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| Monday, May 23, 2011 | |
 | NC Arts Communities Receive More Than $1.6M In NEA Grants The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded more than $1.6 million to 18 North Carolina organizations including the North Carolina Arts Council.(view more...) |
| Sunday, May 22, 2011 | |
 | 15th Art Moscow, International Contemporary Art Fair ART MOSCOW is the international contemporary art fair in Russia. It was founded in 1995 and will hold its 15th edition on September 21-25, 2011 at the Central House of Artists, Moscow.(view more...) |
| Saturday, May 21, 2011 | |
 | The MET And The Whitney Announce Collaborative Agreement For Breuer Building The directors of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art announced that their boards of trustees have agreed in principle to a multiple-year collaboration projected to begin in 2015, when the Whitney opens its new museum facility on Gansevoort Street in downtown Manhattan. (view more...) |
| Friday, May 20, 2011 | |
 | Artists For The Serpentine Gallery Sotheby’s is delighted to announce that on Thursday June 30th, 2011 at 2pm it will offer for sale 46 works generously donated by some of the world’s leading contemporary artists, many of whom have been included in historic one-artist or group exhibitions, in aid of the Serpentine Gallery’s new space, the Serpentine Sackler Gallery which will open in 2012 in Kensington Gardens, a stone’s throw from the Serpentine Gallery.(view more...) |
| Thursday, May 19, 2011 | |
 | Help Shape The Forthcoming Arts Council England And NESTA Digital Programme Arts Council England and NESTA are developing a programme that aims to help arts and cultural organisations use digital technologies to engage audiences in new ways and create opportunities for new business models.(view more...) |
| Wednesday, May 18, 2011 | |
 | The Hepworth Wakefield Yorkshire is set to become a world-class centre for sculpture with the opening of the £35 million Hepworth Wakefield this weekend exhibiting works received via the Art Fund.(view more...) |
| Tuesday, May 17, 2011 | |
 | Sotheby’s To Sell Major Masterwork By Leading British Post-War Artist Francis Bacon Sotheby’s is delighted to announce that its forthcoming summer Contemporary Art Evening Auction will be led by Crouching Nude, an important masterwork by the renowned British artist Francis Bacon (est. £7-9 million / $10-15 million) which has never before been offered at auction. The 1961 oil on canvas, which is one of Bacon’s large-scale paintings, measuring 198cm by 145cm, will be offered for sale on Wednesday, June 29, 2011. (view more...) |
| Monday, May 16, 2011 | |
 | Southern Polytechnic State University And High Museum Of Art Form A Unique Alliance Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU) has established a unique affiliation with the High Museum of Art in Atlanta that will give students and faculty access to the museum's exhibitions, collections and programs.(view more...) |
| Sunday, May 15, 2011 | |
 | Ten Drawings By Leonardo Da Vinci: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration To celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen, ten of the Royal Collection’s finest drawings by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci will travel to five museums and galleries across the United Kingdom. The exhibition has been selected to show the extraordinary scope of Leonardo’s interests – painting and sculpture, engineering, botany, mapmaking, hydraulics and anatomy – and his use of different media – pen and ink, red and black chalks, and metalpoint.(view more...) |
| Saturday, May 14, 2011 | |
 | Sotheby's London To Offer One Of The Most Important Works By Egon Schiele On 22 June this year, Sotheby’s London will offer for sale one of the most important oils by celebrated Austrian artist Egon Schiele ever to come to the market. The painting – Häuser mit bunter Wäsche, "Vorstadt" II of 1914 - ranks among just a small number of significant cityscapes by Schiele remaining in private hands. (view more...) |
| Friday, May 13, 2011 | |
 | IMA Launches Groundbreaking Mellon Curators-at-Large Program The Indianapolis Museum of Art announced it has received a $1.025 million grant by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund a three-year pilot program that will allow leading scholars to conduct groundbreaking research on the IMA’s collections while piloting a global model for future scholarly appointments at museums. Over each of the three years the IMA will name two curators to year-long appointments. (view more...) |
| Thursday, May 12, 2011 | |
 | AGA And Enbridge Partnership Brings Major Warhol Exhibition To Alberta The Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) is proud to announce a three-year partnership between the AGA and Enbridge Pipelines Inc. that will facilitate the creation and presentation of contemporary and modern art exhibitions at the AGA.(view more...) |
| Wednesday, May 11, 2011 | |
 | Indigenous Arts Workers Awarded Unique Residency Program Four young emerging Indigenous arts workers from New South Wales have been awarded a two-week, fully funded intensive residency program at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, specifically tailored to address professional development needs in the NSW Aboriginal visual arts sector. This program, the first of its kind in NSW, will begin on May 16.(view more...) |
