A work by Ahmed Moustafa Egypt’s leading contemporary artist will be one of the star lots in Bonhams next sale of Middle Eastern Contemporary art in Dubai on October 11. ‘Man in a rocking chair’ was executed early on in the artist’s [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2010
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This show has a lot to do with failure and potential, accident and intention, and time at its most minute and most infinite. It’s about how powerful a single simple gesture can be. –Dan Colen Gagosian presents Dan Colen’s first major solo [Read More]
The Fitzwilliam Museum Presents Epic of the Persian Kings: The Art of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh open Sat 11 September 2010 to Sun 9 January 2011 in the Mellon Gallery. This landmark exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum explores the monumental artistic legacy of one [Read More]
An album of important photographs taken during the controversial British Mission to Tibet in 1903-04 is for sale at Bonhams Travel and Exploration, India and Beyond sale in London on 5 October (£10,000-15,000). The album can be traced to a member of [Read More]
New scientific detective work has revealed that two renowned 16th century portraits of Queen Elizabeth I belonging to two different galleries were painted on wood panels from the same tree. The portraits were first associated with Hilliard in 1933, and the new [Read More]
The Kunsthaus Zürich has opened Switzerland’s first museum exhibition of work by eccentric landscape artist Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (1759–1835). On view through 28 November . At the centre of the show are Kolbe’s landscape engravings featuring enormous vegetation and gargantuan trees eerily [Read More]
Sotheby’s auction of Scottish Pictures on Wednesday, 29 September, 2010, in London offers a selection of works spanning over a century, from the Glasgow Boys through the Scottish Colourists, to modern works by living artists. The 152 lots are expected to bring [Read More]
The Meadows Museum and the Prado Museum in Madrid announced in June the launch of a three-year partnership beginning September 10, 2010. The multifaceted collaboration encompasses the loan of three major paintings from the Prado, interdisciplinary research at SMU, an unprecedented fellowship [Read More]
Brian Gross Fine Art Presents Bay Area artist Nellie King Solomon in an exhibition of new paintings, open through October 30, 2010. Continuing the artist’s exploration of movement and chance through energetic, gestural abstractions on mylar, these dramatic new works reflect Solomon’s [Read More]
The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) joins the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (MACG), Mexico City, in presenting Siqueiros Paisajista / Siqueiros: Landscape Painter. Open through January 30, 2011. This exhibition reveals the renowned Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros as a [Read More]
Simon Oldfield Gallery presents Base Metal: The work of Ryan Leigh, Sam Knowles and Nick Bailey joins a current phenomenon in contemporary art that is marked by its investigation into the means and processes that comprised scientific and theoretical thought in a [Read More]
Pat Steir: Drawing Out of Line is organized by the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island. The curators are Susan Harris, independent curator, and Jan Howard, Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at The RISD Museum. Open [Read More]
Cynthia Corbett Gallery presents Tom Leighton Appropriation of Space on view through 25 September 2010. The photographs of Tom Leighton engage with urban landscape. By digitally altering photographs Leighton tries to deconstruct and retranslate the cities that we inhabit. Creating fictional landscapes [Read More]
In collaboration with Tate Liverpool, the museum kunst palast dedicates a comprehensive retrospective to Nam June Paik (*Seoul 1932, +Miami 2006), founder of video and media art. With numerous loans drawn from both international public and private collections, the exhibition brings together [Read More]