Fine Art News

The Whitechapel Gallery presents the first major UK exhibition of Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal, a leading figure in contemporary painting. On view 14 October 2011 – 1 January 2012. Wilhelm Sasnal paints images from everyday life and the mass media. His paintings [Read More]

A fine painting by acclaimed Victorian artist, George Robert Lewis, is one of the many sporting pictures in this year’s Annual Bonhams Sporting Sale in Edinburgh on 10 November. Robert Nightingale A gentleman with shooting dogs and the day’s bag was painted [Read More]

Acquavella Galleries present Georges Braque: “Pioneer of Modernism” an exhibition on view from October 12th through November 30th, 2011. The exhibition includes over forty major paintings and papiers collés by the artist, all on loan from prestigious international public and private collections. [Read More]

The Outset/Frieze Art Fair, now in its 9th year, enables Tate to acquire works by emerging and leading international artists from London’s Frieze Art Fair. This year the £150,000 made available by the Fund is the highest ever. This year’s selection panel [Read More]

Roman Ondák is Deutsche Bank’s “Artist of the Year” 2012. On the recommendation of the Deutsche Bank Global Art Advisory Council, consisting of renowned curators Okwui Enwezor, Hou Hanru, Udo Kittelmann and Nancy Spector and chaired by Pierre de Weck, member of [Read More]

The Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art (LAAFA) was named one of American Artist’s Top 10 Art Schools. In the November 2011 article, Pursuing The Classical Dream: The American Artist Guide to Art Schools, LAAFA is one of the select schools worldwide [Read More]

ArtPalmBeach celebrates its 15th Anniversary at the Palm Beach County Convention Center from January 20th-23rd, 2012 with a Preview evening January 19th. ArtPalmBeach is considered one of the most influential contemporary art fairs on Florida’s Gold Coast by both critics and art [Read More]

Laurent Delaye presents “Fireeye Meltdown” by Michael Stubbs an exhibition of work on view October 11th – December 17th 2011. Working at the interface of abstraction and pop, Michael Stubbs combines pouring techniques with hard-edged lines and stencils to force a collision [Read More]

Swann Galleries October 27 New York auction focuses on Atelier 17, the printmaking workshop founded by Stanley William Hayter, and its extraordinary influence on the fine arts in America and Europe from the mid 20th century onward. The sale, titled Atelier 17, [Read More]

White Cube announces the opening of a third major space in London. The building, located on Bermondsey Street in south London, will open to the public during Frieze on 12 October 2011. This will be the largest of the gallery’s three London [Read More]

Dia Art Foundation is pleased to present dance works by renowned avant-garde choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer at Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, in Beacon, New York. Dia’s retrospective will celebrate the depth of Rainer’s contributions to dance and will feature her earliest works [Read More]

Folie à Deux, French for ‘madness of two’, is the clinical definition for a psychosis in which delusional beliefs are transmitted from one individual to another. For her first exhibition at Blain|Southern, the acclaimed British artist Rachel Howard has created a series [Read More]

Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that. – Andy Warhol Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of Andy Warhol’s Portrait Series of Brigitte Bardot [Read More]

Chelsea’s Agora Gallery features Canadian artist, Darlean Morris, in Beyond Borders: an Exhibition of Fine Art from Canada. The exhibition is scheduled to run from October 7, 2011 through October 28, 2011 (opening reception: Thursday, October 13, 2011). Darlean Morris, Orange Divide, [Read More]