Fine Art News

The Abraaj Capital Art Prize, now in its fourth year, is delighted to announce its five winning artists for 2012. The artists, who were selected from a record number of submissions, have begun working on realizing the artworks they proposed which will [Read More]

The Royal Cornwall presents Out of Nowhere: Recent paintings by Noel Betowski on view until 28 January 2012. Entry is free. Noel Betowski, Outside. Photo: Bernie Pettersen Known as triptychs, huge paintings across three large canvasses adorn much of the wall space [Read More]

Images by Gerard Sekoto of Sophiatown, once his home outside Johannesburg, demolished and renamed ‘Triumph’ by the apartheid regime, and now resurrected once more as Sophiatown, go on sale at Bonhams next week. The two images are listed among the South African [Read More]

The Curatorial Panel for the 2011 Sobey Art Award has announced that Young & Giroux representing Ontario are the recipients of the 50,000 CAD top prize. The announcement was made during a Gala event held at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia [Read More]

Joshua Liner Gallery presents Abominations, an exhibition of new paintings by the Brooklyn-based artist Ryan McLennan, on view October 20 to November 19, 2011. This is the artist’s second solo show with the gallery. McLennan’s acrylic and graphite on paper works depict [Read More]

Kaleidoscope Project Space presents “An Image,” a group show including works by Bernadette Corporation, Anders Clausen, Roe Ethridge, Harun Farocki, Nikolas Gambaroff, Massimo Grimaldi, David Jablonowski, Oliver Laric, Graham Little, Mathias Poledna, Timur Si-Qin, Lucie Stahl, Ger van Elk, and Ian Wallace. [Read More]

Phase 3 of the exhibition series “Demanding Supplies” – Daniel Buren, Diego Castro, Maria Eichhorn, Katja Staats Stephan Dillemuth, Loretta Fahrenholz, Phillip Zach nOffice. on view 5 November–22 December 2011. Opening: Friday, 4 November 2011, 7 pm. View of art market literature [Read More]

His Imperial Highness Prince Hitachi, honorary patron of the Japan Art Association, presented the Praemium Imperiale art awards at a formal ceremony in Tokyo to an esteemed class of Laureates who have shown extraordinary achievement in the fields of painting, sculpture, architecture, [Read More]

Joshua Liner Gallery presents Feathers and Wax, an exhibition of new paintings by the Irish artist Chloe Early, on view October 20 to November 19, 2011. This exhibition marks the artist’s New York City and Joshua Liner Gallery solo debut. Working in [Read More]

Stux Gallery presents Freedom from Want, an exhibition of new paintings by Aaron Johnson, on view through October 22, 2011. In paintings that are glimmering, seductive, and emanating light, Johnson’s monsters are gruesome, sadistic, and spewing venom. This body of work is [Read More]

The San Jose Museum of Art explores the work of Bay Area artist Joan Brown (1938-1990) in the exhibition This Kind of Bird Flies Backward: Paintings by Joan Brown, on view October 14, 2011–March 11, 2012. The exhibition, the first major survey [Read More]

Christie’s will auction rare and exceptional Chinese paintings at its upcoming Hong Kong Autumn Sales on 28-29 November, 2011. With nearly 600 lots valued over HK$535 million (US$69 million), the sales will feature superlative Chinese classical works by calligraphers and painters such [Read More]

Horsecross Arts presents Collections III: Works by Women Artists—the final in a series of three exhibitions, on view 23 October 2011–20 February 2012, curated by Iliyana Nedkova and featuring selected works from the permanent public collection of contemporary art at Perth’s Threshold [Read More]

At the close of the ninth edition of Frieze Art Fair, sponsored by Deutsche Bank for the eighth-consecutive year, galleries reported strong sales and market confidence. Fair directors, Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover were delighted with reports of significant sales both in [Read More]