Yearly Archives: 2009

It’s Hello Kitty’s 35th Anniversary and SANRIO is celebrating in a big way. In addition to launching a variety of special, limited edition products, SANRIO will introduce Three Apples, a multi-dimensional exhibition and celebration of all things Hello Kitty running from October [Read More]

Also featuring Myths, Omens and Misunderstandings – Ver Mar in The Vault. Reception for the artists October 9th at 7 p.m. After his last solo show at Strychnin Gallery Berlin in November 2008, American artist David Hochbaum returns with new works – [Read More]

Six additional paintings have joined the permanent Frida Kahlo exhibition “Pain and Passion” in Baden-Baden. The exhibition, which opened on February 2009 in Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund, shows the most complete collection of Frida Kahlo paintings ever. “Very ugly” is among the newly arrived [Read More]

A stunning collection of Southern Africa’s varied landscapes and peoples glow in Bonhams autumn sale of South African Art on October 14. Landscapes by Jacob Pierneef, Maggie Laubser, Irma Stern, Hugo Naude, Frans Oerder,Gregoire Boonzaier and John Meyer among others, offer visitors [Read More]

Early Furniture by George Nakashima, 1936-1956 – The Architect Designs, the much-anticipated historic exhibit of early works by legendary furniture craftsman George Nakashima (1905-1990), opens Friday, October 9 and continues through December 24, 2009 at Moderne Gallery. The Early Nakashima Furniture exhibit [Read More]

The Bluette H. Kirchhoff Collection of Netsuke and Sagemono drew global attention to Bonhams’ New York galleries. The collection was presented as the first of two sales; the second being Fine Japanese Works of Art. With nearly 400 lots auctioned throughout the [Read More]

The Kimbell Art Museum, will present “James Ensor: The Painter behind the Masks” as part of the Museum’s “Art in Context” series, on Wednesday, October 7, 2009, at 12:30 p.m. in the Darnell Street auditorium. Image: James Ensor, Belgian (1860–1949) Skeletons Warming [Read More]

Continuing its investigation of contemporary architecture, the Nasher Sculpture Center will present a retrospective of the work of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Norman Foster and his architectural firm, Foster + Partners, through January 10, 2010. Scheduled to coincide with the grand opening of [Read More]

Running in parallel with the Per Kirkeby show, Museum Kunst Palast is holding an exhibition of 83 paintings and 84 drawings by the Swiss artist Caspar Wolf (1735-1783). A number of interesting parallels emerge from the simultaneous showing of the two artists. [Read More]

Potnia Thiron and Haunch of Venison will present a double-header of Warhol exhibitions in Athens this autumn. Opening simultaneously, Warhol/Icon: The Creation of Image at the Byzantine and Christian Museum and Warhol: Screen Tests at Potnia Thiron Gallery, will explore Warhol’s obsession [Read More]

A new exhibit at the Crocker Art Museum pays tribute to the Museum’s founders and shares the stories of philanthropy, eccentricity and high style that made the Crockers the epitome of the Gilded Age. Breathtaking jewelry, dramatic gowns, china, furniture, personal letters, [Read More]

Through November 6, the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM) will exhibit a selection of drawings by Vicente Colom at the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute in New York. Curated by Barbara Rose, the exhibit will bring together a selection of 60 pen-and-ink drawings [Read More]

Through 100 photographs taken between 1850 and 1880, the exhibition Steps off the Beaten Path: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Rome and its Environs encourages a “walking tour” through Rome with recognizable sites among the out-of-the-way scenes nineteenth-century Romans and Europeans encountered in their [Read More]

For its inaugural show, East Central Gallery will present The Point, the Line and the Plan, an exhibition of new works by Carlos Garaicoa, one of Cuba’s leading contemporary artists. This will be Garaicoa’s first solo show in London. In characteristic style, [Read More]