Yearly Archives: 2009

The collection of J D Smith Fine Art has recently been expanded to include original prints by several masters of French Impressionism. This is a significant development for the gallery as it persistently strives to make high quality works of fine art [Read More]

White Cube is pleased to present nineteen new paintings by Damien Hirst. The exhibition will be staged at White Cube Mason’s Yard and White Cube Hoxton Square through 30 Jan 2010. Damien Hirst, The Crow, 2009. Oil on canvas. Triptych. Each: 98 [Read More]

Sotheby’s auction of American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture on 3 December 2009 will offer collectors a rich array of works by American artists from the 19th and 20th centuries. The auction includes a number of major paintings and sculptures almost entirely unknown [Read More]

Sotheby’s London sale of Victorian and Edwardian Art on Thursday, December 17, 2009 will bring together some 100 works by leading artists of the era and is expected to raise in excess of £4.2 million. Among the categories of works to be [Read More]

When Heritage Auctions presents its Signature® 20th Century Design Auction to New York City, on Dec. 10, 2009, it will be a celebration of the style, international flair and timelessness of the great designers and design movements of the century just passed. [Read More]

Reynolda House Museum of American Art’s exhibition “American Expatriates: Cassatt, Sargent, and Whistler” will open Dec. 5, 2009 and will remain on view through Apr. 25, 2010 in the Northeast Bedroom Gallery. “American Expatriates” focuses on the art of a group of [Read More]

The Christmas tree and Neapolitan Baroque crèche at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a long-established yuletide tradition in New York, will be on view for the holiday season from November 24, 2009, through January 6, 2010. The brightly lit, 20-foot blue spruce [Read More]

The BBC and the British Museum have joined forces in an original and unprecedented public service partnership, focusing on world history. At its heart is a landmark series on BBC Radio 4, ‘A History of the World in 100 Objects’ which will [Read More]

For some time now the term *Hot Pot*, a traditional dish with chicken and pepper, is synonymous for the fast developing neighborhood of galleries around Moganshan Road. This area, also called M 50, consists of narrow alleys and old industrial buildings, and [Read More]

Art­expo New York, the world’s largest pop­u­lar and fine art fair is return­ing in 2010 with a brand new look and new loca­tion. From March 25 – March 28, fol­low­ing The Armory Show and The Archi­tec­tural Digest Show, Art­expo New York will [Read More]

Art Books by David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Vija Celmins, and Olafur Eliasson amongst those Offered 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 [Read More]

Gallery KH is pleased to present Invoking the Unknown a rich collection of new abstracts by artist Rick Stevens, opening December 4 through February 22, 2010. An opening night cocktail reception is scheduled for Friday, December 4, 2009, 5-8PM. “We are thrilled [Read More]

On December 8 Christie’s celebrates New York’s Historical Design Gallery and surveys the entire modern movement with selected iconic designs spanning the late 19th, 20th and 21st centuries including French ceramics, New York related objects, Scandinavian Design, photographs, American Mid-Century Design and [Read More]

This year’s fall auctions at Villa Grisebach Auktionen in Berlin start off on 26 November 2009 with over 180 lots for sale in Modern and Contemporary photography. After the successful spring sale of photographs of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s architecture, Grisebach [Read More]