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| Monday, October 31, 2011 | |
 | Christie's Photographs Sale On Wednesday 02 November Christie’s Photographs sale on Wednesday 2 November features over 150 works with estimates ranging from £400 to £50,000. The auction presents an inspiring array of powerful, seductive and beautiful images which celebrate the visual language of the 20th and 21st century; from famous faces of fashion, style and celebrity, to explorations of the architecture and life which frames them. (view more...) |
| Sunday, October 30, 2011 | |
 | Prints By Major Contemporary American Artists Featured In New Exhibition At The Smithsonian American Art Museum The exhibition "Multiplicity" features contemporary prints from the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum that embrace many styles, techniques and approaches with which artists have worked over the past several decades.(view more...) |
| Friday, October 28, 2011 | |
 | Christie's To Offer Major Private Art Collection Estimated At US$21M Christie’s is honored to announce the upcoming sale of an outstanding private American collection of Modern and Contemporary Art: Property from a Distinguished West Coast Collection. Remarkable for the extraordinary quality, rarity and iconic status of its works, the collection boasts masterpieces by René Magritte, Georgia O’Keeffe, Hans Hofmann, Jean Dubuffet, Joan Miró, Kees Van Dongen, Marc Chagall and Ed Ruscha. The total combined value of the works, which will be offered across three sale categories this November, is estimated to exceed US$ 21 million.(view more...) |
| Thursday, October 27, 2011 | |
 | The Frick Pittsburgh Presents Major Faberge Exhibition The Frick Art & Historical Center is proud to present the first major exhibition of Faberge objects to be shown in Pittsburgh. On view at The Frick Art Museum until January 15, 2012, Faberge: The Hodges Family Collection features more than 100 objects made by the world-renowned House of Faberge, goldsmith and jeweler to the Russian court. (view more...) |
| Wednesday, October 26, 2011 | |
 | Indianapolis Museum Of Art To Acquire Work By Allora & Calzadilla Following the success of the U.S. Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, the 54th International Art Exhibition, the Indianapolis Museum of Art will bring works by the collaborative team Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla to Indianapolis in Spring 2012. The IMA is acquiring Delta (Body in Flight), which will be presented with scheduled performances in the Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion March 8, 2012, through April 22, 2012. (view more...) |
| Tuesday, October 25, 2011 | |
 | Sotheby's London To Sell A Newly Discovered Original Dockwra Stamp Sotheby's London is delighted to announce that it will sell a previously unrecorded example of the earliest version of the original Dockwra hand-stamps, the "Murray’s Post" stamp, in its English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations Sale on December 15th 2011. (view more...) |
| Monday, October 24, 2011 | |
 | Lineart 2011 Lineart is the most important art exhibition in our country and has been taking place longer than any other. This year’s edition is a special one: Lineart is celebrating its 30th anniversary! And it promises to be an unforgettable year. From 2 to 6 December, art lovers and collectors will be welcomed to the central hall of the Flanders Expo exhibition centre in Ghent, where they can expect to be treated to a wealth of new sights! (view more...) |
| Sunday, October 23, 2011 | |
 | Announcement Of India Art Fair, 4TH Edition Now in its 4th edition, India Art Fair (formerly India Art Summit) is set to take place at the NSIC grounds in New Delhi from 25-29 January 2012. Established in 2008 as the country’s first international art fair, India Art Fair has received 178,000 visitors over its first 3 editions.(view more...) |
| Saturday, October 22, 2011 | |
 | LAMA Announces Most Important Auction Since 1992 Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) announces its most impressive sale to date: The December 11, 2011 Important Modern Art & Design auction. This auction of over 500 lots features exceptional material from a prominent West Coast collection and includes rare examples of modern art and design by iconic 20th century artists. A 1906 Greene and Greene linen cabinet from the Dr. W. T. Bolton House, an early John Chamberlain mixed media relief sculpture from 1962, and a specially commissioned George Nelson "Double Marshmallow" sofa are among the top lots of the auction.(view more...) |
| Friday, October 21, 2011 | |
