Yearly Archives: 2009

On Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 4 PM, Juilliard unveils its first new commissioned art installation since it moved to its Lincoln Center home in 1969, the last of the original Lincoln Center constituents to do so. The new piece by New [Read More]

The Seattle Art Museum is the first U.S. museum to survey the work of Belgian filmmaker Nicolas Provost. This installation comprises five video works, showing the range of approaches Provost has brought to his filmmaking since 2003. Provost has what could be [Read More]

The downtown Las Vegas Arts District has been hard hit by the economic crisis as artists, galleries, and shops are forced to close their doors. Even the venerable First Friday art festival put its street fair events on temporary hiatus for the [Read More]

Their Excellencies the Right Honourable Michaelle Jean, Governor General of Canada, and Mr Jean-Daniel Lafond are pleased to welcome to Rideau Hall the exhibition DIASPORArt: Strategy and Seduction of Canadian Artists from Different Cultural Communities in the Collection of the Canada Council [Read More]

Holger Niehaus (b. Nordhorn, Germany, 1975) takes us to a strange world, where plants, fruit and animals congregate in serene still-lifes. Niehaus masterfully interweaves the traditional still-life with minimalist forms, so that every photograph requires a second glance to see what is [Read More]

El Museo del Barrio is pleased to present Nexus New York: Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis, the inaugural exhibition in its newly renovated and expanded facilities. The exhibition coincides with El Museo’s public reopening as well as the launch of El [Read More]

A painting by Adam Neate, an artist who is known to have left his works leaning against lamp posts and dustbins is to be sold at Bonhams East Anglian View sale in Bury St Edmunds on 3rd December. Previously his work has [Read More]

As stories about the threat of nuclear terrorism and building additional nuclear power plants appear on our evening news, Patrick Nagatani’s Nuclear Enchantment seems eerily up to date. When Nagatani moved to Albuquerque , New Mexico in 1987, he turned his attention [Read More]

Palm Springs Modern: Photographs by Julius Shulman offers a tour of the mid-century architecture and elegant lifestyles of Palm Springs, California. The exhibition features almost 100 original photographs by renowned photographer Julius Shulman of iconic designs by Modernist architects. Also presented are [Read More]

Gagosian is the first retail outpost of Gagosian Gallery. Located at street level on Madison Avenue, it is an extension of world-renowned art dealer Larry Gagosian’s impeccable taste and, like the gallery, will collaborate with both established and emerging artists on exclusive [Read More]

Circle of Friends: Portraits of Artists Through November 29, 2009 For much of the history of figurative art, artists have made self-portraits and portraits of their patrons, but with the advent of modernism they began making portraits of one another with increasing [Read More]

This year the National Gallery of Australia’s annual event, The Big Draw, opens with a talk by one of Australia’s foremost living artists, John Olsen, on his attitude and approaches to drawing. The talk at 6:00 pm on Thursday 17 September is [Read More]

The photographic archive of renowned photojournalist Eddie Adams has been donated by his widow, Alyssa Adams, to the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin. The archive documents Adams’s career and includes “Saigon Execution,” his Pulitzer [Read More]

Painted in Rome in 1970, Treatise on the Veil (Second Version) marks a critical period in the career of Cy Twombly. One of the American artist’s largest canvases, measuring nearly 35 feet in length, the work, which the Menil acquired in 1998, [Read More]