Curious? seeks to highlight to a broader public the pioneering role played by private collections at the beginning of the 21st century. With this exhibition the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany pays homage to the outstanding achievement of private collectors whose commitment is crucial to the breadth […]
Monthly Archives: January 2010
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This exhibition of 42 paintings draws on the Royal Collection’s rich holdings of Dutch 17th-century landscapes, including works by Jacob van Ruisdael, Aelbert Cuyp, Jan van der Heyden and Meyndert Hobbema. By the 17th century, landscape painting was well established as a distinct art form and one in which Netherlandish artists excelled. […]
The fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries saw the last great flowering of Flemish illumination. As a complement to The Morgan Library & Museum’s exhibition of The Hours of Catherine of Cleves, which goes on view January 22, 2010, a separate show of eighteen illuminated Books of Hours from the area of and […]
Some of the finest watercolors at the Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts are on view through Oct. 24, 2010, in the exhibition Watercolor Highlights from the Permanent Collection. The D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts began collecting watercolor paintings and works on paper in the early 1930s when it first […]
The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art show a mid-career retrospective for artist Marc Leuthold Feb. 6 through April 25, 2010. The exhibition, Marc Leuthold, Sculpture, 1995-2010, surveys the artist’s signature ceramic sculpture produced during the past 15 years. Museum Director Thomas Piché, Jr., curated the exhibition, which is accompanied by an illustrated […]
The Long Beach Museum of Art announce’s that 2010 marks the 60th Anniversary of the Museum’s impressive permanent collection. To celebrate this exciting milestone, the Museum will present an extended exhibition series titled Celebrating Sixty, which will feature eight rotating exhibitions that respectively highlight specific elements of the rich history of the […]
The 20th Century Decorative Arts Department at Bonhams & Butterfields, as part of its ongoing design lecture series, is pleased to announce an April 15, 2010 panel discussion titled “Blade Runner: Designing the Future.” The panel will focus on an exploration of the groundbreaking themes and visual design of Director Ridley Scott’s […]
Ketterer Kunst will host the exhibition “Tom Wesselmann – Graphic Works” in its gallery rooms in Berlin-Charlottenburg from 16 February to 13 March 2010. Next to Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann counts among the most distinguished representatives of Pop Art. He is the American pop artist whose choice […]
Following the record-breaking success of its Old Master & 19th Century Art sale in December in London, Christie’s will present its flagship New York sale of Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolors in a two-part auction on Wednesday, January 27. This extraordinary sale of over 320 works presents the […]
Club Tropical is a new and undiscovered collective of eight young London-based photographers. Red Gate Gallery is proud to present the first exhibition for this collective, showcasing new and eclectic photography by emerging artists and presenting and exciting opportunity to celebrate the launch of a potentially leading London photography group. This exhibition […]
Included within the 400-lot Bonhams & Butterfields Fine Books & Manuscripts auction on February 14, 2010 is a massive archive of photographs, correspondence and select building plans related to groundbreaking architect and designer Frank Lloyd Wright. Assembled by Professor Henry Russell Hitchcock for the landmark 1942 treatise In the Nature of Materials, […]
Nearly twenty years after the demise of the Soviet Union, Views and Re-Views invites a post-Cold War assessment of Soviet graphic arts and presents a stunning array of images spanning more than six decades from the time of the Russian Civil War (1918-1921) – during which period the Bolsheviks and their western-backed […]
ʻMosleyʼs paintings are kind of surrealist-cum-cubist-cum-Gustonish acts of zany, venturesome play. Painted in a wild Picasso-like dash…the work is playful and confident, seldom over-earnest and always unconstrained. ʼThe Independent Already acknowledged as one of the most distinctive of the ʻNewspeakʼ painters, British artist Ryan Mosley presents his first exhibition at Alison Jacques […]
In the Shadow of Everest presents photographer Tom Wool’s images of life in the villages of Tibet’s Rongbuk Valley. Taken over the course of four weeks in May 2001, Wool’s photographs capture the Valley’s rugged terrain which stretches roughly fifty miles from the base of Mount Everest on the north side. Home […]
The Columbia Museum of Art set a daily attendance record of 2,006 visitors from noon until 5:00 p.m. last Sunday, January 17, which was a free admission day courtesy BlueCross BlueShield of SC. Sunday was the last day for the popular exhibition, Ansel Adams: Masterworks, which opened October 23, 2009 and featured […]