Yearly Archives: 2010

On January 26th Bonhams will hold the first Maritime Sale to be presented at its New York galleries. Highly anticipated amongst collectors, this inaugural sale will focus solely on maritime related paintings and decorative arts. Featured in the nearly 200 lot sale [Read More]

Author and art consultant Barbara Guggenheim will discuss the intricacies and idiosyncrasies of collecting art at an event titled How the Art World Works: New Twists on the World’s Second Oldest Profession at the Gibbes Museum of Art on Thursday, February 4. [Read More]

David L. Dee has been named Director Emeritus at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah. Dee, who served as Director and Curator of Asian Art from 2002 to 2009, also served as Interim Director, Exhibitions Coordinator, and [Read More]

Christie’s announced the appointment of Marc Porter as Chairman of Christie’s Americas effective January 2010. In this role, Mr. Porter will lead the Top Client Program in the Americas and remain President of Christie’s Japan, and a member of the Board of [Read More]

Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum, has announced two staff appointments for the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project: Suzanne Cotter, Curator of Exhibitions, Abu Dhabi Project, and Reem Fadda, Associate Curator for Middle Eastern Art, Abu Dhabi Project. Ms. Cotter [Read More]

Gary Snyder/Project Space will present a one-person exhibition of drip paintings and works on paper by Janet Sobel (1894 – 1968). She is best known as the self-taught artist whose drip paintings of the early 1940s influenced Jackson Pollock. Her work has [Read More]

This spring, the Portland Museum of Art will feature an exhibition of the graphic work of Max Beckmann, one of the most significant German artists of the modern era. Modernism and Masquerade: Max Beckmann (1884-1950), on view March 13 through May 23, [Read More]

The Board of Trustees of Bellevue Arts Museum (BAM) is pleased to announce the appointment of Stefano Catalani as Director of Curatorial Affairs/Artistic Director. Catalani has served as BAM’s Curator since 2005 and will transition into his expanded role on February 12, [Read More]

Baltimore – The Walters Art Museum is pleased to present a full slate of programming related to Asia from February 14–June 13, 2010. CHILDREN & FAMILY PROGRAMS To register for family programs, visit www.thewalters.org, call 410-547-9000, ext. 300, or email familyprograms@thewalters.org (unless [Read More]

In 1975 Frank Stella executed twenty-eight graph-paper drawings, which were converted into Foamcore maquettes, and, in 1976, to a series of large-scale aluminum reliefs known as the Exotic Birds. With the Exotic Birds, in the words of William Rubin, “we enter fully [Read More]

Baltimore—The Walters Art Museum and the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute at The Johns Hopkins University announce a collaboration to pioneer a new approach to investigating the neural basis of the human aesthetic experience. On view January 23–April 11, 2010, Beauty and the [Read More]

New Arrivals: Works from the Collection features more than twenty-five works of art, the state’s art museum will introduce a selection of recent additions to its collection, most on view for the first time. Representing a variety of mediums – including painting, [Read More]

Essentially, everything in my work is about a process of description. My attitude towards repetition has to do with the cumulative effect of continuous applications of line and color. If we focus on that, and see them as crystallized into patterns or [Read More]

Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale and the auction of The Art of the Surreal will take place on 2 February 2010 at 7pm with a pre-sale estimate of £56,505,000 to £80,805,000. The leading highlights include Gitane by Kees van Dongen [Read More]