Nature as Artifice: New Dutch Landscape in Photography and Video Art on view June 13-Aug. 16 The description “Dutch landscape” may evoke an idyllic vision reminiscent of Dutch landscape paintings, but today the Netherlands is known for its planned, manipulated landscape. In [Read More]
The Museum of London opens a brand new display marking the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, in partnership with the Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives Committee. The display examines a powerful and creative campaigning history in support of the people [Read More]
Painting for Photographers, published by Artistry Books, shows both the art lessons and software steps for transforming photos into works of art.
Written and illustrated by Karen Sperling, one of the world’s foremost Painter authorities, having penned the first several Painter manuals and three previous Painter books, Painting for Photographers is the first art book for […]
Art Next Gallery is pleased to announce the first exhibition of The New Blue Riders, a newly formed group, taken from the historic Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). The exhibition will be held from June 23 to July 18th as the [Read More]
Dartmouth College has received the largest commitment in its history, $50 million, from an anonymous family. Their extraordinary gift will enable the College to move forward with plans for a visual arts center. The center will break ground in 2010 and serve [Read More]
SCOPE, the acclaimed art show that established its name by providing a much needed international platform for cutting edge contemporary art, returns to Basel for the third year, hosting more galleries than ever before, fthrough June 14. Moreover, this year will see [Read More]
The Louis Picard painting “Ira Aldridge in Taras Shevchenko’s Studio” is bound to cause a sensation. Painted around 1900, the portrait will go under the hammer at the Ketterer Kunst Old Masters and Art of the 19th Century auction as the spectacular [Read More]
Kunstmuseum Bern presents, Ricco. New works in the collection of the Kunstmuseum Bern, on view 13 June 2009 – 18 October 2009. Ricco Wassmer (1915-1972) is no longer an unknown in Berne. Seven years ago an extensive retrospective exhibition at the Kunstmuseum [Read More]
The first comprehensive retrospective of the work of Salvador Dalí ever to be staged in Australia is coming exclusively to the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) as the sixth exhibition in the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series. Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire will bring [Read More]
A new and exciting online socio-economic business will be available in Portuguese, Spanish and English this week and its founder will be in Sao Paulo with a British film team at Embu das Artes on the 14th of June and in Mexico [Read More]
The award-winning watercolorist Katherine Petitti Kornel will be the featured artist at The Atelier, when it presents “Organic Impressions,“ her most recent work. The exhibition opens on Thursday, June 18 with a reception from 7 to 10PM at The Atelier’s gallery space [Read More]
Sotheby’s London biannual Russian Art Evening Auction achieved the solid total of £7,906,050 ($12,546,901), within its pre-sale auction estimate of £6,740,000-9,920,000, and was very well-attended. The sale was 63% sold by lot and 73.3% by value, and saw new auction records established [Read More]
The Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture announced the launch of its RSA RESIDENCIES FOR SCOTLAND programme in collaboration with the Scottish Arts Council. With a total budget of some £45,000, the new scheme will provide funded residency opportunities with partner [Read More]
Moscow Museum of Modern Art opens the first Russian personal exhibition of Francesca Leone, the artists which picturesque canvas take a special place in actual Italian art. The project “Beyond the gaze” will present to the spectator nearby 30 large-sized pictorial works [Read More]