Fine Art News

Austin Art Space Gallery and Studios officially opened submissions for the 6th Annual “For the Love of Art” Juried Exhibit. The show is one of three juried shows held each year at the gallery that have drawn entries from as far away [Read More]

Sharjah Art Foundation presents Plot for a Biennial open 16 March – 16 May 2011. The Sharjah Art Foundation announces the presentation of work by 119 artists and participants from 36 countries across the globe for Plot for a Biennial, the 10th [Read More]

The Morris Museum of Art staff announced that Michelle Schulte has accepted the position as the Curator of Education. Schulte, the former associate curator of education at the Morris, is assuming the duties of David Tucker who retires on Wednesday, December 15, [Read More]

Tate and Unilever announced that Tacita Dean will undertake the twelfth commission in The Unilever Series for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. The work will be unveiled on 11 October 2011. Tacita Dean is one of the most respected artists working [Read More]

In conjunction with The Phillips Collection’s 90th anniversary celebration in 2011, Washington-based, internationally recognized artist Sam Gilliam creates a site-specific work for the museum’s signature, elliptical staircase, on view Jan. 29–April 24, 2011. Sam Gilliam. Red Petals, 1967. The Phillips Collection, Washington, [Read More]

Founded by 2 college graduates and based in Singapore, Artyii (www.artyii.com) is a platform that provides art sourcing services for businesses and assists emerging Asian artists to sell their works. They have recently received seed funding from several high profile art collectors [Read More]

Ordrupgaard presents Encountering Japan. Degas, Monet, Gauguin… on view through 23.January 2011. Few people know that the French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, like Monet, Degas and Gauguin, were inspired by Japanese wood cuts. Utagawa Kuniyoshi, The Monk Mongaku Collections de la Bibliotèque municipale [Read More]

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) announce a gift of the collection of art by women from Philadelphia art collector and artist Linda Lee Alter. This important collection, formed by an extraordinary person with a clear vision of how collecting [Read More]

The Kimbell Art Museum presents the first major U.S. exhibition devoted to the work of Salvator Rosa (1615–1673), one of the boldest artists and personalities of 17th-century Italy, open through March 27, 2011. Salvator Rosa: Bandits, Wilderness, and Magic surveys Rosa’s career [Read More]

Bonhams has announced the results of its Fall European Painting sale in New York. The highly anticipated event on October 29, 2010 brought in more than $2.5 million. Simulcast to San Francisco, the fall auction offered a broad range of European Works [Read More]

The Hamburger Kunsthalle presents Runge’s Cosmos. The Morning of the Romantic Era a Major Philipp Otto Runge Retrospective open until 13 March 2011. Following on from the successful Caspar David Friedrich exhibition, the Hamburger Kunsthalle now presents the first major retrospective exhibition [Read More]

The 29th edition of the contemporary art fair Art Brussels takes place from Thursday 28 April to Sunday 1st May 2011. 167 galleries from 26 countries and works by more than 1300 artists offer an insight of the current international contemporary art [Read More]

Charline von Heyl has described her drive towards abstraction as the desire to invent something that cannot be named and that challenges the eye in an unexpected way. In her paintings, she often incorporates multiple strategies of paint application and regularly borrows [Read More]

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents India’s Fabled City: The Art of Courtly Lucknow—the first major international exhibition devoted to the cosmopolitan culture of the northern Indian court of Lucknow, and the refined artistic production of the city’s multiethnic [Read More]