Monthly Archives: July 2009

The Contemporary Arts Center has announced that it has been awarded three separate grants originating from a family foundation, a community foundation and a Federal agency, totaling over $100,000. The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation, The Greater Cincinnati [Read More]

The William Penn Foundation has awarded PAFA a grant in the amount of $440,000. The grant will fund a three-year Contemporary Art Program that will support the production of new art, encourage the broadest understanding of contemporary art practice, and expand audiences [Read More]

The Cause/Affect competition, created to celebrate the work of designers and organizations who set out to positively impact society, received 270 entries from six different countries. A total of 33 winners were named, with Academy students and alums taking home 10 of [Read More]

Sotheby’s announced that one of the key highlights of its autumn Greek Sale in London – which is scheduled to take place on Monday, November 9, 2009 – will be a recently re-discovered work by Nicholaos Gysis, an artist considered by many [Read More]

On August 8, 2009, the Booth Western Art Museum opens two exhibitions celebrating the Grand Canyon – “Painting the Canyon: Selected Works from Grand Canyon Collections” and “Lasting Light: 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography.” The exhibitions will be on display in [Read More]

Palm Springs Modern: Photographs by Julius Shulman offers a tour of the mid-century architecture and elegant lifestyles of Palm Springs , California . The exhibition features almost 100 original photographs by renowned photographer Julius Shulman of iconic designs by Modernist architects. Also [Read More]

The RISD Museum of Art presents Inner City, an epic narrative of urban growth, decay, change, and life itself, realized in clay by one of the most significant contemporary artists working in ceramics today—Arnie Zimmerman (American, b. 1954). Comprised of more than [Read More]

The major international exhibition Art & Illusions: Masterpieces of trompe-l’œil from antiquity to the present at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, from 16 October 2009 to 24 January 2010 is exceptional not only for being the first one to focus on the subject [Read More]

On the night of November 14th 2008, helped by a team of distributors, artist Adam Neate staged The London Show randomly distributing 1000 individually numbered unique multiples, printed on cardboard and shrink wrapped in cellophane, through the 33 Boroughs, transforming London into a gallery space.
The performance generated an incredible impact within the artistic community, […]

This autumn Helly Nahmad Gallery presents a retrospective exhibition by the acknowledged principal of the French Impressionist school, Claude Monet. Taking in his diverse styles from the 1870s as he explored a wide range of subjects in all seasons and all types [Read More]

A former lawyer, a renowned glassmaker, a community artist and an ex-builder’s labourer have all been shortlisted for this year’s Aspect Prize, the premier award for Scottish artists, and one of the UK’s largest independently funded art prizes. Patricia Cain, Alec Galloway, [Read More]

Camden Arts Centre presents a new group exhibition Head-Wig (Portrait of an exhibition) curated by Polish artist Paulina Olowska. Olowska has selected works by a range of international artists including painting, film and photography. Together the works share a common theme, what [Read More]

Internationally acclaimed artist Bill Viola has been commissioned to create two altarpieces for permanent display in St Paul’s Cathedral, The Dean and Chapter of St Paul’s announced today. The project will commence production in mid 2009 with completion in early 2011. Following [Read More]

Along the Water’s Edge, published by the Gallery of the American Landscape, is a volume of exceptional photographs made over the past twenty years. Timothy Wolcott, a fine art landscape photographer and pioneer in pigment photography, has captured images of rivers, streams, waterfalls and oceans like you have never seen them. Shooting with medium and […]