The much anticipated Burnham Pavilion by Zaha Hadid Architects of London, England, has officially opened to the public in Millennium Park until October 31st. The pavilion is located next to the UNStudio pavilion, which opened to the public on June 19. Both [Read More]
A remarkable sketchbook containing over 80 stunning watercolours by Count Amadeo Preziosi, who left Malta to spend his life in Constantinople (Istanbul), is one of the highlights of Bonhams next Travel and Exploration Sale on 16 September in New Bond Street. The [Read More]
Mary Poole, executive director of Artspace (www.artspacenc.org), has announced that the organization is accepting work from North Carolina artists for a temporary art exhibition to be held on Saturday, Oct. 24 at Raleigh’s new City Plaza. The exhibition is sponsored by the [Read More]
The exhibition, on view from October 16, 2009 through March 14, 2010, highlights the important role played by designers and visual artists in communicating the complex ideas that guided the development of automobiles, roadways, service stations, and advertising materials. More than eighty [Read More]
Scottish artist Henry Coombes (b.1977) has produced an apparently highly diverse oeuvre ranging from short (fiction and non-fiction) films to roughly modelled plaster sculptures and small, meticulously handled figurative paintings. Henry Coombes, Mr Salt Face, 2008 Coombes is a member of the [Read More]
The Board of Trustees of the J. Paul Getty Trust today announced it has elected Dr. David Lee as a member of the board. Dr. Lee is a co-founder and managing general partner of Clarity Partners, a private equity firm investing in [Read More]
Tramway is delighted to present the European premier of the sound installation entitled A=P=P=A=R=I=T=I=O=N (2008), a collaboration between Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans and the experimental music collective Throbbing Gristle. Cerith Wyn Evans and Throbbing Gristle, A=P=P=A=R=I=T=I=O=N, 2008. A mixed media collaboration. [Read More]
From October 23, 2009 to February 14, 2010 for the first time in Rome a major one-man exhibition featuring works by Alexander Calder will be held at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni. His famous Mobiles and Stabiles, wire sculptures, gouaches, drawings and oil [Read More]
The Korean Cultural Centre is host to ‘Crossfields’, an exhibition comprising the work of 23 London based Korean artists and fashion designers. The exhibition will take place between 30 July and 12 September 2009. Crossfields brings together a broad range of artists [Read More]
The Fundació Joan Miró will be presenting an exhibition by the Swiss videoartist Pipilotti Rist, winner of the 2009 Joan Miró Prize. Pipilotti Rist is currently preparing, for summer 2010, an exhibition at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona and another at [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields, California’s oldest and largest auctioneer, is pleased to announce the September 24, 2009 cocktail reception “An Evening with John Nyquist.” Guests will have an opportunity to pose questions to two of the firm’s 20th Century Decorative Arts Specialists: Angela [Read More]
Baibakov Art Projects announced the first major exhibition of Luc Tuymans in Russia, where the artist will also be a special guest of the Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. ‘Against the Day’ will open at the Red October Chocolate Factory in [Read More]
To complement its recently published catalogue of British pictures, Dulwich Picture Gallery will be exhibiting the best of its British paintings this summer in an unusual exhibition. Masterpieces from the original collection will be displayed alongside lesser-known paintings bequeathed by other collectors, [Read More]
This October, the Portland Art Museum will present a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to view Raphael’s renowned painting The Woman with a Veil. This single-painting exhibition will bring one of the most important paintings of the Renaissance to Oregon for the first time. The [Read More]