Fine Art News

The National Museum of Australia is showing Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route, open through 26 January 2011. This groundbreaking exhibition reveals the richness of desert life today. It tells the story of the Canning Stock Route’s impact on Aboriginal people, and [Read More]

A group exhibition exploring the relationship between the nature of the image and the object whilst challenging the boundaries between 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional disciplines Private View: Friday 14th of January 2011 – 6.00 pm to 11.00 pm Exhibition runs from: Friday 14th [Read More]

At an awards ceremony and dinner on December 8, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum announced the winners of Rob Pruitt’s 2010 Art Awards, the second annual celebration honoring notable individuals, exhibitions, and projects that made a significant contribution to the field of [Read More]

The National Gallery of Victoria presents Gustave Moreau and the Eternal Feminine open through 10 April 2011. The exhibition shows over 100 paintings, watercolours and drawings from the unique and acclaimed Musée Gustave Moreau in Paris. Gustave Moreau, The sirens, oil on [Read More]

The James A. Michener Art Museum presents Art Speaks: Contemporary Art Collections open through January 2, 2011 in the Fred Beans Gallery. In fact, art does speak at the James A. Michener Art Museum. In the exhibition Art Speaks, contemporary artists transform [Read More]

The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) presents Faces: Selections from the Permanent Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, now on view through February 13, 2011 in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building at the University of Utah. This dynamic installation [Read More]

The Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) presents an exhibition featuring works by 26 important European artists, including Paul Gauguin, Vassily Kandinsky, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso and Odilon Redon. The Symbolist Muse: A Collection of Prints from the National Gallery of Canada is [Read More]

Bonhams announce that a beautiful Archibald Thorburn painting entitled ‘The Covey at Daybreak’ will be a highlight of the 19th Century Paintings auction on 27th January 2011, New Bond Street, London. This follows on from the success of the last 19th Century [Read More]

The Holburne Museum in Bath, which will reopen to the public after a major renovation on 14 May 2011, has received a major bequest of paintings from the collection of the novelist and playwright, Somerset Maugham. The collection includes important works by [Read More]

A new display at the National Portrait Gallery marks the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Camden Town group of artists. Focusing on the leading members of the group which flourished around 1911-1912, the display also showcases three important portraits by [Read More]

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth has opened Focus: Erik Parker, on view December 5, 2010–February 6, 2011. Erik Parker has described his work as “fragmented samples of our culture.” His complex fantasy portraits elicit the poignant, melancholy, grotesque, psychological, provocative, [Read More]

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) presents an exhibition of work by Jessica Labatte. On view through January 2, 2011. UBS 12 x 12′s 100th artist Jessica Labatte’s formal explorations of everyday objects and materials focus on color and shape while emphasizing [Read More]

Paul Jenkins Post Expressionist paintings emphasizing light and color will be on view at the Crocker Art Museum in “Paul Jenkins: The Color of Light” from December 11, 2010 through February 20, 2011. His signature style emerged during the 1950s and took [Read More]

The Danforth Museum of Art presents Rhoda Rosenberg: The Shape of Memory on view through February 6, 2011. The 17 prints and 2 artist books displayed in the exhibition Rhoda Rosenberg: The Shape of Memory are structured around a dialogue between the [Read More]