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]
On June 22, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will launch the Guggenheim Forum, a new series of moderated online discussions among experts from a variety of fields that will occur in conjunction with major museum exhibitions. Each Guggenheim Forum will span two [Read More]
As traditional photography processes are passing into history, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film and the Image Permanence Institute (IPI) at Rochester Institute of Technology are launching a Center for the Legacy of Photography. The Center, made possible by [Read More]
Art New England, the region’s leading visual arts magazine, has been acquired by New Venture Media Group LLC, publishers of the bi-weekly visitors’ magazine Panorama The Official Guide to Boston, and the Boston edition of the world-renowned theater program Playbill. With offices [Read More]
On Sunday, October 18, 2009, in Paris Enchères Rive Gauche will put some one hundred Asian works from the Vérité Collection up for auction at Hôtel Drouot. Started in the 1920s by Pierre and Suzanne Vérité and then expanded by Claude and [Read More]
While the auction of the Honorable Paul H. Buchanan Jr. Collection of American Art was taking place at Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas, TX, on Wednesday night, June 10, it was a strong core of top-notch Hudson River School paintings that was [Read More]
A promising week with busy viewing attendance and a healthy level of interest came to an exciting conclusion on Wednesday evening. The final few hours of the auction of British Contemporary Ceramics, the first in an ongoing series of Contemporary Ceramics auctions [Read More]
The exhibition Voyages: The Art of Evelyn Metzger is on view at the James W. Palmer III Gallery through Friday, July 31, with an opening reception on June 25, 5–6:30pm. Evelyn Metzger (1912-2007), Street Market, Hong Kong, 1993, Oil on panel, 24 [Read More]
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts will exhibit works in black and white by more than thirty artists, many of whom have been associated with the history of the gallery, which was founded in 1971. The exhibition highlights how these artists use the qualities [Read More]
Paris Photo, the world’s leading photography fair, will bring together 101 exhibitors from 23 countries. on 10-22, 2009. The 2009 selection was conducted according to a number of criteria which included the quality and originality of the projects submitted as well as [Read More]
The forthcoming sale on June 25th presents a diverse collection which should suit all tastes and pockets. Modern British Prints are well represented by Norman Ackroyd, Elizabeth Blackadder, Mary Fedden, Edward Bawden, Dame Elisabeth Frink and Stanley Hayter. Of particular note is [Read More]
For generations, artists have used a wide range of painterly effects to suggest the physical properties and metaphorical significance of human flesh. The Phillips Collection presents Paint Made Flesh, a survey of figurative painting since the 1950s. Bringing together 43 provocative works [Read More]
The first official website of wildlife artist Gary Hodges (garyhodges-wildlife-art.com) has been launched amidst enormous acclaim from collectors and celebrities. Gary Hodges’ appeal has been built on his extraordinary ability to capture, what many would say, the “soul” of the wild animals [Read More]
Mybadbank (MBB) is a temporary art project from Berlin. MBB is a fictional bank that consists of several happenings. The project centers around a fake bank used as a ironic statement towards the absurdity crisis financial crisis. As a “bank” MBB offers [Read More]