Award-winning black and white fine art photographer, Clyde Butcher, returns for his 3rd season to the SWFL Museum of History to share his iconic landscapes in this unique exhibition. Clyde Butcher: Big Cypress Swamp and the Western Everglades, features 40 stunning large-format […]
Monthly Archives: August 2010
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“John Gossage: The Pond” open Aug. 27 – Jan. 17, 2011, celebrates the recent gift to the Smithsonian American Art Museum of this remarkable photographic series and the re-issue of one of the most influential photography books of the past three decades. […]
Two important medieval Hebrew manuscripts—a Mishneh Torah made between 1300 and 1400 in Germany and an illuminated leaf from a prayer book made in Austria around 1360—are on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters, respectively, in conjunction with […]
The Incheon International Digital Art Festival 2010 (“INDAF 2010”) will be held beginning September 1 in Tomorrow City in Songdo, Incheon. This is a major international exhibit and culture event organized by Incheon City as part of its efforts to develop as […]
London’s Ben Uri Gallery has acquired a dramatic watercolour by distinguished German artist George Grosz. Entitled Interrogation, the painting captures the horrors of the Second World War. The detailed, evocative watercolour depicts a horrific scene of a man being tortured by soldiers. […]
CHICAGO — The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) announce that Fashion Design Department Chair Nick Cave’s world-famous Soundsuits will be featured in an eight-page spread in the September issue of Vogue. Shot by fashion photographer Raymond Meier and hitting […]
Christie’s Asian Art Week will commence on September 14th, with the sale of Indian and Southeast Asian Art. The sale offers over 200 selected works including exceptional bronzes, sculpture, and paintings from Gandhara, the Himalayas, India and Indonesia. The sale not only […]
Art lovers everywhere will have a unique opportunity to acquire original art by well-known artists, support a good cause, and spend the day in a picturesque mountain valley at the 15th Annual Richard Schmid Fine Art Auction on Sunday, September 5, 2010. […]
You could call it a road show, but artist Rich Harrington and photographer John Treichler have titled it “New Jersey Blues.” It’s their joint exhibit honoring the view from New Jersey’s many byways and highways. As you’d expect, there are urban street […]
Birdman, a life-size sculpture by acclaimed artist Elisabeth Frink (1930 – 1993) has gone on display at Leeds Art Gallery. Valued at £250,000, the unique plaster maquette was given to Leeds through the Art Fund by the Frink Estate and Beaux Arts […]
Bonhams & Butterfields, world leaders in auctions of Native American art, will present on Monday, September 13, 2010 in San Francisco its “Art and Artifacts of the Americas” auction consisting of American Indian baskets, pottery, beadwork, weavings, jewelry, Northwest Coast and Eskimo […]
Foster + Partners, working with construction firm, CRIBA S.A. and local architect, BBRCH-Minond, has won the competition to design a new corporate headquarters for the Banco Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Plans for the energy-efficient building, which will occupy an entire city […]
An international group of students has designed and built an installation evoking the Finnish national epic Kalevala, The Shaman’s Haven of the Kalevala, on the Seurasaari island in Helsinki. The project is the culmination of the Spirit of Place/Spirit of Design architectural […]
On view from October 3, 2010 through January 9, 2011, this moving exhibition expands the boundaries of mapping as a practical means for way-finding, transcending the physical act of travelling from points A to Z. Commenting on the upcoming exhibition Neil Watson, […]