Yearly Archives: 2009

Modern masterworks by celebrated artists including Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse will be featured in an upcoming University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA)-organized exhibition at the Figge Art Museum, 225 West Second St. in downtown Davenport, IA. The exhibition, [Read More]

Russian-born painter Lana Lucas will bring her modern surrealistic watercolor paintings to the InterArt Gallery from May 19-30 in an exhibition that is sure to stir deep emotions and heighten the visual senses. “All of my surrealistic paintings tap the inner feelings [Read More]

Visitors from Germany, Japan, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, Italy and France were present at the opening of the Frida Kahlo exhibition “a Ribbon around a Bomb” in Baden-Baden. The exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund, shows 113 Frida Kahlo oil paintings, licensed replicas from [Read More]

One Colorado’s bi-annual Art + Design Open Market will take place on Sunday, May 3, 2009, 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. The one day event will host over 100 artists in the central Courtyard and pedestrian alleys, which is larger than any [Read More]

The Booth Western Art Museum opens “Wild at Heart: Selections from the National Museum of Wildlife Art” on April 11. The exhibition features over 70 works of art from the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s permanent collection in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and [Read More]

This exhibition offers, for the first time in 25 years, a comprehensive overview of the work of Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky, documenting the key periods of his artistic career (Munich, Paris / Munich/ Moscow / Weimar, Dessau, Berlin / Paris) through a [Read More]

Andreas Gursky’s photographs are celebrated as some of the most compelling images of our modern world. The Vancouver Art Gallery will be the only North American museum to present Andreas Gursky: Werke/Works 80-08 the largest and most comprehensive exhibition to survey this [Read More]

Two new exhibitions of photographs, Landmarks of New York, curated by Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, and Harlem 1970-2009: Photographs by Camilo José Vergara, will be on view at the New-York Historical Society from April 30 through July 12, 2009, offering visitors contrasting yet complementary [Read More]

Christie’s has announced the upcoming sale of Pablo Picasso’s Femme au chapeau from 1971, a monumental portrait from the private collection of acclaimed artist and Oscarnominated director Julian Schnabel. This iconic portrait, the largest Picasso created in his last years, will be [Read More]

Aberdeen Auction Galleries of St. Petersburg, FL achieved excellent results in the March 14 online sale of European art. The top lot of the sale was a 19½ by 24in oil on canvas signed by Alexei Petrovich Bogolubov (Russian, 1824-1896). In the [Read More]

The German expression “Drunter und drüber”, which we might best understand as ‘topsy-turvy’, is possibly the most fitting description of the work of Harald Winter. Literally translated this phrase means “under and over”; things randomly scattered, lying around, on top of, and [Read More]

Prizes Include $20,000 Stipend, Art Show and Private Consultation with an Art Dealer Calling all artists! New York City developer Alchemy Properties invites local artists to enter a mural design competition to create a mural that will be displayed on the side [Read More]

American artist Chris Burden will display a number of sculptures and installations at the Middelheim Museum summer exhibition this year. He will furthermore perform the spectacular live installation of Beam Drop Antwerp – in which steel beams will be dropped into concrete [Read More]

Artist and writer Harland Miller presents a collection of paintings and montages at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art from Friday 22 May to Sunday 19 July 2009. These works, located on the ground floor, have been made or adapted, specifically for BALTIC [Read More]