Yearly Archives: 2009

This October the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) presents “The Louvre and the Masterpiece” which will explore how the definition of a “masterpiece,” as well as taste and connoisseurship, have changed over time. The exhibition, presented by U.S. Bank, will feature sixty-two [Read More]

Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography Opens October 18 with Large-Scale Works by 40 Korean Artists The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography, the most comprehensive exhibition of contemporary Korean photography to ever be shown in the United [Read More]

Larry Clark: Tulsa opens at the Columbia Museum of Art on October 14, 2009 and runs through February 7, 2010 in the Mamie & William Andrew Treadway, Jr. Gallery 15. Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential American photographers [Read More]

Major retrospective features abstract work of Brett Weston son of legendary photographer Edward Weston – At the Currier Museum of Art October 10, 2009–January 3, 2010 Brett Weston (1911-1993) was considered by many to be brilliant, visionary, prodigious, and among the most [Read More]

Bonhams specialists in London have announced that they have identified a magnificent Roman cameo glass vase which may, they say, be the most important of its kind in the world. Chantelle Rountree, head of antiquities at Bonhams, said: “It is of major [Read More]

The University of Tulsa, which manages the world-renowned Gilcrease Museum, has acquired the C.M. Russell Research Collection that contains more than 13,000 objects that cover a full range of the artist’s life and work. Russell’s biographer, Homer Britzman, gathered the items with [Read More]

Christie’s announced Le Quai Malaquais et l’Institut, 1903 by Camille Pissarro (estimate: $1.5-2.5 million), an important work that has been restituted to a member of the Fischer estate after its confiscation over 70 years ago, will be offered for sale this November. [Read More]

From February 12, to May 16, 2010, the Kunsthaus Zürich will host one of the world’s most important private collections – the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection. The collection’s main focus is on French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, including other 19th-century French painters. Since [Read More]

This October, the Peabody Essex Museum presents French photographer Valérie Belin’s first one-person show in the United States. Belin is an artist as famous for the unsettling qualities of her floor-to-ceiling photographs as she is for her provocative subjects. Among Belin’s most [Read More]

Christie’s Fall sale of Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary Art will be held on November 30 at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. Featuring over 90 exceptional works with an estimate of HK$18 million, this sale will showcase a tightly-edited selection [Read More]

Rare and important works by Pablo Picasso, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Rodin, Henri Matisse, and Piet Mondrian are among the highlights of Christie’s upcoming Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on November 3, in New York Forty exceptional [Read More]

Sotheby’s London will be conducting an auction on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 of English and continental furniture, objets d’art, silver, ceramics and Old Master paintings from Carlton Towers, Yorkshire, a major Grade I listed Victorian country house substantially remodeled first by E.W. [Read More]

The High Museum of Art will premiere an exhibition of new work by Californiabased photographer Robert Weingarten in January 2010. Weingarten’s project consists of twenty large-scale digitally-created portraits of American icons, and represents a bold departure from traditional camera portraiture. Dennis Hopper, [Read More]

The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and the Modern Art Museum Fort Worth are co-organizing an exhibition of the work of Susan Rothenberg, one of America’s best-known living artists, who, like Georgia O’Keeffe, left New York at mid-career to make New Mexico her primary [Read More]