Yearly Archives: 2009

The Singapore Art Museum (SAM) is proud to present TransportASIAN, its first photography exhibition featuring Southeast Asian-based artists. The composite term, TransportASIAN captures travel in time and space within Asia. The works not only document the history of transportation in Asia, they [Read More]

The World Upside Down is one in which the symbolic order is turned on its head. It is a world visualized by artists where killer rabbits hunt humans and Superman is a hero of the Soviet Union. It is the Planet of [Read More]

Punta della Dogana, the new art center for contemporary art of the François Pinault Foundation, opens its doors after fourteen months of renovation entrusted to the Japanese architect Tadao Ando. The first exhibition Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection, [Read More]

Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present, the first major museum exhibition to acknowledge photographers for their creative and collaborative role in the history of rock and roll, will be on view at the Brooklyn Museum from [Read More]

Houston’s 2009 Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park’s record-breaking tickets sales and sponsorships generated the greatest proceeds ever from one Festival — $129,501 — to distribute to its 16 Non-profit Partner organizations, emerging artists program and the City of Houston and its [Read More]

The Museum at FIT presents Fashion & Politics, a new exhibition in its Fashion and Textile History Gallery. Fashion & Politics is an exploration of more than 200 years of politics as expressed through fashion. In this setting, the term “politics” not [Read More]

Each year, the National Endowment for the Arts honors folk artists, storytellers, performers, and musicians throughout the United States for their contributions to traditional art forms. The National Heritage Fellows demonstrate artistic excellence and a commitment to their art forms through their [Read More]

Richard Harrington’s and John Treichler’s exhibit Dusty, Dirty, and Delayed opens Friday, July 10th at the Artists’ Gallery in Lambertville, NJ. A reception with the artists will be held on Saturday, July 18th from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. The exhibit runs through [Read More]

Artist Ruth Segaloff remarks, “My art stresses the importance of honoring our memories. By so doing, I believe that art has the power to change the course of history. Into every piece, I incorporate found objects. What each piece has in common [Read More]

Imagekind.com, the world’s fastest-growing online community for creating, buying and selling custom framed artwork and photography, today announced the ability for fans of the “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” book series to purchase the book cover art as high end framed prints and posters on their site. At Imagekind, shoppers can purchase framed and canvas […]

The International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair has been a standing event in New York and Chicago. SOFA WEST premiers in Santa Fe June 11 to 14 and will feature 35 international dealers. SOFA focuses on three-dimensional, contemporary art works and [Read More]

Rare works by top Russian artists Konstantin Somov, Alexei Harlamoff and Nikolai Bogdanov-Bel’sky are just some of the lots at the Russian sale at Bonhams New Bond Street on Monday 8 June. One important piece set to go under the hammer is [Read More]

Interest from European and American collectors and dealers was particularly noticeable in Bloomsbury’s recent Posters sale on 28th May. Transport and sport played a big part in the auction; luxury travel of the 1920s was especially popular and The Golden Arrow, Cie [Read More]

The show features more than 140 images of the most emblematic works of the author of Migrant mother, performed in the 30’s and the 40’s. Dorothea Lange is a fundamental point of reference in documentary photography. Her images portray the protagonists of [Read More]