Aperture Foundation, a New York-based non-profit arts institution that is a leading force in the field of photography, will hold its 2009 Benefit and Auction on Monday, November 2, at The Lighthouse, Pier 61, Chelsea Piers, New York. This year’s event honors [Read More]
Nature as history Throughout history, mankind has perceived nature differently at different times. During the Middle Ages, nature was mostly regarded as evil and mankind was prey to its whims, which only God could protect us from. This understanding was replaced by [Read More]
‘Art should have an emotional-intellectual dimension. Art involves a game with the viewer, with conventions and with yourself.’ Wilhelm Sasnal Hauser & Wirth Zürich will present an exhibition of new paintings on canvas by Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal. He has realized his [Read More]
The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) announces it will present a landmark exhibition of rare works of art and important new scholarship brought together to explore the provocative relationship between photography and painting along the Normandy coast in mid-19th-century France. [Read More]
The Frick Collection is pleased to announce the loan of nine Old Master paintings from the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, one of the major collections of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century pictures in the world. The exhibition, which heralds the Gallery’s bicentenary in [Read More]
On Friday, October 16, 2009, Sotheby’s London will present, for the first time, a significant section of Arab & Iranian Art in its annual October Contemporary Art Sale to coincide with the Frieze Art Fair. The Arab & Iranian component of the [Read More]
At Sotheby’s Hong Kong 20th Century Chinese Art Autumn Sale 2009, Sanyu’s monumental Lotus et Poissons Rouges commanded HK$36,500,000/ US$4,680,000, selling to a Chinese buyer over the telephone after heated competition with five other bidders from across Asia (est. HK$15-25 million/ US$1,940,000-3,230,000). [Read More]
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity, which opens at the Getty Villa on October 8, 2009, features more than 350 pieces of beautiful and rare ancient glass, formerly owned by Erwin Oppenländer. The 2003 acquisition of this collection placed the Getty among the [Read More]
Conner Contemporary Art is pleased to announce that the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC has acquired for the permanent collection Leo Villareal’s installation Multiverse. Leo Villareal, Multiverse.© Leo Villareal. Photo: National Gallery of Art Multiverse, the largest and most complex light [Read More]
DC Moore Gallery presents “Eric Aho: Red Winter,” the first presentation of the artist’s work at the gallery. Eric Aho explores extreme conditions of nature in landscape paintings that incorporate traditional representation, gestural abstraction, and implied figuration. The subjects of Aho’s recent [Read More]
Acquavella Galleries will exhibit Grands Formats (Large Scale) works by renowned twentieth-century Canadian artist, Jean Paul Riopelle (1923 – 2002), through October 23rd. The current exhibition presents a selection of Riopelle’s large-scale paintings from the early 1950s through the 1970s in addition [Read More]
Hespe Gallery is exhibiting oil paintings by Eric Zener, through October 31. Transcendental ideas have always been important for Eric Zener to explore. Renowned for his oil paintings of swimmers in vivid blue water, Zener is moving in a new direction with [Read More]
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in collaboration with Tate Connects and sponsored by Newcastle University’s Medical School presents an exhibition by one of the UK’s most high profile contemporary artists Damien Hirst. Pharmacy (1992) will be exhibited within Baltic’s Level 2 gallery [Read More]
Best known for revolutionizing the art of photography, American artist Man Ray (1890-1976) produced a prolific collection of striking black-and-white compositions inspired by the African objects they depict. The Phillips Collection showcases these works in a new exhibition that explores the pivotal [Read More]