fashion photography. The 190 lots included in the sale are expected to realize in the region of $950,000-$1.4 million. Important highlights from the sale ... Read More

Native American art go’s to auction at Bonhams & Butterfields in San Francisco on Monday, December 14, 2009 featuring several important collections which have never-before been offered publically. Fine Northwest Coast art is well represented by the Berthusen Collection from the Lynden Pioneer Museum of Lynden, WA. Gathered one summer in the early 1900s by Olive Berthusen during a trip up the Canadian Coast, the collection was enhanced until her death in 1937, upon which her ... Read More

Saffronart, India’s leading auction house for Modern and Contemporary Indian Art, will host its annual Winter Online Art Auction on December 9-10, 2009. Presenting 100 lots of exceptional quality and provenance by 51 leading modern and contemporary Indian artists, the sale will take place online at www.saffronart.com. The auction catalogue includes paintings, drawings and sculptures by celebrated modern artists Manjit Bawa, F.N. Souza, S.H. Raza, Akbar Padamsee, Tyeb Mehta and Jagdish ... Read More

ArtSway has announced an exhibition of new work by Dave Lewis. Field Work will be exhibited 6 February – 28 March 2010. Dave Lewis is a photographer and film maker who is interested in the role of the individual within society, and the impact that individual can have on a place, and the inhabitants of a place. Dave Lewis, “New Forest” – image from Field Work, 2009 Lewis’ new body of work, called Field Work, is inspired by the idea of the artist as a mythical ... Read More

The world’s leading fair for 19th Century, modern and contemporary photography, Paris Photo, closed on 22nd November with record numbers of visitors: 40,150, compared to 37,760 in 2008. The 2009 edition which brought together 102 exhibitors from 23 countries was held at the Carrousel du Louvre with a special focus on the Arab and Iranian photography scene. A Dynamic edition Visitors and exhibitors paid tribute to the quality of the shows put together by the galleries and to the ... Read More