Yearly Archives: 2009

The 16th annual Darwin Festival, held in Australia’s most youthful capital city, runs from August 13 – 30 and is a celebration of the diversity that makes the tropical harbour town of Darwin Australia’s most unique city. The 18-day and night multi-cultural [Read More]

Myth and History at The Bristol Gallery Featuring artworks by Lubaina Himid, Deborah van der Beek, Patrick Haines, Phil Sayers, Emma Tooth, Tina Hill and Mark Parkinson. Exhibition Dates: Saturday 19 September – Thursday 29 October 2009 Press View: Thursday 17 September [Read More]

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University announces an exhibition that brings to the United States a rare and important group of 20th-century paintings by four Chinese modern masters. The exhibition “Tracing the Past, Drawing the Future: Master Ink Painters in 20th-Century China” [Read More]

The New York Academy of Art is pleased to announce a special exhibition, “Leipzig Calling: Twenty Years after the Iron Curtain,” opening on September 17th, from 6-8pm, and remaining on view through October 18th. On display are recent works by a number [Read More]

A series of exhibitions organized at Villa Manin di Passariano, in Casarsa della Delizia and in Pordenone celebrates the eighty years of Elio Ciol, one of the Italian landscape photographers better known in the world, and sixty years of professional work of [Read More]

The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center’s art collection began with a gift. Beginning in the 1930s, major gifts of Hispanic and Native American art from Alice Bemis Taylor and Modern American art from Elizabeth Sage Hare formed the foundation of the FAC’s [Read More]

Over the past 20 years, Edinburgh born Callum Innes has emerged as one of the leading abstract painters of his generation, making work which stands defiantly against the tide of the quick fix that has dominated the sensibility of so many of [Read More]

This September, Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents a spellbinding project by James Lee Byars (1932–1997). Byars visited YSP in 1996 and was beguiled by the place and its atmosphere. St Bartholomew’s Chapel, built in 1744, opens to the general public for the first [Read More]

Slick 2009, the contemporary art fair dedicated to uncovering new talents, will take place in Paris from October 23rd to October 26th, during the FIAC, at the CENTQUATRE, Paris’ hottest new art establishment. They say that Slick is the most « in [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York 4 November 2009 Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York will feature seven paintings from the Durand-Ruel Collection, encompassing works by a number of the Impressionist masters that legendary art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel represented — Pierre-Auguste [Read More]

Colombo will host its first Art Biennale to take place September 10th-14th 2009 Joining Dubai, Bangladesh, Singapore, New York, Sydney and Venice, Colombo’s Biennale aims to encourage and show contemporary art from Sri Lanka. International artists have shown interest and, plans are [Read More]

Turning Point Gallery will display 60 original glassblown works from glass artist Pringle Teetor August 10-August 31 in an exhibit titled “Formed In Fire.” The new work includes a special Seychelles Collection, inspired by Teetor’s travels to the Seychelle Islands. The gallery [Read More]

Carlos Jereissati Filho, CEO of Iguatemi, announced the third edition of the Iguatemi Photo Series with the exhibition A Message for you, by Guy Bourdin at MuBE (Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, São Paulo). The instillation of previously unpublished works, which continues the [Read More]

Showcasing some 50 wondrously wrought examples, Cinnabar: The Chinese Art of Carved Lacquer, opening on August 6, will explore the development of this important artistic tradition from the 13th to the 18th century. Drawn from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s holdings as [Read More]