Yearly Archives: 2009

PUREPURYGRAPHY will open at The Corner Berlin, on Wednesday October 21, presenting a selection of nearly forty large-scale single-print photographs taken by Simon de Pury and curated by Chris Rehberger, founder of Double Standards in Berlin. That same evening, The Corner Berlin [Read More]

The Ukrainian National Museum is pleased to invite you to the opening of “Water-Colour by Artist Alexander Telalim” on Friday, August 21 at 7:00 pm. The art exhibit will continue through September 12, 2009. Alexander Telalim was born in Ukraine to a [Read More]

The Newseum today announced plans to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair with “Woodstock at 40: The Rise of Music Journalism.” The exhibition, open Aug. 1 through Oct. 31, features rarely seen images from a trio [Read More]

Drawn from the Menil’s diverse collection of over 16,000 objects, Body in Fragments explores the manner in which the human form is dissected and reconfigured in the art of various times and places, conveying spiritual, physical, and intellectual notions of personhood. John [Read More]

A trailblazing figure in 20th-century art, Man Ray (1890-1976) revealed multiple artistic identities over the course of his career – Dadaist, Parisian Surrealist, international portrait and fashion photographer – and produced many important and enduring works as a photographer, painter, filmmaker, writer, [Read More]

A MAGNIFICENT townscape by highly respected 20th century Indian artist Sadanand K. Bakre is among the highlights of the sale at Bellmans, Wisborough Green, West Sussex as part of their three-day monthly auction from Wednesday, August 5 through to Friday, August 7, [Read More]

By the late 1950s, American painter Allan Kaprow — formally trained in the era of Abstract Expressionism — began to view the action of Action Painting as far more important than painting itself. With the 1959 work Eighteen Happenings in Six Parts, [Read More]

This exhibition will showcase Titian’s painting ‘The Triumph of Love’ (probably mid-1540s), following its recent rediscovery and cleaning. Last exhibited in 1960, it has since remained out of sight in a private collection. Moreover, the painting’s true quality was obscured by dirty [Read More]

The Stratton Foundation and the Dalí Universe present an exciting exhibition dedicated to the renowned artist and master of Surrealism, Salvador Dalí. The exhibition “Salvador Dalí in Shanghai” is a rare collection of artworks that will delight and surprise. Opening July 31st [Read More]

The Mint Museum has acquired an early 19th century portrait by John Singleton Copley, one of the greatest and most influential painters in colonial America. St. Cecilia, a Portrait (Mrs. Richard Crowninshield Derby) (1803) is the first painting by Copley to enter [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields has announce the September 27, 2009 auction of The JZ Knight Collection. Amassed over a decade, the Collection will feature eclectic and unique examples of period furniture, decorative arts, carpets and paintings from the 17th through 20th centuries with [Read More]

Chelsea’s Agora Gallery announced they will launch an art exhibition consisting of four parts that is scheduled to run from July 21, 2009 through August 11, 2009. Long captivated by the realms of art and science, mixed media artist Gayl Sharabi links [Read More]

In a unique setting at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen in Switzerland, the Basel Academy of Art and Design has implemented a solution which monitors museum visitors as they move through the exhibition, providing new insights into emotional and cognitive reactions to art [Read More]

James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, today announced funding for the Kamloops Art Gallery. This funding will assist the Gallery in hosting the exhibition “Jayce Salloum: history of the present (selected works 1985-2009)”, which will tour five venues in [Read More]