A London scene by English artist Christopher Wood (1901-1930), entitled Skating at Hampstead, 1929, is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its 20th Century British Art sale on 30 June 2010. It has been estimated at £50,000 [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2010
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International Poster Gallery speeds into summer with the gallery’s seventeenth annual summer poster show “Full Steam Ahead!,” which features more than 50 original vintage travel, transportation and leisure posters from around the globe. The exhibition opens July 5 2010 and runs through [Read More]
The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston has commissioned New York-based painter Francesca DiMattio to create the fourth installation of the Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall. The Art Wall is dedicated to site-specific works by leading contemporary artists. DiMattio was inspired by the [Read More]
Vibrant and masterful mixed media works on paper by the artist Alfred Jacob Miller, depicting the American West inspired by a six-month expedition in 1837, will be on view in Romancing the West: Alfred Jacob Miller in the Bank of America Collection, [Read More]
After restoration and refurbishment, the new Albertinum reopens June 20, 2010. Presenting itself as a centre of art from the Romantic period to the present day. The new exhibition halls are shared by the Galerie Neue Meister and the Skulpturensammlung. The holdings [Read More]
The exhibition shows how home interiors and design styles have changed from one era to the next, and also how the image of the home as portrayed by artists has evolved. Artists became increasingly interested in painting domestic scenes as the home [Read More]
An exhibition of Mail Art with an amazing collection of envelopes and boxes from around the world decorated by some of today’s most talented illustrators and artists ‘Mail Me Art: Medium Without a Message’ is the follow-up to the successful 2008 Mail [Read More]
“Minimalist” Site Design Showcases Greg Constantine 2010 Contemporary Art Collection at New Informational Website Located at GregConstantine.info Precept Partners, a Michigan based Internet consultancy, today announced the launch of a new informational website featuring the 2010 collection of contemporary paintings by internationally [Read More]
Plain Beauty: Korean White Porcelain/Photographs by Bohnchang Koo explores the elegance and seemingly simple beauty of plain white porcelains of the Joseon dynasty (1392-1910) through the viewfinder of Bohnchang Koo, a Korean photographer who made a four-year project of photographing these superb [Read More]
Rankin’s latest exhibition Portraits is a celebration of some of the icons of our generation. From politicians to actors, monarchs to musicians, Portraits brings together some of the most famous faces of the last 20 years, uniting some of Rankin’s most recognisable [Read More]
Swann Galleries auction of American Art and Contemporary Art on June 8, top lots, were Louise Nevelson’s Maquette for Monumental Sculpture II, welded black steel, 1977, which sold for $78,000*, and Willem de Kooning’s The Devil at the Keyboard, lithograph with hand [Read More]
What are young photographers up to in the twenty-first century? How do they see the world? How much do they respect, build on, or reject tradition? Exhibition open 19.06-26.09.2010. As the digital revolution continues its relentless advance, demolishing longstanding practices in every [Read More]
Visitors to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art on June 24 and 25 and July 1 and 2 will be able to observe Museum conservation specialists as they perform various scientific examinations on Claude Monet’s Water Lilies. The examination is made possible with [Read More]
Deborah Marrow, director of the Getty Foundation, has been appointed interim President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, filling the position left empty by the unexpected death of President and CEO James N. Wood last week. In this capacity, she [Read More]