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]

ballet tech cincinnati, winner of the 2008 Scripps-Corbett Innovation Award and ONE Award Finalist, will host its Eighth Annual Gala of International Dance Stars on Saturday, Aug. 15, 2009 at 8 p.m. at Cincinnati’s premier venue, the Aronoff Center. Featuring the best [Read More]

Sotheby’s sale of 19th Century European Paintings at Sotheby’s in London (featuring German, Austrian and Central European Paintings, The Orientalist Sale, Spanish Paintings and The Scandinavian Sale) realised a strong total of £8,382,550 / €9,688,559 against a pre-sale estimate of £6,480,000-9,572,000. The [Read More]

Kevin Peterson’s Slumbody Loves You solo exhibit of oil paintings documents the importance of an American neighborhood community. Peterson shares his love of the neighborhood characters, interwoven lives and eventual destruction through gentrification and corporatization. The artist casts a spotlight on the [Read More]

This exceptional exhibition consists of 120 European master drawings, watercolours and pastels by many of the greatest names in Western art. They come from the distinguished collection formed over the past twenty years by Jean Bonna, who is based in Geneva. The [Read More]

Over the course of 30 years, one of the most public and distinguished figures in Indianapolis, the Honorable Paul H. Buchanan Jr. (1918-2008), quietly assembled a truly outstanding private collection of 19th and early 20th-century American painting. This momentous collection will form [Read More]

Artworks, Performance, Video Installation and More Are Incorporated in the Pavilion, the First to Be Created at Venice by an Arabian Gulf Country The United Arab Emirates Pavilion opened in the Arsenale at the 53rd International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, [Read More]

Take a Look at Me Now is a major new exhibition featuring 14 artists who are making some of the most exciting work in Poland today. The exhibition opened at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich, [Read More]

Stunning and highly original images of New York and New Yorkers created by 13 prominent Dutch photographers—some internationally renowned (Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Hendrik Kerstens, and Rineke Dijkstra, among others), some young and emerging—will be on view in Dutch Seen: [Read More]

The Music Division in the Library of Congress has acquired archival materials from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publisher (ASCAP) Foundation, the not-for-profit arm of the world’s largest performing-rights organization, representing more than 275,000 creators.The ASCAP Collection has been established [Read More]

The Pinakothek der Moderne is staging the American artist’s first retrospective. The focus is being placed on Zoe Leonard’s photographic work of the past twenty years, their subtle, visual look at the relationship between the sexes, the ambivalence between culture and nature, [Read More]

Tom Slick (1916–1962) is an important figure in San Antonio’s history. A legendary explorer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist, he founded the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, the Southwest Research Institute, and the Mind Science Foundation, among many well-known accomplishments in his short [Read More]