Monthly Archives: May 2010

For his first solo exhibition at the Lisson Gallery, Ryan Gander has created a body of work which takes the viewer on a pin-ball like journey through an idiosyncratic history of art, film and media. Whether you enter the living room of [Read More]

Luhring Augustine presents TWENTY FIVE, a group exhibition commemorating the gallery’s history on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. open through Jun 19, 2010. The exhibition will include works by: Janine Antoni, Nobuyoshi Araki, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Larry Clark, [Read More]

The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) announces the appointment of Susan M. Taylor as Director Designate. She will officially become the Museum’s sixth director on September 1, 2010. Taylor will succeed E. John Bullard, who will retire as one of America’s [Read More]

Emily Fisher Landau, the noted philanthropist and art collector, and one of the Whitney’s most generous trustees, has made an important gift of 367 works of art, including works from the Fisher Landau Center for Art, that have been pledged to the [Read More]

Julian Onderdonk’s 1917 oil painting Bluebonnets at Sunrise headlines the sublime, often stellar lineup of Texas & Western Art in Heritage Auction Galleries’ Signature® Auction, May 15, at the company’s Downtown Dallas Design District Annex, locate at 1518 Slocum Street. The painting, [Read More]

The High Museum of Art, along with its co-organizer 306090, Inc. has been selected to present the exhibition Workshopping: An American Model of Architectural Practice at the U.S. pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, the 12th International Architecture Exhibition. La Biennale opens [Read More]

The Museum of Modern Art will offer half-price admission on Wednesday, May 19, 2010, to visitors who purchase general admission tickets online, as part of the Association of Art Museum Directors’ (AAMD) celebration of International Museum Day. Half-price admission tickets are for [Read More]

Over 300 original and reprographic works of art by some of the most prominent names in fine art (like Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro and Marc Chagall) and contemporary art (like Peter Max, LeRoy Neiman, Charles Fazzino and Nicola Simbari) will [Read More]

Skinner auctioneers will host its second fine paintings auction of the year with an incredible offering of American & European Paintings & Prints on Friday, May 21st at noon in the Boston gallery. Expectations are high, following stellar results of Skinner’s January [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York auction of American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture on 19 May 2010 will offer collectors a rich array of works by American artists from the 19th and 20th centuries. The auction contains a strong selection of modern pictures, with many [Read More]

The Fitzwilliam Museum presents a major exhibition of new sea paintings by one of Britain’s most distinguished contemporary artists – Maggi Hambling (b. 1945). Open through 8 August 2010. Maggi Hambling: The Wave brings together a powerful group of large-scale paintings depicting [Read More]

NYC nonprofit 501(c)3 arts organization, Art For Progress (AFP, www.artforprogress.org) will present its sixth edition of “Shorts and Beats,” an interactive evening of short films and DJ sets. Held at Project One (http://www.p1sf.com/) in San Francisco on Saturday, May 22nd, 8pm-2am, the [Read More]

In a major departure from his usual practice of working in the rural landscape, Andy Goldsworthy will present photographs, sculpture and videos made exclusively in New York City. In New York Dirt Water Light, Goldsworthy’s subjects include debris, passersby, and the interplay [Read More]