The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), announced the acquisition through gift and purchase of more than 160 works from the exceptional private decorative arts collection of Leatrice and Melvin Eagle, collectors based in Potomac, Maryland. The Eagle Collection represents artwork from [Read More]
Though richly varied in style, content, and medium, works on view in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), exhibition New Works: Prints, Drawings, Collages share a common thread: they are recently acquired (by purchase, gift, and bequest) and boldly inventive, created [Read More]
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will share important works of art by America’s most beloved artist-illustrators with the Toledo Museum of Art. Maxfield Parrish’s lyrical nocturne The Lantern Bearers (1908), originally created as a frontispiece for the December 10, 1910 issue [Read More]
Pierre Soulages (born 1919), an internationally renowned artist of French origin, has a worldwide following. Recently, the Pompidou Centre in Paris hosted a retrospective of work by Frances famed “painter of black,” drawing from collections around the globe to honor Soulages, a [Read More]
This exhibition will simultaneously expose rare and unseen works by a wide range of international creators and provide insight into the working processes of Thomas Scheibitz, one of Germany’s most important contemporary artists. Open 16 September – 31 October 2010 Private view [Read More]
This event will feature 14 WPA artists each exhibiting one artwork. These works are available to the public for trade. Exchanged artworks will be immediately installed as part of the exhibition and subsequently available to the public for further exchange. This exchange [Read More]
Artists at the Eighth Annual Orchard Lake Fine Art Show will be selling paintings, sculpture, clay, glass, fiber, wood, photography, mixed media, jewelry and more. The event takes place on Saturday, July 31 and Sunday, August 1 at a new location; West [Read More]
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Catherine Opie: Figure and Landscape, featuring recent work by the internationally renowned and LA-based photographer Catherine Opie. The show’s primary focus is high-school football, a subject that allowed Opie to explore issues of [Read More]
Sotheby’s London announced that four works by the acclaimed artist will highlight the forthcoming London sale of Modern and Contemporary Arab and Iranian Art on Wednesday, October 20, 2010. These paintings come from the collection of Dr. El- Kayem and appear on [Read More]
Since its inception in September 2005, VernissageTV Art TV has produced more than 1250 segments about contemporary art, design and architecture. VernissageTV has been launched with the aim to expand the coverage of art, design and architecture and to make it available [Read More]
The redevelopment project will unite three currently separate buildings, the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford Museum and Bedford Gallery, in one building. For the first time, Bedford’s unique collections will be housed under one roof enabling the Art Gallery & Museum to [Read More]
Contemporary painter Jodi Fuchs announced today the opening of “Jodi Fuchs Art Studio and Gallery” at 2000 Main Street, Santa Monica, Ca. Fuchs will launch the storefront gallery and studio with a Grand Opening party open to the public on Saturday, August [Read More]
Southampton is celebrating after being awarded £7.2million from the Arts Council England to build a new arts complex in the centre of the city. An additional allocation of £1.5million agreed last week, on top of the £5.7million originally offered to the scheme, [Read More]
Themes such as the passage of time and the enduring nature of close family relationships are brought into focus in the exhibition Nicholas Nixon: Family Album at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). The show, on view from July 28, 2010, [Read More]