Charity Gives Falmouth Gallery Print Collection Starring Marilyn Monroe
Falmouth Art Gallery has been given an exceptional collection of 99 prints created by the master printmaker, Hugh Stoneman which includes a sultry, behind-the-scenes image of Marilyn Monroe taken from her last completed feature film. The gift has been made by The Art Fund, the UK's leading independent art charity, which bought the collection for £30,000, and means the Gallery now boasts one of the most important print collections outside of London.
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Missing Van Dyck Portrait To Go On Show At Tate Britain
Sir Anthony van Dyck's portrait of Katherine, Lady Stanhope, later Countess of Chesterfield c. 1635-6 will go on public display for the first time in over a century in Tate Britain's major spring exhibition, Van Dyck and Britain, opening on 18 February 2009. The painting was thought to be missing until it re-emerged at auction in New York in 2006. It will go on loan to Tate Britain from a private collection.
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Art Now Fair: Outside The Box
Art Now Fair is pleased to announce our return to Miami Beach, December 4 - 7, 2008. After our Miami Beach premier and a successful New York City fair in March, Art Now Fair is looking forward to continuing to support established and emerging galleries committed to thinking outside the box and experimenting with the artwork and artists they represent.
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Crocker Receives $225,000 Grant Support From GenCorp Foundation
The Crocker Art Museum has received $225,000 in continued grant support from the GenCorp Foundation to fund the Museum’s school programs and teacher services. The grant is payable over four years and will enable the Museum to continue its programs and services available to students and teachers both onsite and off, which began with the Foundation’s initial funding granted in 2005.
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Bridge Art Fair Presents Two Miami Fairs
Following its enormous critical and commercial successes in 2006 and 2007, Bridge is pleased to announce our third installment in Miami Beach. Held at both the Catalina and Maxine Hotels, Bridge Miami leads the South Beach satellite art market, located a mere two blocks from Art Basel. Visitors can browse nearly 80 rooms of the freshest and most innovative works in international emerging and contemporary art.
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Christie’s HK Announces Southeast Asian Modern And Contemporary Art
Christie’s, the world’s leading art business and the leading auction house in Asia, announces the Fall sale of Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary Art will take place on Sunday, November 30th at 11am. This sale follows on the heels of Christie’s landmark Spring 2008 auction in Hong Kong which was its most valuable ever for category.
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The Wallace Foundation Awards $7.7M To Support Seattle’s Arts Community
The Wallace Foundation, the Washington State Arts Commission and the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs announced an innovative, four-year arts funding partnership designed to foster growth in public arts attendance and to identify, develop and share useful lessons on how arts organizations can reach more people.
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Art Basel Miami Beach: The Winter Rendez-Vous Of The International Artworld
From December 4 through 7, 2008, Miami Beach, Florida, USA, will be home to the 7th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, the celebrated international art show. More than 240 leading galleries from the USA, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and Asia will be taking part. Chosen by the Art Basel Miami Beach Selection Committee from more than 800 applicants, the galleries – which include 25 new participants – will be showing works by over 2,000 artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Special sectors are devoted to very recent artworks, curated exhibitions, video- and sound-based works, performances, open air cinema, and art in public spaces. 20 young galleries will present cutting-edge projects in converted shipping containers on the beach, while another 20 exhibit in an experimental collaborative space.
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Museum of Islamic Art appoints QFC Authority as Strategic Financial Partner
Qatar’s magnificent new Museum of Islamic Art, the flagship project of the Qatar Museums Authority, has signed a partnership agreement with the Qatar Financial Center (QFC) Authority which sees the Authority become the Museum’s Strategic Financial Partner for a 3-year period starting 1 January 2009.
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SCOPE, Miami’s Original Emerging Contemporary Art Fair
SCOPE, Miami’s original emerging contemporary art fair, returns for its seventh year to Miami this December. Expanded in size and global in reach, SCOPE will host 88 exhibitors from 22 countries in a new 60,000 square foot pavilion. SCOPE’s new location is centrally located in the Wynwood Art District, convenient to the Rubell Family Collection, the Margulies Collection, as well as Miami’s top galleries.
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Indiana's "Love and The Berlin Wall" At Heritage Auction Galleries On Dec 11
The work of Robert Indiana often consists of bold, simple images: EAT, HUG, and, of course, LOVE, which was featured on an 8-cent U.S. Postal Service stamp in 1973. Nearly 20 years later, Indianas iconic work and the fall of the Berlin Wall would come together to symbolize freedom and unity.
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IX Edition Of Feria De Arte Independiente De Madrid
This year FAIM will take place at the Palacio de Congresos de Madrid, wich represents an important commitment with independen art. China, this edition guest country, will present works by artists of great significance: Cui Xiuwen, Dong Wensheng, Gao Shiqiang, among others. Until november 24th almost 200 artists will show about 8000 works in the arts disciplines of painting, sculpture, engraving, graffiti, photography, video art, digital art, multimedia, projections, performance and installation art.
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Curiosities & Haute Epoque A Connoisseur's Collection
The collection to be offered for sale at Sotheby’s belongs to a couple from the South of France, with a shared passion for objects and furniture from the Middle Ages to Renaissance. Their collection has grown year by year since the 1950s, focusing on a group of magnificent wooden and ivory caskets.
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The 8th Edition Of ARTE LISBOA
ARTE LISBOA confirms year after year as being an exclusive platform for promoting the most recent art, offering an ample exhibition of galleries and artists, consolidated and emerging, well known in the international context. On the other hand, being the only Portuguese contemporary art fair, ARTE LISBOA bids for an exhaustive cultural programme which annually includes a CYCLE OF DEBATES with personalities of the European scene, and a section of Project Rooms of excellent quality.
