There was some keen Christmas shopping being done at Bonhams Prints auction on December 15 with top names commanding top prices in a sale that made a total of £462,792 with 83 per cent sold by value. Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Marc [Read More]
During the span of twelve years, a series of events, later hailed as the Civil Rights Movement, would forever change the social and political course of America. From March 28 – July 11, 2010, The Bronx Museum of the Arts will present [Read More]
The Dallas Museum of Art will premiere an exhibition exploring how modern and contemporary artists—from Childe Hassam and Edward Hopper to Willem De Kooning, Gerhard Richter and Catherine Opie—have drawn upon coastal landscapes as a source of inspiration, metaphor and mystery in [Read More]
Mel Jones brings her dynamic interpretation of the Blue Mountains and Outback NSW landscape to the Palm House in the beautiful Royal Botanic Gardens of Sydney. ‘Observing Nature’ is a fresh Pochoir solo exhibition open 7 days a week 10am to 4pm [Read More]
An installation of 14 bold and colorful paintings created by contemporary Aboriginal Australian artists will go on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on December 15. Drawn from a U. S. private collection, Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia will provide an [Read More]
Michigan State University will break ground on the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum on March 16, 2010. Eli Broad, who donated the naming gift for the project, and Zaha Hadid, the internationally known architect who designed the building, are expected to [Read More]
The Wolfsonian–Florida International University will present “Women’s Work / Men’s Work: Labor and Gender in America”, an exhibition that explores how the sexual division of labor in America has been represented in art, propaganda, and advertising. The exhibition, which is free and [Read More]
Carnivals form part of popular culture across the world, from the Nottingham Carnival of London, to carnivals in Brazil, Venice and China. They have featured in many films and literary works, and create powerful images of seduction, eroticism and mystery. The exhibition [Read More]
Documentary filmmaker Renée Tajima-Peña, a professor of community studies at UC Santa Cruz, has been named a USA Fellow for 2009 by United States Artists, an arts advocacy organization based in Los Angeles. The honor, which includes a $50,000 award, was announced [Read More]
Bonhams plays host to a breathtaking collection of African Art titled ‘The Africanists’ from December 21st to January 11th which provides an opportunity to travel vicariously into this most colourful and mysterious continent. Giles Peppiatt, Head of African Art at Bonhams comments: [Read More]
Caravaggio did not paint much in his life. Because life often took precedence over art. And yet, many artworks over the centuries have been attributed to Michelangelo Merisi. For some too many, for others simply dubious attributions. Caravaggio, “Giuditta nell’atto di tagliare [Read More]
Splurge Art Gallery is proud to host the vernissage by Chilian artist Carolina Echeverria on December 29th at Splurge Art Gallery. CAROLINA ECHEVERRIA is no stranger to controversy. Her past exhibits have always challenged the social norm. Carolina believes in the power [Read More]
Councillorship for Culture and 24 ORE Motta Cultura present the exhibition Yayoi Kusama. I Want to Live Forever at PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, under the curatorship of Akira Tatehata (Director of Osaka National Museum of Art). A unique, exclusive event for Italy, [Read More]
An ancient Roman marble relief panel with Dionysiac decoration that was recently discovered to once have been in the collection of French writer Émile Zola sold for $1,538,500 at Sotheby’s Antiquities auction in New York. Six bidders competed for the piece which [Read More]