Monthly Archives: June 2009

In line with the Kingdom’s Independence Day festivities and in conjunction with the City’s Centennial celebrations, the City streets will host, for the first time, the Street Exhibition for Visual Arts. The exhibition which was launched on June 4, 2009 features works [Read More]

Guide by Cell, the world’s leading mobile technology company for cultural institutions, announced today that the National Portrait Gallery in London is implementing its mobile technology products at the museum renowned for its portrait collection. Specifically, the museum is using mobile touring [Read More]

The Museum of Modern Art presents Looking at Music: Side 2, a survey of over 120 photographs, music videos, drawings, audio recordings, publications, Super 8 films, and ephemera that look at New York City from the early 1970s to the early 1980s [Read More]

The 40th edition of Art Basel takes place in the city of Basel, Switzerland, from June 10 through June 14, 2009. This year, more than 300 exhibiting galleries from all over the globe were selected from a record number of more than [Read More]

Doors previously closed to the world were swiftly unbarred following the Romanian Revolution almost two decades ago. One of Central Europe’s great cultural centres, Bucharest, certainly gained a new lease on life. The city’s ‘George Enescu’ International Festival and Competition became a [Read More]

The Yale University Art Gallery has announced its purchase of important preparatory drawings by American artist Edward Hopper for two of his celebrated paintings, Rooms by the Sea (1951) and Western Motel (1957), both in the Gallery’s collection. Edward Hopper, Rooms by [Read More]

The current episodes on VernissageTV Art TV focus on the art scene in Cologne and Art Cologne 2009. Apart from reports from the international art fair Art Cologne 2009 VernissageTV covered three exhibitions at Museum Ludwig, which currently presents paintings by Christopher [Read More]

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art presents a weekend event with Canadian art duo Seripop from Friday 31 July to Sunday 2 August. Seripop artists Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau have joined forces with guest curator Sophie Brown to bring an event of [Read More]

Bloomsbury Auctions is delighted to be assisting in supporting an event to raise funds towards the restoration of the 18th century church Santa Maria del Suffragio, in L’Aquila. One of Abruzzo’s most important and beautiful churches, it was damaged extensively by the [Read More]

Oscar Kokoschka’s magnificent riverscape, `London, Chelsea Reach’, a view from Lindsay House looking towards Battersea was done when the artist was 71 years old in 1957 having fled Prague in 1938 to escape Hitler’s invading army. Bonhams are selling this picture (estimate [Read More]

Ravenel Art, once again, has set the standard for auctions of modern and contemporary Asian art with outstanding results at its Taipei Spring auction on Sunday June 7, 2009. The total amount realized at the auction was 212, 804, 000 NT Dollars, [Read More]

The Art Institutes system of schools announced the opening of a new school: The Art Institute of Washington – Northern Virginia, a branch of The Art Institute of Atlanta, will hold its first day of classes on October 5, 2009. The new [Read More]

On view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, June 9 through August 16, 2009, Temptation and Salvation: The Psalms of King David features splendidly illuminated manuscripts and leaves from the Museum’s collection that reveal the importance of the Psalms in medieval devotion. [Read More]

The exhibition focuses on the work of Matisse between 1917 and 1941. These two important dates mark the start and finish of the central period within his career during which time Matisse developed his most individual and distinctive style but which has [Read More]