Fine Art News

Now through mid-2011, Asia Art Archive presents six initiatives to commemorate its 10th anniversary, creating multiple platforms for discussion about the past, present, and future of contemporary art in Asia. AAA is a community effort that has grown from a single bookshelf [Read More]

The Royal Academy of Arts presents Artists Laboratory 02: Stephen Farthing RA The Back Story, open through 19 December 2010. This exhibition, the second in the Artists’ Laboratory series, features recent work by the painter Stephen Farthing RA. Stephen Farthing RA, ‘Boucher: [Read More]

Titled “Oh Sweet Pestilence,” the exhibition will include a mix of ceramics, drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture by 12 students who are part of a class taught by Marya Roland, associate professor of art, that prepares students for entry into the professional [Read More]

The Everson Museum of Art presents Jules Olitski: An Inside View, a collection of 40 rarely-exhibited, self-portrait and abstract prints in a variety of media. The exhibition will be on view November 13, 2010 – January 16, 2011. An Inside Viewfeatures intaglio, [Read More]

The first exhibition to chart the evolution of Australia’s most influential art movement is showing at the Art Gallery of South Australia, through 26 January 2011. Desert Country reveals the extraordinary development of the Australian desert painting movement and the flourishing cross-cultural [Read More]

The most extensive exhibition ever mounted of Thornton Dial’s painting and sculpture will premiere at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, on view from February 25, 2011, to May 15, 2011. Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial will highlight the artist’s significant [Read More]

The mid-century and the 1960s figure prominently in this sale; a large-scale, 1962 mixed media collage on burlap canvas by Italian Gruppo Nucleare painter Piero Manzoni (estimate: $120,000-$201,000) is complemented by a vibrant 1966 canvas painting by “artist’s artist” Fairfield Porter, Forsythia [Read More]

Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature Italian artist, Santina “Semadar” Panetta, in Portals of Perception. The exhibition is scheduled to run from November 23, 2010 through December 14, 2010 (opening reception: Thursday, December 02, 2010). Filled with the spirit of the natural world, [Read More]

İstanbul Modern presents the first retrospective in Turkey by Kutluğ Ataman, a prominent figure in the contemporary art world. Realized under the sponsorship of Garanti Bank between November 10, 2010 – March 6, 2011, the exhibition The Enemy Inside Me brings together [Read More]

Paintings and Sculpture from award winning gallery represented artists. Winter Exhibition: 3 Dec 2010 until 19 Feb 2011. Award winning painters and sculptors include: Peter Barker. British landscape artist Adam Binder. British sculptor Nick Hais. British painter Wendy Hunt. British wildlife sculptor [Read More]

Guercino’s King David (1651) will come to the National Gallery to join Guercino’s The Cumaean Sibyl with a Putto (1651) on display from November 5 2010 until November 21 2010. This will be the first time the pair have been seen together [Read More]

October was another great month for bidders and auctioneers on Artfact Live! Collectors snapped up vintage Matchbox cars at The Matchbox Forum’s October 7th auction with 71% of the lots selling online; Grogan & Company kicked off its 23rd anniversary with a [Read More]

The Hirshhorn announces a new two-person “Directions” exhibition featuring the work of Cyprien Gaillard (French, b. Paris, 1980) and Mario Garcia Torres (Mexican, b. Monclova, 1975), on view Nov. 10–March 27, 2011. These artists represent a new generation of conceptualists who examine [Read More]

Mark Polizzotti has been appointed Publisher and Editor in Chief at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he will oversee all aspects of the Museum’s scholarly publishing program, it was announced today by Director Thomas P. Campbell. Mr. Polizzotti is currently Director [Read More]