Fine Art News

Three of DiGiusto’s Con-Ten Steel sculptures, Contro 1, Contro 5 and Contro 6, will be on view on the Everson podium August 4 – November 17, 2010. Three additional sculptures will be on view for concert goers at the Skaneateles Festival’sSaturday evening [Read More]

Fresno artists Augustine and Rita Vargas are holding an art show and demonstration at Allard’s Art and Frame Supplies on Saturday, August 14, 2010 from 11AM to 2PM. They are abstract impressionist artists and work with oils on canvas. The pair married [Read More]

The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) announces the first official interactive mobile application for exploring Cincinnati through art! The CAC is the first museum in the U.S. to use the cutting-edge, Google-endorsed SCVNGR technology to explore a city. “We’re excited about this opportunity [Read More]

To commemorate the closing of his exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center, Shepard Fairey has created a new CAC print entitled Rise Above CAC Canvas Print. Just as with the February 19th release of the artist’s first CAC print, which sold out [Read More]

The world’s largest museum of Islamic art in Cairo has reopened after a seven-year restoration and refurbishment project. Designed by Italian architect Alfonso Manescaloand was completed in 1902 in neo-Mamluk style, founded by the German architectand scholar Franz Pasha (d. 1915), the [Read More]

This fall, the fourth floor of the Vivian and David Campbell Centre for Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario will feature AT WORK: Eva Hesse – Studiowork, Betty Goodwin – Work Notes, Agnes Martin – Work Ethic. From September 22, [Read More]

C. F. Martin & Company (http://martinguitar.com) today announced that it is publicly unveiling eight “Art Guitars” during a series of special events taking place this weekend in historic Nazareth, Pennsylvania. These one-of-a-kind guitars were built by Martin Guitar, but suffered shipping damage [Read More]

ARTIST ROOMS on Tour with the Art Fund BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art announces a major exhibition of the work of Anselm Kiefer, one of the foremost figures of European post-war painting. The exhibition on view 8 October 2010 – 16 January [Read More]

A Pablo Picasso compilation Faunes et Flore D’Antibes (Paris, 1960), a set of 12 loose offset color lithographs housed in an original linen portfolio (est. $10,000-$15,000) is being offered the weekend of Sept. 24-26 by Philip Weiss Auctions. Pablo Picasso compilation Faunes [Read More]

Steven Shearer is known for using a wide range of traditional and contemporary media in works that address the human subject and its relationship with the outside world. The Vancouver-based artist will represent Canada at the 54th International Art Exhibition − La [Read More]

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University presents “Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas,” through January 2, 2011. This exhibition explores 500 years of visual cultures and histories of the water deity widely known as Mami Wata (“Mother [Read More]

James Cohan Gallery presents The Tell-Tale Heart (Part 2), a group exhibition inspired by the classic story by American 19th century novelist and poet Edgar Allan Poe. The exhibition open through August 13th, 2010 and will feature works by Barbara Bloom, Victor [Read More]

London’s most anticipated art and design event will launch in September 2010 As a response to 25 years of cultural deep freeze in the UK, the Anti Design Festival will attempt to unlock creative fires and ideas, exploring spaces hitherto deemed out-of-bounds [Read More]

The installation ruminates on specific cause and effect relationships pertaining to the conceptual allure of such figures as Jesus, Satan, David Koresh, Aleister Crowley, Kenneth Anger, Anton LaVey, and Timothy McVeigh. By addressing the fascination with the manner in which esoteric, mysterious, [Read More]