A selection of the best maritime-inspired art will be offered for sale this autumn by Bonhams on 15th September at 101 New Bond Street, with a particularly fine Montague Dawson sure to be one of the most keenly contested lots. The stunning [Read More]
The Museum of Arts and Design will unveil two specially commissioned black diabase benches by Swedish artists Ulla and Gustav Kraitz. Entitled Close Contact, the two benches, a gift of the Samuel J. and Ethel LeFrak Charitable Trust, will be unveiled on [Read More]
From September 26, 2009 to January 3, 2010, the Art Gallery of Ontario will host an exhibition that proves glamour never goes out of style. Edward Steichen: In High Fashion, the Condé Nast Years, 1923 –1937 presents 200 beautifully preserved gelatin silver [Read More]
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University announces the forth and final exhibition in the yearlong “Passion for Collecting” series, highlighting the museum’s acquisitions from the past decade. The exhibition “From the Bronze Age of China to Japan’s Floating World,” on view July [Read More]
Over the past ten years, the Charleston Fine Art Dealers’ Association (CFADA) has grown from just a handful of founding members to 13 member galleries that continue to help transform Charleston’s art market and to set standards of professionalism. This November, CFADA [Read More]
Pipilotti Rist will create a kind of domestic fantasy for her exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Zürich. The ground floor galleries will be transformed by the artist into her dream living room — a space whose walls, floors and furnishings are alive [Read More]
The Fleming Collection is delighted to be collaborating with The National Galleries of Scotland and mounting an exhibition of masterpieces from the Scottish National Portrait Gallery’s permanent collection. The origins of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery can be traced back to the [Read More]
Cerebral yet intuitive, Dan Jupp’s work is an exploration of the nuances and psyche. Like a surgeon’s scalpel, it cuts close to the bone. His work has been described as weird, twisted and dark, but if society is mirrored in art, audiences [Read More]
Conservation landscape photographer Robert McGinley will be holding a closing reception for his latest work Friday, July 31, from 7-9p.m. at Blue Seven Gallery in Santa Monica. McGinley will also welcome actor/environmentalist Ed Begley Jr., who will speak about the importance of [Read More]
Three Pierneef paintings which once belonged to Queen Victoria’s granddaughter, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, will be sold at Bonhams sale of South African Art on October 14th in New Bond Street, London. Princess Alice accompanied her husband when he served as [Read More]
On October 22, 2009, Sotheby’s will offer for sale Leopold Carl Müller’s rediscovered depiction of A Street Scene, Cairo. The picture will be included in Sotheby’s sale of 19th Century European Art Including Orientalist Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures and is estimated at [Read More]
artnet Auctions recent Urban Art Sale demonstrated the continued demand for urban and street art. Eighty-five artworks by 40 artists were sold in the online auction July 7-23. The sale traced the evolution of urban art from the 1970s to today featuring [Read More]
In 1934, Americans grappled with an economic situation that feels all too familiar today. Against the backdrop of the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration created the Public Works of Art Program – the first federal government program to support the [Read More]
Lyman Allyn Art Museum announces a new exhibition, Ajiaco: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul, opening September 12, 2009 and on view through February 21, 2010. Lyman Allyn Art Museum’s partner, the Hispanic Alliance of New London, has provided support for this exhibition [Read More]