Monthly Archives: July 2009

By the late 1950s, American painter Allan Kaprow — formally trained in the era of Abstract Expressionism — began to view the action of Action Painting as far more important than painting itself. With the 1959 work Eighteen Happenings in Six Parts, [Read More]

This exhibition will showcase Titian’s painting ‘The Triumph of Love’ (probably mid-1540s), following its recent rediscovery and cleaning. Last exhibited in 1960, it has since remained out of sight in a private collection. Moreover, the painting’s true quality was obscured by dirty [Read More]

The Stratton Foundation and the Dalí Universe present an exciting exhibition dedicated to the renowned artist and master of Surrealism, Salvador Dalí. The exhibition “Salvador Dalí in Shanghai” is a rare collection of artworks that will delight and surprise. Opening July 31st [Read More]

The Mint Museum has acquired an early 19th century portrait by John Singleton Copley, one of the greatest and most influential painters in colonial America. St. Cecilia, a Portrait (Mrs. Richard Crowninshield Derby) (1803) is the first painting by Copley to enter [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields has announce the September 27, 2009 auction of The JZ Knight Collection. Amassed over a decade, the Collection will feature eclectic and unique examples of period furniture, decorative arts, carpets and paintings from the 17th through 20th centuries with [Read More]

Chelsea’s Agora Gallery announced they will launch an art exhibition consisting of four parts that is scheduled to run from July 21, 2009 through August 11, 2009. Long captivated by the realms of art and science, mixed media artist Gayl Sharabi links [Read More]

In a unique setting at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen in Switzerland, the Basel Academy of Art and Design has implemented a solution which monitors museum visitors as they move through the exhibition, providing new insights into emotional and cognitive reactions to art [Read More]

James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, today announced funding for the Kamloops Art Gallery. This funding will assist the Gallery in hosting the exhibition “Jayce Salloum: history of the present (selected works 1985-2009)”, which will tour five venues in [Read More]

The Städel Museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings holds more than 80 prints by the Norwegian Edvard Munch (1863–1944), among them donations by the artist and many acquisitions already made during his life-time. Presenting these impressive treasures, the exhibition “Edvard Munch. Prints [Read More]

The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona presents the exhibition “The Jazz Century”, curated by philosopher and art critic Daniel Soutif, which will run from 22 July to 18 October 2009. Along with the cinema and rock, jazz is one of the [Read More]

Joe Feddersen: Vital Signs, a major retrospective exhibition of work by this highly regarded artist and teacher, is on view at Tacoma Art Museum September 26, 2009, through January 10, 2010. Vital Signs features an extraordinary selection of Joe Feddersen’s printmaking, collage, [Read More]

“Bauhaus. A Conceptual Model” beginning Wednesday at the Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin. Bauhaus Archive Berlin, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau and Klassik Stiftung Weimar jointly present this exhibition. On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the foundation of the Bauhaus and 20 years [Read More]

Printmaking in the Age of Romanticism offers a rare opportunity to see some 150 works of art from the Gallery’s collection of European prints. A number of works will be on display for the first time and many have not been publicly [Read More]

The New Museum will present a major survey of works by Emory Douglas made while Douglas was the Revolutionary Artist of the Black Panther Party and subsequently, its Minister of Culture. “Emory Douglas: Black Panther” will be on view in the second [Read More]