Yearly Archives: 2009

National Museum of Women in the Arts presents 26 masterworks by some of Australia’s best-known painters, including Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Dorothy Napangardi Robinson, Abie Loy Kemarre, Mitjili Napurrla, and Eubena Nampitjin in Lands of Enchantment: Australian Aboriginal Painting, on view October 9, [Read More]

This fall at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Clarice Smith’s 30 years of creating a significant body of accomplished, admired work go on display as Elements of Nature: Equines and Still Lifes by Clarice Smith, from October 9, 2009, [Read More]

Empire BlueCross BlueShield, The Museum for African Art, and the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA) present “Art Heals,” a unique program that will bring African art to nearly 100 New York hospitals this fall. “Art Heals” combines high-quality African-art prints with [Read More]

Christie’s New York is pleased to announce a dedicated sale of Arts of the Samurai on October 23, which exemplifies the outstanding craftsmanship and visual splendor of the Samurai culture. The collection includes over 80 lots comprising of armor, helmets, and most [Read More]

Aperture Foundation, a New York-based non-profit arts institution that is a leading force in the field of photography, will hold its 2009 Benefit and Auction on Monday, November 2, at The Lighthouse, Pier 61, Chelsea Piers, New York. This year’s event honors [Read More]

Nature as history Throughout history, mankind has perceived nature differently at different times. During the Middle Ages, nature was mostly regarded as evil and mankind was prey to its whims, which only God could protect us from. This understanding was replaced by [Read More]

‘Art should have an emotional-intellectual dimension. Art involves a game with the viewer, with conventions and with yourself.’ Wilhelm Sasnal Hauser & Wirth Zürich will present an exhibition of new paintings on canvas by Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal. He has realized his [Read More]

The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) announces it will present a landmark exhibition of rare works of art and important new scholarship brought together to explore the provocative relationship between photography and painting along the Normandy coast in mid-19th-century France. [Read More]

The Frick Collection is pleased to announce the loan of nine Old Master paintings from the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, one of the major collections of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century pictures in the world. The exhibition, which heralds the Gallery’s bicentenary in [Read More]

On Friday, October 16, 2009, Sotheby’s London will present, for the first time, a significant section of Arab & Iranian Art in its annual October Contemporary Art Sale to coincide with the Frieze Art Fair. The Arab & Iranian component of the [Read More]

At Sotheby’s Hong Kong 20th Century Chinese Art Autumn Sale 2009, Sanyu’s monumental Lotus et Poissons Rouges commanded HK$36,500,000/ US$4,680,000, selling to a Chinese buyer over the telephone after heated competition with five other bidders from across Asia (est. HK$15-25 million/ US$1,940,000-3,230,000). [Read More]

Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity, which opens at the Getty Villa on October 8, 2009, features more than 350 pieces of beautiful and rare ancient glass, formerly owned by Erwin Oppenländer. The 2003 acquisition of this collection placed the Getty among the [Read More]

Conner Contemporary Art is pleased to announce that the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC has acquired for the permanent collection Leo Villareal’s installation Multiverse. Leo Villareal, Multiverse.© Leo Villareal. Photo: National Gallery of Art Multiverse, the largest and most complex light [Read More]

DC Moore Gallery presents “Eric Aho: Red Winter,” the first presentation of the artist’s work at the gallery. Eric Aho explores extreme conditions of nature in landscape paintings that incorporate traditional representation, gestural abstraction, and implied figuration. The subjects of Aho’s recent [Read More]