Fine Art News

The High Museum of Art, along with its co-organizer 306090, Inc. has been selected to present the exhibition Workshopping: An American Model of Architectural Practice at the U.S. pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, the 12th International Architecture Exhibition. La Biennale opens [Read More]

The Museum of Modern Art will offer half-price admission on Wednesday, May 19, 2010, to visitors who purchase general admission tickets online, as part of the Association of Art Museum Directors’ (AAMD) celebration of International Museum Day. Half-price admission tickets are for [Read More]

Over 300 original and reprographic works of art by some of the most prominent names in fine art (like Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro and Marc Chagall) and contemporary art (like Peter Max, LeRoy Neiman, Charles Fazzino and Nicola Simbari) will [Read More]

Skinner auctioneers will host its second fine paintings auction of the year with an incredible offering of American & European Paintings & Prints on Friday, May 21st at noon in the Boston gallery. Expectations are high, following stellar results of Skinner’s January [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York auction of American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture on 19 May 2010 will offer collectors a rich array of works by American artists from the 19th and 20th centuries. The auction contains a strong selection of modern pictures, with many [Read More]

The Fitzwilliam Museum presents a major exhibition of new sea paintings by one of Britain’s most distinguished contemporary artists – Maggi Hambling (b. 1945). Open through 8 August 2010. Maggi Hambling: The Wave brings together a powerful group of large-scale paintings depicting [Read More]

NYC nonprofit 501(c)3 arts organization, Art For Progress (AFP, www.artforprogress.org) will present its sixth edition of “Shorts and Beats,” an interactive evening of short films and DJ sets. Held at Project One (http://www.p1sf.com/) in San Francisco on Saturday, May 22nd, 8pm-2am, the [Read More]

In a major departure from his usual practice of working in the rural landscape, Andy Goldsworthy will present photographs, sculpture and videos made exclusively in New York City. In New York Dirt Water Light, Goldsworthy’s subjects include debris, passersby, and the interplay [Read More]

As of October 1, 2010 Karola Kraus, present head of the Staatlichen Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, will take up her position as the new director of Vienna’s Museum of Modern Art and successor to Edelbert Köb. Federal Minister Claudia Schmied appointed this well-connected and [Read More]

The Printed Image in China presents for the first time highlights from the entire collection of Chinese prints at the British Museum. The collection is one of the most comprehensive and finest in Europe. According to present knowledge, printing on paper was [Read More]

Christie’s New York May sales series of Impressionist and Modern Art totaled $360,029,725/ £238,430,281/ €279,092,810, concluding two remarkable days of sales that yielded a new world record for the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction. On Tuesday evening, Christie’s [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art brought a total of $195,697,000, nearly reaching the high end of the presale estimate (est. $141/204 million). Forty-three works achieved prices over $1 million, ten works exceeded $5 million, four works brought [Read More]

Galerie Adler Frankfurt presents new works by Sebastian Gogel. Exhibition open through June 26, 2010 The great philosophical questions are actually banal, says Gögel, because everyone asks them. In fact, the only reason they’re considered “great” is because everyone asks them. In [Read More]

NEW YORK, NY – Opning May 7th, Hauser & Wirth New York will present the first exhibition in the United States ever devoted exclusively to the drawings of artist Roni Horn. The show will include six new, large-scale works never before shown [Read More]