Yearly Archives: 2009

So groundbreaking was her work in the 60s and 70s, fellow artist and friend Norval Morrisseau called her “Picasso’s grandmother.” While Daphne Odjig’s work does embrace Cubism at times, as can be seen in L’amour fou, her colourful and playful homage to [Read More]

The extraordinary range and complexity of the photographic process is explored, from the origins of the medium in the 1840s up to the advent of digital photography at the end of the 20th century, in a comprehensive exhibition and its accompanying guidebook [Read More]

Sam Fogg, one of the great dealers in Medieval Art, is bringing to New York a rare exhibition of precious objects. The project is undertaken in collaboration with Richard L. Feigen & Co. It is titled “Medieval Art and the Contemporary Spirit” [Read More]

The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) presents Population: Portraits by Ray Turner, an exhibition of portraits by artist Ray Turner, through January 31, 2010. Featuring approximately 150 paintings, each portrait in the series evinces a slightly different approach by the artist. [Read More]

Ideas about Australia — its cultural, artistic and social stories — are reflected in an extensive new display from the Queensland Art Gallery’s own Collection. Queensland Art Gallery Director Tony Ellwood said the new display presented art works dating from the European [Read More]

Gallery KH is pleased to present Uncommon Times, Common Places a warmly ambient collection of new landscapes by artist Scott Addis, opening October 30 through December 1, 2009. An opening night cocktail reception is scheduled for Friday, October 30, 2009, 5-8PM. “We [Read More]

A new world record was achieved when a rare work by the Italian artist Giuseppe de Nittis soared past its estimate of $200/300,000 and sold for an astounding $1,133,000 at Bonhams’ October 21st European Paintings auction in New York. Depicting a couple [Read More]

Sotheby’s London biannual sale of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, which will take place on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 will present over 250 lots, comprising an important range of sculpture, ceramics and works of art in the wide variety of [Read More]

The Red Gallery is to present the first ever solo exhibition by a Burmese artist in Dubai and the Middle East from Tuesday 27th October 2009. Aung Kyaw Htet is a talented artist from Myanmar [Burma] who has risen from a very [Read More]

New Brunswick’s Miller Brittain (1912-1968) burst upon the Canadian art scene with masterful emotion-filled drawings and paintings of the human form at a time when landscapes by the Group of Seven held sway. Today, the National Gallery of Canada presents Miller Brittain: [Read More]

The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) is proud to present Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart, an exhibition examining the remarkable contributions of color block print artist, Frances Gearhart. Embedded in the time and place of the [Read More]

Through 2010 January 10. Lower East Gallery. Artists Iratxe Jaio ( Markina, 1976 ) and Klaas Gorkum ( Delft, 1975 ), Asier Mendizabal ( Ordizia, 1973 ) and Xabier Salaberria go ( Donostia / San Sebastián, 1969 ) were winners, in 2008, [Read More]

Merry Karnowsky Gallery Berlin presents “Supreme Beings”, a solo exhibition by award-winning artist Kill Pixie, through 19 December 2009. Kill Pixie (AKA Mark Whalen) began as a graffiti artist on the streets of his native Sydney, Australia. Once he transitioned to fine [Read More]

Babcock Galleries is pleased to present a much-anticipated exhibition in conjunction with the release of the first monograph of Alan Gussow’s work, Alan Gussow: A Painter’s Nature. As Holland Cotter noted, Gussow (1931 – 1997) had a skill for “…summing up the [Read More]