From December 3 through 6, 2009, Miami Beach, Florida, will be home to the 8th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, the international art show. More than 250 leading galleries from North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa will take part. […]
Monthly Archives: December 2009
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On Sunday 6 December at 4pm, Bonhams & Goodman will be hosting the To Life 2009 Fine Art auction to raise much needed funds for the Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre in Elsternwick, Victoria. Artists, collectors and dealers have generously donated […]
Russian art continues to go from strength to strength as Bonhams Russian Art sale fetches an impressive £1.9 million. The eminent names on sale included Aivazovsky and Fabergé. The top lot by Aivazovsky, whose career spanned almost the entire 19th century, named […]
As a major cultural highlight in Asia, the Hong Kong Arts Festival gathers leading international, regional, national and local talent in over 140 performances and related performing arts events every February and March. The 38th Hong Kong Arts Festival, which opens in […]
CityCenter presents the first major permanent collection of art in Las Vegas to be integrated into a public space, and one of the world’s largest and most ambitious corporate art collections in existence today. The CityCenter Fine Art Collection features works by […]
The High Museum of Art will hold the first major exhibition dedicated to the work of the Danish-born American photographer Peter Sekaer in June 2010. Consisting of approximately 75 vintage gelatin silver prints, several of which have never been on public view, […]
On the occasion of the anniversary sale, VAN HAM Cologne presents numerous works of established photographers such as Werner Mantz, Albert Renger-Patzsch and August Sander as well as interesting contemporary photo art, such as Beate Gütschow with a fascinating nature depiction, Petra […]
Grolsch and the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) today revealed that contemporary artist Olaf Breuning is the winner of the Grolsch SwingArt Program 2009. Grolsch is now in its fourth year of supporting the most important contemporary art fair week in Miami […]
On January 23, 24, and the evening of January 26, 2010, Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver BC (MOA) will celebrate the completion of its multi-year, multi-million dollar Renewal Project with a free public extravaganza of music, dance, multimedia performances, and the opening […]
The Dallas Museum of Art announced the acquisition of a major large-scale sculpture, The Eye, by the celebrated Canadian artist David Altmejd. Among the artist’s most ambitious works to date. David Altmejd, “The Eye”, 2008 The Eye measures approximately 11 by 18 […]
The Frick Collection is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a Joseph Godla, Chief Conservator of The Frick Collection $1 million challenge grant by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. When matched over the next four years with $3 million in […]
The book ‘Off the Tourist Trail: 1,000 Unexpected Travel Alternatives’, names the Royal Ontario Museum’s (ROM) Michael Lee- Chin Crystal, designed by architect Daniel Libeskind, as one of the world’s architectural marvels and one of six modern buildings to rival Australia’s Sydney […]
Ariotek was created in 2009 from the amalgamation of three very successful web based companies. All three companies have been privately owned and profitable since creation, the oldest of which started trading in early 2001. Ariotek now host thousands of web sites, […]
This project is one part of a vast programme created to make better use of the cultural and environmental resources of Lago Trasimeno. The main goal is to improve the awareness of the masterpieces of art produced at a very important time […]