Yearly Archives: 2009

The Milwaukee Art Museum will present Raphael’s La Donna Velata in a one-work masterpiece exhibition March 26 through June 6, 2010. The oil on canvas painting, completed ca. 1516, will be on loan from the Medici collection of the Palatine Gallery, Palazzo [Read More]

A painting by Giuseppe Zocchi (1711-1767), estimated to sell for £150,000-250,00 in Bonhams sale of Old Master Paintings on 8th July, made a world record price for the artist at £1.3m. Titled `View of the Tiber looking towards the Castel Sant’Angelo, with [Read More]

It’s time for artists to get their creative juices flowing for the Call for Entries for Bayou City Art Festival Downtown’s annual “Art on Water” floating art exhibition. The downtown Houston event, located in the City Hall Reflection Pool, 901 Bagby between [Read More]

Robert Casterline, founder of Aspen-based Museum Works Galleries, is pleased to announce the launch of a new gallery located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Beginning July 15, 2009, Museum Works Galleries, Santa Fe will open to the public and feature works from [Read More]

For South African photographer David Goldblatt’s first major New York exhibition in over a decade, the New Museum will bring together 114 images taken over the past fifty years. The exhibition features a selection of photographs titled Intersections Intersected, that look at [Read More]

Gagosian Gallery has announced an exhibition of large-scale unique photographs by Vera Lutter. This is her first exhibition in Los Angeles. In Lutter’s conceptual approach to the camera obscura, the most rudimentary form of photography, the apparatus records in a very direct [Read More]

The Art Loss Register (ALR) has announced the acquisition of the register of stolen art and antiques from Trace, a subsidiary by MyThings which will become a minority shareholder in the ALR. This merger will consolidate the two databases into one, and [Read More]

William Kentridge: Five Themes, a comprehensive survey of the contemporary South African artist’s work, opened at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Featuring more than 75 works in a range of media—including animated films, drawings, prints, theater models, sculptures, and books—the [Read More]

The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego will present an exhibition of sculptural installations by artist Tara Donovan at its downtown Jacobs Building location from October 25, 2009 through February 28, 2010. Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, this is the [Read More]

Abstract Earth: The Photography of Richard Woldendorp showcases the incredible skill of this early pioneer of aerial photography, as it is almost impossible to distinguish whether his untouched photographic works are photographs or indeed painted works of art. Woldendorp’s first aerial landscapes [Read More]

The Scuderie del Quirinale, from September 24 2009 until January 17 2010, will showcase Roman Imperial Painting: frescoes, portraits on wood and on glass, decorations and landscapes from patrician domus, as well as popular houses and shops from the most important archaeological [Read More]

Drawing together a diverse range of paintings and sculptures from across the subcontinent, Ragas and Rajas: Musical Imagery of Courtly India explores the confluence of sight and sound, king and god throughout a millennium of artistic vision in India. The exhibition will [Read More]

Opening September 19, 2009, the Amon Carter Museum presents Views and Visions: Prints of the American West, 1820–1970. The exhibition, on view through January 10, 2010, showcases approximately 120 prints and illustrated books from the museum’s permanent collection. After Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902), [Read More]

The Grand Opening of the expanded and transformed Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will be May 1, 2010, VMFA Director Alex Nyerges has announced. VMFA expansion from the Boulevard as it will appear at night. Rendering © 2004 Rick Mather Architects The [Read More]