Fine Art News

John E. Buchanan, Jr., Director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, announces the appointment of Julian Cox, one of the country’s leading authorities on photography as Founding Curator of Photography for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) and [Read More]

The Museum in downtown Kitchener announces its next major collaborative exhibition; SEARCHING FOR TOM – Tom Thomson: Man, Myth and Masterworks to open in February 2011. The exhibition, which is primarily based on the famous Canadian painter Tom Thomson, will explore his [Read More]

In this new Exhibition, the Hong Kong Heritage Museum offers visitors a glimpse into the achievements of Chao Shao-an’s students in their continued efforts to explore new horizons beyond the confines of different schools of art and their underlying principles. Open 11 [Read More]

The Museum of Modern Art’s third annual Film Benefit, to be held on November 10, will honor writer-director Kathryn Bigelow. Renowned for her Academy Award-winning film The Hurt Locker (2008), for over 30 years Bigelow has crafted a body of films that [Read More]

Gray’s Auctioneers announced their 34th auction 19th and 20th Century European and American Paintings, to be held Thursday July 29 , 2010 at 1 pm. This sale features over 350 lots, with a particularly diverse collection of European, with a concentration of [Read More]

Gert and Uwe Tobias large woodcuts, gouache paintings, typewriter drawings and ceramic sculptures combine influences from traditional folk art and abstract art from the early 20th century. Their vividly coloured images, objects and environments evoke a world that is hallucinatory and strange. [Read More]

Modern Art Oxford presents a major exhibition of paintings by Howard Hodgkin, open through 5 September 2010. Comprising over twenty works, Howard Hodgkin: Time and Place spans the last ten years of Hodgkin’s career and will include paintings not previously seen by [Read More]

The Whitechapel Gallery presents the first major retrospective of influential 20th century American painter Alice Neel. Alice Neel (1900–1984) is best known for her portraits of celebrated artists and writers from New York, including Andy Warhol, Frank O’Hara, Meyer Shapiro and Linda [Read More]

Scaramouche presents LUSH LIFE, an exhibition curated by Franklin Evans and Omar Lopez-Chahoud which takes place at nine Lower East Side (LES) galleries: Collette Blanchard Gallery, Eleven Rivington, Invisible-Exports, Lehmann Maupin, On Stellar Rays, Salon 94, Scaramouche, Sue Scott Gallery, and Y [Read More]

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) has commissioned world-renowned artist Claes Oldenburg to create a new public artwork for its Lenfest Plaza. The design consists of a 53 foot high sculpture in the form of a paintbrush, raised at a [Read More]

To accommodate its major construction project, Museum of the Moving Image is closed to the public. The renovated and expanded Museum will re-open in early 2011. The Museum building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A completely new entrance [Read More]

Sotheby’s London will offer, a newly discovered drawing by John William Waterhouse (1849?1917) on Thursday, 13th July. Unrecorded in the literature on the artist, the charcoal study of Flora comes to the market following the recent Waterhouse retrospective at the Royal Academy [Read More]

ART SAN DIEGO 2010 (formerly Beyond the Border International Contemporary Art Fair) presented by UBS Financial Services has announced its list of participating galleries that range from San Diego’s finest to highly acclaimed galleries from New York and Los Angeles and as [Read More]

A portrait by Joaquín Sorolla, entitled ‘La Bella Raquel’ is to highlight Bonhams 19th Century Paintings auction on 29th September 2010, New Bond Street, London. Acclaimed as a ‘genius’ by Sarah Bernhardt, Raquel Meller was a highly popular singer who started life [Read More]