Sotheby’s London announced that on Wednesday, November 3 and Thursday, November 4, 2010 it will present for sale The Robert Devereux Collection of Post-War British Art. The two-day single-owner sale of approximately 400 lots will offer a collector’s unique vision of the [Read More]
A luminous 19th-century landscape and a contemporary tapestry that confronts viewers with Civil War-era racial violence, both by important African American artists, are the latest works announced by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Flatboat Men (1865) by Robert Scott Duncanson builds [Read More]
National Museum Wales announces it has bought a significant painting by William Dyce entitled Welsh Landscape with Two Women Knitting, 1860, thanks to crucial funding grants from membership charity the Art Fund, the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF), and others. Thanks to [Read More]
Sotheby’s London sale of South Asian Art brought an exceptional total of £5,465,550, well above the pre-sale expectations of £2,739,500-3,912,500 and a figure that is more than double the sum realised for the equivalent sale at Sotheby’s London last summer. The sale [Read More]
Following the great success at the Grand Palais in November 2009 in Paris, OpenArtCode group will exhibit in July 2010 in London. This time, the OpenArtCode artists will present and promote their art in a gallery on the River Thames in the [Read More]
We are all familiar with praying monks, but playing monks? A Book of Hours from Flanders finds them deep in a game of “Blind Man’s Bluff,” while on the opposite page peasant boys enjoy a rigorous game of hockey. Such delightful images [Read More]
The Allentown Art Museum presents 34 special quilt treasures from the museum’s extensive textile collection in “In Stitches,” the exhibition now on view in the Kress Gallery. These quilts, which were enthusiastically received by the public in a major quilt exhibition in [Read More]
More than 50 years ago young Juan Quezada stumbled upon ceramic fragments from a lost civilization. Come see how this chance discovery inspired Quezada and the people of Mata Ortíz, Mexico to revive the art of their ancestors and bring new economic [Read More]
The “Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2010″ exhibition, showcasing the talent, creativity and diversity of Pennsylvania’s established and emerging artists, will open to the public on Sunday, June 27, at The State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg. First, second and third place [Read More]
Symbolic Collection announces the unveiling of a world-class exhibition of photography by Jonathan Singer to be showcased on July 2, 2010 for the first time on the West Coast at the Symbolic Collection gallery in Sorrento Valley. Known for his exquisite large-scale [Read More]
A major exhibition featuring intriguing treasures from the Gallery’s drawings and prints collection An intriguing exhibition of rarely-seen prints and drawings, including over 30 new acquisitions, taken largely from the National Gallery of Canada’s (NGC) own collections is on view fthrough September [Read More]
Stephen Deuchar was awarded the honour for his service to the public as former director of Tate Britain from 1998 until 2009. He joined the Art Fund as director in January 2010. On receiving the award, Stephen Deuchar said: “It’s a great [Read More]
Honoring Frye Art Museum Past Director Ida Kay Greathouse, the Frye presents Ida Kay Greathouse: A Tribute, an exhibition of major works of art selected by Mrs. Greathouse during her 25-year tenure as Director. Open June 19–September 19, 2010. Mrs. Greathouse became [Read More]
Of all the visual art produced in the late 1960s, the most influential may be San Francisco psychedelic concert posters. Many are instantly recognizable because of their innovative use of text, psychedelic colors and coded messages. Not only do the posters visually [Read More]