Yearly Archives: 2009

Andrew Wyeth, arguably one of America’s most famous artists, died in 2009 at the age of 91. The Dayton Art Institute placed on view, for a limited time, Wyeth’s painting, Ring Road of 1985, in recognition of the artist’s enormous legacy. Andrew [Read More]

Friedrichshafen Airport has a new landmark: the Dornier Aerospace Museum Friedrichshafen depicts the fascination of flying in a spectacular way and merges it with the company history of Dornier. The museum was planned by Munich architects Allmann Sattler Wappner, the arrangement of [Read More]

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art is delighted to announce a new media partnership with international satellite broadcaster BSkyB’s arts channel Sky Arts. The joint venture began in October 09, centers on Baltic’s autumn season and culminates in a documentary Sky Arts at [Read More]

One of the major events at Sotheby’s this Autumn promises to be the sale in Paris on December 8 of a unique work by Jeff Koons: “Elephant” (Purple), donated by the artist to the Foundation Claude Pompidou in 2009. This masterpiece from [Read More]

Fifteen masterworks from the collection of Helen E. Band estate brought in a combined $10,494,024, and with the other 84 lots in Heffel’s second session of Fine Canadian Art, totaled $17.5-million. The first session featuring Canadian Post-War and Contemporary Art that occurred [Read More]

Sotheby’s auction of Swiss Art will be held in Zurich, on Monday, 7th December 2009, at 6pm. Urs Lanter and Stéphanie Schleining Deschanel, Specialists of Swiss Art at Sotheby’s, will offer 123 lots spanning more than 250 years of Swiss artistic history. [Read More]

“Photographs” is the first major survey of the work of American artist Zoe Leonard. In addition to early works from the 1980s and 1990s, the MUMOK exhibition will include “Analogue”, a series of 412 photographs produced between 1998 and 2009 in which [Read More]

Being one of the important addresses of contemporary art in Turkey since 2004, Siemens Sanat is going to host an unprecedented group exhibition in December. Curated by Murteza Fidan and T. Melih Gorgun, Melancholy of Compassion will meet the art lovers between [Read More]

Fillmore Poster, Inc. (www.fillmoreposter.com), the world’s largest dealer in vintage rock ‘n’ roll concert posters, is pleased to announce that its November auction of rare and unusual sixties posters, handbills, and other memorabilia closed on November 22 with strong prices realized in [Read More]

Bonhams New York is pleased to present the Arnold Smoller Collection of Contemporary Livres d’Artiste. A wonderfully astute and varied assemblage of nearly 200 volumes, the collection spans several decades of American and international art. It includes experimental works made of such [Read More]

The first U.S. retrospective of the work of Belgian contemporary artist Luc Tuymans—and the most comprehensive presentation of his work to date—will be on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) from February 6 through May 2, 2010, in [Read More]

Recently on View in Europe, the Work Is Considered Among the Morgan’s Finest Treasures “The Hours of Catherine of Cleves”, a fifteenth-century Dutch manuscript that is among the most beautiful and sophisticated illuminated works ever created, is the subject of a major [Read More]

Sotheby’s Paris will offer Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary works from the collection of Pierre Leroy, Co-Managing Partner of Groupe Lagardère. Pierre Leroy’s collection of books and manuscripts is already world renowned; now his modern art collection will be unveiled for the first [Read More]

Working in ambiguously narrative photography and video, Carrie Schneider mines the complexities of relationships — both romantic and familial — nature, and the self. Her images, which often depict herself and her brother, are quietly mysterious and anxiety-provoking as they seductively probe [Read More]