Fine Art News

The exhibition Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers makes its final stop at the Walker Art Center October 23, 2010-February 13, 2011, following its premiere at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Yves Klein, People Begin to [Read More]

The 2nd Annual ArtShare for HeartShare, featuring artwork created by individuals with autism, cerebral palsy and other developmental disabilities runs November 2 through November 13, 2010. It is being held at the New Century Artists Gallery, located at 530 W. 25th Street, [Read More]

For the past six years, Urban China has been engaged in a unique multidisciplinary inquiry into the rapid state of change in China, presented in the format of a magazine — the only one devoted to issues of urbanism published in and [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 9 November 2010 will offer Housatonic, a painting by Arshile Gorky, Est. $800,000/1.2 million*. The auction also includes major works by many of the leading artists of the 20th and 21st centuries including Mark [Read More]

The Courtauld Gallery presents Cézanne’s Card Players, open 21 October 2010 – 16 January 2011. Paul Cézanne’s famous paintings of peasant card players and pipe smokers have long been considered to be among his most iconic and powerful works. This landmark exhibition, [Read More]

Fresco is an early form of painting on plaster that dates back to ancient Crete. Fresco painting flourished during the Renaissance, and is still a popular art form today. You can learn the skills of this art form and create your own [Read More]

Michelangelo’s first known painting, The Torment of Saint Anthony, will be on view among the permanent collection of the Kimbell Art Museum. The Kimbell Art Museum acquired the painting in May 2009. It will be featured in a focus exhibition including a [Read More]

The Westmoreland Museum of American Art’s Born of Fire: The Valley of Work exhibition is part of Feuerländer: Regions of Vulcan, a large-scale international exhibition, to be presented at the LVR-Industriemuseum in Oberhausen, Germany open through Nov. 28, 2010, as part of [Read More]

Queensland Art Gallery will present 21st Century : Art in the First Decade, on 18 December 2010 – 25 April 2011. 21st Century: Art in the First Decade’ encompasses an exhibition, publication, blog and a series of public programs that explore the [Read More]

The Walters Art Museum presents German Drawings From The Walters Collection, open November 20, 2010–February 13, 2011. The Walters family, William, Ellen and their children, Henry and Jennie, spent the years from 1861 to 1865 in Europe. Although William Walters had begun [Read More]

Deviba Wala’s lucid abstractions, predominantly monochromatic, evoke an unambiguous rhetoric of strength in the process of accomplishing elegant but austere forms. Wala believes they are almost naïve in terms of transgressing the disquiets of mundane life. The entangled patterns and wavy lines [Read More]

The Schirn Kunsthalle presents an exhibition of works by Gustave Courbet Exhibition, open through January 30, 2011. The French painter Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) ranks among the most fascinating nineteenth-century artists. He is regarded as the crucial pioneer of political realistic painting and [Read More]

he United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has issued its decision in the case determining ownership of Oskar Kokoschka’s painting Two Nudes (Lovers) (painted about 1913). The decision affirmed United States District Judge Rya Zobel’s May 28, 2009, ruling [Read More]

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) hosted a total of 39,669 visitors during the opening celebrations of the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion. More than 17,600 visitors attended LACMA’s Free Community Weekend on October 2-3, while the week prior [Read More]