Yearly Archives: 2009

The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis is pleased to announce the receipt of a $10,000 grant from the Nimoy Foundation for an Artist in Residency for British artist Carey Young. For her first-ever solo museum exhibition in the United States, Young engaged [Read More]

More than 5 million daily users of Metro can learn more about cultural heritage conservation and prevention of illegal traffic of cultural goods tasks, conducted by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), through 2 exhibitions mounted during July 2009 at [Read More]

It was a full house with many new faces that filled the Pasadena Convention Center on Tuesday, June 23rd, in anticipation of John Moran’s second California and American Paintings Sale for 2009. The number of new bidders and attendees perhaps reflects the [Read More]

A stunning William Dyce painting that has been lost for over a century is to be offered for sale at Sotheby’s in London. The Meeting of Jacob and Rachel is expected to fetch between £100,000 – 150,000 when it is offered for [Read More]

Art Source for Design is proud to announce the date of a fundraising art auction to benefit LifeUnfolded, a local non profit organization dedicated to to providing an artistic outlet for foster children to enable them to discover their talents and use [Read More]

With a laudable 82 percent sell-through rate by lot, or nearly ninety percent sold by value, Freeman’s June 21st sale of ‘Fine American & European Paintings and Sculpture’ proved to be a great success, with 102 of the 127 lots on offer [Read More]

The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the National Design Awards with free public programs that explore the intersection between design and the world around us. Several of the National Design Award winners will be part of [Read More]

From July 11th to September 27th a new way of seeing, living and hearing Tabakalera will be open. An exhibition-tour will take the visitor through sound installations, sculptures, interactive audiovisual pieces… proposing a new way of discovering the building guided by the [Read More]

The South Bay Area and Peninsula Chapters of the Women’s Caucus for Art in conjunction with SOMArts Cultural Center present an exhibition titled “CONTROL”, curated by Karen Gutfreund, displaying the work of California women artists. The exhibition will be held August 6 [Read More]

The Montclair Art Museum (MAM) presents Cezanne and American Modernism, the first exhibition to examine fully the influence of Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) upon modern American artists from 1907 to 1930. From September 13, 2009 – January 3, 2010, the exhibition will explore [Read More]

Hundreds of artists will converge on downtown Aspen for the 7th Annual Downtown Aspen Art Festival on July 18 – 19, 2009, as Wagner Park is transformed into a first-class outdoor art gallery. Admission is free and open to the public. The [Read More]

Teresa Brutcher`s paintings show individuals, faces, eyes, hands, painted with a technique which has come to be known as Hyperrealism as it exalts detail to its maximum degree as though everything were seen through a magnifying glass. Her works tell a story [Read More]

Kunstraum Richard Sorge is proud to present the first large overview in Germany of Dutch artist Gert-Jan Akerboom’s ink drawings on paper. The artist executed several large murals, turning the presentation into an immersive experience. Eschewing easily interpretable statements in his work, [Read More]

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University announces “From Their Studios,” September 16, 2009 through January 3, 2010, highlighting the creative work of 13 artists who teach studio art at Stanford University. This exhibition features a wide variety of visual art, including film, [Read More]