Christie’s, announced worldwide sales of £1.71 billion ($2.57 billion) for the first six months of 2010, up 46% by £ on last year’s figure of £1.2 billion ($1.8 billion) for the same period (Figures include buyer’s premium). Christie’s continued to lead at [Read More]
This fall the AGO will reinstall four of its first-floor European galleries to host a special exhibition featuring the bold and imaginative work of Toronto-based artist Shary Boyle. Shary Boyle: Flesh and Blood, organized and circulated by the Galerie de l’UQAM in [Read More]
Christie’s London announce the landmark sale of 21 works by the iconic British artist Laurence Stephen Lowry, R..A. (1887-1976) to be offered at auction on Thursday 11 November 2010 from the private collection of Selwyn Demmy (b. 1932), renowned bookmaking magnate, boxing [Read More]
Steven Holl Architects has been selected to design the new library at the Queens West Development at Hunters Point. This new library will provide state of the art library services to the community, as well as offer a space for community programming. [Read More]
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presents The Tribe and the Hermit by Montreal designer Michel Rouleau in the Design Lab, open through November 14, 201 . Six tent‐chairs are arranged in a circle on an ersatz lawn dotted with artificial flowers. [Read More]
The Woodshed Gallery in Franklin, Massachusetts will present the first solo exhibition of original fine art paintings by Franklin artist Kathe Kirchmyer August 10 thru September 3, 2010. This is the fifth in a series of exhibitions to showcase outstanding local artists. [Read More]
The Aspen Art Museum presents an exhibition of work by Marlo Pascual, the third Jane and Marc Nathanson Distinguished Artist in Residence. Exhibition on view through Oct 3 2010. Pascual combines glamorous photographs of women from the 1940s and 50s with found [Read More]
The SFA College of Fine Arts and School of Art presents “Neal Cox: Grids and Panoramas” on Friday, Aug. 20 through October. 2 in The Cole Art Center, Reavley Gallery. A member of the SFA art faculty since 2008, Neal Cox earned [Read More]
The Farnsworth Art Museum presents the first annual Arnold Newman Prize Winner exhibition. The 2010 show will feature the work of Brooklyn-based photographer Emily Schiffer who has been selected as the winner of the 2010 Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in [Read More]
In the first exhibition of drawings ever to travel from the distinguished collection of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, the Vancouver Art Gallery brings together nearly 100 artworks by celebrated 19th century French artists, including Bonnard, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Morisot, Pissarro, Redon, Renoir, [Read More]
Catskill, NY – Fifteen scenic miles in the Catskills between The Thomas Cole National Historic Site (www.thomascole.org) and Olana New York Historic Site (www.olana.org) couldn’t be more beautiful. Thomas Cole Falls of the Kaaterskill, 1826. Oil on canvas, 43 x 36 in. [Read More]
The Japanese Print in the Era of Impressionism at the Legion of Honor introduces audiences to the development of the Japanese print over two centuries (1700–1900) and reveals its profound influence on Western art during the era of Impressionism. This exhibition, on [Read More]
Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968 is the first major exhibition of female Pop artists. Organized by the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, the exhibition will travel to the Sheldon Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum. “Traditionally, Pop Art, has [Read More]
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art presents an exhibition of paintings by Maïa Zer. The paintings are based on observing nature and the temporal, the evasive and the ephemeral. Open through 02 October 2010. Maïa Zeri, Pomelas, 2009 In the series of [Read More]