Yearly Archives: 2009

The New Jersey State Museum is currently presenting an exhibition of photographs by New Jersey artist Maria Lau. “71. Fragments of a Dream” will remain on view in the Museum’s galleries through November 24, 2009. “We are always especially proud to present [Read More]

In his most ambitious project yet, Rankin is creating a portrait of contemporary Britain, photographing 1,000 people from across the UK. Selected either for their distinct sense of style, vibrant personalities or individual life stories, from the thousands who have applied to [Read More]

Art Couture Gallery collaborated with Pappas Bros. Steakhouse with a silent auction on July 19, 2009 – benefiting Dallas Cowboys scouting assistant Rich Behm, who was paralyzed from the waist down during a severe storm in May. Three hundred fine art canvases, [Read More]

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, Nordstrom is partnering for a second year with Latino Art Beat, a Chicago-based not-for-profit arts organization, to feature art from their “What Hispanic Heritage & Culture Means to Me” contest at Nordstrom stores and online at [Read More]

Paper mosaics, natural history specimens, embroidered textiles, drawings, garden designs, and live fl oral displays At the age of seventy-two, Mary Delany, née Mary Granville (1700–1788), a botanical artist, woman of fashion, and commentator on life and society in eighteenth-century England and [Read More]

The fifth annual Art of Photography Show (www.artofphotographyshow.com), an international competition and exhibition of photographic art, welcomes its judge, Charlotte Cotton, author of The Photograph as Contemporary Art, one of the most well-used introductions to the field, for a special free talk [Read More]

Immerse yourself in 16th-century Rome’s fascinating cultural and political history when you read the exhibition catalogue of From Raphael to Carracci: The Art of Papal Rome. Organized by the National Gallery of Canada and presented by Sun Life Financial, the exhibition is [Read More]

The Joan Miró Foundation will be presenting František Kupka, an exhibition curated by Brigitte Léal, Assistant Director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Georges Pompidou, and sponsored by BBVA. The exhibition will show for the first time in Spain a [Read More]

The Georgia Museum of Art acquired two important American paintings at the sale of the Florence and William Griffin Collection at Brunk Auctions in Asheville, N.C., Saturday, May 30. Between 1945 and the 1980s, the Griffins amassed an exceptional collection of southern [Read More]

Chelseaartgalleries.com, one of the most popular art portals in the world, announced today that it is extending its reach globally. The new destination site, oneartworld.com, will subsume and extend all of chelseaartgalleries.com’s functionality, while providing a location agnostic view of the art [Read More]

The Boca Raton Museum of Art has announced three new exhibitions. Gary T. Erbe: Forty Year Retrospective A showcase of more than sixty trompe l’oeil paintings drawn from private and public collections, by this self-taught artist. Gary Erbe (born in Union City, [Read More]

The J. Paul Getty Museum announces The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire, an exhibition showcasing masterworks of Aztec sculpture—among them recent archaeological discoveries—which will be juxtaposed with 16th- to 18th-century illustrations that reflect European interpretations of Aztec culture. The Aztec [Read More]

London’s Jewish Museum announced that it is getting closer to saving a 300 year old Hanukah lamp for the nation, thanks to the support of independent charity The Art Fund and other funding bodies. The ‘Lindo lamp’ is the earliest known English [Read More]

The International Photographic Review, organised by Rhubarb Rhubarb and known as Europe’s best event of its kind, celebrates its tenth anniversary this year by posing the provocative statement Photography is dead…Rhubarb has combined retrospectives with up and coming photographers, plus such renowned [Read More]