Seeing Ourselves: Masterpieces of American Photography from George Eastman House Collection opens February 12 at the New York State Museum as the next exhibition in the Bank of America Great Art Series. On view through May 9 in the Museum’s West Gallery, [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2010
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Red Dot Art Fair announced its return to New York City, March 4 – 7, 2010 Red Dot Art Fair will partner with MillionTreesNYC, a project initiated by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and New York Restoration Project (NYRP) Founder Bette Midler. Led [Read More]
John Moran Auctioneers is to begin the 2010 auction season with a sale of California and American Art distinguished by extraordinary quality throughout. The Tuesday, February 16th event is one of Moran’s signature tri-annual Art Auctions, marquee events attended by private collectors [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York is to offer Photographs from the Polaroid Collection on June 21st and 22nd, 2010 in New York. The collection of more than 1,200 works provides unique insight into the influence of Polaroid’s revolutionary technology – which all but eliminated [Read More]
Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon. The term is used to describe how the human mind sees familiar objects in abstract forms, such as animals in clouds or the man in the moon. It is also an intriguing title for the recent work [Read More]
A survey exhibition of key works by Irish artist Anne Tallentire, created over the last ten years, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 17 February 2010. This, and other things, 1999-2010 brings together two of [Read More]
A new exhibition of prints from the Toledo Museum of Art’s collection spotlights the work of iconic American artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). Although perhaps more popularly known today as a painter, Whistler was a master of the etched line. “Whistler: [Read More]
Max Wigram gallery is showing Clutch, the second solo show at the gallery by Danish artist FOS. Open through 27 February 2010. The exhibition explores the area where sensuous, intuitive knowledge is translated into language and rational thought. The clutch, understood as [Read More]
New York, NY: – Steven Holl Architects has been awarded first prize in the design competition to redevelop the site of the oxygen and boiler plants in Hangzhou, China. Steven Holl Architects’ design won first place, Herzog & de Meuron won 2nd [Read More]
Christie’s London Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale realized £39,149,500 / $61,073,220 / €44,278,085 selling 90% by lot and 96% by value. The sale had a pre-sale estimate of £26,290,000 to £38,260,000. Francis Outred, Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art, Christie’s Europe: [Read More]
The Hood Museum of Art is very fortunate to have on loan for the coming year eight superb American paintings from the collection of a Dartmouth parent. Currently installed alongside highlights from the museum’s American art collections, these works dramatically enhance the [Read More]
Glasgow Art Fair 2010 takes place from THURSDAY 25 TO SUNDAY 28 MARCH. Located within its trademark white tented pavilions which dominate George Square in the heart of Glasgow’s city centre, this eagerly anticipated annual art buying extravaganza offers its 16,500 visitors [Read More]
International Fine Art Expositions (IFAE) founders and AIFAF organizers David and Lee Ann Lester reported that a record 5,100 collectors attended the opening Vernissage honoring the Norton Museum of Art Tuesday evening at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. Sales during the [Read More]
New York – Babcock Galleries presents “African Americans: Seeing and Seen, 1766 – 1916,” an incisive overview of refined and controversial fine art and popular culture images of African Americans as artists and subjects. Bitter brutality and cruel caricature alternate with respectful [Read More]