Yearly Archives: 2009

When reflections appear to our eyes, they already belong to the past. Laurent Grasso’s works explore our perception of time through challenging our senses. The starting point of the exhibition is “Rétroprojection” – a series of works based on engravings of phenomena [Read More]

The Royal Academy of Arts presents GSK Contemporary 2009, the second annual contemporary art season at 6 Burlington Gardens. Opening in December, “Earth: Art of a Changing World” will present new and recent work from more than 30 leading international contemporary artists, [Read More]

Sperone Westwater has announced an exhibition of paintings by Liu Ye. This is the artist’s second solo show at Sperone Westwater in New York. For this new body of work, Liu Ye continues to engage the history of Modernism in Western art. [Read More]

Francis Bacon: A Terrible Beauty celebrates the centenary of Francis Bacon’s birth in 63, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin. This exhibition comprising paintings, drawings, photographs, unfinished works and slashed canvases will offer the viewer an astonishing new look at Francis Bacon, the great [Read More]

Sotheby’s fall Evening Sale of Contemporary Art on 11 November 2009 comprises an extraordinary offering of paintings and sculptures anchored by classic works by key artists from the 1960s. The sale will begin with 20 works from the collection of Mary Schiller [Read More]

Venezuelan artist resident in Paris, France, has been analyzed by a constellation of relevant contemporary critics, both European and American. Admired and celebrated during many decades in the art world scene, Borjas is a painter that merges intellectual thinking with sensory experience. [Read More]

MoMA presents “Iberoamérica: Our Way(s)”, an exhibition of eight new Spanish- and Portuguese-language films representing collaborations among filmmakers from 10 different countries. The exhibition celebrates the quality and originality of these films, which have all received support from the intergovernmental organization Ibermedia, [Read More]

A sweeping look at the Walker Art Center’s paintings collection, displayed floor to ceiling in a salon style inspired by the 1920s galleries of museum founder Thomas Barlow Walker, will be presented in Benches & Binoculars, on view November 21, 2009–August 15, [Read More]

The National Gallery of Modern Art in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, presents “Indian Life and Landscape by Western Artists”, an exhibition of more than ninety paintings and drawings from the V&A 1790 – 1927, at National Gallery of [Read More]

Gallery Brown and internationally acclaimed pop artist Steve Kaufman proudly present “Art Goes To The Dogs”- A benefit for the Linda Blair World Heart Foundation on Saturday, November 7 from 6:00PM-10:00PM at Gallery Brown located at 140 South Orlando Avenue, Los Angeles. [Read More]

Christie’s highly anticipated Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale will offer collectors a fascinating selection of works on November 10, 2009. The sale is led by a major work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, two seminal paintings from Andy Warhol’s pivotal Death and Disaster [Read More]

The Zion National Park Artist-in-Residence program offers professional artists the opportunity to live and work in the majestic desert environment of southern Utah for a period of one month. The works completed under this program will contribute to the public understanding and [Read More]

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents “New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape”, a re-examination of the landmark exhibition originally held in 1975 at the International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, which brought together ten leading photographers: Robert [Read More]

In his works, Deimantas Narkevičius explores the past of the states in the former Eastern Bloc using found footage and autobiographical narratives. His films are reflections on specific facts and historical oddities and are often linked to Lithuania’s recent history and also [Read More]