Monthly Archives: May 2010

Montserrat College of Art’s (www.montserrat.edu) annual Artrageous24! benefit art auction raised more than $225,000.00 for student scholarship — a 12% increase in the financial aid the college can offer to students from the annual benefit event. according to Auction Co-chairs Linda Harvey [Read More]

Causey Contemporary will present the mixed media paintings of Korean artist Hyun Ju Park in Out of Darkness…Light and Consequential Tea, a group exhibition of tea inspired stoneware. Consequential Tea will feature the stoneware of Joe Campbell, Dick Lehman, Kristin Muller, Takao [Read More]

The work of L.S. Lowry (1887-1976) holds a special place in the heart of the British public and Sotheby’s sale of 20th Century British Art on Wednesday, 26 May 2010, will present four exceptional works by the much celebrated British master. The [Read More]

A pair of oil on canvas paintings by the prolific and gifted Korean artist Kim Heung Sou (b. 1919) sold for a combined $52,500 in an Internet and catalog auction held Apr. 14-28 by Litchfield County Auctions (www.LitchfieldCountyAuctions.com). One work was the [Read More]

An exhibition presenting artworks recently acquired for IMMA’s Collection, marking the first occasion that these works have been shown at the Museum as part of that Collection, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 19 May [Read More]

The Ashmolean is one of five museums to win a share of £75,000 to buy their selected object thanks to Art Fund Collect, an initiative aimed at championing contemporary craft and increasing its presence in UK collections. Art Fund Collect is run [Read More]

Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature Australian artist, Wendy Cohen, in a special exhibition, Out from Down Under & Beyond. The exhibition is scheduled to run from May 11, 2010 through June 01, 2010 (opening reception: Thursday, May 13, 2010). Committed to creativity [Read More]

Stephen Haller Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by the renowned colorist Ron Ehrlich. With a rare level of skill and a complex methodology Ehrlich tackles his paintings with a contrasting muscularity and intellectual vigor. Ehrlich’s provocative and intense personality is [Read More]

Priska C. Juschka presents Romain Bernini’s first solo exhibition in the United States. His beautifully haunting paintings reflect a state of entropy, Robert Smithson’s idea of the ruins — a dystopian sociological landscape born of the debris of post modern societies, disillusioned [Read More]

More than 15,000 paintings and sketches created by over 1,300 American soldiers in the line of duty have been in curatorial storage in Washington, D.C. for decades, seldom made available for public viewing. Art of the American Soldier will bring these powerful [Read More]

One of the greatest works by the Italian Baroque master Domenichino (1581–1641) is to remain in Britain and is now on public display in Room 32 of the National Gallery, having been acquired by an anonymous private collector. This is a tremendous [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York will offer a Highly Important Series of Over Forty Autograph Letters and Postcards from Surrealist master René Magritte to poet Paul Colinet, on 18 June 2010. The correspondence forms an extraordinary record of the artist’s creative process in addition [Read More]

The exhibition presents for the first time paintings from the past five years, as well as a selection of paintings from previous years. Open through Saturday 26 June 2010. Tal Mazliach’s paintings are constructed like a riddle which the viewer must decipher. [Read More]