Fine Art News

This one-man show of Van I-pong (1917-1994), open through December 2010, presents works from two major periods of his life, first in Hong Kong from 1949 till 1984 and second in Canada from 1984 till 1994. Van’s landscapes of the first period [Read More]

John Moran Auctioneers, the Southern California auction house known as pioneers in auction sales of California Impressionism, is pleased to announce their third and final California and American Paintings Auction of 2010, scheduled for October 19th. The sale will offer a diverse [Read More]

The Boise Art Museum will present Stephen Knapp: Light Paintings, October 9, 2010 – April 17, 2011. Deriving inspiration from his studies of light, color, dimension, space and perception, artist Stephen Knapp will create an eighty-foot-long multi-dimensional composition of light in BAM’s [Read More]

Tate and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art announce that The Turner Prize will be presented at BALTIC in 2011. In 2007 the Prize was staged at Tate Liverpool as a curtain-raiser to Liverpool being European Capital of Culture in 2008. Following its [Read More]

Calculated Risks, an exhibition celebrating the inventive diversity among the faculty studio artists at Wellesley College, will fill the special exhibition galleries of the Davis Museum from Sept. 15 – Dec. 12. Featuring 12 artists who range from emerging to internationally acclaimed, [Read More]

Tate Modern will present the first major retrospective of Joan Miró (1893–1983) to be held in London for almost 50 years. Opening on 14 April 2011, Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape will bring together over 150 paintings, works on paper and [Read More]

The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art presents School of Paris: European Abstraction Post World War II September 10, 2010 through January 3, 2011. The exhibition presents more than 60 works (paintings, drawings, prints and artist books) from the Bechtler collection created by [Read More]

A work by Ahmed Moustafa Egypt’s leading contemporary artist will be one of the star lots in Bonhams next sale of Middle Eastern Contemporary art in Dubai on October 11. ‘Man in a rocking chair’ was executed early on in the artist’s [Read More]

The Fitzwilliam Museum Presents Epic of the Persian Kings: The Art of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh open Sat 11 September 2010 to Sun 9 January 2011 in the Mellon Gallery. This landmark exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum explores the monumental artistic legacy of one [Read More]

New scientific detective work has revealed that two renowned 16th century portraits of Queen Elizabeth I belonging to two different galleries were painted on wood panels from the same tree. The portraits were first associated with Hilliard in 1933, and the new [Read More]

The Kunsthaus Zürich has opened Switzerland’s first museum exhibition of work by eccentric landscape artist Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (1759–1835). On view through 28 November . At the centre of the show are Kolbe’s landscape engravings featuring enormous vegetation and gargantuan trees eerily [Read More]

Sotheby’s auction of Scottish Pictures on Wednesday, 29 September, 2010, in London offers a selection of works spanning over a century, from the Glasgow Boys through the Scottish Colourists, to modern works by living artists. The 152 lots are expected to bring [Read More]

The Meadows Museum and the Prado Museum in Madrid announced in June the launch of a three-year partnership beginning September 10, 2010. The multifaceted collaboration encompasses the loan of three major paintings from the Prado, interdisciplinary research at SMU, an unprecedented fellowship [Read More]

Brian Gross Fine Art Presents Bay Area artist Nellie King Solomon in an exhibition of new paintings, open through October 30, 2010. Continuing the artist’s exploration of movement and chance through energetic, gestural abstractions on mylar, these dramatic new works reflect Solomon’s [Read More]