New York, NY – New York Gallery Week, a new initiative organized collectively by 50 Manhattan-based contemporary art galleries and 7 not for profits – spanning Chelsea, SoHo, the Lower East Side/Bowery, the Upper East Side, and 57th Street – will launch [Read More]
Christie’s New York will offer its mid-season sale of Fine American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, on March 4, featuring an excellent selection of 19th and 20th century works at prices ranging from $2,000 to $60,000. Highlights include rare and exceptional works by [Read More]
Described as ‘radical, experimental and avant-garde’, Henry Moore was by far one of the leading British artists of his generation. Celebrated and commissioned worldwide, his work introduced Modernism to a wide public and contributed to a seismic shift in sculpture practice. Moore’s [Read More]
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is pleased to announce the selection of the 2010 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography. Following an international search, the Gardner Fellowship committee awarded the Fellowship to Stephen Dupont, a prize-winning Australian photographer whose work has [Read More]
David Bomford, acting director of the J. Paul Getty Museum and Gaetano Armao, assessore regionale dei beni culturali e dell’identità siciliana, have announced a long-term collaboration between the Sicilian Ministry of Culture and Sicilian Identity and the J. Paul Getty Museum. The [Read More]
The World Design Cities Summit will be held on February 23-24 in Seoul. Mayors, deputy mayors and other leading officials from 32 cities around the world will gather at the international conference to discuss design as the key to city competitiveness in [Read More]
March 19 Opening Reception Kicks off Exhibit ELIZABETHTOWN, PA – The Fine Arts Division of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts hosts an exhibit reception for John Ros from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, March 19, in Zug’s Hess Gallery. The [Read More]
Ashland, Oregon – Open Door Networks Inc. announced that it is shipping a major new application for both the iPhone and Macintosh. “Art Authority” represents the most comprehensive member of the company’s line of over 100 iPhone apps, and the first member [Read More]
A major photographic exhibition Irving Penn Portraits opens at the National Portrait Gallery in February 2010. Devoted to one of the greatest photographers of his generation who died in October 2009, the exhibition will include over 120 prints from Penn’s seven-decade career [Read More]
Christie’s are to auction 25 masterpieces from the Collection of Dr. Mohammed Said Farsi at the auction of International Modern and Contemporary Art on 27 April 2010 in Dubai. While serving first as Mayor and then as Lord Mayor of Jeddah in [Read More]
Skinner, Inc. one of the world’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, will host its semi-annual auction of American Furniture and Decorative Arts on Sunday, March 7th. The sale kicks off at 11 a.m. in the Boston gallery located at [Read More]
Collectors of fine Japanese furniture and decorative arts are eagerly awaiting the March 25th sale to be mounted at Bonhams, New York. Consisting of over just over 300 lots, the sale is comprised of early 20th-century Decorative Arts, 18th and 19th-century netsuke [Read More]
An exhibition of high quality reproduction prints, taken from woodblocks created by the acclaimed 18th century artist Sharaku presented alongside interpretative works by contemporary Japanese graphic and fine artists, opens at the Tennessee State Museum on February 18th. Sharaku Interpreted by Japan’s [Read More]
Two lamps produced and designed collaboratively by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti and his younger brother Diego, and a table designed by Diego Giacometti, which were owned by the late English actor James Mason (1909-1984) since the late 1960s, are being offered at [Read More]