Monthly Archives: August 2009

Christie’s has announced the forthcoming Swiss Art sale is to be held on 21 September 2009. The auction comprises 153 lots spanning over four centuries of Swiss Art History. The evening sale offers numerous highlights by notable Swiss artists, including, amongst others, [Read More]

The Bolinas Museum’s 17th Annual Benefit Auction being held on September 19th at 3pm features over 35 works by prominent Northern California artists as well as several vacation houses, wines, outings and print portfolios. The event will again take place at Buells’ [Read More]

On September 16, Christie’s South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art sale will feature over 100 works from the leading 20th and 21st century artists from South Asia, including artists from India and Pakistan. The sale will focus on prime examples of many [Read More]

Opening 21 August, the National Gallery of Victoria will present Building a Collection: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings, a fascinating selection of the most outstanding works on paper that have entered the NGV Collection since 2002. The exhibition will feature some [Read More]

Couples courting, children laboring in a cotton field and a cave-side picnic are among the candid glimpses of early 20th century Arkansas offered in a new exhibition of historic images at the Massey, Crystal Bridges’ temporary gallery space located at 125 West [Read More]

The City of Sydney was awarded Australia’s most prestigious urban design award for excellence for the restoration of Paddington Reservoir Gardens. The ‘Australian Award for Urban Design’ highlights design excellence and innovation in the built environment and acknowledges the critical role of [Read More]

The fifth annual Art of Photography Show, an international competition and exhibition of photographic art, announced today that they will be donating 100% of their portion of art sales revenue during the 2009 exhibition to an international charity based here in San [Read More]

Twenty two outstanding photographs depicting all walks of Sydney life from a bulging body builder to burlesque dancers to a centenarian’s wedding have been chosen as finalists in this year’s Sydney Life photography exhibition. The images will be blown up to bed [Read More]

Featuring the artwork of some of the world’s premier contemporary artists such as Dave Burke, Brian Despain, Charlene Chua, Milen and Gianluca Mattia, these apps open the artists’ work to new audiences through a unique app design. “As fans of many contemporary [Read More]

In a 50,000 sq ft. gallery space, thirty artists and thirty out-of-work professionals will participate in Recession Art Sale, an art and commerce event in the center of Manhattan from September 17 – October 10, 2009. Amidst a glass-walled space at 679 [Read More]

An exciting juried fine art show will debut in downtown Baltimore on August 22-23, 2009. The festival will encompass two locations in downtown; one at the Power Plant along the Inner Harbor near the National Aquarium on Pratt Street and the other [Read More]

GUY HEPNER is proud to present an exhibition of new silkscreen images by RUSSELL YOUNG titled DIRTY, PRETTY THINGS, opening September 12 and running through September 25, with an opening party with the artist attending on Saturday, September 12 from 7 – [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields is pleased to welcome Fredric Backlar as Consultant in African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art. An auction professional credited with several discoveries in the field, Backlar joins a firm with a longstanding reputation of handling high quality works and collections [Read More]

The Wadsworth Atheneum announced today the completion of a large-scale reinstallation of its famed Hudson River School collection, considered the finest of its kind held by any museum. The more than 30-piece installation will be housed in the museum’s newly renovated Huntington [Read More]