Yearly Archives: 2009

The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin announces an important discovery regarding a work by Venetian master Paolo Veronese (1528 – 1588). Head of an Angel, a painting in the Blanton’s permanent collection, was recently identified as [Read More]

Seven of Rembrandt’s most expressive portraits will be on view in a new exhibition, entitled Rembrandt’s People, opening this fall at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. The exhibition will feature Rembrandt’s powerful figure paintings, which are hailed as his greatest artistic [Read More]

When Tom Grotta, director of browngrotta arts, in Wilton, Connecticut, is asked about the recent wave of interest in contemporary art textiles by designers, museum curators and collectors, he smiles. Grotta has been promoting contemporary textiles and fiber sculpture through exhibitions, catalogs [Read More]

The Creation Story, the Civil Rights Movement, the Harlem Renaissance, and Hip Hop music are among the vibrant components which converge in the Tyler Museum of Art’s fall exhibition Divine Kinship: Ancient Forms and Social Commentary, the Art of Jean Lacy, open [Read More]

Bloomsbury Auctions announces Portrait of the Artists: The Burt Britton Collection at auction on September 24, 2009 at 2:00pm. This private collection of 1,200 refreshingly spontaneous self-portraits offers unique insight into the creative process that will fascinate collectors, curators, biographers, psychologists and [Read More]

On May 28, 2009, United States District Judge Rya Zobel (District of Massachusetts) ruled that the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), is entitled to retain ownership of Oskar Kokoschka’s painting Two Nudes (Lovers) (painted about 1913). The ruling came in a [Read More]

OCDesignerSource.com, an innovative online resource center offering world class artist creations and interior design industry marketing solutions for residential and commercial building and design professionals, today announced the launch of their new online network, the Community of Art and Design. This highly [Read More]

Taking place from October 28th to November 1st, Estampa International Print and Contemporary Art Editions Fair is a must for art lovers looking to expand their collections. Held in the Parque Ferial Juan Carlos I, the event, which is now in its [Read More]

The Art Gallery of New South Wales Grand Courts, home to Rubens, Van Gogh, Monet, Pissarro, Cezanne, Hogarth, Delacroix, Leighton, Constable, Gainsborough and Australian artists, Roberts, Streeton, McCubbin, Lambert, Bunny, Phillips Fox, Gruner and Ashton, will re-open to the public in ‘grand’ [Read More]

The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will present a special installation in its Great Hall to celebrate Richard Meier’s promised gift of two architectural drawings of the J. Paul Getty Center in Los Angeles. Meier is presenting the works to Cooper-Hewitt on [Read More]

Chelsea’s Agora Gallery announced they will host a collective art exhibition consisting of three parts that is scheduled to run from September 8, 2009 through September 29, 2009. Cary Gang’s awe-inspiring works of pure abstraction inspire the spirit in their symphony of [Read More]

This exhibition of drawings dating from 1900 to 2007 showcases the Allen Memorial Art Museum’ s outstanding and highly diverse permanent collection. Included among over 125 stellar works are those by Close, De Chirico, De Kooning, Dine, Diebenkorn, Kandinsky, Klimt, Matisse, Miró, [Read More]

Work by Bruce McCombs, professor of art at Hope College, has recently been added to three permanent collections and featured in six exhibitions. He has had paintings included in the permanent collections of the Kalamazoo Institute of Art in Kalamazoo and The [Read More]

Ay Are Tee announces the launch of Arlo, a suite of hosted web publishing applications tailored for specific use cases like building an artist portfolio site, running an art gallery, growing a band’s audience or promoting an author’s work. The first public [Read More]