Yearly Archives: 2009

The closing of the exhibition “The Louvre and the Masterpiece” last weekend marked the culmination of “Louvre Atlanta,” the High Museum ’s unprecedented three-year partnership with the Musée du Louvre in Paris. During the course of the partnership, the High welcomed over [Read More]

Disintegrations Featuring works by: Sébastien Lapointe + Andrew Benson October 2nd – November 13th, 2009 Artist Reception Friday, October 2nd 5 – 8PM Technology sheds the discourse of forward progress in favor of exotic decay and hypnotic liquefaction. In this technological rebellion, [Read More]

The Art Institute of Chicago will display the furniture and product designs of Konstantin Grcic in the first major exhibition of his work in a U.S. museum. Konstantin Grcic: Decisive Design, on view in the Abbott Galleries of the Modern Wing from [Read More]

Mary Poole, executive director of Artspace (www.artspacenc.org), has announced that the art center will launch a pilot educational program for year-round school track-outs. This program offers intensive-yet-fun, project-oriented classes for students in third through eighth grades. Sessions include painting, drawing, mosaics, mixed [Read More]

Michelle Danner Artistic Director, Edgemar Center of the Arts is pleased to announce the opening of its Fall exhibition featuring prints and paintings by notable photographer and artist Michelle Carmen Gomez this Sunday September 20th beginning at 3:00pm at the Edgemar Center [Read More]

When the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) invited the public to donate artworks for a Big Art Sale fundraiser, the response was remarkable. The museum accepted 180 objects, each valued between $250–$30,000, to auction off on Thursday and Friday, October 1 and [Read More]

Gabriele Münter and Vasily Kandinsky, 1902– 1914: A Life in Photographs, an exhibition of personal images of Vasily Kandinsky (1866– 1944) and his long-time companion Gabriele Münter (1877–1962), taken by both artists, is on view in the Sackler Center for Arts Education [Read More]

The second of Sotheby’s bi-annual Scottish Sales will take place in London on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 and it will bring to the market more than 150 works from many of the leading names in the field of predominantly 20th Century Scottish [Read More]

One of the Highlights of Sotheby’s forthcoming Scottish Sale, which will be staged in London on Wednesday, September 30, 2009, will be an outstanding and rare example of Peter Howson’s aggressive and bold style of painting with an overtly Scottish theme. In [Read More]

Auction Atrium, the London online auction house, is pleased to announce its inaugural auction devoted to works of art from the Indian and Islamic worlds, which will be held 1 – 7 October. It will feature over 140 lots and also include [Read More]

Gauguin (1848-1903) is one of the most influential and celebrated artists of the late nineteenth century. Remarkably, this is the first major exhibition in London to be devoted to his work in over half a century. Opening at Tate Modern on 30 [Read More]

An exhibition of 31 prints by leading Irish and international artists opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Saturday 26 September 2009. Traces celebrates the IMMA Limited Editions Series, introduced by the Museum in 2003. The exhibition [Read More]

Fifty carefully selected galleries and museums will set the pace for the modern and contemporary Latin American art market in New York, during the celebration of PINTA, the annual Latin American art fair, which is slated for November 19 to 22, 2009 [Read More]

Renowned photographer John Wimberley, who exhibited with Ansel Adams in two two-man shows, explored his deep interest in shamanism which led him to begin photographing Native American rock art sites and petroglyphs in the Nevada desert beginning in 2000. The petroglyphs are [Read More]