In Italy during the Renaissance (around 1400 to 1600), an innovative form of sculpture was developed using fine clay that was shaped and modeled before being fired in a kiln. Called terracotta in Italian (meaning “baked earth”), this type of sculpture often has been overlooked by scholars in favor of the more commonly known Renaissance sculptures carved in marble or cast in bronze. Matteo Civitali, “Virgin and Christ Child”, ca. 1480. Painted terracotta, ht. 39 ... Read More

Over 300 eager bidders packed the new Baterbys Art Auction Gallery facility at 13900 Jog Road in to participate in an inaugural auction event held Feb. 20. People poured in from across Delray and the Palm Beach areas to vie for original and reproduction works of art by some of the most recognizable names in 20th century fine art. Artists like Salvador Dali, Marc Chagall, Yaacov Agam, Elena Bond, Peter Max and Ken Keeley were represented at the sale. Bidders were favorably impressed with ... Read More

The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum is welcoming an exhibition of Alberto Schommer’s work to its BBK Room, entitled Schommer Retrospective 1952-2009. Born in nearby Vitoria, he has produced many still life photographs, portraits, landscapes and “cracklegraphs” which have been incorporated into the Spanish canon of photography. The Schommer Retrospective 1952-2009 offers art buffs an opportunity to learn all about the impact that his work had on the country and on other artists ... Read More

White Cube Hoxton Square is pleased to present ‘Factum’, an exhibition of new work by Candice Breitz, the artist’s third exhibition at the gallery. Shot in Toronto, Canada, ‘Factum’ is a series of in-depth video portraits of twins – and one set of triplets – that extends Breitz’s ongoing interest in doubling, portraiture and identity. Titled after Robert Rauschenberg’s ‘Factum I’ and ‘II’ (1957) near-identical ... Read More

A 1932 race car driven by Scuderia Ferrari; floating wine bottles; a damaged musical instrument; a rare book rescued from the fire of the Anna Amalia Library in Weimar; all on view at the AXA Art Lounge at TEFAF 2010 Based on a themed presentation, “Optimal Condition – Collectibles”, the AXA Art Lounge at TEFAF this year will be devoted to profiling non-traditional collectibles. The company’s visual presentation will serve as part of a proactive drive to create awareness about ... Read More

Christie’s New York sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on March 10 presents an exciting opportunity for collectors to purchase superb works by the great masters Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Tamara de Lempicka, and Henry Moore and to explore a wealth of drawings, sculpture and works on paper by lesser-known artists of the Impressionist and Modern periods. Prices begin at $1,200 and range up to $80,000. With over 160 works, the sale is expected to realize in excess of $1.5 ... Read More

The most lyrical of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s epic projects was the “Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, 1972-76.” The ambitious scope and enormous size of this monumental temporary artwork are hard to imagine even today. Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California 1972-76,©Christo. Color photograph by Jeanne-Claude, 1976. Gift of Christo and Jeanne-Claude The exhibition “Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Remembering the ... Read More

Quinn’s Auction Galleries will offer two “mystery” paintings in their March 6 sale – one of which may be a genuine Honore Daumier. The other, found in a basement, is a possible 17th-C. Flemish work The area around Washington, D.C., has always been a sweet spot for European art discoveries because so many high-ranking diplomats and government officials live there. Traditionally, these are sophisticated people who’ve traveled extensively and returned home to the ... Read More

One of the most significant archaeological projects of recent times – a reconstruction of the great Orpheus pavement – is to be sold by Chorley’s on Thursday 24 June 2010. Made from 1.6 million pieces of small, hand-cut clay blocks called tesserae, the 2,200 square foot (205 square metre) mosaic took ten years for brothers Bob and John Woodward to complete. The Roman period was one of great prosperity for Britain and Gloucestershire was no exception. Large settlements ... Read More

The Museum of Modern Art presents Projects 92: Yin Xiuzhen, the first U.S. installation of the artist’s large-scale sculpture Collective Subconscious (2007), open through March 24, 2010. Yin Xiuzhen’s (Chinese, b. 1963) site-specific installations and sculptures bridge the past and the present, the environmental and the personal. Collective Subconscious is a 38-foot-long minivan that has been bisected and lengthened via a tube covered in a patchwork of secondhand garments and set ... Read More

In Citizen’s Garb: Southern Plains Native Americans, 1889-1891, a photographic exhibition on view at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology from March 26 through June 20, 2010, explores the ways dress—and life—changed for the Kiowa, Comanche, and other Native American nations of the Southern Plains during the last tumultuous decades of the 1800s. Plains Indian clothing from the period, selected from the Museum’s own collection, complements ... Read More

An exhibition comprising a series of 111 small-scale paintings by the Belgian-born artist Francis Alÿs, one of the most original artists working today, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Friday 26 February 2010. “Francis Alÿs: Le temps du sommeil” has been described as a storyboard or archive of Alÿs’s highly imaginative oeuvre, much of which takes as its starting point simple actions performed by the artist and documented in photographs, film or by ... Read More

Blum & Poe is pleased to present the fifth solo exhibition of work by Mark Grotjahn. The exhibition is entitled, “Seven Faces” and will include up to twelve new paintings from Grotjahn’s “face” series. Open February 27 – April 3, 2010. Opening reception: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 6 – 8 pm Visually reminiscent of Picasso, Grotjahn’s “face” paintings intermingle abstract and figurative renderings while dismantling and building on the conventions of modern and ... Read More

Featuring works by: Amy Russell ●Anna Siemaszko ● Ian Tatton ● Joe Townend ●Juan Blanco ● Leslie Wilson-Rutterford ● Maia Schweizer ● Paul Vincett ● Roxane Grant ●Sibylla McGrigor ● Soheila Keyani ● Soraia Almeida ● Susie Lowe ● Wiracha Daochai ● Zannah Cooper Opening: Friday 2nd of April 2010 – 6 pm to 1 am (Live Music and DJ) Exhibition runs from: Monday 29th of March 2010 – Thursday 8th of April 2010 Gallery Opening Hours: Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, ... Read More

Gallery KH is pleased to present a new collection of pieces by gallery artists, opening February 26 through April 13, 2010. An opening night cocktail reception is scheduled for Friday, February 26, 2010, 5-8PM. All gallery events are free and open to the public. “After a jam packed fall season we look forward to our spring line up beginning with new work from gallery artists. It’s a chance to showcase both longstanding and newer artists along side one another, and really ... Read More