Yearly Archives: 2009

On 30th November at Bonhams New Bond Street will host the sale of Russian Art, featuring the eminent names of both Aivazovsky and Fabergé. The first painting by Aivazovsky, whose career spanned almost the entire 19th century, is named “The Morning Catch”. [Read More]

A selling exhibition of David Bailey’s iconic images of the 1960s – the 50th anniversary of a decade that changed our cultural history – will be hosted by Bonhams in New Bond Street The ‘Pure Sixties. Pure Bailey.’ exhibition will be on [Read More]

After years of planning and gathering donations ranging from a couple of dollars to millions, the Museum of Nature & Science celebrated “the ultimate dig” on Nov. 18 by breaking ground on the $185-million museum to be constructed at Victory Park. Approximately [Read More]

In an exhibition entitled “Idyll in an Obstructed Landscape”, to run from February 26 until May 16, 2010, Kunsthaus Zürich presents the work of the painter and poet Salomon Gessner, a long-time resident of Zurich. The show reconstructs Gessner’s cabinet, the cornerstone [Read More]

The winner of the prestigious Aspect Prize, the premier award for Scottish artists and one of Britain’s largest independently funded art prizes, is to be announced at a reception at The Fleming Collection in London on 11 January 2010. Four of Scotland’s [Read More]

International Poster Gallery announces its 16th annual holiday poster show “Winter Delights”. Now a Newbury Street holiday tradition, the show features a wide variety of original vintage posters and smaller graphics, with designs running the gamut of both price and personal taste. [Read More]

Prominent private and institutional collections are the source for a stellar line-up of works to be offered at Christie’s sale of Important American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture on December 2, 2009 in New York. Lead highlights of the sale include a significant [Read More]

Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature New York artist, Brian Reed, in Metamorphosis. The exhibition is scheduled to run from November 20, 2009 through December 11, 2009 (opening reception: Thursday, December 3, 2009). New York-based artist, Brian Reed’s work moves between extremes that [Read More]

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute has announced the acquisition of a major nineteenth-century landscape painting by Pierre Étienne Théodore Rousseau. The acquisition brings to the public one of the greatest Barbizon School paintings, Farm in the Landes (House of the [Read More]

Premier and Arts Minister Anna Bligh today announced a landmark five-year partnership between Santos and the Queensland Art Gallery, making it the Gallery’s leading corporate partner. Ms Bligh said Santos, one of Australia’s top 20 companies, will be the presenting sponsor for [Read More]

Heidi Klum has been transformed into 1,000 little pieces in Editions Ricordi’s newest limited-edition puzzle, ‘Couture Banquet’. The puzzle features a stunning photo of the supermodel captured by ‘Fashion and Celebrity’ Photographer Ruven Afanador. Creating an imaginative way to experience and enjoy [Read More]

Foam presents an exhibition of work by a new generation of photographers who work with the medium of photography in a refreshingly uninhibited, unconventional and sometimes slightly anarchist way. Five young Dutch photographers: Constant Dullaart, Katja Mater, Jaap Scheeren, Corriette Schoenaerts and [Read More]

Sotheby’s December 3 sale in Paris reflects a successful encounter between several African art enthusiasts – two collectors, a journalist and a scientist – united by the fate of an exceptional Dogon figure (Plateau of Bandiagara, Mali) that had been split into [Read More]

“An artist’s aim should be the transmission of emotion”. – Rupert Bunny Rupert Bunny (1864–1947) was one of the most successful expatriate artists of his generation. No other Australian artist achieved the critical acclaim that he enjoyed in Paris. An erudite painter [Read More]