Fine Art News

The Long Beach Museum of Art is presenting the grand finale of its 60th Anniversary celebration with A Light in the Shadow – Decades of Art by Women. The Celebrating Sixty exhibition series will continue this summer with a special tribute to [Read More]

The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present the first exhibition to survey the achievement of the great Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) during the last three decades before his death. Open through September 6, some 80 of the artist’s paintings, sculpture, and [Read More]

A portrait by British artist Sir Herbert James Gunn (1893-1964) of his three children, entitled Design for a Portrait Group, is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its 20th Century British Art sale on 30 June 2010. [Read More]

American artist Emily Clare never dreamed that her contemporary art would find its way to the American Turkish community and then to Istanbul, where her depictions of images to ward off the evil eye have been so enthusiastically received that she has [Read More]

One of the most independent voices in painting today, Buenos Aires-based Guillermo Kuitca has long operated outside the traditional spheres of the medium, incorporating influences from sculpture, architecture, theater, film, and literature. The exhibition Guillermo Kuitca: Everything—Paintings and Works on Paper, 1980–2008, [Read More]

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), taped a special episode of ABC’s Emmy Award–winning daytime drama General Hospital on the occasion of the return of character Franco the artist, played by artist and actor James Franco, on the Pacific Design [Read More]

Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature French artist, Anis Dargaa, in The French Perspective. The exhibition is scheduled to run from June 29, 2010 through July 20, 2010 (opening reception: Thursday, July 01, 2010). Blending together the human and the animal, Anis Dargaa [Read More]

In his first solo exhibition at the gallery, Erik Parra’s confettied newspaper clippings trap vintage advertisements in an impossible temporality: both as a newspaper documentation of the past and a proactive peek into future shapings of collective hopes and dreams. Erik Parra, [Read More]

The Cleveland Museum of Art has organized an exhibition that focuses on a little-known Cleveland artist, Mabel Hewit. Midwest Modern: The Color Woodcuts of Mabel Hewit features 76 works from the museum’s collection supplemented with loans from Mr. and Mrs. William Jurey, [Read More]

The Taking of Christ by Caravaggio (1571-1610) has returned to public view in the Beit Wing of the National Gallery of Ireland. The painting, which is placed on indefinite loan to the National Gallery from the Jesuit Community of Dublin, was on [Read More]

The Walker Art Center announces its 2010–2011 performing arts season today, featuring the ambitious five-part Adventures in New Puppetry series; an all-European edition of the annual Out There series showcasing new directions in performance; and area premieres, including two world premiere orchestral [Read More]

The High Museum of Art will host “Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century,” the first major retrospective in the U.S. in more than 30 years of one of photography’s most original and influential masters. On view from February 19 through May 29, 2011, [Read More]

Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy pairs the work of Alexander Calder with the work of seven contemporary artists whose practices are bound to Calder’s legacy as modern sculptor. Open June 26 – October 17, 2010. While a well-known, even [Read More]

Keds, the all-American original sneaker brand, today announced its sponsorship of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s summer season, July 1-September 26, which includes Christian Marclay: Festival, an exhibition of the work of this groundbreaking artist known for the distinctive fusion of [Read More]