Christie’s International, the world’s leading art business, is pleased to announce the global launch of Christie’s Mobile Web, an optimized mobile experience that is free to all users of web-enabled cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs), regardless of the device’s operating [Read More]
Los Angeles Art Association (LAAA) and the City of West Hollywood are proud to announce the third annual Out There exhibition, celebrating the LGBT experience during West Hollywood’s Pride Month festivities. This effort commemorates West Hollywood’s lasting commitment to raising public awareness [Read More]
The Princeton University Art Museum announced the launch of their participation in Blue Star Museums, a partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, and more than 600 museums across the United States in offering special benefits to all [Read More]
Coincidentally timed just as the special exhibition Birth of Impressionism opens at the de Young Museum, John E. Buchanan, Jr., the director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, announces the acquisition of The Absinthe Drinkers (Les buveurs d’absinthe), 1881, by [Read More]
Gene Shapiro, President of the eponymous American auction house specializing in Russian art, has announced that his company has moved to new premises in New York, located at 506 East 74th Street in the Upper East Side section of Manhattan. The inaugural [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York announced that it has been appointed by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LBHI) and Alvarez & Marsal, LLC, the professional services firm overseeing LBHI’s restructuring, to sell selected works from the distinguished Neuberger Berman and Lehman Brothers Corporate Art Collections*, [Read More]
At Sotheby’s in London, in the sale of 19th Century European Paintings, one of the finest figure paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ever to have appeared on the market was purchased by the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Geneva for £1,609,250 / CHF [Read More]
Throughout 2010 and 2011, Bank of America will lend more than 20 full exhibitions to museums across the United States and abroad through its Art in our Communities program. The program was created in 2008 to use the Bank of America art [Read More]
On June 15th Bonhams 20th Century Decorative Arts Department will present one of the largest groups of Contemporary Glass to come to auction in recent years. The auction will offer almost sixty glass works, representing a wide selection of artists from the [Read More]
Following the success of their February sale, John Moran Auctioneers is pleased to once again offer an excellent opportunity to acquire pre-1960 California and American fine art. The second of their signature Art Auctions for 2010 is scheduled for June 15th and [Read More]
Four photographic archives of previously unseen images of U2, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones are to go under the hammer at the Entertainment Memorabilia auction on 23rd June 2010 at Bonhams, Knightsbridge. In 1978 a band called The Hype [Read More]
White Cube Mason’s Yard is pleased to present a new exhibition by Antony Gormley. The artist has created a major new site-specific installation and a new series of cast iron blockwork sculptures. Engaging our mobility, Gormley considers how time acts on objects [Read More]
Ed Ruscha, born in 1937, is an icon of modern art and exceedingly prolific to this day. His paintings are ambiguous and provocative, recycling scraps from popular culture and redefining established genres. Is he one of the first pop artists, a trail-blazer [Read More]
The Rijksmuseum is hosting an exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings showing the spectacular expansion of 17th-century Amsterdam. A number of maps from the Rijksmuseum’s own collection charting the expansion agreed on in 1662 will also be on display. Central to the [Read More]