Yearly Archives: 2009

Phoenix Ancient Art, the world’s leading dealer in rare treasures from ancient Western civilizations, announced today that it has voluntarily repatriated 251 antiquities valued at $2.7 Million (EU 2Million) to the State of Italy. “We returned these ancient artifacts in the spirit [Read More]

Hearst Art Gallery at Saint Mary’s College will present California in Relief: A History in Wood and Linocut Prints, on view July 25 – September 13, 2009. California in Relief presents a historical survey of relief prints in Northern California. Relief prints [Read More]

The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is presenting the work of nine Bay Area artists in its NextNew exhibition that features work from emerging talent on the region’s contemporary art scene. This year’s show subtitled Green, surveys fresh perspectives on [Read More]

From May 30 to September 7, 2009, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities, an exhibition that examines the relationship between the work of two of America’s most celebrated artists, as well as [Read More]

Since 1971, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart has been in the possession of a chief work of Pre-Raphaelite painting: Perseus , a cycle consisting of eight paintings and studies by Edward Burne-Jones. This is the most important Edward Burne-Jones collection in Germany is to [Read More]

Neotrope(R) Press announced today the publication of the limited edition of “Fractopia” (ISBN: 978-0-9710555-0-6, hardcover), by digital artist Christopher Laird Simmons. The book collects the best of Simmons’ abstract images created by combining fractal imagery with photographic effects, textures and hand-applied layers. [Read More]

ART ASIA, a premier international Asian contemporary art fair is launching its second edition in the Rhine Art District in Basel, Switzerland. ART ASIA Basel will be open daily from June 8-14, 2009 from 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm with Vernissage on [Read More]

As part of PHotoEspaña 2009, the Exhibit Hall Channel of Isabel II presents Sergey Bratkov (Glory Days). Sergey Bratkov’s work is directly influenced by the marked realism that he has absorbed from the Ukrainian artist Boris Mikhailov. He reflects the misery omnipresent [Read More]

To celebrate the expansion and reinstallation of the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens presents an exhibition of works from American photographer Karen Halverson’s Colorado River series, on view May 30 through Sept. [Read More]

The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, presents its newest exhibition Focus on Color: The Photography of Jeannette Klute, from Saturday, June 20, 2009, through Sunday, September 27, 2009. The exhibition features a series of twenty-four color photographs by Jeannette Klute, a pioneering [Read More]

The astonishing mystery surrounding Paolo Veronese’s historic work The Petrobelli Altarpiece will be solved when this enigmatically beautiful painting by celebrated Venetian Renaissance artist, Paolo Veronese, is unveiled to the public at the National Gallery of Canada on May 29, 2009. Fragments [Read More]

Campari®, the legendary one-of-a-kind spirit, announced today a new range of contemporary art initiatives bolstering its role as both a modern patron and muse for the visual arts. Through its patronage, Campari seeks to support and highlight the work of emerging artists [Read More]

BLACK & WHITE GALLERY is pleased to host COMMUNE – group exhibition organized by the independent curator and critic Dominique Nahas. COMMUNE brings together twenty four nationally and internationally recognized artists whose diverse and surprising works examine networks of forces brought to [Read More]

More than 800 lots of fresh-to-the-market merchandise, in a broad array of categories, will be sold at a two-day Historic Hillsborough Auction the weekend of June 13-14 by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. It is the grand opening event for [Read More]