Fine Art News

The exhibition shows how home interiors and design styles have changed from one era to the next, and also how the image of the home as portrayed by artists has evolved. Artists became increasingly interested in painting domestic scenes as the home [Read More]

An exhibition of Mail Art with an amazing collection of envelopes and boxes from around the world decorated by some of today’s most talented illustrators and artists ‘Mail Me Art: Medium Without a Message’ is the follow-up to the successful 2008 Mail [Read More]

“Minimalist” Site Design Showcases Greg Constantine 2010 Contemporary Art Collection at New Informational Website Located at GregConstantine.info Precept Partners, a Michigan based Internet consultancy, today announced the launch of a new informational website featuring the 2010 collection of contemporary paintings by internationally [Read More]

Visitors to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art on June 24 and 25 and July 1 and 2 will be able to observe Museum conservation specialists as they perform various scientific examinations on Claude Monet’s Water Lilies. The examination is made possible with [Read More]

Deborah Marrow, director of the Getty Foundation, has been appointed interim President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, filling the position left empty by the unexpected death of President and CEO James N. Wood last week. In this capacity, she [Read More]

Thomas “Thom” Collins, an arts administrator, art historian, educator and author with more than 15 years of experience serving as a director and curator at several of America’s top museums, has been named as the new director of Miami Art Museum (MAM). [Read More]

Sotheby’s London announced that on Wednesday, November 3 and Thursday, November 4, 2010 it will present for sale The Robert Devereux Collection of Post-War British Art. The two-day single-owner sale of approximately 400 lots will offer a collector’s unique vision of the [Read More]

A luminous 19th-century landscape and a contemporary tapestry that confronts viewers with Civil War-era racial violence, both by important African American artists, are the latest works announced by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Flatboat Men (1865) by Robert Scott Duncanson builds [Read More]

National Museum Wales announces it has bought a significant painting by William Dyce entitled Welsh Landscape with Two Women Knitting, 1860, thanks to crucial funding grants from membership charity the Art Fund, the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF), and others. Thanks to [Read More]

Sotheby’s London sale of South Asian Art brought an exceptional total of £5,465,550, well above the pre-sale expectations of £2,739,500-3,912,500 and a figure that is more than double the sum realised for the equivalent sale at Sotheby’s London last summer. The sale [Read More]

Following the great success at the Grand Palais in November 2009 in Paris, OpenArtCode group will exhibit in July 2010 in London. This time, the OpenArtCode artists will present and promote their art in a gallery on the River Thames in the [Read More]

We are all familiar with praying monks, but playing monks? A Book of Hours from Flanders finds them deep in a game of “Blind Man’s Bluff,” while on the opposite page peasant boys enjoy a rigorous game of hockey. Such delightful images [Read More]

The Allentown Art Museum presents 34 special quilt treasures from the museum’s extensive textile collection in “In Stitches,” the exhibition now on view in the Kress Gallery. These quilts, which were enthusiastically received by the public in a major quilt exhibition in [Read More]

More than 50 years ago young Juan Quezada stumbled upon ceramic fragments from a lost civilization. Come see how this chance discovery inspired Quezada and the people of Mata Ortíz, Mexico to revive the art of their ancestors and bring new economic [Read More]