Yearly Archives: 2009

The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is pleased to present Desert Secrets: Photography From the Permanent Collection, a provocative new exhibition that explores the Southwestern desert as a place of strangeness and the unknown. On view through December 13, 2009, the installation [Read More]

Antony Gormley is one of Britain’s leading contemporary sculptors focusing on the human body as site. The exhibition at KUB brings together four major work series from Gormley’s oeuvre: the Expansion works, Allotment, Critical Mass, and Clearing. Embedded in the context of [Read More]

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), continues to highlight its outstanding permanent collection with a new exhibition at its MOCA Grand Avenue location. Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, focusing on works added to the collection during the past five years, [Read More]

The DePaul University Art Museum will host the Chicago premiere screening of “Freedom on the Fence,” a film documenting the brilliant and paradoxical art of Polish poster design, starting with a reception at 5 p.m. July 28 at the DePaul University Art [Read More]

Gottfried Keller’s enthusiasm for what he sees before him is the motto for the exhibition on the 19th-century image of Switzerland from the Kunstmuseum Bern collection. The museum presents not only works that are strange or have hardly yet been seen, or [Read More]

Sotheby’s London sales of Old Master Paintings and Renaissance & Baroque Masterworks from the Collection of Barbara Piasecka Johnson brought a combined total of £36,022,625/ $57,917,177/ €41,645,761, a strong figure comfortably within the pre-sale expectations for the evening of £29,222,500-42,470.000. The Old [Read More]

Christie’s inaugural Old Masters and 19th Century Art Evening Sale realised £20,284,400 / $32,840,444 / €23,550,188, and was 76% sold by lot and 91% sold by value. Offering important paintings, drawings and watercolours representing nearly 700 years of European history, the sale [Read More]

As reported in the news media, Shepard Fairey’s court case involving the Boston Police came to a close today. His legal battles in Boston over, Fairey can finally celebrate the success of his first museum exhibition currently on view at the Institute [Read More]

One of the most beautiful manuscripts in the world is the lavishly illustrated medieval prayer book known as the Belles Heures (Beautiful Hours). It was created by the Limbourg Brothers—three of the greatest illuminators in Europe—for one of the most famous art [Read More]

Michael Raedecker – one of the most successful artists of his generation – presents a broad overview of his latest work at the GEM this summer. His complex, multi-layered paintings, which daringly combine the “high-status” medium of paint with the homelier medium [Read More]

Tony Foster: Searching for a Bigger Subject Features Arizona’s Grand Canyon and Mount Everest, Opens July 11, 2009 Traveling on foot, by raft or canoe, climbing mountains and weathering extreme climates, English artist Tony Foster creates watercolor diaries in the world’s great [Read More]

Charles DuBack (born 1926) first came to Maine from New York City in the mid-1950s. Charles DuBack: Coming to Maine will feature 20 paintings and collages focusing on his rarely shown, but pivotal, work from the late 1950s. The exhibition is complemented [Read More]

The Philadelphia Museum of Art this summer will present Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection, an exhibition of approximately 100 paintings, sculptures, watercolors, and drawings from the early decades of the 20th century. It is drawn from the [Read More]

Aperture Foundation, a leading New York based arts institution dedicated to promoting photography in all its forms, and School of Visual Arts, an art school in New York City whose mission is to educate students who aspire to become professional artists, have [Read More]