This exhibition on marine painting from the Golden Age of Dutch culture in the 17th century centres on spectacular works by the main representatives of the genre – Ludolf Backhuysen, Jan Porcellis, Willem van de Velde (the Elder and the Younger) and […]
Monthly Archives: June 2010
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The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the June 20, 2010, opening of The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy and Bill Viola: Visitation, two exhibitions presented in tandem this summer that reveal how different artists working more than 500 years […]
The Saint Louis Art Museum announced that Simon Kelly will assume the role of curator of modern and contemporary art on September 15, 2010. Kelly joins the Museum after four and a half years with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas […]
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), presents “Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective” open through September 20, 2010, at MOCA Grand Avenue. This major traveling retrospective celebrates the extraordinary life and work of Arshile Gorky (b. c.1902, Khorkom, Armenia; d. 1948 Sherman, […]
Christie’s International, the world’s leading art business, is pleased to announce the global launch of Christie’s Mobile Web, an optimized mobile experience that is free to all users of web-enabled cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs), regardless of the device’s operating […]
Los Angeles Art Association (LAAA) and the City of West Hollywood are proud to announce the third annual Out There exhibition, celebrating the LGBT experience during West Hollywood’s Pride Month festivities. This effort commemorates West Hollywood’s lasting commitment to raising public awareness […]
The Princeton University Art Museum announced the launch of their participation in Blue Star Museums, a partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, and more than 600 museums across the United States in offering special benefits to all […]
Coincidentally timed just as the special exhibition Birth of Impressionism opens at the de Young Museum, John E. Buchanan, Jr., the director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, announces the acquisition of The Absinthe Drinkers (Les buveurs d’absinthe), 1881, by […]
Gene Shapiro, President of the eponymous American auction house specializing in Russian art, has announced that his company has moved to new premises in New York, located at 506 East 74th Street in the Upper East Side section of Manhattan. The inaugural […]
Sotheby’s New York announced that it has been appointed by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LBHI) and Alvarez & Marsal, LLC, the professional services firm overseeing LBHI’s restructuring, to sell selected works from the distinguished Neuberger Berman and Lehman Brothers Corporate Art Collections*, […]
At Sotheby’s in London, in the sale of 19th Century European Paintings, one of the finest figure paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ever to have appeared on the market was purchased by the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Geneva for £1,609,250 / CHF […]
Throughout 2010 and 2011, Bank of America will lend more than 20 full exhibitions to museums across the United States and abroad through its Art in our Communities program. The program was created in 2008 to use the Bank of America art […]
On June 15th Bonhams 20th Century Decorative Arts Department will present one of the largest groups of Contemporary Glass to come to auction in recent years. The auction will offer almost sixty glass works, representing a wide selection of artists from the […]
Following the success of their February sale, John Moran Auctioneers is pleased to once again offer an excellent opportunity to acquire pre-1960 California and American fine art. The second of their signature Art Auctions for 2010 is scheduled for June 15th and […]