The Gallery Group at The Art Institute of Jacksonville will host the opening reception for the Point of View Exhibition on Thursday October 8, 2009 from 5 PM to 8 PM. The Gallery Group is a focus group of graphic design and [Read More]
Rita Kirkman’s “Contemporary Realism in Pastel” exhibition includes original pastel paintings and limited edition prints. Kirkman’s lively pastel paintings have gathered international recognition and awards. Her work has been published in The Artist Magazine, American Artist, The Pastel Journal, International Artist, and [Read More]
The 2009 winners of the prestigious Praemium Imperiale arts awards, announced by the Japan Art Association at the official residence of the Japanese Ambassador in Berlin, include Tony and Oscar-winning playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard and international architect Zaha Hadid. Carrying prizes [Read More]
The first display of portraits by the sculptor John Gibbons has opened at the National Portrait Gallery through 14 March 2010. During a career that now extends for over thirty years, John Gibbons (b.1949) has secured a reputation as one of Britain’s [Read More]
Seventy-one striking paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art are on their way back to New York after the Queensland Art Gallery’s ‘American Impressionism and Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from The Met’ exhibition closed on Sunday September 20. Queensland Art Gallery Director [Read More]
The Art Institute of Chicago’s Photography Department presents the third installment in a series devoted to emerging photographers–On the Scene. On view in the Bucksbaum Gallery in the Modern Wing (G188) through January 24, 2010, this latest On the Scene installation highlights [Read More]
“Our spring auctions have shown that art as a means of investment is more in demand than ever before”, says Robert Ketterer, auctioneer and owner of Ketterer Kunst. “It is a time for connoisseurs, and the perfect moment to buy art. High [Read More]
The CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts will present the exhibition Moby-Dick from September 22 through December 12, 2009, in the Logan Galleries on the San Francisco campus of California College of the Arts. The exhibition is free and open to the [Read More]
Celebrating the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)’s impact on modern and contemporary art, the exhibition The Anniversary Show traces the art and individuals that have made SFMOMA the institution it is today. Throughout the anniversary year, SFMOMA will present a [Read More]
Turner and the Masters will present a selection of magnificent paintings by JMW Turner (1775-1851) alongside related works by the old masters and contemporaries he strove to imitate, rival and surpass. Bringing together over one hundred pictures of supreme historical significance from [Read More]
The Hyde Collection announces that Mr. and Mrs. Samuel P. Hoopes, of Bolton Landing, New York have donated a 1934 oil painting by Douglass Crockwell (1904-1968) titled Paper Workers, Finch Pruyn & Co. Douglass Crockwell was a founding trustee of The Hyde [Read More]
Watteau, Music, and Theater, the first exhibition of Jean-Antoine Watteau’s paintings in the United States in 25 years, will be presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from September 22 through November 29. The exhibition will demonstrate the place of music and [Read More]
Following the success of Paul Fryer’s solo exhibition ‘Let There Be More Light’ which attracted over 4,000 visitors during London Frieze Week in 2008, All Visual Arts (AVA) announces one of the most spectacular private Contemporary art exhibitions opening at the magnificent [Read More]
On October 3, the Corcoran Gallery of Art will premiere Edward Burtynsky: Oil, an original exhibition featuring 56 large-scale color landscapes by Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky. The exhibition surveys a decade of photographic imagery exploring the subject of oil. Featuring many new [Read More]