Yearly Archives: 2009

American painter Jason Shawn Alexander is a self-taught artist: never having attended formal art school, art language and “isms” mean nothing to him. The things that matter in his work are honesty and emotion, and while it is his aim to make [Read More]

On Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009, the Erie Art Museum will participate in the fifth annual Museum Day, presented by Smithsonian magazine. A celebration of culture, learning and the dissemination of knowledge, Smithsonian’s Museum Day reflects the spirit of the magazine, and emulates [Read More]

The Vancouver Art Gallery will present the first major exhibition to explore the interaction of painting and photography in Canada and the United States from the time of the U.S. Civil War through the end of World War I. Expanding Horizons: Painting [Read More]

Visionary and nonconformist William Blake (1757–1827) is a singular figure in the history of Western art and literature: a poet, painter, and printmaker. Ambitiously creative, Blake had an abiding interest in theology and philosophy, which, during the age of revolution, inspired thoroughly [Read More]

Battles, celebrations, and fantastic creatures found in the margins of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts are closely examined in Out-of-Bounds: Images in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts. On view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, September 1 through November [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields will offer Fine Prints on November 3, 2009. The auction, simulcast between the San Francisco and Los Angeles salesrooms, will feature a diverse selection of old master, modern, contemporary prints and multiples ranging from the Renaissance to the Present. [Read More]

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is a $100 million outdoor performing arts center and museum located approximately 90 minutes from New York City at the site of the original 1969 Woodstock festival in Bethel, NY. The 15,000 seat outdoor performing arts [Read More]

Premier John Brumby today announced a new blockbuster exhibition, European Masters: Städel Collection 19th – 20th Centuries will come to the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in 2010 as part of the hugely successful Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series. Mr Brumby said the [Read More]

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will offer Tim Burton Tour Nights, private group tours of the exhibition Tim Burton, on selected nights during the run of the exhibition, November 22, 2009, to April 26, 2010. Tim Burton Tour Nights will include [Read More]

Extended by popular demand was one of the most well-attended shows in the Yeshiva University Museum’s Winnick Gallery, located in Manhattan at the Center for Jewish History. The long-running show featured the life work of L.T. Syms, one of the country’s most [Read More]

The Kentucky Arts Council has accepted eight Kentucky artists to be added to the agency’s Arts Education Roster, a resource for teachers and community educators planning for an arts-enriched learning environment. Additionally, two artists currently on the roster have had their eligibility [Read More]

The Art of Pairing – Symphony & Crafts. Some combinations simply work! Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better; this nationally ranked craft show, held in the streets of historic downtown Mount Dora, will now become the backdrop for the [Read More]

For millions of Americans, Woodstock was more than just an extraordinary music festival. It marked a pivotal moment in a counter-cultural revolution and epitomized an entire era in America’s social, political and cultural history that conjures up such references as “Kennedy Assassination”, [Read More]

Professional Photographers of America (PPA) (www.ppa.com) announced today that the images for its 2009 General Exhibit and Loan Collection have been chosen. From a field of over 4,300 entries, a team of jurors selected almost 1,700 images for the General Exhibit. From [Read More]