The 2009 Visionary Woman Awards will honor two exceptional women who will leave an enduring mark on Philadelphia: Nancy Kolb and Billie Tsien. The awards will be held on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm at Moore College [Read More]
How much of an impact do designers and illustrators have on current visual culture? A Main Art Gallery exhibit that opens Aug. 29 attempts to answer that question. Redefining the Line: Art Nouveau & the Female Figure features the graphic design, illustration [Read More]
Beginning on September 3rd, Piedgrotta is a celebration of the Italian futurism movement and features a jam-packed programme of events that the whole family can enjoy. Highlights of the ten-day event include an exhibition curated by Achille Bonito Oliva at the Royal [Read More]
In what is believed to be the first time a local community has banded together to record, produce and release a single, the charity is hoping that the record will not simply be perceived as a novelty gimmick, but rather that the [Read More]
San Diego’s first Beyond the Border International Contemporary Art Fair (BTB ICAF), scheduled for September 2-4, 2009. The 3-day contemporary art fair will be held at The Grand Del Mar, San Diego’s newest luxury resort in Coastal North San Diego County. The [Read More]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston´s curator of modern and contemporary decorative arts and design, Cindi Strauss, has hand-picked a selection of the most significant decorative art objects to have entered the collection in the past five years for Recent Accessions in [Read More]
The Museum of Everything will open its doors in October 2009 with an extraordinary exhibition of masterpieces that have influenced generations of artists, from Picasso and Dubuffet to Gaston and Basquiat. Karin Mamma Andersson – contribution to The Museum of Everything The [Read More]
Bronze unifies the thing. It abstracts the forms from the material. People want to know about what the material constituents are; it helps them identify the work with something. But I want each sculpture to be seen as a whole, as a [Read More]
Daniel Cooney Fine Art Late Summer Emerging Artists Auction, from August 12 to September 2, 2009. Highlighted in this sale are emerging artists never before offered for auction. The proceeds of this sale will directly benefit the artists in the pursuit of [Read More]
Since the 1960s a wide range of artists—including Andy Warhol, Richard Prince, and Ellen Gallagher—have made pictures that reference specific works of art and popular culture. Displaying these pieces alongside images of their sources, Exposed! explores artistic strategies of quotation and appropriation. [Read More]
To mark the opening of its new Ceramics Galleries, the V&A is holding three days of ceramic-inspired events. Visitors will be able to join a talk with Edmund de Waal or contribute to The Collection, an installation by Clare Twomey. A kiln [Read More]
Everyday life objects that are familiar to the viewer compose Jim Lee’s sculptures, paintings and installations. As they give off the aura of “the found”, they inspire connotations linked to Arte Povera. Their basic structure is preserved, but is getting recomposed in [Read More]
The National Gallery of Australia has opened its latest exhibition showcasing the late works of one of Australia’s most renowned artists and foremost impressionists, Frederick McCubbin. McCubbin: Last Impressions 1907–17 is a fresh look at McCubbin’s late work. It concentrates on the [Read More]
Competitive bidding at Bonhams & Butterfields on August 3, 2009 pushed the price for a 1912 oil on canvas painted by Franz Bischoff to a record high for the artist. The international auctioneers’ sale of California and American Paintings and Sculpture established [Read More]