Monthly Archives: July 2009

Michael Costello’s “New Works on Paper” will be the subject of a solo exhibition opening this week at The Wonderful Gallery / FINE ART, in Freeport, Maine. More than a dozen large-sized, pastel on paper drawings will be on display through August [Read More]

A quick-and-easy illustrated guide called “North American Railroad History in a Nutshell” is now available from the Center for Railroad Photography & Art (www.railphoto-art.org).
“Nutshell” showcases 50 images, 22 in color, each accompanied by a description that explains each image’s importance and how it relates to railroad history. The selection summarizes in 48 pages the growth […]

Stating that students produce “trend setting art sparked by their experimental natures,” yet have few marketing channels exclusively showcasing their creativity, a veteran area designer/art director announces the introduction of www.pxldust.com, a global design networking and competition site exclusively for student artists. [Read More]

Unique art show displays artists’ work beyond their classical roots to showcase distinctive and personal style Specializing in oil, acrylic, watercolor, ink, graphite, digital, and sculpture, South Florida artists Jon Hunt and Jim Radford debut their “Recent Works” exhibition, Tuesday, July 28, [Read More]

In 2008 Cabrini Health, one of the largest private health services in Australia, celebrated its 60th anniversary. To recognise this event, and to assist in raising much needed funds for a continued commitment to providing exceptional care, Bonhams & Goodman organised Masterpieces [Read More]

This exhibition explores an extraordinary group of paintings of post-war London building sites by Frank Auerbach (born 1931), one of Britain ’s greatest living artists. The series of fourteen major paintings was produced during the first decade of Auerbach’s career and gives [Read More]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that a new gallery dedicated to Safavid and Later Persian Art (1500-1924) has been designated the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Gallery. It is one of a suite of exhibition spaces—the Galleries for the Arts of the [Read More]

The Georgia Museum of Art developed an exhibition of American works on paper from the Jason Schoen Collection. This exhibition is a compilation of more than 100 prints and drawings from artists that represent the diversity of styles and subjects that encompassed [Read More]

The Milwaukee Art Museum will present Raphael’s La Donna Velata in a one-work masterpiece exhibition March 26 through June 6, 2010. The oil on canvas painting, completed ca. 1516, will be on loan from the Medici collection of the Palatine Gallery, Palazzo [Read More]

A painting by Giuseppe Zocchi (1711-1767), estimated to sell for £150,000-250,00 in Bonhams sale of Old Master Paintings on 8th July, made a world record price for the artist at £1.3m. Titled `View of the Tiber looking towards the Castel Sant’Angelo, with [Read More]

It’s time for artists to get their creative juices flowing for the Call for Entries for Bayou City Art Festival Downtown’s annual “Art on Water” floating art exhibition. The downtown Houston event, located in the City Hall Reflection Pool, 901 Bagby between [Read More]

Robert Casterline, founder of Aspen-based Museum Works Galleries, is pleased to announce the launch of a new gallery located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Beginning July 15, 2009, Museum Works Galleries, Santa Fe will open to the public and feature works from [Read More]

For South African photographer David Goldblatt’s first major New York exhibition in over a decade, the New Museum will bring together 114 images taken over the past fifty years. The exhibition features a selection of photographs titled Intersections Intersected, that look at [Read More]

Gagosian Gallery has announced an exhibition of large-scale unique photographs by Vera Lutter. This is her first exhibition in Los Angeles. In Lutter’s conceptual approach to the camera obscura, the most rudimentary form of photography, the apparatus records in a very direct [Read More]