Yearly Archives: 2009

The Fenimore Art Museum has announced a new traveling exhibition entitled “The Thaw Collection: Masterpieces of American Indian Art.” This major exhibition is currently scheduled to travel to three cities, bringing to light rarely seen treasures from the extensive holdings of The [Read More]

In her still and subdued works, Rinko Kawauchi (1972), one of the most celebrated Japanese photographers of her generation – tries to capture the brief and transient beauty of the everyday things we often overlook. Playing on such themes as the family [Read More]

From December 2009 to February 2010, the kestnergesellschaft is presenting an extensive solo exhibition by the Austrian-German artist Elke Krystufek. Elke Krystufek, who represented Austria at the Venice Biennale in 2009 along with Dorit Margreiter and Franziska and Lois Weinberger, stands in [Read More]

The Ecotone exhibition brings together 7 artists of different generations and backgrounds to explore the theme of “betweenness” the transient nature of things, migrations, dualities, confluents, yet also the intrinsic paradox of photography itself in terms of its positioning in a world [Read More]

The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) is to participate in “¡Sí Cuba!” a major citywide presentation of arts, music, and culture related to Cuba taking place in New Orleans January through April 2010. ¡Sí Cuba! is a collaborative venture between museums, [Read More]

The Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut will present Tula Telfair: Landscapes in Counterpoint. Open April 24 through June 27 2010. The exhibition pairs nine new monumental paintings by the artist with her selection of nineteenth and early twentieth-century paintings from [Read More]

Malcolm Rogers, Ann and Graham Gund Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has announced the appointment of Jen Mergel as the MFA’s Beal Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art. Mergel, who will join the Museum in February 2010, is [Read More]

From 29 May 2010 Yorkshire Sculpture Park will present a rich and extensive exhibition of work by David Nash, tracing the evolution of the artist’s forty year career and offering a vivid statement of his life’s work. Sculpture, installation and drawings will [Read More]

The Baltimore Museum of Art’s new exhibition, Cézanne and American Modernism, brings together 16 dazzling landscapes, still lifes, and portraits by the French master with more than 80 paintings, watercolors, and photographs by artists such as Max Weber, Alfred Stieglitz, and Marsden [Read More]

Nature Observed spotlights the Gallery’s collection of Dutch paintings, which for many years have constituted a modestly-sized yet excellent component of the institution’s European holdings. Several of the works came to the Art Gallery of Hamilton as offerings from historic AGH patrons, [Read More]

The Board of Trustees of Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art has recently announced new officers for the board of trustees and seven new members. “All of these new trustees bring to Cheekwood a wealth of experience with issues of great [Read More]

This positive result is credited in part to the exhibitions Van Gogh and the colours of the night and Van Gogh’s letters: The artist speaks (which runs through 3 January 2010). The former exhibition is part of the Letters project launched in [Read More]

New York-based artist Christopher J. Wilson reveals his inaugural series, The Global Citizen Project, portraits linked through one theme: the global footprint of New York City residents. Through photorealistic portraiture and first-person narratives, this series magnifies immigration and the global diaspora of [Read More]

(ORLANDO, Fla.) – Baterbys Art Auction Gallery has been named Best Art Galley for 2009 by an arts and entertainment magazine (Orlando Style Magazine) and a website dedicated to arts and entertainment (SneakySunday.com). For Orlando Style Magazine, Baterbys placed first in a [Read More]