In the anniversary year when interest in the life and work of Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) is as high as ever, Sotheby’s announced that it will offer for sale three exceptionally rare portraits of members of his family in its sale of [Read More]
The Indianapolis Museum of Art will debut a work by artist Judith G. Levy, commissioned for the Museum’s ongoing series of site-specific installations in its principal entry pavilion. Opening July 10, 2009, Levy’s piece, titled Memory Cloud, will be the artist’s first [Read More]
A comprehensive exhibition of British and International, traditional and contemporary art works from The Colomb Art Gallery’s recognised artists. EXHIBITED ARTISTS John Luce Lockett, Peter Wardle, Therese McAllister, Georgia Peskett, Stanley Kerr, Caroline Yates, Gary Walton, Wendy Hunt, Marie Louise Wrightson, Pip [Read More]
The Beyond the Border International Contemporary Art Fair is dedicated to exploring new contemporary art practices from this region and beyond. San Diego, with its close proximity to Mexico, is a natural arena to stage the first bi-national art fair on the [Read More]
International Poster Gallery proudly announces its 16th Annual Summer Poster Show featuring a spectacular collection of original vintage travel posters from the last 100 years. The exhibition runs July 2009 through September 7, 2009. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday 10 am [Read More]
In January 2010, the Royal Academy of Arts will stage a landmark exhibition of the work of Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890). The focus of the exhibition will be the artist’s remarkable correspondence. Over 35 original letters, rarely exhibited to the public due [Read More]
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) will present an innovative exhibition mapping the influence of architecture on contemporary visual art in an international context. Entitled Automatic Cities: The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art, the exhibition sets work by prominent, architecturally [Read More]
The Saint Louis Art Museum presents Catherine Yass’ Descent, as part of the Museum’s New Media Series. The film, created by lowering a camera to the ground from a crane over a construction site at Canary Wharf, London, plunges the viewer into [Read More]
The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is inviting the public to donate works of art (minimum value of $250) to auction off in a Big Art Sale fundraiser that takes place on Thursday and Friday, October 1 and 2. The DIA is [Read More]
Chelsea’s Agora Gallery announced they will launch an art exhibition consisting of four parts that is scheduled to run from July 21, 2009 through August 11, 2009. Originally from Prague but currently living and working in Malaga, Spain, Marie Ban brings a [Read More]
Brief Encounter explores the intensification and acceleration of social exchanges and activities across world-time and space-time. Hutchinson’s drawings and video work confront this situation by offering a crucible where heterogeneous forms of sociability are worked out through a dynamic network of forms [Read More]
Enclosed in glass and then again in glass vitrines, the specimen for the scientist stabs brutally at objectivity. In a zone of ambiguity, bodies and parts float anonymously as relics retelling historical time. In an ocular joust, the observer dons a pose, [Read More]
When James Dennistoun, an art historian, was offered the post of Director of the National Gallery, he turned it down on the grounds that no one in their right mind would want to accept a post which involves ‘endless squabbling from bigwigs and blackguards for some 600 or 800 pounds a year’. From the acquisition […]
Bonhams & Butterfields will hold its summer auction of California and American Painting and Sculpture on August 3, 2009. The Los Angeles-based sale will feature a wide variety of important California, Western, Society of Six, Hawaiian scenes and Plein Air works by [Read More]