Rochester sculptor Albert Paley has earned an international reputation for his ability to manipulate cold, hard metal into organic, seemingly impossible forms. Over a career spanning more than three decades, he has completed more than 60 monumental commissions for sites from Washington [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2010
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Sotheby’s New York Contemporary Art sale, on 12 May 2010, will offer works by some of the most important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and Brice Marden, among many others. The [Read More]
The Kimbell Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, has acquired the painting Christ and the Woman of Samaria, dated to 1619–20, by the Italian artist Guercino, one of the foremost painters of his time. The purchase was announced by the Museum’s director, [Read More]
TORONTO – April 21, 2010) Sixty years ahead of the avant-garde, aristocratic women of the 1860s and 1870s combined photographs and watercolours to create the little-known phenomenon of Victorian photocollage. From June 5 to September 5, the Art Gallery of Ontario hosts [Read More]
The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum has introduced a collections online searchable database with pictures of over 3,000 items from the museum’s collection, and archives of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center. The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Collections Online, enables the public to view, images [Read More]
Park West Gallery is pleased with the recent verdict determining that Park West had not defamed Fine Art Registry, but is disappointed that the jury determined that FAR had not defamed Park West Gallery. FAR’s testimony was that their false and malicious [Read More]
Chris Levine, renowned for his 3D and still images of HRH Queen Elizabeth II, has created a series of 3D holographic portraits of the legendary pop icon. An immersive multimedia affair featuring lightboxes, lazers, video and a specially-commissioned ’soundscape’, The Vinyl Factory [Read More]
The Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH) is hosting an art exhibition for Singaporean artist Dr. Leon K. L. Chew, open through 12 May 2010, at the National Theater in Abu Dhabi. With a first degree in Science, Dr. Leon [Read More]
Christie’s auctioneers has announced the opening of two new highly-secure storage facilities in New York and Singapore this spring, expanding its fine art storage service established over 25 years ago in London to become the only global provider of its type with [Read More]
The Socrates Sculpture Park presents Cityscape: Surveying the Urban Biotope, open May 2 – August 1, 2010. Opening Reception: Sunday, May 2, 2010, 2-6PM. The exhibition will feature eleven artists who are exploring both the cultivated and invasive presence of nature in [Read More]
Kim Foster Gallery presents Art & Entertainment, Susan Wides’ sixth solo show at the gallery. With this new work, Wides builds upon over ten years of exploring New York City and its environs through the facets of shift/tilt techniques. Whether it is [Read More]
The beauty of glorious attire and what it communicates to others is celebrated in two works of art announced by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Mrs. Theodore Atkinson, Jr. (1765), an oil portrait by John Singleton Copley, considered one of the [Read More]
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, has announced that Michael Darling has been appointed the new James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator, concluding a comprehensive international search. Darling is currently the Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at [Read More]
Twenty years after the last concert given by Miles Davis (1926‐1991) in Montreal, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting – in its exclusive North American venue – the first multimedia retrospective devoted to the jazz legend, from April 30 to [Read More]