On Saturday September 4th of Labor Day Weekend, one of Michigan’s newest National Register Historic Districts will come alive from noon until 10:00 pm with shopping, fine art, music and food on Buchanan’s Front and Main Streets. At the gateway to wine country, Buchanan shopkeepers, gallery owners and artists will exhibit and offer goods under tents, and in transitioning 19th century buildings, with art, furnishings, antiques, textiles and more. As you approach the Buchanan Arts and ... Read More

The Georgia Museum of Art (GMOA), located on the University of Georgia (UGA) campus, recently acquired two significant American paintings from the West Foundation Collection of Atlanta, Ga. The foundation gave Benjamin West’s Portrait of Captain Christopher Codrington Bethell (1769) and John Linton Chapman’s Via Appia (1867) to the museum in honor of GMOA director, William U. Eiland, and in anticipation of the museum’s reopening this winter. A native of Springfield, Pa., Benjamin ... Read More

In conjunction with the exhibit Edge of Awakening – Paintings by Nicola Parente at Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Inc., Nos Caves Vin will host two consecutive evenings of art and wine. The programs will be on September 16 and September 17; both will start at 6:30pm. The program is the same for both nights. Nicola Parente will discuss his new works and a wine tasting will be led by Brent Sloan, Wine Director at Nos Caves Vin. “Only that day dawns to which we are awake.” These ... Read More

“Earth Paint Paper Wood: Recent Acquisitions” celebrates the ongoing addition of important works of art to the Menil Collection by gift, purchase, and bequest.While some of these works have been included in exhibitions over the past several years, may have only rarely been shown, and a number remain unknown to museum visitors. The exhibition, open August 27–November 28, 2010, showcases the significance and diversity of gifts, including promised gifts, and accessions from the last ... Read More

New movies are the focus of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s September and October film schedule. Nearly all of the 16 films screening over the next two months will be making their exclusive Cleveland premieres at the museum. The lineup includes the first American theatrical release to be fully subtitled for the country’s 30 million deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers, See What I’m Saying: The Deaf Entertainers Documentary. Director and producer Hilari Scarl will be on hand to answer ... Read More

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art announce that Marci Driggers Caslin has been promoted to registrar. She joined the museum’s staff as exhibition coordinator in March. In her new position, Caslin oversees the registrar’s department, coordinates traveling exhibitions and manages outgoing loans. “I am excited to lead the registrar staff at the Amon Carter,” says Caslin. “Its collections are stellar, our upcoming exhibitions are fascinating, and I am thrilled to be connected ... Read More

For almost three decades, Winnipeg painter Wanda Koop has created an overwhelming body of work examining how modes of technology impact nature. The Winnipeg Art Gallery, in collaboration with the National Gallery of Canada, is presenting an exhibition of her work that draws together a selection of large-scale signature paintings from the 1980s to the present. Wanda Koop…On the Edge of Experience opens at the WAG on Saturday, September 11. It will have a public celebration on Saturday, ... Read More

A masterpiece by Jewad Selim, one of the most important Arab artists, is one of the many exciting works of art in Bonhams latest sale of South Asian and Middle East Art taking place on October 11 at the Royal Mirage Hotel Dubai. This will be the sixth time Bonhams hold a sale in Dubai. Bonhams hold the record for a work sold at auction by Jewad Selim (Iraq 1919-1961), with a $336,000 price achieved in the March 2008 sale in Dubai. This latest sculpture is a very important piece from a ... Read More

National Museum Wales announced it is able to save for the nation a painting by the 18th century Italian artist Francesco Guardi, View of the Palazzo Loredan dell’Ambasciatore on the Grand Canal. Francesco Guardi. View of the Palazzo Loredan dell’Ambasciatore on the Grand Canal, Venice, oil on panel, 24.3 x 35.5 cm This significant work, accepted in lieu of Inheritance Tax by H M Government and allocated to Amgueddfa Cymru, is an important addition to the Museum’s outstanding 18th ... Read More

At Beta Klinik on 13 September 2010. At 7.30 p.m. arts teacher and florist mistress Edith Kuhlendahl invites to her vernissage. The collage paintings of the artist from Rengsdorf are on exhibition at Beta Klinik for 4 weeks. The collage technique of Edith Kuhlendahl´s paintings produces different fields of experience. On the one hand there is the combination of canvas, paint and other things resulting in a collage. On the other hand there are cards with words, word fragments or ... Read More

The Holburne Museum’s prestigious biennial portrait competition for artists in the south west returns in September 2010 to Chapel Row Gallery, Bath, whilst the Museum is closed for a development project of restoration and extension. The Prize was established in 2002 as a response to Thomas Gainsborough and his eighteenth-century contemporaries, who made Bath one of England’s most important cities for portrait painting. The exhibition will show the best of the region’s artists. The ... Read More

Award-winning black and white fine art photographer, Clyde Butcher, returns for his 3rd season to the SWFL Museum of History to share his iconic landscapes in this unique exhibition. Clyde Butcher: Big Cypress Swamp and the Western Everglades, features 40 stunning large-format black & white photographs, highlighting the spectacular beauty of 2,400 square miles of dynamic Florida wetlands. The area is covered with cypress trees, some more than 600 years old. Sixty inches of rain fall ... Read More

“John Gossage: The Pond” open Aug. 27 – Jan. 17, 2011, celebrates the recent gift to the Smithsonian American Art Museum of this remarkable photographic series and the re-issue of one of the most influential photography books of the past three decades. John Gossage, Untitled, from The Pond, 1985. Gelatin silver print. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Gift of anonymous donors, 2007.40.27 John Gossage (b. 1946) photographed a small, unnamed pond between Washington, D.C., and ... Read More

Two important medieval Hebrew manuscripts—a Mishneh Torah made between 1300 and 1400 in Germany and an illuminated leaf from a prayer book made in Austria around 1360—are on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters, respectively, in conjunction with the Jewish High Holy Days this fall. The Cloisters is the Metropolitan’s branch museum dedicated to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. The High Holy Days are ten days of penitence and prayer that commence ... Read More

The Incheon International Digital Art Festival 2010 (“INDAF 2010”) will be held beginning September 1 in Tomorrow City in Songdo, Incheon. This is a major international exhibit and culture event organized by Incheon City as part of its efforts to develop as a hi-tech culture city. With the theme “Mobile Vision: Unbound Aesthetics,” INDAF 2010 will showcase various works by media artists at home and abroad while exposing artwork contained within space for the time being to open ... Read More