Yearly Archives: 2009

This high quality coffee table book contains more than 400 original colour photographs. The winners were announced at the 2009 Book Expo America in New York. This is the second Gold Award for the author, Simhananda.
The photographs in this volume of transformative photography are somewhat like little wake-up calls or soul-ar beams rousing us into […]

Centaur Art galleries is pleased to present the art work of Andy Warhol, who passed away in 1987, and his former assistant, Steve Kaufman. The exhibition of the “Master” and his “student”, reunited at last and exhibited together, is Centaur Art Galleries [Read More]

“Mysterious and Real”, a collection of works by: Lauren Curtis, George Baylov, Galina Torodova, Iliyan Ivanov, and Robert Aitchison. Each of these artists distinctively examines mysticism and abstraction within the natural world, encouraging the viewer to explore his or her own sense [Read More]

The Buchanan Museum of Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening of its summer Front Street Exhibit featuring several works created by figurative expressionist artist David J. Padworny. The Front Street Exhibit is the Buchanan Museum’s most widely viewed installation, with [Read More]

Mexico’s National Museum of Anthropology Board conducted on June 9th 2009 the first silent art auction, with the aim of raising funds to modernize infrastructure and conserve collections. >Marcos Fastlicht, president of the board, inaugurated the modern and contemporary art auction and [Read More]

Further expanding the firm’s extensive depth of knowledge in the field of European Paintings, the New York galleries of international auctioneers Bonhams has named Taline Nicole Aynilian Senior Specialist with an emphasis in Orientalist Paintings and Sculpture. States Deborah Coy, Director of [Read More]

Tate Modern presents the first major survey in the UK of the work of the Danish artist Per Kirkeby (b. 1938). The exhibition will explore the exceptional diversity of Kirkeby’s career spanning four decades. Focusing on key moments in the artist’s oeuvre, [Read More]

The next time you turn on the faucet to get a drink, just imagine all the species, mammoth or microscopic, that this single resource sustains. Water is life-giving, yet finite. In parts of the world water is taken for granted; in others, [Read More]

The Joan Miró Foundation is presenting Miró – Dupin. Art and Poetry, an exhibition to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Joan Miró that examines the artist’s close relationship and affinity with Jacques Dupin. Joan Mrió, The diamond smiles at [Read More]

Balloon Rabbit Wall Relief (Magenta) on view June 23 The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the installation of artist Jeff Koons’ Balloon Rabbit Wall Relief (Magenta) in Sculpture Hall. On view beginning June 23, visitors can take in Koons’ 9-foot-6-inch tall wall [Read More]

The Montgomery Mall and the Lansdale Center for the Performing Arts have teamed up to offer a “Rhythm and Arts Summer Concert Series.” Beginning on June 26, 2009, performers from the Center will come to the mall weekly and feature their talents [Read More]

In appreciation for a group of paintings that the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is lending next year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is reciprocating with paintings from the Hudson River School. The Hudson River School is one of the [Read More]

New Photography 2009 is a thematic presentation of significant recent work in photography that examines and expands the conventional definitions of the medium. Although the six artists represent diverse points of view, working methods, and pictorial modes ranging from abstract to representational, [Read More]

Lower Belvedere 9 June to 11 October 2009 Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793 – 1865) was one of the most important Austrian painters of the Biedermeier period. Whether it was the conquest of the landscape and thus the convincing rendering of closeness or [Read More]