Yearly Archives: 2009

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum will offer a snapshot of Tom Sachs’s work that focuses exclusively on cameras, opening on June 21, 2009. Tom Sachs, Untitled (CE Wood Hasselblad), 2008. Courtesy of the artist and Sperone Westwater, New York. For many years, [Read More]

Mexican artist Diego Rivera (1886-1957) spent several critical years early in his career in Paris, during World War I, where he immersed himself in literary and art circles and enthusiastically embraced the Cubist movement. While his Cubist works experimented with a range [Read More]

An exhibition gathering 220 pictures of important culture and showbusiness figures, works made to order and images showing family intimacy of Annie Leibovitz. The exhibition gets to Madrid after having been in the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, the National [Read More]

The La Caixa Foundation has cleaned the dust from its contemporary art collection, which was started in 1985, to show at CaixaForum in Barcelona the revitalization the painting experienced in the 1980s from the hand of artists such as Miquel Barceló and [Read More]

Avisca Fine Art Gallery presents “Images of Zora”, an exhibition by New York artist Ann Tanksley of monoprints, monotypes and paintings inspired by the life and work of the writer Zora Neale Hurston. The exhibition opens with a reception for the artist [Read More]

The new Acropolis Museum has opened. It is located 300 meters from the famous ruins, and cost $181 million to build. Today, the new Acropolis Museum has a total area of 25,000 square meters, with exhibition space of over 14,000 square meters, [Read More]

On June 22, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will launch the Guggenheim Forum, a new series of moderated online discussions among experts from a variety of fields that will occur in conjunction with major museum exhibitions. Each Guggenheim Forum will span two [Read More]

As traditional photography processes are passing into history, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film and the Image Permanence Institute (IPI) at Rochester Institute of Technology are launching a Center for the Legacy of Photography. The Center, made possible by [Read More]

Art New England, the region’s leading visual arts magazine, has been acquired by New Venture Media Group LLC, publishers of the bi-weekly visitors’ magazine Panorama The Official Guide to Boston, and the Boston edition of the world-renowned theater program Playbill. With offices [Read More]

On Sunday, October 18, 2009, in Paris Enchères Rive Gauche will put some one hundred Asian works from the Vérité Collection up for auction at Hôtel Drouot. Started in the 1920s by Pierre and Suzanne Vérité and then expanded by Claude and [Read More]

While the auction of the Honorable Paul H. Buchanan Jr. Collection of American Art was taking place at Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas, TX, on Wednesday night, June 10, it was a strong core of top-notch Hudson River School paintings that was [Read More]

A promising week with busy viewing attendance and a healthy level of interest came to an exciting conclusion on Wednesday evening. The final few hours of the auction of British Contemporary Ceramics, the first in an ongoing series of Contemporary Ceramics auctions [Read More]

The exhibition Voyages: The Art of Evelyn Metzger is on view at the James W. Palmer III Gallery through Friday, July 31, with an opening reception on June 25, 5–6:30pm. Evelyn Metzger (1912-2007), Street Market, Hong Kong, 1993, Oil on panel, 24 [Read More]

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts will exhibit works in black and white by more than thirty artists, many of whom have been associated with the history of the gallery, which was founded in 1971. The exhibition highlights how these artists use the qualities [Read More]