London’s Ben Uri Gallery has acquired a dramatic watercolour by distinguished German artist George Grosz. Entitled Interrogation, the painting captures the horrors of the Second World War. The detailed, evocative watercolour depicts a horrific scene of a man being tortured by soldiers. It is one of only three known fully executed watercolours of this subject painted in the years 1936 to 1939 following his emigration to the USA in 1933. George Grosz, Interrogation ... Read More

CHICAGO — The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) announce that Fashion Design Department Chair Nick Cave’s world-famous Soundsuits will be featured in an eight-page spread in the September issue of Vogue. Shot by fashion photographer Raymond Meier and hitting newsstands today, Tuesday, Aug. 24, the photos feature Cave wearing the Soundsuits while highlighting bags and footwear from designers such as Yves Saint Laurent and Dior. Nick Cave Soundsuit Photo by James ... Read More

Christie’s Asian Art Week will commence on September 14th, with the sale of Indian and Southeast Asian Art. The sale offers over 200 selected works including exceptional bronzes, sculpture, and paintings from Gandhara, the Himalayas, India and Indonesia. The sale not only offers treasures at many different price levels, but also offers works that spans a wide time and geographical range from the bejeweled or remarkably simple, to monumental and miniature. An important Gandharan Silver ... Read More

Art lovers everywhere will have a unique opportunity to acquire original art by well-known artists, support a good cause, and spend the day in a picturesque mountain valley at the 15th Annual Richard Schmid Fine Art Auction on Sunday, September 5, 2010. (www.RichardSchmidAuction.com) Bidding is expected to be especially spirited at this year’s auction, which has grown over the years into a major event in the art world. Last year hundreds of bidders packed the auction tent and took home ... Read More

You could call it a road show, but artist Rich Harrington and photographer John Treichler have titled it “New Jersey Blues.” It’s their joint exhibit honoring the view from New Jersey’s many byways and highways. As you’d expect, there are urban street scenes and picturesque farmsteads. There are also cowboys and Indians, buffalo and wolves. Take a few months to explore New Jersey as Harrington and Treichler have, and there’s no telling what you’ll see. ... Read More

Birdman, a life-size sculpture by acclaimed artist Elisabeth Frink (1930 – 1993) has gone on display at Leeds Art Gallery. Valued at £250,000, the unique plaster maquette was given to Leeds through the Art Fund by the Frink Estate and Beaux Arts London. This is the first sculpture by Elisabeth Frink to be part of Leeds’ permanent collection, which boasts works by some of the greatest sculptors of the 20th century. The acquisition of such an important piece by Frink, one of ... Read More

Bonhams & Butterfields, world leaders in auctions of Native American art, will present on Monday, September 13, 2010 in San Francisco its “Art and Artifacts of the Americas” auction consisting of American Indian baskets, pottery, beadwork, weavings, jewelry, Northwest Coast and Eskimo art, along with Pre-Columbian and Latin American art and objects – a sale comprising property from estates, noted private collections and institutions from across North America. ... Read More

Foster + Partners, working with construction firm, CRIBA S.A. and local architect, BBRCH-Minond, has won the competition to design a new corporate headquarters for the Banco Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Plans for the energy-efficient building, which will occupy an entire city block in the neighbourhood of Parque Patricios, echo its park-side setting with landscaped courtyards and shaded walkways and will provide a distinctive new presence for the bank in the city. The scheme ... Read More

An international group of students has designed and built an installation evoking the Finnish national epic Kalevala, The Shaman’s Haven of the Kalevala, on the Seurasaari island in Helsinki. The project is the culmination of the Spirit of Place/Spirit of Design architectural and academic programme headed by architect Travis Price at The Catholic University in Washington, DC. The project – a small pavilion that will function as a meeting place – has been built from ... Read More

On view from October 3, 2010 through January 9, 2011, this moving exhibition expands the boundaries of mapping as a practical means for way-finding, transcending the physical act of travelling from points A to Z. Commenting on the upcoming exhibition Neil Watson, Executive Director of the KMA said, “With Mapping: Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art, curator Sarah Tanguy has organized a vibrant up-to-the minute exhibition that digs into the Zeitgeist of many contemporary artists – ... Read More

Art lovers everywhere will have a unique opportunity to acquire original art by well-known artists, support a good cause, and spend the day in a picturesque mountain valley at the 15th Annual Richard Schmid Fine Art Auction on Sunday, September 5, 2010. (www.RichardSchmidAuction.com) Bidding is expected to be especially spirited at this year’s auction, which has grown over the years into a major event in the art world. Last year hundreds of bidders packed the auction tent and took ... Read More

Who Shot Rock & Roll is the first major exhibition on rock and roll to put photographers in the foreground, acknowledging their creative and collaborative role in the history of rock music. The exhibition includes 175 works by more than 100 photographers, and covers the rock and roll era from the 1950s to the present, including some of the world’s most iconic images. The exhibition opens to the public at the Columbia Museum of Art on Friday, February 25 – a free admission day, ... Read More

Awareness of the fragile beauty of our coastal regions has never been more important. Capital City Books is proud to announce the publication of The Quiet Voice of the Outer Banks, A Visual Journal, a collection of paintings by Christaphora Robeers that celebrates all facets of delicate and often endangered coastal life. The Quiet Voice of the Outer Banks will be sold alongside Robeers’s artwork at several gallery openings: Glenn Eure’s Ghost Fleet Gallery in Nags Head, NC on ... Read More

As American artists rebelled against the academic art and aristocratic portraiture that predominated at the turn of the twentieth century, they began looking to modern life for their subject matter. One of central figures in this dramatic shift was Edward Hopper, whose work is exhibited in relation to his most important contemporaries in Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time, opening at the Whitney Museum of American Art on October 28, 2010. Placing Hopper beside such artists as Robert ... Read More

Marlborough is pleased to present the work of Caroline Walker, winner of The Valerie Beston Artists’ Trust Prize 2009. Open through 31 August 2010. Caroline Walker, The Violet Hour, oil on canvas, 2010, 180 x 240 cm. Copyright: the artist The charity was established in 2006 to support artists at the beginning of their careers. Miss Beston, a former Director of the gallery, provided help to many artists during the course of her work. The charity is collaborating with the Royal ... Read More