Yearly Archives: 2009

This January, DeCordova Sculpture Park + Museum proudly announces the inaugural presentation of The DeCordova Biennial, a new exhibition featuring the work of seventeen New England artists. This exhibition will take over the majority of the Museum, offering visitors a unique opportunity [Read More]

L.S. Lowry’s painting of the village that inspired Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights will go under the hammer on 1st July at Bonhams New Bond Street Sale of 20th Century British Art estimated at up to £180,000. The painting is one of four [Read More]

Michelangelo’s First Painting, a special exhibition beginning June 16 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, presents The Torment of Saint Anthony, the first known painting by Michelangelo Buonarroti (Florence 1475- Rome 1564), believed to have been created when he was 12 or [Read More]

The large-scale paintings by Ursula Schneider are based on her observations of the Hudson River, the architecture of the Indian Point Energy Center, a n uclear power plant in Buchanan, New York , and the intrusion of industrial barges on the 150%; [Read More]

The Hayward Gallery’s 2009 summer exhibition continues the recent tradition of inviting high profile and up-and-coming artists from around the world to transform the Gallery’s unique outdoor and indoor exhibition spaces. This year, ten artists have been selected to show works that [Read More]

The Beijing 798 Biennale will bring the works of more than 70 artists to China’s capital, focusing on video, photography, installation, performance, audio, site-specific works, and other new art forms. Starting with an opening reception on August 15 and running through September [Read More]

Heffel Fine Art Auction House set a new record sale price when a rare Emily Carr painting sold for $2,164,500 in the second session of Heffel’s Live Spring Auction. Wind in the Treetops, a 36-1/2 x 21-1/4 inch oil on canvas, circa [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields will hold its Fall auction of 20th Century Decorative Arts on September 28, 2009. The Los Angeles sale will feature a diverse group of Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Mid-Century Modern, with a focus on Contemporary [Read More]

Struggling for the Banner is the first major presentation of the period of “new leftist” art in the USSR, and especially that from the period of the “cultural revolution” (1928-1932), when the struggle against the passive, contemplative, purely aesthetic, and formal side [Read More]

Internationally known independent glass artist Mark Matthews will be a special guest artist July 17-19 at the Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion. In addition to a glassblowing workshop, the artist will give a public presentation. Matthews works are part of the [Read More]

The new Ketterer Kunst headquarters next to Messe Munich are certainly impressive. The House for Art deploys 3500 m2 of surface area, which includes a spacious auction room, light-filled exhibition rooms and a library with some 1000 m of shelf space. A [Read More]

On view now through September 6, 2009 at the Norton Museum of Art , Off the Wall: The Human Form in Sculpture features American and European sculpture based on the theme of the figure and dating from the late the 1800s to [Read More]

In connection with the exhibition Expanding Horizons: Painting and Photography of American and Canadian Landscape 1860-1918, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting Frédéric Back: One with Nature, from June 18 to September 27, 2009. Atelier Frederic Black – Mount Royal, [Read More]

Inspired by the current exhibition The Old, Weird America On Thursday, June 25, DeCordova will host a panel discussion featuring exhibiting artists Barnaby Furnas and Matthew Day Jackson as well as Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Curator Toby Kamps, Boston-based writer and critic [Read More]