Yearly Archives: 2009

Geoffrey Beene (1927-2004) was one of America’s most original fashion designers, a true design pioneer that elevated his craft to an art. In this spirit, the Fashion Design Department of Phoenix Art Museum presents Geoffrey Beene: Trapeze, an engaging exhibition with attitude [Read More]

Stendhal Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition 7 Paintings from 1950’s and Graphic Works from October 31 – December 19, 2009. One of the exhibitions highlights will be an installation-like display of the typographic print No Smoking, devised by Fluxus artist [Read More]

Christie’s autumn auctions of Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art will be held on December 1 at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. Showcasing fine and rare works across a number of collecting categories including ceramics, jades, lacquer, and Classical [Read More]

Sotheby’s Sales of 20th Century Italian Art and Contemporary Art, Including Arab and Iranian Art, brought a combined total of £20,157,550/$32,799,234 (Est. £15.6-21.6 million) and saw a total of seven new artist records established. Commenting on the strong 20th Century Italian Art [Read More]

Christie’s is pleased to announce the Prints and Multiples sale on October 27th and 28th. The two day sale is comprised of over 440 works with estimates ranging from $2,000 to $450,000. Of the thirty Andy Warhol lots included in the sale, [Read More]

Stephen Shames, and his art dealer, Steven Kasher, approached Shepard Fairey earlier this year about creating artworks to support L.E.A.D. Uganda, an educational leadership program founded by Shames that locates vulnerable children with innate talents and molds them into leaders. Fairey agreed [Read More]

Bonhams will be celebrating their 15th Greek Sale at New Bond Street on 10th November. The sale will include a selection of works ranging from 19th Century classic art to high-profile modern and contemporary pieces. This 162-lot sale not only features Greek [Read More]

LIVESTRONG is honored to announce that 25 world-renowned artists have donated their time and creativity to support the global fight against cancer and the 28 million cancer survivors around the world through two New York exhibitions this fall: STAGES, hosted and curated [Read More]

Michael Werner Gallery presents A.R. Penck: New System Paintings, an exhibition of new works. A.R. Penck’s new System Paintings demonstrate the artist’s continued exploration of social structures and systems, extending a complex pictorial language the artist first developed in the 1960s. His [Read More]

The James A. Michener Art Museum’s Outdoor Sculpture Garden hosts Aesthetic Distance, an installation of five sculptures by Philadelphia artist Virginia Maksymowicz from November 14, 2009 through February 28, 2010. Taking inspiration from Roman statues of the Virgin Mary posed atop columns [Read More]

In January 2010, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents the first survey of the early work of New York-based Sean Landers in the United States. Since the 1990s, Landers’ work has been one of the most captivating enterprises in contemporary art, [Read More]

Contemporary African Since 1980 is the first major survey of the work of contemporary African artists from diverse situations, locations, and generations who work either in or outside of Africa, but whose practices engage and occupy the social and cultural complexities of [Read More]

Opening on October 16, the National Gallery of Victoria will present Re_view, an exquisite exhibition of international photographic works representing over forty years of collecting. Through a selection of 36 key pieces, this exhibition chronologically explores the rich history of photography. Re_view [Read More]

For the first time ever in London, a major work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, “Brother Sausage” (estimate: $9-12 million) and two seminal works from Andy Warhol’s pivotal Death and Disaster series, “Most Wanted Men #3, Ellis Ruiz B.” (estimate: $5.5-6.5 million) and “Tunafish [Read More]