Fine Art News

Ann Philbin, Director of the Hammer Museum, has announced the appointment of Brooke Hodge, effective July 19, as the Hammer’s Director of Exhibition Management and Publications. In her new role at the Hammer, Hodge will provide management and guidance to the curatorial [Read More]

Following an extensive search that included numerous national and international candidates, Josef Helfenstein, director of The Menil Collection, has named Toby Kamps as the museum’s new curator of modern and contemporary art. Currently senior curator at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Mr. Kamps [Read More]

The Indianapolis Museum of Art has announced that New York based artist Mary Miss will create a series of site specific installations along the White River called FLOW (Can You See the River?). The project will reveal important and unique elements of [Read More]

A mixture of paintings, photographs, and prints juxtaposes Andy Warhol’s (1928-1987) renderings of coins and dollar signs with images of people both famous and unknown. Open July 17 through September 19, 2010 in the Harrington Gallery Art historian Trevor Fairbrother guest curates [Read More]

This exhibition focuses on a very specific moment in the post- dada/surrealist take-up of toys and early childhood as themes in art. Centred on the work of certain British and American artists who came to prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s, [Read More]

The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) is pleased to present This Girl Bends: Art and Feminism Since 1960, an exhibition that explores the connections between art and feminism since 1960 with over twenty artworks from the museum’s permanent collection. On Tuesday, [Read More]

Creed makes work which captures the public imagination while also attracting critical acclaim for its generous, accessible approach. His work most often takes the form of interventions into a given space, re-ordering readily available materials which are a familiar part of everyday [Read More]

The Museum of Science & Industry presents an inspirational exhibition featuring the UK Premiere of the Secrets of Mona Lisa. Open through 12th September 2010. See fascinating 3-D animations of Da Vinci’s most famous paintings and sculptures as well as large-scale interactive [Read More]

Ullens Center for Contemporary Ar presents Zhang Huan Hope Tunnel, open through October 24, 2010. Zhang Huan, Hope Tunnel. Work in progress, 2010. Courtesy of the artist. Zhang Huan Studio, Shanghai. Photo: Zhang Huan Studio © 2010 Zhang Huan Every so often [Read More]

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art is delighted to present a new work by renowned Argentinean artist and architect Tomás Saraceno. For 14 Billion (Working Title) Saraceno enlisted the aid of spider experts to create an oversized model of the web of the [Read More]

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute recently appointed Dr. Aruna D’Souza as associate director of its research and academic program. D’Souza, a noted scholar of nineteenth-century French art and feminist art history, most recently served as an associate professor at the [Read More]

The Royal Academy of Arts annual Summer Exhibition is the world’s largest open submission contemporary art exhibition. This year, an iPhone application has been launched to complement the exhibition. Users can download the app and enjoy more than 150 images with 27 [Read More]

Tate announced the launch of the interactive website and national roadshow of the Tate Movie Project. Children from across the country are invited to take part in creating the Tate Movie, the first of its kind, an animation film made by and [Read More]

Jointly presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department and the Min Chiu Society Organised by the Hong Kong Museum of Art. Open 2010.09.25 – 2011.01.02. Founded in 1960, the Min Chiu Society is a group of local collectors who possess eminent [Read More]