Fine Art News

Langson IMCA announce Dissolve an exhibition on view at the University Art Gallery

Dissolve, comprises 20 works—including two new commissions—by artists who explore modes of transformation across mediums in their diverse practices. Featuring two artworks commissioned expressly for the exhibition, Dissolve explores how 12 contemporary artists perceive what it means to change from one form to another. Through painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and video, the artworks demonstrate how […]

440 Gallery Announce Call for Entries for the 16th annual Small Works Show 2022

440 Gallery have announced a Call for Entries for the 16th annual Small Works Show 2022, juried by Johnny Thornton. This national, juried exhibition celebrates the innovation of artists who create work on a small scale, in a broad range of media and styles. The exhibition will be on display in the 440 Gallery, Park […]

Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) Announces Exhibition of Work by Senegalese Artist Omar Ba

On November 20, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) will open the first U.S. museum exhibition of works by acclaimed Senegalese contemporary artist Omar Ba. Born outside of Dakar and living between Dakar, Brussels, and Geneva, Ba creates expressive figurative paintings that often intertwine African and European cultures and histories to examine the corrupting nature […]

Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) announces Darrel Ellis exhibition

This November 20th, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) will open the first comprehensive museum exhibition on the profoundly moving and complex work of Darrel Ellis (1958-1992). Over the course of his brief career, Ellis developed a distinct studio practice that merged the formal vocabularies of drawing, photography, painting, and printmaking to redefine Black male […]

440 Gallery presents Body Politic exhibition

BROOKLYN, NY – 440 Gallery is pleased to present Body Politic, an invitational exhibition curated by the gallery’s director Amanda Michele Brown. Since antiquity, art has served as a tool to convey a societal “ideal.” This show challenges that function by celebrating bodies that do not conform to the current dominant culture’s expectations. Ten artists […]

B. Prabha paintings for Bruneau & Co online Fine & Decorative Art sale

A figural oil painting by the acclaimed Indian artist B. Prabha (1933-2001) and an aristocratic portrait painting by Francis Cotes (U.K., 1726-1770) are expected headliners in an online-only Fine & Decorative Art auction slated for Monday, August 1st, by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers, starting at 6 pm Eastern time. Internet bidding will be on multiple […]

440 Gallery’s Exhibition Sequential Synergy: The Art of Comics now open

440 Gallery’s 2022 Summer Theme Exhibition, Sequential Synergy: The Art of Comics, explores the forms that comics can take and how they affect us. Cartoonists are not merely visual artists but also writers, designers, directors, and most of all, acute observers of human behavior. Jurors Dean Haspiel and Whitney Matheson have curated the show as […]

William Louis Sonntag painting on view at Cincinnati Museum Center

Sonntag’s 1850 painting Ohio River Near Maysville, Kentucky, part of CMC’s History Objects and Fine Art Collection, reflects the local landscape at a time when mastodons roamed the region. The discovery of mastodon bones at nearby Big Bone Lick in 1739 caught the attention of scientists including Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson who, as president, […]

MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART ANNOUNCES “JAMAL CYRUS: THE END OF MY BEGINNING”

The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) presents Jamal Cyrus: The End of My Beginning, the first museum survey of celebrated Houston-born artist Jamal Cyrus (b.1973). On view from October 29, 2022 – March 3, 2023, the exhibition spans 15 formative years of Cyrus’s multidisciplinary practice from 2005 to 2020, assembling over 50 artworks including drawings, […]

Baltimore Museum of Art Announces A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration

The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) is proud to present A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, a groundbreaking exhibition that explores the profound impact of a pivotal time in American history through the perspectives and works of 12 acclaimed Black contemporary artists. Featuring new commissions by Akea Brionne, Mark Bradford, Zoë […]

Pulitzer Arts Foundation announces Barbara Chase-Riboud exhibition

On view from September 16, 2022, to February 5, 2023, Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale: The Bronzes brings together some 40 major sculptures from the 1950s to the present day, accompanied by 20 drawings. The exhibition illustrates how the artist has developed a highly original visual language that is also fundamentally global and transhistorical, with influences ranging […]

440 Gallery announces Sequential Synergy: The Art of Comics exhibition

BROOKLYN, NY – 440 Gallery proudly announces the 2022 Summer Theme Exhibition, Sequential Synergy: The Art of Comics, featuring thirty artists selected from a national call-for-art. This show of thirty-four multi-media works is a collection of contemporary comic book art celebrating the diverse ways comic artists and cartoonists utilize the real estate of the blank […]