Monthly Archives: July 2009

In 2009, the year marking the eightieth anniversary of the exhibition »Film und Foto« originally presented in Stuttgart in 1929, the Staatsgalerie is commemorating that show with a selection of more than sixty works from its collection. Organised by the German Werkbund [Read More]

As part of the its Festival 2009 programme, Edinburgh College of Art will present an exhibition of paintings, paper reliefs and photographs based on the the 16 year engagement by the artist Janet Boulton with Ian Hamilton Finlay’s garden at Little Sparta. [Read More]

On July 9th, the Americas Collection will present the complete collection of twenty-nine lithographs from the Suite entitled Imaginary Portraits by Pablo Picasso. This exhibition will be on display for cultural and educational purposes only. After a two week presentation at The [Read More]

In 2009 the Fondation de l’Hermitage celebrates its 25th anniversary! Twenty-five years of dedicated and enthusiastic commitment to art and artists which have seen the graceful residence built by the Bugnion family in the middle of the 19th century welcome hundreds of [Read More]

Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction realised £19,063,350 / $31,778,604 / €22,513,816 selling 88% by lot and 86% by value. Francis Outred, International Director and Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art, Christie’s Europe: ‘We are delighted with the results of our [Read More]

During a recent auction at Stair Galleries Auction House in Hudson, New York, well-known American artist Donray sold a painting entitled Butterfly #20 for a price exceeding the artist’s existing record. The painting, measuring 15.5 inches by 19 inches, was one of [Read More]

Not Fade Away Gallery and Allan Tannenbaum, Famed SoHo Weekly News Photographer, announced today that the Gallery is holding a silent auction of over 70 rare Artist’s Proofs and Limited Edition photographs from the Allan Tannenbaum exhibition NEW YORK IN THE 70s, [Read More]

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University will present A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections from July 18 to October 18, 2009. Conceived to exemplify the breadth and strength of the complex artistic output [Read More]

The Städel Museum in Frankfurt recently acquired a significant painting by the Utrecht painter Dirck van Baburen dating from 1622. It shows a young singer presenting a virtuoso sample of his art. This masterpiece of both keen observation and dramatization is closely [Read More]

Photographs of the Scottish landscape inspired by Daguerre’s dioramas , a film that visits the self-declared King of the British Eccentrics, an art exhibition inspired by Funhouses, a 1950s tea party followed by a 1980s wedding reception, a glamorous, metallic leather driving [Read More]

Matthew Buckingham’s exhibition, Time Proxies, brings together a wide range of works in a variety of media that address how we use memory, both personal and public, to define the present moment. In each of these sculptural, photographic, aural, and moving-image works, [Read More]

This installation from the National Gallery’s Collection of Photographs comprises 26 colour panoramic views of empty baseball stadiums across North America, from Exhibition Stadium, the home of the Toronto Blue Jays, and Montréal’s Olympic Stadium to the Houston Astro’s Astrodome. Taken in [Read More]

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents a solo presentation by Michael Joaquin Grey, through September 14, an artist whose work has bridged the boundaries between art, science, media, and the imagination for the last twenty years. His interdisciplinary practice revolves around the development [Read More]

A new exhibition of documentary photography, Humanism in China: A Contemporary Record of Photography, will be on view at China Institute Gallery from September 24 through December 13, 2009, revealing a glimpse of China never before seen in the U.S. The photographs, [Read More]