Fine Art News

With a respectable overall result of EUR 2 million* and many world record prices, the auction of “Modern and Contemporary Art”, intended as an interim auction with works of up to EUR 20.000, was one of Germany’s very important auctions this year. [Read More]

he ArtFund have helped the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge enrich its world-class collection with a Caravaggio-inspired Dutch oil on canvas. Hendrik ter Brugghen, Young woman tuning a lute (1626-7) Young woman tuning a lute (1626-7) by Hendrik ter Brugghen, is now on public [Read More]

With growing demands on the world’s resources and energy, everyday items across the urban landscape increasingly find second lives through reuse and recycling. Few found objects, however, are reinvented in such interesting form as the rubber tires used by contemporary sculptor Chakaia [Read More]

The Alexandria Museum of Art presents “Tilo Steinschulte Collection at AMoA”, open through December 4, 2010. AMoA is proud to honor architect, artist, collector, and philanthropist, Thilo Steinschulte for his generous contribution to the Museum’s permanent collection and to the cultural integrity [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York has announced that the highlight of the 16 and 17 November sales of Latin American Art will be Wifredo Lam’s 1970 masterpiece Les Abalochas Dansent Pour Dhambala, dieu de l’unité (est. $1.75/2.25 million). Wilfredo Lam, Les Abalochas Dansent Pour [Read More]

Mihai Nicodim Gallery announce the second solo show in the US of artist Ciprian Muresan. The artist’s practice is not confined to a specific medium. Muresan is commenting on art’s historical values through works in a multitude of media from drawing to [Read More]

Queen Gallery proudly presents Hugo E. Slepoy’s solo exhibition entitled ‘Originals’. Twenty-five of Hugo’s highly-detailed, original drawings will be on exhibit from Thursday, October 28, 2010 until Tuesday, November 9, 2010. Everyone is invited to attend the opening reception which will be [Read More]

Bonhams announce the November 9, 2010 bi-coastal auction of Modern and Contemporary Art. Held in New York and simulcast to Los Angeles, the sale features significant examples paintings, drawings, and sculpture from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries by artists such as [Read More]

The cultural importance of art and its place in our history is detailed in “Spotlight’s”comprehensive interstitial segments for Public Television. There are multiple elements that mark the historical landmarks of the human race, including industry, religion, war, and science. The one that [Read More]

Para/Site Art Spacepresents its Annual Fundraising Auction, an exciting event that makes a great opportunity to purchase works of art by both emerging and established artists. The auction contains 28 lots, and comes as a celebration of a year that has seen [Read More]

Downtown Venice will be energized with the vibrant and colorful art of the nation’s leading artists as well as the finest local talent when the 23rd Annual Downtown Venice Art Festival returns to West Venice Avenue on November 6 and 7. This [Read More]

The Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Design Trust for Public Space have named Dongsei Kim and Jamieson Fajardo, students at Columbia University, winners of Intersections: The Grand Concourse Beyond 100, an international ideas competition for the future of the Grand [Read More]

Cheim & Read announce a landmark exhibition of Hans Hartung’s late paintings, dating from 1987–1989. This is the first showing of Hartung’s works in New York since his controversial 1975 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and focuses on the artistic [Read More]

The Monterey Museum of Art presents a landmark exhibition of work by one of the country’s leading contemporary abstract painters, Ingrid Calame. Open OCTOBER 30, 2010-FEBRUARY 27, 2011. Calame is known for creating large-scale, abstract works inspired by tracings of the stains [Read More]