An arresting image from Irma Stern’s time in Zanzibar, where she was powerfully affected by the beauty of the local Indian women, features in Bonhams next sale of South African Art in London on October 26 and 27. There are no fewer than four images by Stern (1894 to 1966) in this sale estimated at between £1.5m to £2m for the quartet. The Zanzibari beauty which caught Stern’s eye, titled ‘Bahora girl’ is an enchanting image dating from 1945. An oil on canvas ... Read More

For the next several months the Norton Museum’s celebrated painting by Paul Gauguin, Christ in the Garden of Olives, 1889, will be featured in the exhibition Gauguin: Maker of Myth at the Tate Modern, London, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. In this work Gauguin portrayed himself in a tragic, iconic mode as Jesus Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane on the night of his betrayal by Judas Iscariot. In a poignant reference to his attempted artistic liaison with Vincent van ... Read More

The Harley Gallery has become a new home for a menagerie of scrap metal animals; from flocks of delicate birds to immense, powerful crocodiles. Exhibition open through17 October 2010. The exhibition has got off to a flying start, with visitors saying ‘Cannot believe how she can see the shapes in scrap metal. Wonderful’ ‘Wonderful exhibition, the best we have seen’ ‘Stunning and unforgettable’ Lisa Gee, Gallery Director, said ‘We are delighted by the reactions to this ... Read More

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art presents Henry Moore – The Drawings: Works on Paper from the Henry Moore Family Collection, an international exhibition organized by Hauser & Wirth New York, London, Zürich in collaboration with the Moore Family. Henry Moore, English, 1898-1986 , Reclining Figure, 1972, chinagraph pen, watercolor and felt-tipped pen, Henry Moore Family Collection, © The Henry Moore Foundation. All Rights Reserved / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York This ... Read More

Swann Galleries will offer a large selection of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings at auction, on September 21. The two-session sale is divided into sections devoted to 19th century prints and drawings, American works, and modern European prints and drawings. Two extraordinary drawings by renowned artists appear in the afternoon session. One of Pablo Picasso’s earliest drawings, Portrait de femme, pen and dark brown ink, circa 1900 ($30,000 to $50,000), begins a fine run ... Read More

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art presents American and European Paintings and Sculpture – Selections, open through Oct 03, 2010. Rockwell Kent, American, 1882-1971, Calm (Tierra del Fuego), 1992-1925, oil on canvas, Gift of Ellin and Ron Delsener, 2010.22 The first part of this installation features some of the collection’s finest portraits and landscape paintings by artists such as Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, John Singer Sargent, and Winslow Homer. Upstairs, another gallery ... Read More

A specially commissioned installation, Forever, by the acclaimed British artist Clare Twomey will focus on ceramics as an ephemeral and temporary medium. The exhibition at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will feature 1,345 vessels, authored by Twomey, interpretations of a noted 18th-century salt-glazed stoneware caudle cup from the Museum’s Burnap Collection of English Pottery. Forever which opens to the public Oct. 9 and runs through Jan. 2, 2011–is the artist’s first solo ... Read More

The Visual Arts Center in the Department of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin has announced its inaugural fall season, exhibitions that include works by emerging artists from around the world, renowned faculty, and notable students and alumni. The Visual Arts Center (VAC) will open its doors for the first time in September to showcase these exhibitions throughout the 25,061 square foot space, featuring five new galleries and three public spaces. The five galleries ... Read More

The auction of Modern and Contemporary Australian Art at Christie’s on 23 September 2010 will offer a pair of rediscovered paintings of historical importance that was found in an attic and which was identified and consigned to auction through Christie’s iPhone application. William Blamire Young, Light Horse and Artillery, 1904. Estimate: £20,000-30,000. Photo: Christie’s Images Ltd 2010 The rare oil paintings by William Blamire Young celebrate the birth of the Australian army and ... Read More

Touched at the 6th Liverpool Biennial celebrates a decade of bringing new art to the UK through curatorial collaboration. Conceived as a ‘sculptural happening,’ Tate Liverpool’s exhibition features on-going live interventions and appearances by artists, performing objects, as well as installations and sculptures to be explored by visitors. Saturday 18 September – Tuesday 28 September 2010 Since the emergence of challenging and rebellious artistic strategies in the 1960s, ... Read More

For years, Nathan Ota has been pursuing new worlds, both dark and fantastic, to explore in his paintings. Ota has used his stand-ins – a blind bird, a drunk monkey, a one-eyed robot lost in the woods – to travel through dreamlands that hold fantasies and tragedies. In “An Unforeseen Homecoming,” Ota’s first solo show at La Luz de Jesus, the artist sets out on an expedition that lands him in the unlikeliest destination – the world inside the ... Read More

Artist Cai Guo-Qiang has long been known internationally for his prolific and multi-disciplinary body of work that fuses the mythic and the everyday. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has commissioned Cai to create his first permanent, site-specific installation in a U.S. museum, in an event that will be open to the public: a monumental ethereal landscape that will line the four walls of the MFAH´s Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Arts of China Gallery, which opens October 17. The drawing, ... Read More

Art by Choice opened at the Mississippi Museum of Art Saturday, August 14, and runs through Sunday, September 12, 2010. Presented in collaboration with the Museum’s New Collectors Club, Art by Choice is an exhibition of artworks available for purchase through sale and auction to benefit the Museum. Members of the Museum staff and the New Collectors Club have gathered a variety of works by artists associated with Mississippi as well as works from galleries in New York, Boston, New ... Read More

Fall 2010 • German Impressionist Landscape Painting: Liebermann—Corinth—Slevogt September 12—December 5, 2010 Drawing from Nature: Landscapes by Liebermann, Corinth, and Slevogt September 12—December 5, 2010 • Cai Guo-Qiang Commission for the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Arts of China Gallery, Opening October 17, 2010 • Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria September 19, 2010—January 9, 2011 • Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art October ... Read More

The visual arts festival IMAGES in Vevey (Switzerland) features monumental photography exhibitions by renowned artists – including a new urban project from French artist JR, realised in coproduction with the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne. From September 4th to 26th, the city situated at Lake Geneva will be entirely dedicated to the Image. It will also present the winners of the two competitions it organises – the European First Film Awards and the Vevey International Photo ... Read More