Monthly Archives: June 2010

This major midcareer survey of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) at the at New Museum in New York, will cover a decade of the internationally admired artist’s work. Open through 9/19/10 It will spotlight the artist’s unique contribution [Read More]

Turner and the Masters is now on view at the Museo del Prado in Madrid. Its aim is to reveal to visitors the extent of Turner’s links with other historically important artists and the profoundly original way in which he assimilated their [Read More]

Art London 2010 sees a number of new international contemporary galleries exhibiting including Comodaa (Australia) and Villa Del Arte (Spain) as well as other galleries from France, Argentina and the Czech Republic. Returning exhibitors include Whitford Fine Art, John Martin Gallery and [Read More]

The Gallery at 764 West joins with the Schertz Area Artz Council to present the HeiB Art Fest (Hot Art Fest) on Saturday August 21, from 10am to 4pm. Over twenty area artists, all members of The Schertz Area Artz Council, will [Read More]

The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) has hired Elizabeth Smith as its new Executive Director of Curatorial Affairs. Formerly the Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, Smith will oversee the Gallery’s ambitious exhibition [Read More]

Bluewater Publishing LLC, the developers of Art History Test, has released a unique new product for iPhone and iPod touch users. The application is a new launch which tests and teaches art history. Through the use of flash cards, students and art [Read More]

SAN JOSE, CA – Opening in July 2010 at running through September 19 at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), are four exhilarating exhibitions that expose, capture and celebrate the art of collaboration, participation, experimentation, and manipulation of old and [Read More]

Stuart Chase, Executive Director of Berkshire Museum announced that Tom Patti, one of the world’s mostly highly regarded artists working in glass, has been commissioned to create an original work of art for the Museum’s entry vestibule. This major commission, the Museum’s [Read More]

Bridget Riley (b. 1931) is one of the most significant and original painters of our time. This Sunley Room exhibition focuses upon her most recent paintings and will enable visitors to investigate how Riley’s work relates to the National Gallery Collection. Open [Read More]

The new Jewish Museum London is to exhibit three rare Hebrew manuscripts from the collections of the Vatican Library that have never before been shown to the public in Britain. Open 25 June – 10 October 2010. Illumination will tell the story [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York auctioned the most significant group of Magritte correspondence to appear at auction in more than 20 years for the sum of $218,500 (£147,356), against a pre-sale estimate of $200,000-400,000. The collection was acquired by an American institution. The cache [Read More]

Penny Worley Auctioneers (www.worleyauctioneers.com) announces online auction of government art in Miami, Fla., according to Jerry Jenkins. “We have nearly 200 pieces of fine art, including oils, acrylics, lithographs, watercolors and mixed media,” said Jenkins. “All of these pieces will sell to [Read More]

There is an art in discovering art. Line, color, shape, luminosity are just some of the foundation bricks on which a work of art is built, some of the ways in which we engage with it. Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, [Read More]