The Board of Directors of the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas, announced today the appointment of Jeremy Strick as the Center’s new Director. Mr. Strick will begin his position on March 2, 2009. His selection follows an extensive international search led a by a committee established by the Center’s Board of Directors. Mr. Strick […]
Edward Weston: Life Work, on view at the Akron Art Museum January 31 – April 26, 2009, surveys the five-decade career of this American master through an outstanding grouping of over 100 vintage photographs. Astonishingly, all the works are from the collection of one couple, New York photography collectors Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg. Weston, […]
The Dallas Museum of Art has announced the acquisition of three major works of contemporary art, each significant additions to the Museum’s collection. The works are: Marlene Dumas’s For Whom the Bell Tolls (2008), an expressive portrait based upon a 1943 photograph of Ingrid Bergman. Jim Hodges’s and still this (2005-08), a dazzling gold-leaf painting […]
International Artexpo New York (www.artexpos.com), the world’s largest popular and fine art fair, announces its return to the Jacob Javits Center from Thursday, February 26 – Monday, March 2, 2009. Now in its 31st year, Artexpo New York will showcase exciting original artworks, prints, and the latest trends in the art world from more than […]
The 40th edition of Art Basel takes place in the city of Basel, Switzerland from June 10 through June 14, 2009. As the world’s premier art show, Art Basel is the annual meeting place of the international art world. This year’s 300 exhibiting galleries from all over the world were selected from a record number […]
In many respects Black History Month takes on new meaning in 2009–with an historic Presidential inauguration setting the stage, and the 100th anniversary of the founding of the NAACP serving as symbolic anchor to this annual celebration. In recognition of a legacy rich in struggle and triumph, Picture That, LLC presents “Renewing America: Pictures of […]
Artprice launches My Art Collection, the first free and confidential art portfolio management service. This service, now available to Artprice’s 1,300,000 subscribers is available as of today for professional or amateur art collectors anywhere in the world. http://web.artprice.com/portfolio/login.aspx However much you spend on art, the value of your collection is evolving at an ever-faster pace […]
27th Annual Smithsonian Craft Show will take place from April 23 – April 26, 2009 at the National Building Museum,401 F Street, NW in Washington, DC. Schedule Daily Craft Show Hours Thursday, April 23 & Friday, April 24: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, April 25: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, April 26: 11 […]
The Austin Museum of Art (AMOA) presents Clifford Ross Photography: Outside Realism, Feb 21 – May 17, 2009. Clifford Ross photographs American landscapes with an eye for both the picturesque and the abstract. His images of hurricanes freeze a breaking wave to capture a view of nature’s power impossible for the eye alone to perceive. […]
