Wayne Sumner, a University Professor Emeritus in philosophy at the University of Toronto, and visual artist Ian Wallace, of Vancouver, are the winners of this year’s Molson Prizes, presented by the Canada Council for the Arts. Two Molson Prizes, worth $50,000 each, [Read More]
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Around 80 masterpieces from Munich displayed at Baden-Baden’s major summer exhibition BDer Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) is coming to Baden-Baden. At its major summer exhibition that is running from June 27 to October 11, 2009, the Museum Frieder Burda is presenting [Read More]
Have you ever found yourself viewing a world-renowned painting and thought to yourself, “What is all the fuss about?” Or perhaps you appreciate works of art but can’t help but wonder “What does this have to do with my life?” In Why We Look at Art, What Happens When We Do, author and art historian […]
India Art Summit™ will take place for the 2nd year running this August in New Delhi. Following the landmark success of India Art Summit™ 2008, which attracted over 10,000 art enthusiasts from India and overseas and saw about 50% of the artworks [Read More]
On Wednesday, July 1, at 6:30 p.m., the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), will kick off the exhibition Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs with a free outdoor karaoke party. The event celebrates the exhibition’s opening and the Boston premiere of Queen (A [Read More]
Museum-goers embarked on a global journey this morning as the Royal BC Museum (RBCM) opened its doors to the North American premiere of Treasures: The World’s Cultures from the British Museum. The exhibition, at the RBCM until Sept. 30, 2009, brings together [Read More]
The Art Institute of Chicago and the Saint Louis Art Museum have collaborated on a major exhibition that showcases the rarely seen masterpieces of Japanese screens from both museums’ permanent collections. Beyond Golden Clouds: Japanese Screens from the Art Institute of Chicago [Read More]
The most important retrospective exhibition ever devoted to New York artist Thomas Nozkowski recently opened at the National Gallery of Canada. Until September 20, some 60 works painted since 1980 by the internationally renowned artist will be on view in the Gallery’s [Read More]
Imaginary Geometries a Visual Art Event – Chelsea Gallery – from 29th of June to 11th of July 2009 “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and [Read More]
Artfully Unforgotten’s production titled “ARTISTS for GISIMBA” will be featured at Hello Living’s Dakota Building. Live music performances by Mamarazzi and Ashley Jones, with accompanying visual material. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn more about the orphanage, as well as support [Read More]
Iridescence, Color & Form, The Paintings of Timothy Orikri opens at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History on Friday, June 26, 2009. The exhibition will run through September 13, 2009. An Artist’s Reception will be held on Friday, July [Read More]
The Amon Carter Museum presents Masterworks of American Photography: Moments in Time, on view through January 3, 2010. Journey through photography’s history in an exhibition of works from the medium’s early years to the present day. Taken together, these images from the [Read More]
Museu Berardo – Modern and Contemporary Art – Lisbon, presents Pancho Guedes – Vitruvius Mozambicanus. Autobiography is, in architecture, a difficult art. It is not by chance that Pancho Guedes (b. 1925, Lisbon) placed his own attempt to describe his art under [Read More]
“It was an outstanding auction, an exhilarating auction,” was the comment made by auctioneer Robert Ketterer on the auctions he held on 19/20 June to officially inaugurate the new Ketterer Kunst headquarters. “The sales quotient by lot numbers was comparable to the [Read More]