Fine Art News

Charles Garabedian’s paintings and works on paper explore themes of war, music, the body, dismemberment, heroism, comic pretension, love, and death—all conveyed with a sense of immediacy, intimacy, and poignancy. While ancient characters and tales, including Homeric literature, Old Testament stories, Greek [Read More]

Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature Tokyo native, Fumitoshi Kamura, in Matrix of the Mind: Contemporary Fine Art by Japanese Artists. The exhibition is scheduled to run from March 1, 2011 through March 22, 2011 (opening reception: Thursday, March 3, 2011). Using simple [Read More]

Cerith Wyn Evans’ exhibitions often combine an all-round sensory experience with intricate juxtapositions of fragments of meaning. With a background in experimental film and video art in the 1980s, he has primarily worked since the 1990s with spectacular installations where a number [Read More]

Jean-Marc Bustamante is one of France’s senior artists and a major figure in the international art world. His clear, direct vision manifests itself in an almost bewildering array of materials and media – first photography, then sculpture, painting, architectural projects, installation. His [Read More]

The Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery have announced that Patricia Buckley Ebrey, a leading scholar of Chinese civilization, will receive the 2010 Shimada Prize for her book Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong (University of Washington [Read More]

Frieze Art Fair has announced the EMDASH Foundation, a new organisation that aims to encourage and enable the ideas of the future, from artistic and cultural projects to scientific research, will be the new funders of Frieze Projects and the EMDASH Award. [Read More]

The LSU Museum of Art presents Beyond Black: Ed Clark, Eugene Martin and John T. Scott on view through May 8, 2011. Beyond Black is the LSU Museum of Art’s first exhibition to recognize the contributions of Louisiana’s African-American abstract artists. Beyond [Read More]

When Vasily Kandinsky and Franz Marc formed the group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) in late 1911, the artists predicted a watershed in the arts, a große Umwälzung (great upheaval) that would radically challenge traditional artistic production. Tremendous creativity and innovation [Read More]

SAM Art Projects presents Inci Eviner Broken Manifestos open through 3 April 2011. In residence at Villa Raffet as part of SAM Art Projects since August 2010, Inci Eviner is a Turkish artist who lives and works in Istanbul. One of the [Read More]

The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art presents Video Villa: New Paintings by Barbara Grad on view February 4–May 28, 2011. The paintings in Video Villa: New Paintings by Barbara Grad take as their inspiration the dynamic intersection of worlds seemingly at odds; [Read More]

The Morris Museum of Art presents I Will Tell You a Place Paintings by Brian Rutenberg on view through May 15.2011. Brian Rutenberg’s work is as grounded in Old Master painting and drawing as his sense of place and color is in [Read More]

Once again this year, the Berlinale is drawing a great many filmmakers and cineastes to Berlin. In parallel and by now an insiders’ tip, the Directors Lounge, developed by Berlin artists, is hosting for the 7th year in a row its own [Read More]

Queen Gallery is celebrating Family Day with our talented artist-family! Family Day is on February 21st this year and so from February 4th to 26th, 2011, we are celebrating the holiday by having a Family Fun Art Fair and we are inviting [Read More]

Sotheby’s next sale of Orientalist art in Paris, on March 30, will include a selection of works by artists who lived in Morocco. Several landscapes and scenes from Moroccan daily life by Jacques Majorelle reflect his close links to the country where [Read More]