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]
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens will highlight the largest private collection of color lithography in the United States with the exhibition “The Color Explosion: Nineteenth-Century American Lithography from the Jay T. Last Collection,” on view Oct. 17, 2009–Feb. 22, [Read More]
Doris C. Freedman Plaza in Central Park July 15, 2009 – March 2010 The Ego and the Id is internationally acclaimed artist Franz West’s newest and largest aluminum sculpture to date. Soaring 20 feet high, the piece consists of two similar but [Read More]
Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau is presenting the first comprehensive exhibition since 1987 of the wide-ranging work of the Swiss architect Le Corbusier (1887-1965). The architect’s links to Germany and Berlin will also be stressed. There will be a total of about 380 exhibits to [Read More]
The Smithsonian Associates Art Collectors Program announces the 2009 commission of Sam Gilliam to create a limited-edition screen print. “Museum Moment” is on display at the Graphic Eloquence exhibition in the Smithsonian’s Ripley Center. Museum Moment, 2009 by Sam Gilliam. 90-color screen [Read More]
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art has reconstructed an “Exhibition of Jewish Artists,” which opened in Berlin in 1907. The original show featured over 200 works of painting and sculpture, and Judaica objects. Among the noted artists represented in the exhibition were [Read More]
The Knoxville Museum of Art invites children and parents to celebrate summer at Family Fun Day on Saturday, June 13 from 11am to 3pm. All events at Family Fun Day are free thanks to the generous sponsorship of First Tennessee and Laura [Read More]
The Knoxville Museum of Art has commissioned sculptor Richard Jolley to create a permanent installation in glass and metal for the walls of the museum’s Great Hall. The as-yet-untitled work is the gift of Ann and Steve Bailey , longtime supporters of [Read More]
The Amon Carter Museum announces it has acquired a rare, complete set of Edward Sheriff Curtis’ The North American Indian (1907–1930), one of the most comprehensive records of American Indian life. The set includes 20 volumes of illustrated books, each accompanied by [Read More]
An exhibition of new and recent work by Irish artist Alan Phelan opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) on Wednesday 22 July 2009. Alan Phelan: Fragile Absolutes presents 16 works inspired by the artist’s ongoing engagement [Read More]
Sotheby’s London has announced that it will offer for sale as part of its English Literature, History, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations on Tuesday 14th July the remarkable collection of some 3,100 items that document Sir Harford Jones’s time between 1783 and [Read More]
A veritable Who’s Who of Texas art, past and present, will impart spirit, artistic grace and Lone Star State pride at an auction of Texas Art at Heritage Auction Galleries on July 16, at the company’s Slocum Street Annex in Dallas’s Downtown [Read More]
Over € 7.9 million*, thus the very good results from the Spring Auctions at Ketterer Kunst in Munich and Hamburg. “Even though it isn’t easy currently to get hold of good works, we succeeded in collecting an offering that met with an [Read More]