The world’s premier international art show for Modern and contemporary works, Art Basel features nearly 300 leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. More than 2,500 artists, ranging from the great masters of Modern art to the latest [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2010
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An insightful lecture series, book signings and myriad special events highlight the London International Fine Art Fair (LIFAF) at Olympia this June. This dynamic program along with the largest summer slate of prestigious British and international dealers in London make LIFAF the [Read More]
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo presents 72 extraordinary works of the 16th through 18th centuries, from one of the preeminent collections of Italian Old Master drawings in private hands. It features masterpieces by gifted and historically [Read More]
artnet Auctions offers continuous online auctions of fine art, prints and photographs. Beginning May 11, artnet Auctions will present 60 modern and contemporary works of art by artists including Damien Hirst, Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol. Represented in the sale [Read More]
Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature Australian artist, Kristian Mumford, in a special exhibition, Out from Down Under & Beyond. The exhibition is scheduled to run from May 11, 2010 through June 01, 2010. Distinctive and driven, artist Kristian Mumford creates strikingly beautiful [Read More]
A portrait of Sir Laurence Olivier taken by David Bailey on the actor’s 80th birthday, two years before his death in 1989, is being sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its sale of Photographs on 20 May 2010. It [Read More]
A new auction record for a self portrait by Andy Warhol was set when the artist’s iconic and rare Self Portrait from 1986 sold for $32,562,500, more than double the pre-sale high estimate $15 million, at Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Contemporary Art, [Read More]
Niki Ciccotelli has been named director of education at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Ciccotelli, who joined Crystal Bridges in 2008 as head of school programs and has served as interim director of education since January, brings more than 13 years [Read More]
The Museum of Russian Art (MORA) announced an exhibition is being held in its honor on Wednesday, May 19th at the 25CPW Gallery. The exhibit is free and open to the general public including the press. A group of talented and diverse [Read More]
Jasper Johns’ Flag, 1960-1966, from the late author Michael Crichton’s collection of contemporary art, auctioned on May 11, made $28,642,500 million, the highest price ever achieved for a work by Johns at auction. Four bidders fought for the flag which took two [Read More]
Critical Mass, one of Gormley’s best known works, is an installation made up of 60 life-size cast iron body forms which will be displayed on the roof of the De La Warr Pavilion. The artist comments: “This is the return of the [Read More]
Sotheby’s London May 20 sale of Photographs will offer 126 lots covering the history of photography from the beginnings through to the present with offerings of Contemporary works. The sale will include a group of thirteen works by Heinz Hajek-Halke – one [Read More]
New York City, – Solar panels are no longer just silver boxes on roofs. A new generation of solar cells harnesses solar energy through flexible, colored or even transparent surfaces, creating endless possibilities for innovation at the crossroads of design, engineering and [Read More]
Mint Museum Executive Director Phil Kline announced the inaugural exhibitions to be presented in conjunction with the new Mint Museum Uptown’s grand opening on October 1, 2010. They are New Visions: Contemporary Masterworks from the Bank of America Collection and Contemporary British [Read More]