An engagement between an American and a British naval vessel during the War of 1812 by Derek Gardner is estimated to sell for £30,000 to £50,000 at Bonhams next auction of Marine Art on September 15th in New Bond Street, London. The [Read More]
During the fall 2009 and winter 2010 auction seasons Sotheby’s in New York will present works from the collections of renowned philanthropist and patron of the arts Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. The offering of several hundred objects from Dr. Sackler’s collections comprises [Read More]
The Herakleidon Museum, presents the third phase of the exhibition “From Drawing to Masterpiece” highlighting the unknown side of the artist’s work. The third phase will be on display for three months, until August 2nd 2009. All of the works of Phase [Read More]
From October 14 to 18, 2009, the legacy of Futurism—one of the seminal and most controversial avant-garde art movements of the twentieth century—will be celebrated in San Francisco in a citywide project entitled Metal + Machine + Manifesto = Futurism’s First 100 [Read More]
The most renowned artwork in the Akron Art Museum’s collection is Linda, a nine-foot tall, unflinchingly realistic painting of a woman’s face. Its creator, Chuck Close (born 1940, Monroe , WA ), happens to be one of the most important American artists [Read More]
The Bronx Museum of the Arts has commissioned the award winning photographer Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao to range throughout the streets, parks, and alleys surrounding the Grand Concourse and create a photographic portrait of the borough of the Bronx as it is today—vital, [Read More]
Window Girls – represents a world slated for demolition. The Hollywood Boulevard of old is in the process of being remodelled as a modern tourist attraction and shopping mall. Old and unique stores are disappearing. Eckhart Schmidt’s project chronicles the last moments of the bizarre world of Hollywood Boulevard mannequins.
Eckhart Schmidt on his photographic work: […]
In the 125 years since William Le Baron Jenney’s ten-storey Home Insurance Building in Chicago became the world’s first skyscraper, the spectacle of soaring towers has become increasingly common wherever land is scarce, allowing cities to stack life ever taller, denser and [Read More]
Winterthur Museum & Country Estate will be the exclusive venue of a significant new exhibition, Faces of a New Nation: American Portraits of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which opens on July 25. The Metropolitan [Read More]
One of the finest remaining refugee collections of German Expressionist art has a new home – at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The Ludwig and Rosy Fischer Collection includes works assembled by the couple in Frankfurt, Germany, between 1905 and 1925, [Read More]
PUREPURYGRAPHY will open at The Corner Berlin, on Wednesday October 21, presenting a selection of nearly forty large-scale single-print photographs taken by Simon de Pury and curated by Chris Rehberger, founder of Double Standards in Berlin. That same evening, The Corner Berlin [Read More]
The Ukrainian National Museum is pleased to invite you to the opening of “Water-Colour by Artist Alexander Telalim” on Friday, August 21 at 7:00 pm. The art exhibit will continue through September 12, 2009. Alexander Telalim was born in Ukraine to a [Read More]
The Newseum today announced plans to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair with “Woodstock at 40: The Rise of Music Journalism.” The exhibition, open Aug. 1 through Oct. 31, features rarely seen images from a trio [Read More]
Drawn from the Menil’s diverse collection of over 16,000 objects, Body in Fragments explores the manner in which the human form is dissected and reconfigured in the art of various times and places, conveying spiritual, physical, and intellectual notions of personhood. John [Read More]