 | Join In One Last Chorus At Untitled #42 (Coda) The final Friday of the month, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) feels less like a field trip and more like a night out with offbeat art encounters, unique detours of the DAM collection, artmaking, local music, cash bar, munchies and more. Visitors will celebrate the last Untitled event of the season with final touches and finished products at Untitled #42 (Coda) on October 28 from 6 to 10 p.m.(view more...) |
| Thursday, October 20, 2011 | |
 | Tate And BMW Announce Major New International Partnership: BMW Tate Live Tate and BMW announced a major new international partnership, BMW Tate Live which will focus on performance, interdisciplinary art and curating digital space. The four-year programme will be launched with a series of artist performances created specifically to be broadcast ‘live’ online. BMW Tate Live: Performance Room is the first artistic programme created purely for live web broadcast. (view more...) |
| Wednesday, October 19, 2011 | |
 | Ted Harrison's Artwork Marks Remembrance Day At St Paul's Cathedral St Paul's Cathedral is set to play host to a major visual arts installation next month to mark this year's Remembrance Day.(view more...) |
| Tuesday, October 18, 2011 | |
 | Special Solo Performance By David Greenspan At The Getty Villa At the Getty Villa in November, award-winning playwright and actor David Greenspan unites two of the most influential and antithetical treatises ever composed on the nature of theater—Aristotle's Poetics and Gertrude Stein's lecture Plays—in an unexpectedly enthralling evening of solo performance. Previously performed separately, Greenspan will for the first time perform these two pieces together at the Getty Villa.(view more...) |
| Monday, October 17, 2011 | |
 | Ironbridge Receives Lottery Grant For A Major London 2012 Digital Commission Arts Council England has awarded a National Lottery grant of almost £99,000 to the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust for a major London 2012 Cultural Olympiad digital art commission.(view more...) |
| Sunday, October 16, 2011 | |
 | Antica Namur, More Than Just A Quality, Label, An Essence The 35th edition of Antica Namur has drawn the support of Belgian and foreign antiques dealers who have been convinced by the recurrent success of this first important antiques fair of the autumn. With its 140 exhibitors, the fair will open its doors from Friday 11 November to Sunday 20 November 2011. This new edition will be open to the public for a full 11 days as well as the avant-première on 10 November.(view more...) |
| Saturday, October 15, 2011 | |
 | Important Russian Art At Sotheby’s New York Sotheby’s annual autumn auction of Important Russian Art in New York will be held on 1 November 2011. In response to persistent demand for rare and historic works with exceptional provenance, the sale will offer 26 museum-quality masterpieces spanning important genres in Russian art, from 19th century paintings to the early avant-garde and Soviet eras of the 20th century. (view more...) |
| Friday, October 14, 2011 | |
 | Ipswich Aglow With Light Art On The Waterfront Ipswich Waterfront has been brought to glowing life this month by Light Waves, a new, interactive lighting project.(view more...) |
| Thursday, October 13, 2011 | |
 | Leading Iraqi Artists Donate Works To Be Auctioned At Christie's Dubai An inspiring group of 6 works by some of Iraq’s most innovative contemporary artists, including a drawing by the internationally recognized Ahmed Alsoudani, will be offered for sale for the first time at an international auction by Christie’s Dubai this October 26th, 2011. Proceeds from the sale will benefit Echo (Sada) for Contemporary Iraqi Art, a new non-profit organization established to support new works, education programs, preservation initiatives and research in the realm of contemporary art in Iraq and the Diaspora. (view more...) |
| Wednesday, October 12, 2011 | |
 | Sotheby’s To Auction The Sun-Drop Diamond Sotheby's Geneva is delighted to announce that it will present - in its sale of Magnificent Jewels on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - one of the most impressive diamonds to come to auction in recent years.(view more...) |
| Tuesday, October 11, 2011 | |
 | Archives Of American Art Contributes Photo Collection To Wikimedia Commons The Archives of American Art has contributed 285 digitized photographs from the Federal Art Project’s Photographic Division Collection to Wikimedia Commons. Most of the photographs date between 1935 and 1942, the active years of the Federal Art Project, which was part of the Work Progress Administration’s Federal Project Number One. (view more...) |
| Monday, October 10, 2011 | |
