Fine Art News

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century, has opened at The Museum of Modern Art. On view through June 28, 2010. The exhibition comprises 300 prints from 1929 to 1989, at least one fifth of them previously unknown to the public, and focuses on [Read More]

The Amon Carter Museum is pleased to announce that Marci Driggers Caslin has joined its staff as the exhibition coordinator. In her new position, Caslin is responsible for coordinating permanent collection and traveling exhibitions presented at the museum. “Marci brings to the [Read More]

The Van Gogh Museum of Amsterdam is hosting Paul Gauguin’s Breakthrough into Modernity through June 6th, 2010. Given the importance of Gauguin and his art, this exhibition brings art fans from around the world looking to explore not only his art, but [Read More]

Richard Aste, an art historian with broad experience working with European painting, sculpture, and works on paper, has been appointed Curator of European Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Currently Associate Curator at Museo de Arte de Ponce in Ponce, Puerto Rico, Aste [Read More]

On June 26, the Amon Carter Museum presents Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s–50s. This groundbreaking exhibition is the first to bring together South American and U.S. geometric abstraction and includes a range of paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, [Read More]

The Directors of Bonhams, international fine arts auctioneers, are pleased to announce the appointment of Amy J. Lawch, G.G. as the firm’s Regional Representative for Houston, Texas. As Regional Representative, Ms. Lawch, an Accredited Appraiser certified by the International Society of Appraisers, [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York will offer the most important work by Brice Marden ever to appear at auction, “Cold Mountain I” (Path). Executed in 1988-89, the masterwork was the first in the artist’s acclaimed series of six monumental (108 x 144 in.) canvases [Read More]

Sotheby’s London announced as part of its Contemporary Turkish Art sale: Untitled, 1956, a major work by Nejad Melih Devrim, will be offered alongside works by leading Turkish artists. From a private Danish collection, the painting has remained in private hands since [Read More]

Haunch of Venison London will present Forever Foreign – the first UK solo show of Bengali-American artist Rina Banerjee, introducing the New York-based artist’s complex, seductive, corporeal oeuvre. Open 9 April – 15 May 2010 Banerjee’s drawings, sculptures and assemblage depict mythical, [Read More]

A collection of paintings from a deceased estate in Jersey, showing beautiful landscape scenes of Elizabeth Castle, Martello Towers and Mount Orgueil Castle among other Jersey sights, are to feature in the British and Continental Pictures auction on Tuesday 20th April at [Read More]

The National Museum of Modern Art (Centre Pompidou) in Paris has opened, on level 5, a new presentation of its collections from 1905 to 1960. The exhibition is entirely dedicated to artists, movements and themes of the founding history of modern art [Read More]

The Ringling Museum of Art presents a new line-up for their popular Monday Night Movies. Starting April 12 and continuing through May 17, They Don’t Make ‘em Like They Used To: Six Great Films – all Fifty Years Old will be presented [Read More]

Weekly highlights of objects of interest found in five Guggenheim archive collections can now be viewed on Guggenheim.org. Since September 2009, project staff, as part of a detailed processing grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), has been [Read More]

Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art announces an online auction to include ten pieces of Richard Ritter’s glass sculpture featured in the retrospective exhibition, Richard Ritter: 40 Years of Glass. This auction offers an exclusive opportunity to purchase these pieces, some [Read More]