The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia in partnership with the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University and the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma was recently awarded a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for the exhibition and catalogue of Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy. The Georgia Museum of Art will publish a catalogue of the exhibition featuring essays by curators from the ... Read More

Derek Eller Gallery presents a site-specific drawing installation by Christian Schwarzwald entitled Boxed. Consisting of a series of large works on paper which are mounted on partially painted gallery walls, Boxed challenges the viewer’s experience of pictorial space. As two-dimensional drawings interact with the three-dimensional room, the installation becomes sculptural. This quality is further enhanced by Schwarzwald’s repeated use of the box form which functions both as a ... Read More

CINCINNATI, OH – Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand, the first solo show of renowned street artist and political provocateur Shepard Fairey, opens February 20th at the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in the Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art. An extensive exploration of the artist’s 20-year career, the exhibition is mounted in two parts: the works displayed inside the CAC and external projects. The CAC’s galleries will house approximately 250 pieces ... Read More

Regen Projects is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Los Angeles artist James Welling. This exhibition will present new photographs from the “Glass House” series and a video installation “Sun Pavilion.” The “Glass House” photographs were taken over the course of three years (October 2006 to October 2009) at the iconic Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. The photographs of the House (1949), the Lake Pavilion (1962), the ... Read More

Franz Ackermann was born in Neumarkt St. Veit (Bavaria) in 1963 is one of the most innovative painters of the past ten years. Since 2001 this internationally acclaimed artist has also been employed as a professor at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe. Time and time again, he manages to make an impression with his room filling and extremely colourful pictures, drawings and installations which effortlessly combine elements of globalised society with apparently purely ... Read More

The J. Paul Getty Museum announced the acquisition of L’Entrée au Jardin Turc (The Entrance to the Turkish Garden) by Louis-Léopold Boilly, one of the few important paintings by the artist still in private hands. Crisply painted in glowing colors and teeming with anecdotal detail, Boilly’s picture transports viewers to the heart of Napoleonic Paris, outside the entrance to the city’s most celebrated café, the Jardin Turc. Located in the Marais at 28, boulevard du Temple, the ... Read More

The J. Paul Getty Museum announced a gift of 52 photographs by acclaimed Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1902–2002) from his compelling work in Mexico from the 1920s to the 1970s. The photographs are a gift from Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser of Los Angeles, who have continued their tradition of generous giving to the Getty since 2000, bolstering the Museum’s already stellar holdings of photographs by the artist to 247. Over the past ten years, the Getty ... Read More

Exposure: Photos from the Vault opens April 30, 2010, in the newly remodeled Anthony and Delisa Mayer Photography Gallery on the 7th floor of the North Building. The renovated space will host the first exhibition of the department of photography at the Denver Art Museum (DAM), featuring a diverse selection from the 7,000-object collection including works by Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Chuck Close, Alfred Stieglitz and Garry Winogrand as well as recent acquisitions of work by Henry Bosse, ... Read More

Las Artes de Mexico at the Woodson Art Museum, celebrates the rich and diverse artistic history of Mexico. Through more than 120 works, the exhibition traces over 3000 years of art and culture, from the ancient worlds of the Mayans and Aztecs to twentieth-century pieces by well-known modernists including Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco. The exhibition remains on view through April 11. Mexican culture is a mosaic of traditions. Art of the long-ago Mexican world often centered on ... Read More

Christie’s International, has announced that 2009 sales totaled £2.1 billion/$3.3 billion, a 24% decrease in £ (35% decrease in $) over 2008 sales. Sales totals include private sales of £265.7 million/$417.2 million, a decrease of 1% by £ on 2008 figures, and reflect those brokered by Christie’s as well as sales conducted by Christie’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Haunch of Venison. In 2009, Christie’s achieved 56.4% global auction sales market share against its main competitor ... Read More

Valentines weekend marks the 9th anniversary of the Seattle Print Fair. This special annual event brings together some of the best original print dealers in the U.S. and Canada. The Fair is open to the public Saturday & Sunday, February 13th & 14th, and without admission charge. This year the special Friday evening preview is being sponsored by the Lenny Wilkens Foundation to benefit the Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic. This event is a rare opportunity to see thousands of fine ... Read More

In its exhibition the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts will display selected masterpieces from the uniquely wealthy collection of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. The fifty-five works in the exhibition provide an overview of French painting from the middle of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. The show runs until the middle of April and will greet visitors with prominent works of Impressionism, Symbolism from the last decade of the nineteenth century, and the first ... Read More

The Art Fund announces that the three major UK political party leaders are backing the Staffordshire Hoard campaign. Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg have all pledged support for The Art Fund’s campaign to save the Staffordshire Hoard for the West Midlands. The Prime Minister, Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP said: “The Staffordshire Hoard is a wonderful example of our ‘hidden heritage’. I really hope that the money can be raised to keep it where it belongs: in the English ... Read More

Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin and Paula Rego are to show new and related works at the Foundling Museum in London throughout its eighteenth-century interiors as well as outside spaces. All of the works link to the story of the Foundling Hospital, Britain’s first home for abandoned children, and its themes of childhood and separation. The exhibition will include paintings, works on paper, bronzes and installations throughout the Museum as well as external spaces. Curated by Gill Hedley for ... Read More

Julie Hart has increasingly being sort to exhibit her artworks nationally and indeed internationally. Declining recent invitations to Quebec, Canada in 2008, and the” New York Art Expo” in 2009. Preferring to stay in the City she loves and is inspired by. So traveling from Broken Hill’s climate, to one of the coldest winters in Europe for some time, means there is certain to be a chilly reception for the local painter. But not from the people, who are warmly looking ... Read More