Yearly Archives: 2009

Exceptional sculpture, both antique and art by Western and Chinese, modern and contemporary masters will be on display at the Hong Kong International Art and Antiques Fair (HKIAAF 09), as well as Special Exhibitions by the National Museum of China and the [Read More]

The Vancouver Art Gallery will present a major exhibition of work by Scott McFarland, the renowned Canadian photographer whose images challenge the fundamental idea of what a photograph can be. On view from October 3, 2009 to January 30, 2010, the exhibition, [Read More]

PaceWildenstein is pleased to present Sol LeWitt: Forms Derived from a Cube, an exhibition of Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings, gouaches and structures based on his transformations of the original cubic form. The exhibition will be on view from September 8 through October [Read More]

Featuring 45 paintings and eight photographs by such American masters as Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, Arthur G. Dove, Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, and Ansel Adams, the Lane Collection is considered by many to be one of the greatest museum collections of American [Read More]

The University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art presents Heartland, a new exhibition that examines innovative forms of artistic creation taking place in the geographic center of the United States. Organized by the Smart Museum and the Van Abbemuseum, one of Europe’s [Read More]

The Museum of Modern Art presents New Photography 2009: Walead Beshty, Daniel Gordon, Leslie Hewitt, Carter Mull, Sterling Ruby, Sara VanDerBeek, this year’s installment of the annual fall showcase of significant recent work in contemporary photography, on view from September 30, 2009, [Read More]

The late Grace Hartigan, a celebrated Abstract Expressionist painter who served as director of MICA’s Hoffberger School of Painting since its inception in 1965, has left more than $1 million in paintings combined to the College and Maryland Art Place (MAP), according [Read More]

Jocelyn Phillips has been appointed Head of Bonhams new Photographic Department to be based in London. A Cambridge Classics graduate she also has an MA in Cultural Heritage Studies from University College London (Institute of Archeology). The thesis for her Masters degree [Read More]

“Citrus are composed of various fruits joined to form an apparently simple fruit.” – pg.346, Healthy Foods by George D. Pamplona-Roger, MD In the same way that a citrus fruit is a collection of smaller fruits storing a cocktail of nutrients, a [Read More]

Chelsea’s Agora Gallery announced they will host an exhibition of fine art from Canada that is scheduled to run from October 2, 2009 through October 23, 2009. Canadian artist Paul Kelley’s works are portraits of nostalgia as well as studies in beauty, [Read More]

The Palace of Versailles ranks among the most famous world heritage sites, and is the most beautiful and the most comprehensive achievement of French art in the 17th century. The palace is paying homage to its famous builder, Louis XIV, with the [Read More]

A major event at the Louvre: powerful canvases by the greatest Venetian painters of the sixteenth century are presented side by side in Napoleon Hall in an exhibition allowing visitors to observe the play of inspiration and admiration between these geniuses as [Read More]

To coincide with Frieze Week in October 2009, Christie’s announces a series of exhibitions and auctions dedicated to Post-War and Contemporary Art. The leading highlights which will be on public view at Christie’s include significant works by Peter Doig, Martin Kippenberger, Lucio [Read More]

Art Connects New York (ACNY), a not-for-profit organization devoted to using the transformative power of art to enrich the lives of New Yorkers, will soon open an exhibition space called Spattered Columns in lower Manhattan. The 1,000-square-foot exhibition space with 12-foot high [Read More]