Sotheby’s forthcoming sale of Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture in New York on January 27, 2011, will feature significant works by artists from across Europe. The morning session of Important Old Master Paintings is led by Titian’s monumental Sacra Conversazione, a [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact [Read More]
The High Museum of Art will host the second annual Collectors’ Evening on Friday, January 28. The event, instituted in 2010 to build and improve the Museum’s permanent collection, invites guests to take an active role in choosing the next work of [Read More]
On show are 130 collages which Erró began donating to the museum in 1989, spanning the artist‘s creative career ever since his first experiments with the media at the Icelandic School of Arts and Crafts in Reykjavík in the early fifties. Erró, [Read More]
The Fowler Museum at UCLA presents Art and the Unbreakable Spirit of Haiti, opens Jan 9. Showcasing a selection of works collected by the Fowler Museum over the past five decades, Fowler in Focus: Aand the Unbreakable Spirit of Haiti juxtaposes pieces [Read More]
For a limited time—now through January 31—visitors to the Portland Art Museum will have a unique opportunity to view four major canvases by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). The four paintings are hung in close proximity in the Museum’s Impressionist galleries and [Read More]
The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art presents An Exchange with Sol LeWitt. A two-part exhibition presented by Cabinet and MASS MoCA on view January 21, 2011 – March 5, 2011. Although celebrated for the revolutionary role he played in the development of [Read More]
Visible through the Madison Avenue windows of the Whitney Museum of American Art is a vast new wall painting created by artist Pat Steir, commissioned by Adam D. Weinberg, the Whitney’s Alice Pratt Brown Director. The painting, which went on view to [Read More]
The Chrysler Museum of Art will present American Masterpieces from the Batten Collection on January 26. The collection of American art is from Jane and the late Frank Batten, Sr., who have generously placed these nine extraordinary paintings on long-term loan as [Read More]
One hundred nude images inspired by the Classical past will be on display at the University of Sydney’s Nicholson Museum during January’s Sydney Festival, 4 January to 17 April 201. Exposed: Photography and the Classical Nude is a celebration of the naked [Read More]
Norman Rockwell Museum announces the online debut of ProjectNORMAN (New Online Rockwell Media Art & Archive Network), the public interface of its ongoing digitization efforts. Effective January 6, 2011, visitors to the Museum’s website, www.nrm.org, will be able to look through thousands [Read More]
The League of Imaginary Scientists bring their Evolving Contraption to MOCA’s Engagement Party on the first Thursday evenings of January, February, and March 2011 The Museum of Contemporary Artannounced The League of Imaginary Scientists as the winter 2011 participants in Engagement Party, [Read More]
The Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg will open on Tuesday, January 11, 2011. The public is invited to participate in a surreal procession departing from the current museum (located at 1000 Third Street South in St. Petersburg) at 10 a.m. and [Read More]
The South Texas Art Museum Presents Alexandre Hogue: An American Visionary/Paintings and Works on Paper open 1/14/2011 To 4/3/2011. Alexandre Hogue (1898-1994), Irrigation, 1931. Oil on canvas, 17 x 24”, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sol Green. Alexandre Hogue painted until the [Read More]