 | The Getty Acquires Ed Ruscha Photographs And Archive The J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute announced the joint acquisition of over seventy photographs by artist Ed Ruscha as well as his Streets of Los Angeles archive, including thousands of negatives, hundreds of photographic contact sheets, and related documents and ephemera. A portion of the material will come to the Getty as a promised gift from the artist.(view more...) |
| Sunday, October 09, 2011 | |
 | Red And Yellow And Pink And Green, Purple And Orange And Blue, You Can Own A Rainbow Too Christie’s is offering discerning fashion-conscious females the perfect opportunity to brighten up their winter wardrobes with a rainbow of Hermès handbags on offer in the upcoming Elegance auction. Definitely worth "saving the date for", the auction will be held at the Old Brompton Road saleroom on 16 November at 10.30am, with all items on public exhibition in the days preceding: 12-15 November.(view more...) |
| Saturday, October 08, 2011 | |
 | Fall Dishes Added To Garden Café Italia At The National Gallery Of Art As Washington welcomes the fall season, Chef Fabio Trabocchi of the Penn Quarter restaurant Fiola has added robust new dishes to the National Gallery of Art Garden Café menu inspired by harvest ingredients and an impressive exhibition of Italian works—Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525–1835, on view through November 27, 2011. (view more...) |
| Friday, October 07, 2011 | |
 | DAM To Exhibit Former Secretary Of State Madeleine Albright’s Pin Collection The exhibition of brooches from the personal collection of Madeleine Albright will open at the Denver Art Museum (DAM) on April 15, 2012. Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection features more than 200 pins, many of which Secretary Albright wore to communicate a message or a mood during her diplomatic tenure. The exhibition examines the collection for its historical ties as well as the expressive power of jewelry and its ability to communicate through a language of its own. The exhibition will be on view in the museum’s Gallagher Family Gallery through June 17, 2012.(view more...) |
| Thursday, October 06, 2011 | |
 | Sotheby’s London To Sell Important Work By Vilhelm Hammershøi Sotheby's Scandinavian Sale on Tuesday, 22 November 2011 will be headlined by Interior with Ida in a White Chair by Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916). Estimated at £500,000-700,000, the painting is one of the most important works by the artist ever to be offered at auction and comes to the market from a Private Danish Collection. Painted in 1900 in the artist’s home at Strandgade 30 in Copenhagen, it depicts his wife Ida. (view more...) |
| Wednesday, October 05, 2011 | |
 | Post-War & Contemporary Art Auctions Christie's: Richard Prince Four outstanding works by Richard Prince (B. 1949) will be offered at Christie's London on 14 October, forming highlights of the Post-War & Contemporary Art evening auction. Spanning the course of the artist’s rich career they include "Untitled (Fashion)" (1983-1984), "Untitled (Cowboy)" (1999), "Nurse Forrester’s Secret" (2002-2003) and "Untitled (de Kooning)" (2007).(view more...) |
| Tuesday, October 04, 2011 | |
 | WOHA's The Met Building In Bangkok Wins Prestigious RIBA Lubetkin Prize 2011 The Met in Bangkok, Thailand by WOHA has scooped the Royal Institute of British Architects' (RIBA) prestigious RIBA Lubetkin Prize for the most outstanding work of international architecture by a member of the RIBA.(view more...) |
| Monday, October 03, 2011 | |
 | APA Partners With Lucie Foundation To Offer First-Ever $5k Photography Scholarship American Photographic Artists (APA) is proud to announce its APA/Lucie Foundation Scholarship available to a deserving established professional photographer for a specific project in the amount of $5,000 through its partnership with the Lucie Foundation. APA desires to support and encourage growth and professional development, and is excited to partner with the Lucie Foundation for the 2012 grant cycle to show its commitment to advancing professional photography.(view more...) |
| Sunday, October 02, 2011 | |
 | Sotheby's Amsterdam To Sell The BAT Artventure Collection Sotheby’s Amsterdam will offer for sale on Tuesday 4 October 2011 the third and final selection of works from the former Peter Stuyvesant Collection, property of British American Tobacco Netherlands (BAT).(view more...) |
| Saturday, October 01, 2011 | |
 | Moving Image: Contemporary Video Art Fair Please join us, October 13-16, 2011 for the inaugural presentation in London of Moving Image, a contemporary video art fair. Coinciding with the Frieze Art Fair and within walking distance of the Tate Modern, Moving Image is located in the Bargehouse, a 4-story warehouse behind the OXO Wharf Tower on London's South Bank. Moving Image will be open free to the public.(view more...) |
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