Monthly Archives: September 2009

From September 29th to January 10th 2010, the Museo Thyssen-Bournemisza will be hosting a retrospective of the French painter Henri Fantin-Latour. Organised in collaboration with the Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, it his the first time his work has been showcased in [Read More]

The Art Institute of Chicago will be offering visitors the rare opportunity to view one of Caravaggio’s masterworks from October 10, 2009 to January 31, 2010. Coming from the National Gallery, London, The Supper at Emmaus is one of the most highly [Read More]

The Chakra Shack, announced today that it will hold an exclusive online showing of the paintings of world-renowned artist Paul Heussenstamm. Heussenstamm, a third-generation artist, specializes in works of spiritual art, ranging from Hindu mandalas and yantras to Christian paintings and works [Read More]

The Children’s Cancer and Blood Foundation (CCBF) is proud to be hosting its second annual Contemporary Art Auction on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at Sotheby’s New York, beginning at 6pm. Auction proceeds will support the work of the Children’s Cancer & Blood [Read More]

Phillips de Pury & Company presents LATIN AMERICA, a theme auction offering a cross section of quality works of contemporary art, design and photographs for sale on October 3rd at the company’s Chelsea galleries in New York. Building on the success of [Read More]

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591-1666), who came from Cento near Bologna and was called “Il Guercino” by his contemporaries because of his squint, is one of the most important artists of the Italian Baroque era In the course of his career as an [Read More]

The Graphic Imperative is a select retrospective of forty years of international sociopolitical posters. Themes include dissent, liberation, racism, sexism, human rights, civil rights, environmental and health concerns, AIDS, war, literacy, and tolerance, and collectively provide a glimpse into an age of [Read More]

The Museum of Modern Art presents a weeklong run of Joan Braderman’s The Heretics from October 9 to 15, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters. The Heretics reveals the inside story of Heresies, a feminist art collective that was at the [Read More]

London Club of Dickens, Swinburne, Millais, Whistler, Kipling, Monet, Rodin, Degas, Turgenev, Lutyens and Sir Alfred Munnings Sells Pictures ‘The Arts Club Sale: Selected pictures from the Club and Members’ will take place in London on Tuesday, 10th November at Bonhams in [Read More]

Sotheby’s will offer for sale Property from the Collection of Mary Schiller Myers and Louis S. Myers, noted collectors and arts benefactors from Akron, Ohio. Over a period of 40 years Mrs. Myers, with her husband, assembled a classic collection of Contemporary [Read More]

The Museum of Latin American Art will host Auction 09, a significant auction of modern and contemporary Latin American art on October 17, 2009. The auction will feature more than 120 museum quality works of art including paintings, sculptures, works on paper [Read More]

Fourteen contemporary artists have created works about Mary Magdalene for Gallery Met, inspired by the company’s new production of Puccini’s Tosca, which opens the 2009-10 season on September 21. The exhibition Something about Mary features original works by Hugh Bush, Paul Chan, [Read More]

Returning for the third and final time during Frieze week, The Free Art Fair promises to be bigger, better and more fun than ever. Staged at the Barbican Centre, The Free Art Fair will use the format of a curated museum scale [Read More]

Sotheby’s Hong Kong will hold its 20th Century Chinese Art Autumn Sale 2009 on 6 October, offering collectors a superb opportunity to acquire rare and premium works by some of the most celebrated and important 20th century Chinese artists. A total of [Read More]