Fine Art News

The Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, voted last week to acquire The Juniata, Evening, an exceptional painting done in 1864 by American artist Thomas Moran (1837-1926). Purchased from a private collection with funds from Max [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York presents the inaugural sale of Important Russian Art on 4 November 2010, alongside the major autumn auctions of Impressionist & Modern Art. The sale includes select works by many of the greatest names in 20th-century Russian art. Highlights from [Read More]

For the first time, Khosro Berahmandi, the prolific and inspiring artist from Montreal, comes to Queen Gallery with a handful of his most recent works entitled Nebulous Rings. Queen Gallery is pleased to invite Torontonians to view Khosro’s universe of infinite detail [Read More]

ArtSpecifier.com announces the launch of a member-only Internet database for artists that will market their work directly to designers, architects and gallery owners worldwide. Developed by Joyce Creiger, a pioneer in the art consulting and gallery business for over 38 years, the [Read More]

The Woodshed Gallery in Franklin, Massachusetts will present original fine art paintings by Franklin artist Susan Pratt Sheridan, October 19 through November 20. The solo exhibition is titled “New England Landscapes” and is the fifth in a series of exhibitions showcasing outstanding [Read More]

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin presents Turner to Monet: Masterpieces from The Walters Art Museum from October 2, 2010 – January 2, 2011. This selection of forty nineteenth-century paintings includes works from Impressionist artists Claude [Read More]

The American Folk Art Museum will present an exhibition of works by Eugene Von Bruenchenhein. on view November 4, 2010–October 9, 2011. Eugene Von Bruenchenhein: ‘Freelance Artist—Poet and Sculptor—Inovator—Arrow maker and Plant man—Bone artifacts constructor—Photographer and Architect—Philosopher’” focuses on the formal leitmotifs [Read More]

The Centre Pompidou presents a Nancy Spero Retrospective, open from 13 October 2010 through 10 January 2011. Nancy Spero, “hours of the night II”, 2001 © coll. Hrriet and Ulrich Meyer Nancy Spero (1926-2009) was an actress and mover of history, who [Read More]

Sally Muir has won this year’s £5,000 Holburne Portrait Prize commission for the portrait of her son Gabriel entitled Adolescent. This is the fifth of the Holburne’s portrait competitions which runs for artists in the south west every two years. The Holburne’s [Read More]

The New Museum will present “Free,” an exhibition including twenty-three artists working across mediums—including video, installation, sculpture, photography, the internet, and sound—that reflects artistic strategies that have emerged in a radically democratized cultural terrain redefined by the impact of the web. Open [Read More]

he National Museum of Women in the Arts announces Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color, the first major retrospective surveying Jones’ wide array of subjects and styles. Loïs Mailou Jones is on view October 9, 2010, through January 9, 2011. [Read More]

The Hamburger Kunsthalle presents a Ernst Ludwig Kirchner exhibition, open through 16 January 2011. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938), founding member of the Dresden-based artist group “Die Brücke”, is one of the classical Modernism’s most influential artist personalities. A pioneer of Expressionist art, [Read More]

This survey of modern drawings from the British Museum’s extensive collection, open through 25 April 2011, will explore the significant interchange of ideas between artists mainly working in Europe and America during the past hundred years. It will showcase some of the [Read More]

Moderna Museet Malmö presents Alice Neel: Painted Truths – the largest exhibition of this American artist ever to be shown in Scandinavia. With 59 works spanning more than 70 years, the exhibition fills the entire Turbine Hall and the new gallery at [Read More]