Heffel Fine Art Auction House set a new record sale price when a rare Emily Carr painting sold for $2,164,500 in the second session of Heffel’s Live Spring Auction. Wind in the Treetops, a 36-1/2 x 21-1/4 inch oil on canvas, circa [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields will hold its Fall auction of 20th Century Decorative Arts on September 28, 2009. The Los Angeles sale will feature a diverse group of Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Mid-Century Modern, with a focus on Contemporary [Read More]
Struggling for the Banner is the first major presentation of the period of “new leftist” art in the USSR, and especially that from the period of the “cultural revolution” (1928-1932), when the struggle against the passive, contemplative, purely aesthetic, and formal side [Read More]
Internationally known independent glass artist Mark Matthews will be a special guest artist July 17-19 at the Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion. In addition to a glassblowing workshop, the artist will give a public presentation. Matthews works are part of the [Read More]
The new Ketterer Kunst headquarters next to Messe Munich are certainly impressive. The House for Art deploys 3500 m2 of surface area, which includes a spacious auction room, light-filled exhibition rooms and a library with some 1000 m of shelf space. A [Read More]
On view now through September 6, 2009 at the Norton Museum of Art , Off the Wall: The Human Form in Sculpture features American and European sculpture based on the theme of the figure and dating from the late the 1800s to [Read More]
In connection with the exhibition Expanding Horizons: Painting and Photography of American and Canadian Landscape 1860-1918, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting Frédéric Back: One with Nature, from June 18 to September 27, 2009. Atelier Frederic Black – Mount Royal, [Read More]
Inspired by the current exhibition The Old, Weird America On Thursday, June 25, DeCordova will host a panel discussion featuring exhibiting artists Barnaby Furnas and Matthew Day Jackson as well as Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Curator Toby Kamps, Boston-based writer and critic [Read More]
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum will offer a snapshot of Tom Sachs’s work that focuses exclusively on cameras, opening on June 21, 2009. Tom Sachs, Untitled (CE Wood Hasselblad), 2008. Courtesy of the artist and Sperone Westwater, New York. For many years, [Read More]
Mexican artist Diego Rivera (1886-1957) spent several critical years early in his career in Paris, during World War I, where he immersed himself in literary and art circles and enthusiastically embraced the Cubist movement. While his Cubist works experimented with a range [Read More]
An exhibition gathering 220 pictures of important culture and showbusiness figures, works made to order and images showing family intimacy of Annie Leibovitz. The exhibition gets to Madrid after having been in the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, the National [Read More]
The La Caixa Foundation has cleaned the dust from its contemporary art collection, which was started in 1985, to show at CaixaForum in Barcelona the revitalization the painting experienced in the 1980s from the hand of artists such as Miquel Barceló and [Read More]
Avisca Fine Art Gallery presents “Images of Zora”, an exhibition by New York artist Ann Tanksley of monoprints, monotypes and paintings inspired by the life and work of the writer Zora Neale Hurston. The exhibition opens with a reception for the artist [Read More]
The new Acropolis Museum has opened. It is located 300 meters from the famous ruins, and cost $181 million to build. Today, the new Acropolis Museum has a total area of 25,000 square meters, with exhibition space of over 14,000 square meters, [Read More]