The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) celebrates fashion and photography with the work of Richard Avedon, one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. Avedon Fashion Photographs 1944-2000, on view October 18, 2009 –January 17, 2010, features 181 works, including [Read More]
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers presents Four Perspectives Through the Lens: Soviet Art Photography in 1970-1980s, a selection of 70 rarely seen photographs by four major artists working in the Soviet Union in the two decades before the fall [Read More]
Covering a span of time from 1400 to the present, with approximately 60,000 drawings as well as 250,000 individual prints and books with original illustrations, the Kupferstichkabinett at the Kunstmuseum Basel belongs among the most important collections of this kind. Its origins [Read More]
Some 135 of the most significant and beautiful drawings made over a period of three centuries by the best French artists working at home and abroad and by foreign artists working in France will be on view in Renaissance to Revolution: French [Read More]
Heat Waves in a Swamp will be the first major Charles Burchfield exhibition to be mounted on the west coast and the first in New York for more than twenty years. Arranged chronologically, it approaches Burchfield’s work with a new perspective facilitated [Read More]
Mind’s Eye Fine Art Moving and Storage is please to announce its sponsorship of the 13th Annual Boston International Fine Art Show (BIFAS), which takes place Thursday – Sunday, November 12-15, 2009 at the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts. [Read More]
This October, Christie’s presents a special collection of fine art and furnishings from the Manhattan residence of the late Mr. William F. Reilly, a prominent philanthropist, collector, and former chief executive officer and chairman of the publishing firm Primedia. This superb collection [Read More]
Founded by the Dutch as New Amsterdam in 1624, New York City was renamed by the English in honor of the Duke of York. Originally consisting only of Manhattan Island, it was re-chartered in 1898 to include the five present-day boroughs of [Read More]
Three works in the permanent collection of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, two of them not previously announced to the public, will be included in major traveling exhibitions this fall. Richard Caton Woodville’s “War News from Mexico” (1848), an iconic genre [Read More]
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opened Paired, Gold: Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Roni Horn, an exhibition that brings together two important works from the permanent collection for the first time and illuminates the profound artistic connection between Felix Gonzalez-Torres (b. 1957, Guáimaro, Cuba; [Read More]
William T. Wiley (b. 1937) has created a distinctive body of work during a 50-year career that addresses critical issues of our time. The exhibition “What’s It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect” will be on view at the Smithsonian American [Read More]
As Black History month commences, independent charity The Art Fund announces the Museum of London’s acquisition of an important photographic archive charting London’s Afro-Caribbean history. The ‘Roots to Reckoning archive’ comprises 90 photographs of London’s black community in the 1960s – 80s [Read More]
Following the tremendous success of Sotheby’s 20th Century Italian Art Sale last October, which was 94.2% sold by value and achieved the second highest total* for a sale in this category at Sotheby’s, the forthcoming auction on Friday, October 16, 2009 is [Read More]
Christie’s, the world’s leading arts business, announce their seventh auction of International Modern and Contemporary Art in Dubai which will take place on Tuesday 27 October 2009. The sale will bring together and offer to the international art market an important selection [Read More]