Monthly Archives: June 2008

International Poster Gallery presents “Summer of Love”, the gallery’s 15th annual summer poster show, from July 4 through September 1, 2008. Celebrating the pleasures of summer, the exhibition features more than 40 posters for travel, expositions, entertainment and more. The show is [Read More]

WorthPoint Corporation, the premier website for art, antiques, and collectibles, announced today that Julien’s Auctions has selected WorthPoint as a data publishing partner. Under the new agreement, Julien’s Auctions will provide WorthPoint with upcoming and historical auction data to be published on [Read More]

Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries held its latest Fine Art Signature Auction on Thursday, May 8, 2008 and sold 200 lots for $3,210,632, including buyers’ premiums. The next morning, an additional 199 lots sold in a final session realized $296,147, bringing the [Read More]

BILBAO – Begun nearly a century ago, the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum’s valuable collection of 19th century paintings and sculptures today numbers more than three hundred artworks. The painstaking selection of 66 artworks by 47 artists included in the exhibition covers a [Read More]

Almost € 100 000* was the sum paid by a connoisseur of art and women from southern Europe for the small (36.2 x 36.2 cm) but exquisite Martial Raysse “Mädchenkopf” [“Head of a Girl”]. Thus he ensured that the estimate of € [Read More]

Munich – The sum total of their ages is nearly 300 years: three ladies who ensured top prices at today’s Ketterer Kunst auction in Munich. While Heidi Klum has yet to pick her winner on television, “Mädchen mit blauem Schal” (“Girl with [Read More]

CHICAGO – The Art Institute of Chicago will open its brand new dedicated galleries for prints and drawings to the public on June 14, 2008. The Jean and Steven Goldman Prints and Drawings Galleries in the Richard and Mary L. Gray Wing [Read More]

SAN DIEGO – CowParade, the world’s largest and foremost public art event, is kicking off plans for its California debut in San Diego, celebrating local artists’ work and benefiting three local charities. CowParade San Diego will feature 200 life-sized fiberglass cows transformed [Read More]

Wilson Street Gallery Artists have generously donated a number of fine art works to support the work of Medecins sans Frontieres. The competition will be drawn and the auction will close on Saturday 21st June at 4pm at Wilson Street Gallery While [Read More]

INDIANAPOLIS – The Indianapolis Museum of Art hasunveiled the concepts for eight site-specific commissions, which will inaugurate its new IMA Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park when it opens in fall 2009. The first in a series of ongoing commissions, the [Read More]

Los Angeles – Anthony Eckelberry has crafted several titanium art pieces that are framed as paintings and have the excitement of a new form of abstract art. Anthony’s titanium work has been featured in magazines such as Elle Décor and Stainless Steel [Read More]

Phoenix, AZ – Wolfgang Nibori, a 29-year-old struggling artist and internet entrepreneur, launched the Million Dollar Poetry website (www.sinminx.com) in an effort to be the first individual to earn $1,000,000 through selling poetry online. Marketing his poems as both art and advertising, [Read More]

The Morrison Hotel Gallery is proud to present Roadwork: The Exhibition, a collection of extraordinary photographs by rock photographer Tom Wright. The exhibit, which opens June 7, 2008 at the Morrison Hotel location at 124 Prince St. in the SoHo area of [Read More]

The 15 Minutes Gallery opening and artist reception are being hosted by the Pittsburgh Technology Council to showcase the works of regional artists in a contemporary business setting. The exhibition will feature 47 local artists and nearly 100 pieces of artwork in [Read More]