European and American furniture and decorative arts — featuring antiques and collectibles formerly within noted institutional and private collections — come to auction at Bonhams & Butterfields in San Francisco on Monday, June 15, 2009. Strong international interest is expected for nearly [Read More]
Daily Archives: June 8, 2009
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Highlights include tours of private Santa Fe homes and art collections, curator-led museum exhibition and collections tours, a special dinner with featured SOFA WEST artists, and complimentary admission to SOFA WEST with exclusive VIP programming. Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fairs (SOFA) [Read More]
An exhibit of oil paintings titled I Can Sing a Song in Your Eyes by noted artist Gary Komarin will be featured June 20 – July 25 at The Morrison Gallery in the Old Barns section of this Litchfield County cultural center. [Read More]
Today freelance photographer, Ryan Shapiro, announced the book release of Civil War: Battle of Gettysburg, Remembering America’s Past through Images.
Over the past several years, Ryan Shapiro has professionally captured action packed images of this annual battle of Gettysburg civil war reenactment organized and hosted annually by the Gettysburg Anniversary Committee.
This year’s 145th Battle […]
Today, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Google are kicking-off the Design It: Shelter Competition, a global competition that will challenge users to design a simple shelter in 3D with Google SketchUp, give it a geographic location using Google Earth, and share [Read More]
Artfest International, Inc. (OTCBB: ARTI) is pleased to announce that the Company will be hosting its “Sizzling Summer Saturday” art extravaganza at the Company’s 52,000 square foot Expo Center in Dallas, Texas. The event will take place on June 13, 2009 from [Read More]
For the first time in Austria, MUMOK presents a retrospective of Cy Twombly’s work. Twombly, one of the most important artists of his generation (b.1928), has been based in Italy since the late 1950s. Cy Twombly, Sensations of the Moment. MUMOK Ausstellungsansicht [Read More]
The Singapore Art Museum (SAM) is proud to present TransportASIAN, its first photography exhibition featuring Southeast Asian-based artists. The composite term, TransportASIAN captures travel in time and space within Asia. The works not only document the history of transportation in Asia, they [Read More]
The World Upside Down is one in which the symbolic order is turned on its head. It is a world visualized by artists where killer rabbits hunt humans and Superman is a hero of the Soviet Union. It is the Planet of [Read More]
Punta della Dogana, the new art center for contemporary art of the François Pinault Foundation, opens its doors after fourteen months of renovation entrusted to the Japanese architect Tadao Ando. The first exhibition Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection, [Read More]
Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present, the first major museum exhibition to acknowledge photographers for their creative and collaborative role in the history of rock and roll, will be on view at the Brooklyn Museum from [Read More]
Houston’s 2009 Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park’s record-breaking tickets sales and sponsorships generated the greatest proceeds ever from one Festival — $129,501 — to distribute to its 16 Non-profit Partner organizations, emerging artists program and the City of Houston and its [Read More]