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Official Launch Meeting Of The Mark Speight Foundation
Three days ago was the official launch meeting of the Mark Speight Foundation. Volunteers from all over the UK, including Northern Ireland will gather in The 20th Century Theatre, Notting Hill to lay the foundations for this charity that has been set up in honour of Mark Speight who died earlier this year.
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FERIARTE 2008: The Art Of Luxury And Exclusive Appeal
FERIARTE, the Art and Antiques Fair, will once again turn Madrid into the centre par excellence for the decorative art market. The thirty-second edition of the fair, which is due to take place between 15th and 23rd November at Feria de Madrid, will constitute a grand artistic event aimed at all members of the public, bringing together the best Spanish antique dealers and gallery-owners, as well as a selection of the most prestigious members of the trade at an international level.
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SFMOMA Showcases The 1000 Journals Project
From November 1, 2008 through April 5, 2009, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents The 1000 Journals Project, a special exhibition in the Koret Visitor Education Center. This presentation will complement The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now (on view November 8, 2008 through February 8, 2009), a major exhibition that explores the practice of participatory art from the past six decades.
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artparis-AbuDhabi: More Contemporary, More International And More Events!
From the 17th until the 21st of November, 2008, artparis-AbuDhabi will take place at the Emirates Palace with 58 international galleries presenting the artistic work of the 20th and the 21st centuries in all its diversity. To the end of pursuing its goal of stimulating dialogue between the Orient and the Occident, first of all through the presentation of top-tier international galleries, artparis-AbuDhabi rounds out this event with two special exhibitions which center on the art of today.
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MCASD Receives $225,000 Getty Foundation Grant
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) announced that the Getty Foundation has awarded the Museum a $225,000 grant to support research and planning for the forthcoming exhibition "Phenomenal: California Light and Space". The project is one of 15 Getty Foundation grants announced October 29, totaling nearly $2.8 million. Previous grants to the project bring the Getty’s investment to $5.5 million, thus launching the largest collaborative project undertaken by museums in the region. This series of concurrent exhibitions throughout Southern California is called Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980.
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Sanford Smith’s 23rd Annual Modernism: A Century Of Style And Design
Modernism: A Century of Style and Design, the original and foremost fair devoted to the European and American design movements of the 20th century, has been a staple in New York’s fall season since 1986. Still at the forefront of design, the event bears the standard for an entire market. If imitation is indeed the sincerest form of flattery, Modernism: A Century of Style and Design has been complimented by subsequent appearances of similar fairs all over the world.
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Westport Arts Center Presents "Art in Context" Talk
The Westport Arts Center (WAC) will host an interactive talk for adults about its current contemporary art exhibition, "OPTIMISM," on Thursday, November 12th at 7:30pm. Danielle Cavanna, WAC’s director of education, will lead the guided tour designed to inform and engage visitors in the world of contemporary art. The gallery talk will be interactive and discussion-based and will provide an art historical context for the key themes and ideas addressed in the exhibition.
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Full House Guarantees Unrivalled Choice At Art Ireland 2008
A full house of exhibitors will ensure everyone’s a winner when the country’s biggest visual arts event of the year returns to the main hall of Dublin’s RDS for the ninth annual Art Ireland art fair from Friday 14th to Sunday 16th November 2008. With over 175 galleries and independent artists taking part, Art Ireland 2008 will once again be at full capacity, bringing together thousands of works by dozens of exhibitors under a single roof.
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Erie Art Museum To Participate In Heritage Preservation’s CAP
The Erie Art Museum has been chosen to participate in Heritage Preservation’s 2008 Conservation Assessment Program (CAP). The Erie Art Museum joins 2,500 museums that have participated in CAP since the program began in 1990. Heritage Preservation’s CAP is supported through a cooperative agreement with the federal Institute of Museum and Library Sciences.
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Paris Photo 2008: Japan Guest Of Honour
From November 13 to 16, 2008, Paris Photo, the world’s leading fair for 19th century, modern and contemporary photography, will bring together 106 exhibitors (85 galleries + 21 publishers) from 19 countries at the Carrousel du Louvre. The 2008 selection will bring a profound change with a record number of first-time exhibitors (38%, or 31 new arrivals) and one of the highest rates of foreign participation (78% of exhibitors are non-French.).
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CMA Announces The Redesign Of The Ailsa Mellon Bruce Galleries
Carnegie Museum of Art announces the redesign of the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Galleries, which will open in November 2009. The renovated galleries will focus on the museum’s decorative arts and design collections, illustrating strengths from the 1740s to the present. Included among more than 550 objects on display will be the museum’s important collection of early Western Pennsylvania furniture, as well as its first permanent installation of the American painted and gilded parlor suite from PicNic, the distinguished Greek revival mansion built in Pittsburgh in the 1830s for William Croghan and his daughter, Mary Schenley.
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BIFAS: New England's Premier Show
A number of special programs will highlight the 12th Annual Boston International Fine Art Show (BIFAS), taking place Thursday - Sunday, November 13-16, 2008 at The Cyclorama at The Boston Center for The Arts (BCA). The show opens with the Gala Preview on Thursday, November 13 from 5:30 to 9:30pm to benefit the Boston Symphony Orchestra. All proceeds from the event help support three of the country’s most beloved musical institutions: the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, and Tanglewood. Gala Preview benefit tickets are $100 and $250 and can be ordered directly through the Boston Symphony Orchestra or online.
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