Monthly Archives: September 2009

Freeman’s Auctioneers hosted a sizeable contingent of international buyers during our Fine Asian Arts sale held September 14, 2009. The large auction comprised many fine antiques and pieces of art from China, Japan and other Asian nations. The enthusiasm present in the [Read More]

On 5 November, Bonhams will offer the Bronze Age Chinese vessels from one of the finest old English collections, formed by the 2nd Lord Cunliffe between the darkest war years of the early 1940s, and his death in 1963. The most important [Read More]

The official one year anniversary of Austin Art Space will feature the artists that made its opening possible. The “Nine Lives in Art” Exhibit includes all nine original resident artists that moved into the working studios space prior to the completion of [Read More]

The eclectic and varied Robin Symes Collection will be going under the hammer at Bonhams Oxford on 7th October. This outstanding single-owner collection will no doubt appeal to collectors, decorators and private buyers alike, including Old Masters, 20th Century American abstracts, architectural [Read More]

Bonhams next sale in Dubai of notable artists from the Arab world, and Iran, India and Pakistan Dubai sale will be held on the 12th October. One of the highlights is a watercolour by Pakistani artist Abdur Rahman Chughtai. Pride of the [Read More]

For the first time in the history of the Praemium Imperiale Awards, four of the five Laureates, whose names are announced today, are based in a single country – the UK. This is a great tribute to the rich cultural diversity that [Read More]

FRÄBEL STUDIO announced today that President Obama has commissioned thirty-four “Glass Tree” sculptures created by world renowned flamework glass artist HANS GODO FRÄBEL. The exquisite glass sculptures will be presented to world leaders at the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 24-25 September [Read More]

“I am going to build a little Gothic castle at Strawberry Hill,” declared Horace Walpole in January 1750. An influential antiquarian and man of letters, Walpole (1717-1797) was one of the most important English collectors of the eighteenth century. In 1747 he [Read More]

Dia Art Foundation is pleased to announce chronotopes & dioramas, a new project by Paris- and Rio de Janeiro based artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. For this site-specific project, the third in a series of contemporary art exhibitions commissioned by Dia for The Hispanic [Read More]

Milwaukee’s cultural icon shows support for breast cancer awareness in conjunction with premiere of Andy Warhol: The Last Decade Beginning September 23, 2009, the Milwaukee Art Museum, for the first time ever, will glow pink against the stunning backdrop of the September [Read More]

Next summer Tate Modern will present Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera, a fascinating insight into photographic images made surreptitiously or without the explicit permission of those depicted. Spanning a variety of lens-based media from the late nineteenth century to the present [Read More]

Arlington artist Nancy Palmeri will present a gallery talk in the Kimbell Art Museum’s Artist’s Eye series on Saturday, October 10, at 11 a.m. The Kimbell’s curator of European art/head of academic services, Nancy E. Edwards, will moderate this free program. Palmeri, [Read More]

The Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards 2009, one of the largest open art competitions in Hong Kong presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department and organised by the Hong Kong Museum of Art, has selected 14 winners from more than [Read More]

Independent charity The Art Fund today announces that it has given £80,000 towards a bold, new installation by critically acclaimed potter Edmund de Waal for the central dome of the V&A’s new Ceramics Galleries. It will be unveiled when the galleries open [Read More]