Fine Art News

Lee Man Fong’s seminal work Bali Life made HK$25,300,000/ US$3,243,590 at Sotheby’s Hong Kong Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Paintings Sale, setting the World Record for any Southeast Asian Painting and for the Artist at Auction. The entire Modern and Contemporary Southeast [Read More]

Rituals are embedded in everyday life, whether established by religion, culture, or family, and are continuously performed and reinvented by each generation. Rituals are personal, and are often created and re-interpreted to provide meaning and sustenance for a fulfilling life. A new [Read More]

The first tattoo-themed exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), Under the Skin: Tattoos in Japanese Prints, explores the social significance, iconography, and intricacy of Japanese tattoos. The exhibition, which runs April 3, 2010, through January 2, 2011, includes approximately [Read More]

Phillips de Pury & Company will hold their BRIC auctions at London’s Saatchi Gallery, on 23rd and 24th April. The BRIC auctions will be the very first sales of Contemporary Art from today’s fastest-growing and burgeoning international powerhouses: Brazil, Russia, India and [Read More]

Seoul Auction, held its Modern and Contemporary Art sale in Hong Kong on 4 April 2010, taking a total of HK$42.8 million (US$5.53 million). Untitled, an important mixed media work by Donald Judd (1928-1994) achieved HK$14,812,000 (US$1,913,695). Works by Robert Indiana, Gerhard [Read More]

A Lively Street Party Benefiting the CAC Tickets Go On Sale Today THE EVENT, a unique spin on the Contemporary Arts Center’s annual benefit bash, brings the city together to celebrate the vibrant energy that contemporary art brings to the community. This [Read More]

Adelson Galleries and Peter Tillou Works of Art will present the paintings of Winfred Rembert April 7-May 28, 2010 This will be Rembert’s first major solo exhibition in New York. A self-taught artist, Rembert grew up working in the cotton fields of [Read More]

Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent paintings, sculptures and works on paper by Donald Baechler. Baechler’s previous solo show with the gallery was in 2006. Donald Baechler was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1956 and currently lives [Read More]

Tula Telfair: Landscapes in Counterpoint pairs nine new monumental paintings by the artist with her selection of nineteenth and early twentieth-century paintings from the museum’s collection. Telfair’s choices, which include works by Thomas Cole and Frederic E. Church, establish the visual foundation [Read More]

The Museum für Gegenwartskunst is pleased to present Kilian Rüthemann (born 1979 in Bütschwil, St. Gallen, lives and works in Basel) as recipient of the Manor-Kunstpreis Basel 2010 with a solo exhibition “Attacca” in the museum’s top floor, open through 24 May [Read More]

SALEM, MA – The Harmony Art Foundation helmed by Tina Ambani will lend three works by masters of contemporary Indian art to be unveiled as part of Sensational India! – the Peabody Essex Museum’s annual festival of Indian art and culture April [Read More]

Bendik Riis (1911-88) is a central figure in Norwegian post-war art, and still highly relevant in relation to important trends in contemporary art. His art contains existential extremes and collective memories associated with the emergency period in the 1930s, the war and [Read More]

Highlights of the New York Photographs sale include: Diane Arbus, Identical Twins, Roselle, NJ, 1967, estimated at $70,000-90,000; Robert Frank’s portrait Ben James, Welsh Miner, 1953, estimated at $60,000-80,000; Hiroshi Sugimoto, Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut, 1998, estimated between $50,000-70,000 and [Read More]

The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry is officially the most family friendly museum in Britain. At a ceremony in London, Herbert chief executive Ludo Keston picked up the award, beating a shortlist that included the Great North Museum, in Newcastle, [Read More]