Monthly Archives: June 2009

The Kimbell Art Museum presents an innovative collaboration with filmmaker Philip Haas, an exhibition of five specially commissioned film installations. The installations both interpret works in the collection and stand as powerful works of art in themselves. They are shown for the […]

artnet Auctions sale of Icons: 20th-21st Century Photographic Portraits showed strength in the photographs market as the ten-day online photographs auction concluded June 25 with $135,000 in sales (including 10% buyer’s premium). The sale featured over 200 original fine art photographs of […]

Museum seeks creative solutions to redesign of exterior plaza and building perimeter Tacoma Art Museum received 95 submissions in response to its recent call for design concepts to redesign the museum’s plaza and perimeter and create a landmark civic space that enlivens […]

Houston’s nationally-ranked Bayou City Art Festival Downtown, set for October 10-11, primes the heart of the city for a weekend of art in the city. The juried fine art festival, framed by Houston’s world-class skyline, is a one-of-a-kind outdoor gallery with its […]

Eva Rothschild has been invited to create the next installation for the Tate Britain Duveens Commission 2009, supported by Sotheby’s. Her new work, created especially for the Duveen Galleries at the heart of Tate Britain, will be on display until 29 November […]

The Harwood Museum of Art announces its official groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 10:00 am at 238 Ledoux Street in Taos. After several years of fundraising and planning, the Harwood Museum is delighted to celebrate the beginning of construction […]

The art colonies of New England played a key role in the creation of an American national identity in the early 20th century. Art colonies in Old Lyme and Cos Cob, Connecticut and Ogunquit and Monhegan, Maine were inspiration for nationally recognized […]

Sotheby’s london Contemporary Art Evening Auction realised the strong total of £25,549,540 ($41,911,318/€29,823,964), near the top pre-sale expectations for the sale (Estimate: £19,755,000-27,435,000). More than 380 clients registered to bid and 37 of the 40 lots offered found buyers, with 92.5% sold […]

Bloomsbury’s summer sale of Books, Manuscripts, Prints & Original Artwork on 9th July, caters for all interests and all pockets. Amongst the English manuscripts are fascinating letters as well travelogues; lot 59 for example is a charming manuscript of 1849 with ‘naive’ […]

Olympic Sculpture Park’s railroad bridge is now named the “Mimi Gates Bridge.” The Seattle Art Museum has announced that 20 works of art have entered the museum’s collection in honor of outgoing director Mimi Gates. Gates, whose last day at the museum […]

Buckinghamshire County Museum recently acquired their first watercolour by the famous Regency artist Thomas Rowlandson. The Beauties of Stowe: Bacchantes dancing and lounging by the Temple of Ancient Virtue, c1804-5 was purchased from a London Art dealer for £22,500, with generous assistance […]

Artek is honoured to be the sponsor of La Biennale di Venezia and realises part of the furniture and furnishings for the premises of Palazzo delle Exposizioni della Biennale. The assignment includes a bookshop, a cafeteria and additional furniture elements for an […]

Tobias Rehberger was awarded the Golden Lion as best artist at the 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. Tobias Rehberger received the price for the cafeteria, for which he collaborated closely with Artek using customized Artek furniture in an ingenious […]

Around 1900, in sculpture, there was a pressing desire to find a new formal approach: “It seems that a modern kind of statuary is still to be created.” Sculptors aspired to rediscover the laws of their art: “We have to discover the […]