The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) has hired Elizabeth Smith as its new Executive Director of Curatorial Affairs. Formerly the Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, Smith will oversee the Gallery’s ambitious exhibition [Read More]
Bluewater Publishing LLC, the developers of Art History Test, has released a unique new product for iPhone and iPod touch users. The application is a new launch which tests and teaches art history. Through the use of flash cards, students and art [Read More]
SAN JOSE, CA – Opening in July 2010 at running through September 19 at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), are four exhilarating exhibitions that expose, capture and celebrate the art of collaboration, participation, experimentation, and manipulation of old and [Read More]
Stuart Chase, Executive Director of Berkshire Museum announced that Tom Patti, one of the world’s mostly highly regarded artists working in glass, has been commissioned to create an original work of art for the Museum’s entry vestibule. This major commission, the Museum’s [Read More]
Bridget Riley (b. 1931) is one of the most significant and original painters of our time. This Sunley Room exhibition focuses upon her most recent paintings and will enable visitors to investigate how Riley’s work relates to the National Gallery Collection. Open [Read More]
The new Jewish Museum London is to exhibit three rare Hebrew manuscripts from the collections of the Vatican Library that have never before been shown to the public in Britain. Open 25 June – 10 October 2010. Illumination will tell the story [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York auctioned the most significant group of Magritte correspondence to appear at auction in more than 20 years for the sum of $218,500 (£147,356), against a pre-sale estimate of $200,000-400,000. The collection was acquired by an American institution. The cache [Read More]
Penny Worley Auctioneers (www.worleyauctioneers.com) announces online auction of government art in Miami, Fla., according to Jerry Jenkins. “We have nearly 200 pieces of fine art, including oils, acrylics, lithographs, watercolors and mixed media,” said Jenkins. “All of these pieces will sell to [Read More]
6 Times is a multi-part work by Antony Gormley which positions six life-size figures between the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the sea at Edinburgh’s Leith Docks. Gormley is an internationally acclaimed British artist renowned for testing the body in [Read More]
There is an art in discovering art. Line, color, shape, luminosity are just some of the foundation bricks on which a work of art is built, some of the ways in which we engage with it. Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, [Read More]
Photographer Ishimoto Yasuhiro (b. 1921) is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential figures in the development of postwar Japanese photography. Among his most celebrated bodies of work are the photographs he took during 1953-54 of the legendary 17th-century Imperial villa [Read More]
The first major exhibition to explore in depth the contributions of female Pop artists, Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968, seeks to expand the definition of classic Pop art and re-evaluate the role of the women who worked alongside the movement’s more [Read More]
Gain challenging insights into Arab culture through the exquisite collections of the Emirate of Sharjah: hand-coloured maps, Arabic calligraphy and modern visual art by both female and male artists. During the first exhibition weekend there will be a number of activities – [Read More]
A London scene by English artist Christopher Wood (1901-1930), entitled Skating at Hampstead, 1929, is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its 20th Century British Art sale on 30 June 2010. It has been estimated at £50,000 [Read More]