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Published 31 Aug 2010
Swann Galleries to Offer Prints, Drawings & Paintings of New York 1900 – 2000

Swann Galleries auction, Scenes of the City: Prints, Drawings & Paintings of New York 1900 2000, will offer some of the finest and most significant examples of printmaking depicting New York City in the first half of the 20th century on Thursday, September 16 A selection of rare drawings and paintings are also included. The top lot is Edward Hopper’s Night Shadows, etching, 1921 (estimate: $30,000 to $50,000), an important print depicting the same location near the Hudson River ... Read More

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Published 31 Aug 2010

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Austin printmakers Flatbed Press an exhibition of prints and work in other media by the artists that have collaborated with them. Exhibition open November 27, 2010 – February 13, 2011. Advancing Tradition: Twenty Years at Flatbed Press surveys these developments through examples from this Austin, Texas, printmaking workshop. Serving as a laboratory to experiment with these new possibilities, Flatbed Press has remained committed to traditional media ... Read More

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Published 31 Aug 2010
Manfred Baumann Photography Exhibition at  Air Gallery

An exhibition of photographic works by Manfred Baumann shown at London’s Air Gallery, 32 Dover Street London W1S 4NE “Manfred Baumann Photography” – Manfred Baumann was born 1968 in Vienna, Austria. He discovered his passion for photography in his childhood. At the age of 21 he decided to become a professional photographer. His grandfather, who was a reporter during the 2nd World War, was his biggest inspiration. He supported him and donated him his first camera, ... Read More

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Published 30 Aug 2010
Correr Museum Presents Giacomo Favretto Exhibition

Owing to the quality of his painting, his highly original development, the similarity with the works of other artists close to him or with contemporaries, the Venetian Giacomo Favretto (1849-1887) is one of the most important masters of the Italian Nineteenth century. A true “innovator” of the Venetian school during the second half of the century, he both revived and modernised the unique aspects of great Veneto tradition – from Longhi to Tiepolo – that had been abandoned in the ... Read More

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Published 30 Aug 2010
4heads Collective Presents 3rd Annual Governors Island Art Fair

Every year The 4heads Collective hotwires an abandoned military barracks on historic Governors Island in beautiful New York Harbor – launching a sizable exposition of independent artists and galleries known as the Governors Island Art Fair. Entering its 3rd year this fall, this extensive exhibition once again features an exciting and diverse selection of artists from around the world. As working artists living in New York City, The 4heads Collective takes a unique swing at the art ... Read More

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Published 30 Aug 2010
The Biennale des Antiquaires 2010: 25th Anniversary Celebrates Excellence at The Grand Palais

Gathered together under the prestigious dome of the Grand Palais from 15th until 22nd September 2010, 80 art dealers and 7 great jewellers will present to the public their most beautiful masterpieces. Created in 1956 by the Syndicat National des Antiquaires (SNA), the Biennale trully made its debut in 1962, the year of the first International Biennale des Antiquaires. Today, presided over by Hervé Aaron, it gathers the most internationally renowned art dealers, all members of the ... Read More

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Published 30 Aug 2010

New York: In their first collaborative exhibition, two renowned Renaissance and Baroque fine art specialists, Andrew Butterfield of Andrew Butterfield Fine Arts and Fabrizio Moretti of Moretti Fine Art, will present Body and Soul: Masterpieces of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture on Thursday, October 21 through Friday, November 19, 2010 at Moretti Fine Art, 24 East 80th Street in New York. “We are very pleased to present this group of twelve rare masterpieces of Italian ... Read More

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Published 30 Aug 2010
Terracotta Army Exhibition Opened in Stockholm

King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has opened the exhibition of China’s terracotta army in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm. The exhibition is open through 16 January 2011. “This year it will be 60 years since Sweden became one of the first countries to establish diplomatic contact with the People’s Republic of China. However, the cultural contact between Sweden and China dates back even further,” the King said at the opening ceremony. The King and the Queen Silvia ... Read More

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Published 30 Aug 2010
Christie’s Fall Sale of Japanese and Korean Art

Christies New York sale of Japanese and Korean Art features Arts of the Meiji Period will offer a dynamic and varied array of over 250 works on September 15. The Japanese section of the sale will feature a group of enamel arts of the Meiji Period, screens, and bronze works, and the Korean section will offer a private collection of traditional Korean paintings, ceramics and paintings by Korean modern and contemporary artists. Japanese Art This September, Japanese Art will present more ... Read More

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Published 30 Aug 2010
Lamps by Frank Gehry at The Jewish Museum

The Jewish Museum will present a selection of colorful, luminous lamps designed by internationally renowned architect Frank Gehry in Fish Forms: Lamps by Frank Gehry, on view from August 29 through October 31, 2010. This exhibition also explores the significance of fish imagery in Gehry’s work. The lamps will be displayed in near darkness to create a gallery of glowing sculptural fish lit from within. In 1983, Frank Gehry was asked by the Formica Corporation to make something with a ... Read More

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Published 30 Aug 2010
Asian Art Dealers New York Fall Exhibitions

Fourteen members of the Asian Art Dealers New York (AADNY) will present an exciting Fall schedule of exhibitions, focusing on a wide range of subject matter, throughout the month of September. The specialists in Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian works of art include: Art of the Past, Leiko Coyle, Arnold Lieberman, Kapoor Galleries, Theresa McCullough, Nancy Wiener, and Doris Wiener. Chinese art, ancient through contemporary, will be shown at the Ralph M. Chait Galleries, China 2000 ... Read More

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Published 30 Aug 2010

Tallahassee Community College’s Fine Art Gallery is currently hosting the annual Art Faculty Exhibit. The annual exhibit celebrates the work of TCC’s visual art faculty, all of whom are superb instructors, as well as practicing artists. This year’s exhibit features the following faculty members: Julie Baroody, Ljiljana O. Edmiston, Barbara Edwards, John Richey and Ed Toner. To celebrate the opening of the exhibit, the TCC Fine Art Gallery will honor the exhibit’s contributors ... Read More

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Published 30 Aug 2010
Monumentalism in Contemporary Art at the Stedelijk Museum

A highlight of The Temporary Stedelijk is the exhibition Monumentalism— History and National Identity in Contemporary Art: Proposal for Municipal Art Acquisitions 2010, which will occupy one half of the ground floor galleries. Presented at the Stedelijk Museum 28 August 2010 – 9 January 2011. The 2010 presentation of this highly anticipated annual exhibition of works by artists living and/or working in the Netherlands will address the concepts of history and national identity. The ... Read More

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Published 30 Aug 2010

After a very successful first year “Splurge Art Gallery” is pleased to announce that it is relocating to a larger gallery space in Las Palmas Bucerias, Nayarit, Mexico at the beginning of October 2010. “Splurge has come to be known as, not only, the gallery of choice for great international and Mexican fine art, but also for unique designer pewter pieces,” said Randal Wark, co-owner of Splurge Art Gallery. Since its opening in October 2009, the gallery has been embraced by the ... Read More

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Published 30 Aug 2010
Charles Deas Retrospective at the Denver Art Museum

The Denver Art Museum (DAM) presents Charles Deas and 1840s America, the first retrospective of the decade-long career of Western American painter Charles Deas. Organized by the DAM and guest curator Carol Clark, Professor of Art History and American Studies at Amherst College, this landmark exhibition and accompanying catalogue will reconstruct the artist’s life and career, and reflect years of original scholarship. Bringing together for the first time twelve of his most important ... Read More