The High Museum of Art will hold the first major exhibition dedicated to the work of the Danish-born American photographer Peter Sekaer in June 2010. Consisting of approximately 75 vintage gelatin silver prints, several of which have never been on public view, [Read More]
On the occasion of the anniversary sale, VAN HAM Cologne presents numerous works of established photographers such as Werner Mantz, Albert Renger-Patzsch and August Sander as well as interesting contemporary photo art, such as Beate Gütschow with a fascinating nature depiction, Petra [Read More]
Grolsch and the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) today revealed that contemporary artist Olaf Breuning is the winner of the Grolsch SwingArt Program 2009. Grolsch is now in its fourth year of supporting the most important contemporary art fair week in Miami [Read More]
On January 23, 24, and the evening of January 26, 2010, Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver BC (MOA) will celebrate the completion of its multi-year, multi-million dollar Renewal Project with a free public extravaganza of music, dance, multimedia performances, and the opening [Read More]
The Dallas Museum of Art announced the acquisition of a major large-scale sculpture, The Eye, by the celebrated Canadian artist David Altmejd. Among the artist’s most ambitious works to date. David Altmejd, “The Eye”, 2008 The Eye measures approximately 11 by 18 [Read More]
The Frick Collection is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a Joseph Godla, Chief Conservator of The Frick Collection $1 million challenge grant by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. When matched over the next four years with $3 million in [Read More]
The book ‘Off the Tourist Trail: 1,000 Unexpected Travel Alternatives’, names the Royal Ontario Museum’s (ROM) Michael Lee- Chin Crystal, designed by architect Daniel Libeskind, as one of the world’s architectural marvels and one of six modern buildings to rival Australia’s Sydney [Read More]
Ariotek was created in 2009 from the amalgamation of three very successful web based companies. All three companies have been privately owned and profitable since creation, the oldest of which started trading in early 2001. Ariotek now host thousands of web sites, [Read More]
This project is one part of a vast programme created to make better use of the cultural and environmental resources of Lago Trasimeno. The main goal is to improve the awareness of the masterpieces of art produced at a very important time [Read More]
Andrew Wyeth, arguably one of America’s most famous artists, died in 2009 at the age of 91. The Dayton Art Institute placed on view, for a limited time, Wyeth’s painting, Ring Road of 1985, in recognition of the artist’s enormous legacy. Andrew [Read More]
Friedrichshafen Airport has a new landmark: the Dornier Aerospace Museum Friedrichshafen depicts the fascination of flying in a spectacular way and merges it with the company history of Dornier. The museum was planned by Munich architects Allmann Sattler Wappner, the arrangement of [Read More]
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art is delighted to announce a new media partnership with international satellite broadcaster BSkyB’s arts channel Sky Arts. The joint venture began in October 09, centers on Baltic’s autumn season and culminates in a documentary Sky Arts at [Read More]
One of the major events at Sotheby’s this Autumn promises to be the sale in Paris on December 8 of a unique work by Jeff Koons: “Elephant” (Purple), donated by the artist to the Foundation Claude Pompidou in 2009. This masterpiece from [Read More]
Fifteen masterworks from the collection of Helen E. Band estate brought in a combined $10,494,024, and with the other 84 lots in Heffel’s second session of Fine Canadian Art, totaled $17.5-million. The first session featuring Canadian Post-War and Contemporary Art that occurred [Read More]