Yearly Archives: 2010

Following an announcement last year that the MCA had received planning approval for its $50 million redevelopment, the Museum is delighted to unveil this new series of artist’s impressions of the new building. As the images illustrate, plans for the new museum [Read More]

SALEM, MA –– The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) is pleased to announce the appointment of Anne Munsch to the post of Chief Financial Officer. Munsch comes to PEM from the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), where she served as Chief Financial Officer, [Read More]

Stephen Haller Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by American artist Lloyd Martin. The exhibition, entitled Shift, runing through February 20th, 2010. In this new work Martin continues his exploration of the transformative nature of time and use; the decay as [Read More]

(NEW YORK, NY) – As one of the final exhibitions of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s 50th-anniversary celebrations, Paris and the Avant-Garde: Modern Masters from the Guggenheim Collection presents thirty-four works by eighteen artists from the Guggenheim Museum’s collection, including significant groups [Read More]

The British Museum will show two major exhibitions which explore two important artistic traditions which flourished at the same time in different part of the worlds. Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawings This major exhibition, supported by BP, will bring together [Read More]

What happens next is a secret, an intriguing, experimental exhibition, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) on Tuesday 26 January 2010. The exhibition attempts to address the question of what happens when artworks become part of [Read More]

The Smithsonian celebrates Black History Month in February with a series of films, lectures and performances at museums around the Institution. All programs are free unless otherwise indicated. Feature Event The Institution will kick off Black History Month at the National Museum [Read More]

From 20 January 2010, Christie’s will host a public exhibition showing masterpieces by Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Natalia Gonchorova that have been unseen in public for nearly 40 years, as well as an outstanding masterpiece by Yves Klein and important works [Read More]

The Museum of Modern Art will present Ernesto Neto: Navedenga, an installation of the room-size sculpture Navedenga (1998) by Ernesto Neto (born 1964), one of the most influential Brazilian artists working today. Navedenga was acquired in 2007 and is on view for [Read More]

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Sheldon Museum of Art presents “Rediscovering Slobodkina: A Pioneer of American Abstraction” beginning Jan. 26. On view through April 18, the retrospective showcases Esphyr Slobodkina’s role in the development of American abstraction. The exhibition includes her noted abstract [Read More]

Galerie Ludorff presents an exhibition of important paintings, watercolours and prints by expressionist painter Emil Nolde. The exhibition comprises more than thirty paintings, watercolours and some of his most important prints. It brings together some of his very early prints, some of [Read More]

Following Sotheby’s outstanding sale of Contemporary Art in New York last November, which soared above high estimate and witnessed all but two lots find buyers, Sotheby’s London Evening Sale of Contemporary Art on Wednesday, February 10, 2010, is set to provide Contemporary [Read More]

Sotheby’s will offer for sale the recently rediscovered oil on canvas Self-Portrait with a Black Eye, circa 1978, by the celebrated British artist Lucian Freud (b. 1922) in its London Evening Sale of Contemporary Art on Wednesday, February 10, 2010. The self-portrait, [Read More]

Alicia Keys, the singer, songwriter, actress, author and philanthropist with a keen interest in Africa, has agreed that her charity ‘Keep a Child Alive’ will partner Bonhams VIP reception for the groundbreaking ‘Africa Now’ exhibition in New York on 9th March 2010. [Read More]