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

The Rijksmuseum has acquired two masterpieces for its collection of 20th-century art and history: the famous chair designed by Gerrit T. Rietveld around 1918 and a relief by Jan J. Schoonhoven from 1963. Both artworks will be added to the permanent collection of the new Rijksmuseum in 2013. White chair by Rietveld With its red-and-blue colour scheme designed by Rietveld around 1929, this chair became not only a visual manifestation of the Dutch art movement neoplasticism (De Stijl) that ... 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

One of the finest, most selective private collections of works by the first wave of American modernists will premiere at the National Gallery of Art, East Building, open through January 2, 2011. American Modernism: The Shein Collection presents 20 masterpieces by Patrick Henry Bruce, Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Marcel Duchamp, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O’Keeffe, Man Ray, Charles Sheeler, and other renowned artists. The collection demonstrates the importance of ... Read More

Kate Newby: Crawl out your window Exhibition open through 7 November 2010 at GAK Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst In her work, New Zealand artist Kate Newby (born 1979, currently living in Auckland) engages with the exhibition space and its surroundings. Newby herself has stated that she is interested in creating “a relationship to the place through action”. In other words, it is the architectural context of the exhibition space (such as structural details or the interior and ... Read More

After more than a solid year of dominating Heritage Auctions’ Illustration Art Auctions, Pin-up and Glamour Art, while still performing superbly, was forced to cede the spotlight on Aug. 17 to classic Pulp Art, as several icons of the genre burst into the spotlight, led by Hu gh Joseph Ward’s The Evil Flame, Spicy Mystery Stories pulp cover, August 1936, from The Estate of John McLaughlin, which brought $143,400 to lead the auction’s $2.591 million in offerings. It is the highest ... Read More

Traditional Japanese fine arts will be on view at the galleries of six leading dealers this Fall, including rarely seen 12th century Kyozo, or mirrors bearing drawings of gods, imperial screens once part of the furnishings of Edo Castle, and strikingly modern works from the Taisho Period (1912-26). The Japanese Art Dealers Association is a not-for-profit group whose members include leading New York galleries and private dealers who are dedicated to the fine arts of pre-Modern Japan. ... Read More

WPApresents )black(, a solo exhibition by John Pearson featuring a new video and selection of photographs. Both the video and photographs are primarily taken throughout Griffith Park; the observatory, its gallery of dioramas and the figurative sculptures on its grounds, and the nearby quarry tunnels known as Bronson Caves. The photographs are associative observations of phenomena; in combination they are an insight into Pearson’s experience of place. They are not a cataloging of ... Read More

MAXIMILLIAN GALLERY, art licensors and gallery of emerging, celebrity talent and properties, is pleased to announce its 2010 Speed Racer™ International Art Competition. Accepting submissions from August 10, 2010 through October 31, 2010, artists of all ages, and ranging from emerging to established, are invited to submit new works re-imagining the classic Speed Racer art. Art categories are painting, drawing, photography, digital, print, sculpture and video. Caradoc Ehrenhalt, ... Read More

This September, the Kraushaar Galleries, a leading dealer in American art of the first half of the 20th century, will celebrate its 125th year of operations, a record of longevity that dates back to the 19th century and is shared by only three other New York galleries. To commemorate its 125th year in business, the gallery will publish Kraushaar Galleries: Celebrating 125 Years, by Betsy Fahlman. The book will be released on September 7, 2010. Kraushaar Galleries provides an overview ... Read More

On September 7, 2010, the San Diego City Council will proclaim September as Arts Month San Diego in recognition of the San Diego’s growing arts community. “Arts Month San Diego will bring together the finest visual and performing artists for an amazing month-long celebration. As this event grows, so will our arts community, and I know both will benefit tremendously,” said San Diego City Councilmember Kevin Faulconer. The community is invited to the City Council meeting on ... Read More

An extraordinary journey into the heart of Fiji some 129 years ago by three British brothers, carrying with them all the heavy paraphernalia associated with early photography, returned in triumph with images that still fascinate today. This remarkable collection of photographs taken on a journey by three Ansdell brothers has been passed down through the family and is to be auctioned by Bonhams on September 15 in the Travel and Topographical Sale in New Bond Street. In 1881 Gerrard ... Read More

Vida Lahey (1882–1968) is one of Queensland’s best loved artists, recognised as much for her work in promoting art and art education in Queensland as for her own paintings. Exhibition open 16 October 2010 – 13 February 2011. Lahey’s early affinity with colour was inspired at first by European Impressionism, reflected in works such as The carters’ rest, Eagle Street 1913, before the vital colour of Post-Impressionism began to influence her work. The art environment ... Read More