For years, Nathan Ota has been pursuing new worlds, both dark and fantastic, to explore in his paintings. Ota has used his stand-ins – a blind bird, a drunk monkey, a one-eyed robot lost in the woods – to travel through dreamlands [Read More]
Artist Cai Guo-Qiang has long been known internationally for his prolific and multi-disciplinary body of work that fuses the mythic and the everyday. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has commissioned Cai to create his first permanent, site-specific installation in a U.S. [Read More]
Art by Choice opened at the Mississippi Museum of Art Saturday, August 14, and runs through Sunday, September 12, 2010. Presented in collaboration with the Museum’s New Collectors Club, Art by Choice is an exhibition of artworks available for purchase through sale [Read More]
The Rijksmuseum has acquired two masterpieces for its collection of 20th-century art and history: the famous chair designed by Gerrit T. Rietveld around 1918 and a relief by Jan J. Schoonhoven from 1963. Both artworks will be added to the permanent collection [Read More]
Fall 2010 • German Impressionist Landscape Painting: Liebermann—Corinth—Slevogt September 12—December 5, 2010 Drawing from Nature: Landscapes by Liebermann, Corinth, and Slevogt September 12—December 5, 2010 • Cai Guo-Qiang Commission for the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Arts of China Gallery, Opening [Read More]
The visual arts festival IMAGES in Vevey (Switzerland) features monumental photography exhibitions by renowned artists – including a new urban project from French artist JR, realised in coproduction with the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne. From September 4th to 26th, the city situated [Read More]
One of the finest, most selective private collections of works by the first wave of American modernists will premiere at the National Gallery of Art, East Building, open through January 2, 2011. American Modernism: The Shein Collection presents 20 masterpieces by Patrick [Read More]
Kate Newby: Crawl out your window Exhibition open through 7 November 2010 at GAK Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst In her work, New Zealand artist Kate Newby (born 1979, currently living in Auckland) engages with the exhibition space and its surroundings. Newby herself [Read More]
After more than a solid year of dominating Heritage Auctions’ Illustration Art Auctions, Pin-up and Glamour Art, while still performing superbly, was forced to cede the spotlight on Aug. 17 to classic Pulp Art, as several icons of the genre burst into [Read More]
After two spectacular exhibitions, Personnes at the Monumenta 2010 in Paris at the beginning of the year, and the current installation of the same name at the Foundation Hangar Bicocca in Milan, perhaps the most prominent figure in French contemporary art, Christian [Read More]
Traditional Japanese fine arts will be on view at the galleries of six leading dealers this Fall, including rarely seen 12th century Kyozo, or mirrors bearing drawings of gods, imperial screens once part of the furnishings of Edo Castle, and strikingly modern [Read More]
WPApresents )black(, a solo exhibition by John Pearson featuring a new video and selection of photographs. Both the video and photographs are primarily taken throughout Griffith Park; the observatory, its gallery of dioramas and the figurative sculptures on its grounds, and the [Read More]
MAXIMILLIAN GALLERY, art licensors and gallery of emerging, celebrity talent and properties, is pleased to announce its 2010 Speed Racer™ International Art Competition. Accepting submissions from August 10, 2010 through October 31, 2010, artists of all ages, and ranging from emerging to [Read More]
This September, the Kraushaar Galleries, a leading dealer in American art of the first half of the 20th century, will celebrate its 125th year of operations, a record of longevity that dates back to the 19th century and is shared by only [Read More]