Yearly Archives: 2009

As part of London’s Kazakh Art Festival, which will provide the Kazakh community in London with the opportunity to convene and share Kazakhstan’s cultural heritage with the London’s fast-growing international community, Sotheby’s announced that it will host an exhibition of 30 artworks [Read More]

An extensive single-owner collection of over 800 lots and 3,000 individual items, amassed during the height of the Northern Ireland conflict, will go up for sale at a two-day no-reserve auction at Bonhams Edinburgh on 11th and 12th November. One of the [Read More]

“Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos and Toys in the Attic” is an exhibition of enlarged photographs and models that transport both adults and children into a magical world. The exhibition opens at the Arkell Museum at Canajoharie on Sunday, November 15th with an [Read More]

Conner Contemporary Art is pleased to announce Koen Vanmechelen’s “Cosmopolitan Chicken Project (DC).” This is the first solo exhibition in a U.S. gallery by the celebrated Belgian conceptual artist, who is currently exhibiting in two official 53rd Venice Biennale collateral exhibitions and [Read More]

On the heels of its recent show, NextNew:Green that featured the works of emerging Bay Area artists exploring issues related to conservation,the environment and global warming; the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) presents Afterlife, a group exhibition ofworks created to [Read More]

More than 30 bold and subtle posters, prints, and paintings representative of the bohemian nightlife of late 19th-century Paris are presented in Café and Cabaret: Toulouse-Lautrec’s Paris at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). The French aristocrat Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), [Read More]

Bronze Age Chinese vessels from one of the finest old English collections, formed by the 2nd Lord Cunliffe between the darkest war years of the early 1940s, and his death in 1963, achieved astonishing prices at Bonhams sale of Chinese Art on, [Read More]

Sotheby’s fall evening sale of Latin American Art will take place on Wednesday 18 November 2009 and will be led by one of the most lyrical surrealist paintings by Roberto Matta ever to appear at auction. Endless Nudes, estimated at $2-3 million [Read More]

Sotheby’s Israeli and International Art sale is a much anticipated annual event held in autumn in New York. The sale this year will take place on November 24th and will feature superb examples of classic and contemporary Israeli art spanning 100 years. [Read More]

Exhibition Focuses on the Historical Moment of the School and Includes Over 400 Works, with Many on View for the First Time in the United States The Museum of Modern Art presents Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity from November 8, 2009, to [Read More]

Sotheby’s annual sale of Important Judaica will be held in New York on 24 November 2009. The sale will comprise a choice offering of Hebrew manuscripts, printed books, paintings, ceremonial metalwork and works of art estimated to bring more than $3.3 million. [Read More]

The Museum of Contemporary Art will present the first solo exhibition of works of leading contemporary Australian artist, Fiona Foley. Fiona Foley: Forbidden, which runs from 12 November 2009 until 31 January 2010, comprises key works spanning fifteen years to provide a [Read More]

Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art at in New York was a resounding success, surpassing the high estimate and bringing a total of $181,760,000 (est. $115.3/163 million). The sale was 84.8% sold by lot and 93.4% sold by value. Five [Read More]

Sotheby’s auction of 19th century European Paintings on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 will bring together some 184 works by artists from no fewer than 17 countries: among them the US, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, [Read More]