An arresting image from Irma Stern’s time in Zanzibar, where she was powerfully affected by the beauty of the local Indian women, features in Bonhams next sale of South African Art in London on October 26 and 27. There are no fewer [Read More]
Daily Archives: September 3, 2010
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For the next several months the Norton Museum’s celebrated painting by Paul Gauguin, Christ in the Garden of Olives, 1889, will be featured in the exhibition Gauguin: Maker of Myth at the Tate Modern, London, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, [Read More]
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art presents Henry Moore – The Drawings: Works on Paper from the Henry Moore Family Collection, an international exhibition organized by Hauser & Wirth New York, London, Zürich in collaboration with the Moore Family. Henry Moore, English, [Read More]
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) today announces the shortlists for five special awards which honour the UK’s best new school buildings, conservation projects, public spaces and smaller projects; the shortlist for the RIBA Client of the Year has also been [Read More]
Sprüth Magers Berlin is to present the first solo exhibition by American artist Barbara Kruger in Berlin. The exhibition features a new multi channel video installation, entitled The Globe Shrinks (2010) that continues the artist’s engagement with the kindness and brutality of [Read More]
Swann Galleries will offer a large selection of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings at auction, on September 21. The two-session sale is divided into sections devoted to 19th century prints and drawings, American works, and modern European prints and drawings. [Read More]
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art presents American and European Paintings and Sculpture – Selections, open through Oct 03, 2010. Rockwell Kent, American, 1882-1971, Calm (Tierra del Fuego), 1992-1925, oil on canvas, Gift of Ellin and Ron Delsener, 2010.22 The first part [Read More]
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is pleased to announce that American architect Steven Holl is to receive the 2010 Jencks Award: Visions Built. The Jencks Award is given annually to an individual (or practice) that has recently made a major [Read More]
A specially commissioned installation, Forever, by the acclaimed British artist Clare Twomey will focus on ceramics as an ephemeral and temporary medium. The exhibition at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will feature 1,345 vessels, authored by Twomey, interpretations of a noted 18th-century [Read More]
The Visual Arts Center in the Department of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin has announced its inaugural fall season, exhibitions that include works by emerging artists from around the world, renowned faculty, and notable students and [Read More]
The auction of Modern and Contemporary Australian Art at Christie’s on 23 September 2010 will offer a pair of rediscovered paintings of historical importance that was found in an attic and which was identified and consigned to auction through Christie’s iPhone application. [Read More]