Newbury Street’s International Poster Gallery announces “Pioneers of Modernism: Poster Masters of the 20th Century”, a revealing look at how pioneering artists changed the rules of poster making throughout the century. The exhibition of 35 groundbreaking poster designs is now on view [Read More]
Monthly Archives: May 2010
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Marc Chagall is recognized by all as a 20th century master of modern art. Chagall’s distinctive contribution to modern art lays largely in his unique blend of color and dreamlike images. He developed a personal symbolic language, presented in a palette of [Read More]
The grand opening celebration of the largest expansion project in the history of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts takes place on Saturday and Sunday, May 1 and 2, with an array of free special events and activities, including a ribbon cutting, [Read More]
Building on the approach the Denver Art Museum (DAM) pioneered in 1925, when it became the first American museum to collect Native American objects as art rather than artifacts, this summer the museum will begin the renovation and complete reinstallation of its [Read More]
Christie’s Hong Kong announces its Spring sale of Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary Art will take place on 30 May at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. Featuring over 130 quality works spanning the history and geography in the Southeast Asian [Read More]
Fascinating photographs of London Women’s Pub Outings in Battersea and Clapham taken by Scottish photographer Grace Robertson in the 1950s are being sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its sale of Photographs on 20 May 2010. The four images [Read More]
Rochester sculptor Albert Paley has earned an international reputation for his ability to manipulate cold, hard metal into organic, seemingly impossible forms. Over a career spanning more than three decades, he has completed more than 60 monumental commissions for sites from Washington [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York Contemporary Art sale, on 12 May 2010, will offer works by some of the most important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and Brice Marden, among many others. The [Read More]
The Kimbell Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, has acquired the painting Christ and the Woman of Samaria, dated to 1619–20, by the Italian artist Guercino, one of the foremost painters of his time. The purchase was announced by the Museum’s director, [Read More]
TORONTO – April 21, 2010) Sixty years ahead of the avant-garde, aristocratic women of the 1860s and 1870s combined photographs and watercolours to create the little-known phenomenon of Victorian photocollage. From June 5 to September 5, the Art Gallery of Ontario hosts [Read More]
The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum has introduced a collections online searchable database with pictures of over 3,000 items from the museum’s collection, and archives of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center. The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Collections Online, enables the public to view, images [Read More]
Park West Gallery is pleased with the recent verdict determining that Park West had not defamed Fine Art Registry, but is disappointed that the jury determined that FAR had not defamed Park West Gallery. FAR’s testimony was that their false and malicious [Read More]
Chris Levine, renowned for his 3D and still images of HRH Queen Elizabeth II, has created a series of 3D holographic portraits of the legendary pop icon. An immersive multimedia affair featuring lightboxes, lazers, video and a specially-commissioned ’soundscape’, The Vinyl Factory [Read More]
The Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH) is hosting an art exhibition for Singaporean artist Dr. Leon K. L. Chew, open through 12 May 2010, at the National Theater in Abu Dhabi. With a first degree in Science, Dr. Leon [Read More]