Fine Art News

An evening of special events will take place at the National Gallery on Friday 14 May as part of Museums at Night celebrations. The Gallery will be open until 9pm, including current exhibitions Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey and Christen [Read More]

The Global Africa Project premieres at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) this November. Featuring the work of over 60 artists in Africa, Europe, Asia, the United States, and the Caribbean, The Global Africa Project surveys the rich pool of new [Read More]

A painting by Sadequain (Pakistan, 1937-1987) titled ‘Three sitting figures’, is estimated to sell for £23,000-28,000 at Bonhams Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern & South Asian Art on 2nd June 2010. Sadequain was one of the first modern artists from the Indian [Read More]

Sikkema Jenkins & Co presents an exhibition of new works by Amy Sillman titled Transformer (…or, how many lightbulbs does it take to change a painting?) on view through May 15, 2010. Sillman’s show features a range of new work across mediums, [Read More]

Irvine Contemporary is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Aaron Johnson and Barnaby Whitfield, Don’t Be Afraid, You’re Supposed to Be, open through June 5. This extraordinary exhibition is the result of an artistic friendship and a personal dialog [Read More]

Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature Australian artist, Juanita McCleary, in a special exhibition, Out from Down Under & Beyond. The exhibition is scheduled to run from May 11, 2010 through June 01, 2010 (opening reception: Thursday, May 13, 2010). A series of [Read More]

The centenary exhibition in the Kunstmuseum Bern will present all the creative phases in the artist’s development, the different subject matter he selected, and the genres he worked in: paintings, drawings, watercolors, and faiences. A trigger for this exhibition was the immensely [Read More]

The Tampa Museum of Art will celebrate its fifth annual Pride & Passion event on Friday, May 21, 2010 from 8pm to midnight. Admission to Pride & Passion is $75 for an individual ticket. Admission includes a one-year, individual level membership to [Read More]

Christie’s Evening and Day sales of Asian Contemporary Art on 29 May and 30 May in Hong Kong will bring together the dynamic worlds of contemporary art from China, Japan, Korea and India. Christie’s continues to offer a platform showcasing the best [Read More]

For his first solo exhibition at the Lisson Gallery, Ryan Gander has created a body of work which takes the viewer on a pin-ball like journey through an idiosyncratic history of art, film and media. Whether you enter the living room of [Read More]

Luhring Augustine presents TWENTY FIVE, a group exhibition commemorating the gallery’s history on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. open through Jun 19, 2010. The exhibition will include works by: Janine Antoni, Nobuyoshi Araki, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Larry Clark, [Read More]

The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) announces the appointment of Susan M. Taylor as Director Designate. She will officially become the Museum’s sixth director on September 1, 2010. Taylor will succeed E. John Bullard, who will retire as one of America’s [Read More]

Emily Fisher Landau, the noted philanthropist and art collector, and one of the Whitney’s most generous trustees, has made an important gift of 367 works of art, including works from the Fisher Landau Center for Art, that have been pledged to the [Read More]

Julian Onderdonk’s 1917 oil painting Bluebonnets at Sunrise headlines the sublime, often stellar lineup of Texas & Western Art in Heritage Auction Galleries’ Signature® Auction, May 15, at the company’s Downtown Dallas Design District Annex, locate at 1518 Slocum Street. The painting, [Read More]