Seoul Auction, held its Modern and Contemporary Art sale in Hong Kong on 4 April 2010, taking a total of HK$42.8 million (US$5.53 million). Untitled, an important mixed media work by Donald Judd (1928-1994) achieved HK$14,812,000 (US$1,913,695). Works by Robert Indiana, Gerhard [Read More]
A Lively Street Party Benefiting the CAC Tickets Go On Sale Today THE EVENT, a unique spin on the Contemporary Arts Center’s annual benefit bash, brings the city together to celebrate the vibrant energy that contemporary art brings to the community. This [Read More]
Adelson Galleries and Peter Tillou Works of Art will present the paintings of Winfred Rembert April 7-May 28, 2010 This will be Rembert’s first major solo exhibition in New York. A self-taught artist, Rembert grew up working in the cotton fields of [Read More]
Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent paintings, sculptures and works on paper by Donald Baechler. Baechler’s previous solo show with the gallery was in 2006. Donald Baechler was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1956 and currently lives [Read More]
Tula Telfair: Landscapes in Counterpoint pairs nine new monumental paintings by the artist with her selection of nineteenth and early twentieth-century paintings from the museum’s collection. Telfair’s choices, which include works by Thomas Cole and Frederic E. Church, establish the visual foundation [Read More]
The Museum für Gegenwartskunst is pleased to present Kilian Rüthemann (born 1979 in Bütschwil, St. Gallen, lives and works in Basel) as recipient of the Manor-Kunstpreis Basel 2010 with a solo exhibition “Attacca” in the museum’s top floor, open through 24 May [Read More]
SALEM, MA – The Harmony Art Foundation helmed by Tina Ambani will lend three works by masters of contemporary Indian art to be unveiled as part of Sensational India! – the Peabody Essex Museum’s annual festival of Indian art and culture April [Read More]
Yale University Art Gallery and Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library have announced the joint acquisition of the Lee Friedlander Archive and 2,000 of the photographer’s master prints. With this acquisition, the Yale University Art Gallery becomes the largest holder of [Read More]
Bendik Riis (1911-88) is a central figure in Norwegian post-war art, and still highly relevant in relation to important trends in contemporary art. His art contains existential extremes and collective memories associated with the emergency period in the 1930s, the war and [Read More]
Highlights of the New York Photographs sale include: Diane Arbus, Identical Twins, Roselle, NJ, 1967, estimated at $70,000-90,000; Robert Frank’s portrait Ben James, Welsh Miner, 1953, estimated at $60,000-80,000; Hiroshi Sugimoto, Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut, 1998, estimated between $50,000-70,000 and [Read More]
The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry is officially the most family friendly museum in Britain. At a ceremony in London, Herbert chief executive Ludo Keston picked up the award, beating a shortlist that included the Great North Museum, in Newcastle, [Read More]
The Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC) at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and SAVAC (South Asian Visual Art Centre) in collaboration with the 23rd Images Festival announce the opening of the new exhibition, Bamiyan (the heart that has no love/pain/generosity is not [Read More]
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announced its interactive Rooftop Garden App for iPad is now available on App Store. The app is an enhanced version of the Rooftop Garden App for iPhone and iPod Touch, a multimedia guide originally [Read More]
Open Door Networks Inc. and Project A Inc. (“We-Envision”) today announced that they are shipping Art Authority for the iPad through the iTunes App Store. Art Authority, specifically designed for Apple’s new groundbreaking device, brings 40,000 high-resolution classic works of art to [Read More]