| Tuesday, May 10, 2011 | |
 | Sotheby's Presents Its Biannual Fine Chinese Ceramics And Works Of Art Sale Sotheby’s is pleased to present the first of its 2011 London Sales of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. The auction will feature 343 lots and will take place in London on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011. Every item in the sale has been meticulously selected as an iconic example of its genre and in total the auction is expected to realise in excess of £11 million.(view more...) |
| Monday, May 09, 2011 | |
 | NGC And MFA Acquire Christian Marclay’s 24-Hour Video, The Clock A unique and compelling new work created by world-renowned sound and video artist Christian Marclay has been acquired jointly by the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). Entitled The Clock (2010), this ode to time and cinema comprises thousands of fragments from a vast range of films that create a 24-hour, looped, single-channel video.(view more...) |
| Sunday, May 08, 2011 | |
 | Crew Nominations Open For Sailors Wanted To Crew Olympic Sailing Vessel Along The South Coast An ambitious art project based in West Sussex are currently looking for enthusiastic volunteers to crew a 30-foot seafaring vessel which will sail along the south coast to the Thames during the 2012 Olympics.(view more...) |
| Saturday, May 07, 2011 | |
 | 14th SOFA New York Wraps At The Park Avenue Armory The 14th annual Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair at the Park Avenue Armory enjoyed steady crowds and sales, from the well-attended vernissage on April 13 straight through its four-day run, which ended on Sunday, April 17. An estimated 2000 persons attended Opening Night throughout the course of the evening, and an after-preview benefit dinner in the Armory's Tiffany Room for the Museum of Arts & Design (MAD) honoring Judy Cornfield was a sell-out. (view more...) |
| Friday, May 06, 2011 | |
 | The Self-Portrait That Defined Warhol As The High Priest Of Pop Art To Be Auctioned At Christie's Christie’s is proud to offer Andy Warhol’s first and most iconic self-portrait. Painted in 1963-1964, "Self-Portrait" by Andy Warhol marks the first historic crafting of the artist’s iconic image in a photo booth, a radical concept of picture making that revolutionized art history. The four-panel masterpiece executed in four distinct variations of blue, features Warhol for the first time a new guise, that of the enigmatic superstar replete with silver hair, wayfarer sunglasses and a blank expression.(view more...) |
| Thursday, May 05, 2011 | |
 | IMA Receives A $1.5M Gift To Endow Senior Conservation Scientist Position A $1.5 million gift from the estate of Otto N. “Nick” Frenzel III has fulfilled a challenge grant to endow the Indianapolis Museum of Art senior conservation scientist position for the Museum’s Conservation Science Laboratory. The position, held by Dr. Gregory Dale Smith, was established through a $1.75 million Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant in 2008 which required a match of $1.5 million within three years. The $1.5 million match is part of a $1.8 million gift from Mr. Frenzel’s estate.(view more...) |
| Wednesday, May 04, 2011 | |
 | A Discerning Eye: Latin American Masterpieces From A Private Collection On 25 May 2011 Sotheby’s New York will present a remarkable single owner evening sale that includes many of the most important artists and movements in Latin American art, including superb works by Rufino Tamayo, Diego Rivera, Matta and Frida Kahlo, among others. The paintings in the sale celebrate the diverse styles and cultural origins of Latin American art. The level of taste and refinement that was used in putting together this collection is clearly discernable in the quality, variety and depth of the works. (view more...) |
| Tuesday, May 03, 2011 | |
 | Art Prague 2011 The core of the exhibition is its regular participants such as Navratil, Montanelli, Litera, Millennium, Gambit, Peron, Chagall, Via Art and other galleries. Prague will also see the return of foreign galleries such as Bleibtreu from Berlin, Mathieu from Lyon, Art Traffic from Amsterdam, Raum from Freiburg and others. The youngest generation will be presented by The Chemistry Gallery and by Avoid Gallery.(view more...) |
| Monday, May 02, 2011 | |
 | Guggenheim Foundation Appoints Catherine Carver Dunn As Deputy Director, Advancement Richard Armstrong, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, announced the appointment of Catherine Carver Dunn as Deputy Director, Advancement. In this new position, Dunn will be responsible for directing the major forthcoming capital campaign; planning, managing, and implementing of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s global individual-development program; and organizing special events. Dunn begins July 1.(view more...) |
| Sunday, May 01, 2011 | |
 | The Quest For A Mythical Drinking Cup Sotheby's sale of Important European Silver, Gold Boxes & Objects Vertu in Paris on May 17 will include an exceptional silver drinking cup made around 1180, probably in France (estimate €300,000–400,000). No public or private collection holds a piece of such age and with this specific iconography.(view more...) |
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