Fine Art News

Bonhams & Butterfields will hold its Spring auction of California and Western Paintings and Sculpture on April 20, 2010. The Los Angeles-based sale will feature a wide variety of important California, Western, Society of Six, Hawaiian scenes and Plein Air works by [Read More]

Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature German artist, Peter Martin, in its premier exhibition Contemporary German Art: The New York Experience. The exhibition is through April 13, 2010 (opening reception: Thursday, March 25, 2010). Divinely spiritual figures loom out from an ashen darkness [Read More]

A 20th century painting is back in the hands of its rightful owner, 21 years after it was stolen from the Marlborough Art Gallery in Manhattan. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) returned the painting to the Art Loss Register [Read More]

‘This body of work will counter stereotypical myths of Papua New Guinea with honest representations of the people, their culture and identity. It is an attempt to relate the experience of communities that would otherwise just disappear, people at the bottom of [Read More]

Russian fine and decorative arts have yielded increasingly strong results at Moran’s for several years, and the March16th sale confirmed this trend. A watercolor portrait of a girl in traditional Russian costume by Konstantin Egorvich Makovsky (1839 – 1915) sold for $12,650 [Read More]

The renowned Scottsdale Art Auction, being held April 10, 2010, will have one-of-a-kind works of fine art expected to break records at this year’s event. A rare Charles M. Russell painting is estimated at $1.8 to $2.8 million, for example. Attendance at [Read More]

Clara Ledesma rare early artworks will be exhibited at ArteFactGallery 805 Lake Ave. March 25th-April 25th 2010. Exhibiting The Masterworks of Clara Ledesma dating 1950-1980. Ledesma a premier Dominican woman artist, her works are being compared to Leonora Carrtington-Paul Klee-Chagall. Ledesma painting [Read More]

The Art Institutes and Americans for the Arts “Life is Better with Art in it” Poster Design Competition Helps Students Attend College High school seniors, Natalie Frazier of Jacksonville and Michelle Carroll of Lake City placed in the top two at the [Read More]

Opening Celebration: Saturday, March 27 at 1pm Local artists Ali Calis and Ryan Little of Able Projects and a team of five teen Apprentice Artists from ArtWorks are creating an interactive mural for the Contemporary Arts Center entitled Stay Up Cincinnati. The [Read More]

Ever wondered who produced the first coordinated collection of mass-produced wallpapers and fabrics in Britain? Or built what has been called the world’s most fabulous decorators’ showroom and invented the hinged display screens now seen in showrooms worldwide? How about who was [Read More]

These photographs are taken from Hong Kong artist Caroline Chiu’s larger series entitled Dreaming: A Chinese Wunderkammer. Wunderkammer were 17th- and 18th-century European “wonder rooms” or “cabinets of curiosity”––some of the earliest known “museums”––which contained specimens reflecting the natural world, anthropology, archaeology, [Read More]

Von Lintel Gallery presents Sight Reading, a solo exhibition of new paintings by New York-based artist Valerie Jaudon. Open through April 17 2010. Valerie Jaudon’s new paintings feature bars and bands of white paint, either placed against a raw linen ground or [Read More]

Seven artists from the glassmaking world and beyond will research and experiment with new techniques and subjects as 2010 artists-in-residence at The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass. This year’s international roster includes a tattoo artist, a Danish glass designer and [Read More]

Carlos Cruz Diez: The Embodied Experience of Color explores the artist’s pioneering contribution to the experimental practices that emerged in the decades of the Sixties and Seventies that proposed the dematerialization of the object to create participatory environment that involved the body, [Read More]