Yearly Archives: 2009

Philip Weiss Auctions will offer a Girlando Marsiglia Painting in their multi-estate sale slated for the weekend of Jan. 22-24, 2010. “Girlando Marsiglia was one of the fifteen founders of the National Academy and a renowned Hudson River School painter,” Mr. Weiss [Read More]

New York / Berlin, – From November 10-19 artnet Auctions is featuring Faces & Figures, a special sale of 375 photographs by 185 renowned modern & contemporary artists. The works offered in the sale celebrate the human form as seen through the [Read More]

Kunsthandel Jörg Maaß announces the first European solo exhibition of the photographer Charles Johnstone, born in 1952 in New York. Color photographs from Johnstone’s Havana 2006 series, covering the years 2006-2007, will be on view. In the upcoming year, Johnstone’s Havana project [Read More]

Glowlab is pleased to present The Eventuality of Daybreak, a solo exhibition by Alex Lukas featuring a new series of post-apocalyptic urban landscapes that blur the visual boundaries of fiction and reality. Glowlab will host a reception for the artist on Thursday, [Read More]

Bonhams New York’s December 2nd American Paintings sale will be marked by the offering of a number of distinguished private collections as well as rare and exceptional paintings, many drawing their inspiration from the South. Of the over 100 lots to be [Read More]

In a packed saleroom in New Bond Street last Thursday, Bonhams Fine Japanese Art sale delivered some spectacular prices which culminated in a sale total of over £1,700,000. With well over 80% of the lots sold by value, the auction not only [Read More]

In addition to the Mary and Geroge Bloch Collection of Lin Fengmian paintings, the sale of Fine Chinese Paintings and Contemporary Asian Art offer 77 lots. Highlights are two oil paintings from Lin Fengmian from the Chinese Opera Series- Female Warrior of [Read More]

Jason McCoy Inc. is pleased to present a multi-media installation by Rachel Hovnanian. This ambitious presentation expands Hovnanian’s ongoing exploration of the seductive quality of memories and deep stereotypes as they pertain to beauty. It also reflects the artist’s lifelong struggle to [Read More]

Born in 1927 in Berlin, Arno Fischer is one of the most important German photographers. In the 1950s he worked in East Berlin, reflecting like no other the situation of the divided city. Working as a fashion photographer, he produced highly influential [Read More]

From November 11, 2009 through February 12, 2010, Hines, the international real estate firm, is sponsoring “The Altered Landscape,” an environmentally themed art exhibition, in the Lobby Gallery at 499 Park Avenue, New York City, the 28 story, Energy Star rated, office [Read More]

Velázquez Rediscovered, a special exhibition opening November 17 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will feature a newly identified painting by Velázquez, Portrait of a Man, formerly ascribed by the Museum to the workshop of Velázquez and recently reattributed to the master [Read More]

This winter, the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania hosts a major travelling exhibition featuring the work and life of Edward Weston (1886-1958), one of the great American photographers. Edward Weston: Life Work is on view in the Museum’s new [Read More]

Offered for Auction for the First Time at Bonhams and Goodman in Melbourne ‘As one might expect, this chess game of a painting can be played and understood on many levels: firstly, the immemorial chess structure that underlies the conception of the [Read More]

Christie’s announced the sale of 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe on November 24, which will include over 450 treasures from the 16th to the 19th centuries. With a range of estimates, the sale offers superb private and institutional collections such as carpets [Read More]