Yearly Archives: 2010

The internationally renowned architectural firm of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners (formerly I. M. Pei & Partners) has been contracted to produce a phased master planning document for the future expansion of the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas. [Read More]

Christie’s announced that they will offer one of the last of the great female portraits painted by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) at the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale in London on 23 June 2010. Executed in 1917-18, Frauenbildnis (Portrait of Ria Munk [Read More]

The Kimbell Art Museum has unveiled the final design by Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) for a major new museum building located to the west of its existing building, a landmark of modern architecture designed by Louis I. Kahn. South East View [Read More]

Fine arts auctioneers Bonhams & Butterfields will host the firm’s largest and most extensive auction of Fine European and American Furniture and Decorative Arts on Monday, June 14, 2010 in San Francisco. The late spring sale features American, English, French, Italian and [Read More]

The summer 2010 sale at Christie’s London, on Wednesday 16 June, will meet the renewed vigor of demand with one of the strongest sales of its type to be offered on the international auction platform for many years. With estimates ranging from [Read More]

In an historic decision for the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Board of Trustees has voted unanimously to break ground on a new museum building in downtown Manhattan in May 2011. Located in the Meatpacking District on Gansevoort Street between West [Read More]

The Foundling Museum is exhibiting the finest and most exciting examples of works submitted through the Flourish programme. Curated by Beatty Hallas, Flourish was set up in 2006 as a response to the frustration voiced by looked-after artists about the lack of [Read More]

The Dallas Museum of Art has been named by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) as a certified cargo screening facility (CCSF), a federal designation that makes the process of shipping artwork by air much easier for the Museum. This makes the DMA [Read More]

Timothy Taylor Gallery presents new work by Sean Scully, open through 3 July 2010. The first time that Scully has exhibited new work in London since 2006, this exhibition comes hot on the heels of a major retrospective, Constantinople or The Sensual [Read More]

An intimate portrait by Pablo Picasso of the artist’s friend Mr Minguell is to feature in the Impressionist and Modern Art auction at Bonhams on Tuesday 22nd June, and is estimated to fetch £700,000-1,000,000. The portrait shows Mr Minguell, a Catalan tailor [Read More]

The National Art Center in Tokyo presents “Post Impressionism:115 Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay”, an exhibition that brings together nearly 100 masterpiece paintings from the legendary collections of the Musée d’Orsay. Open 2010 May 26 − August 16. France in the late [Read More]

Ellen MacNeile Charles, president of Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens, announced the appointment of Kate Markert as executive director. Currently the associate director at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Markert will succeed Frederick J. Fisher, who has led Hillwood as executive [Read More]

One hundred years after the death of Henri Rousseau in 1910, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, in collaboration with the Fondation Beyeler of Basel, dedicates an exhibition to the extraordinary French painter. Open 25 May through 12 September, 2010. Approximately thirty masterpieces provide [Read More]

In 1908 the London Underground (officially the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, later the London Passenger Transport Board, or LPTB), under the leadership of Frank Pick, began an aggressive promotional campaign that became one of the most successful, adventurous, and best [Read More]