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| Sunday, February 28, 2010 | |
 | United States Announces Winner Of New London Embassy Design Competition U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Louis B. Susman, and Acting Director of the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, Adam Namm, announced that Kieran Timberlake of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has won the design competition for the New London Embassy.(view more...) |
| Saturday, February 27, 2010 | |
 | Art Beijing 2010 Art Beijing has seen extraordinary growth since its first fair in 2006. Building its reach as China’s economy and art market reaches new heights, Art Beijing is enthusiastically preparing for its largest and most significant event to date, the 2010 Art Beijing Contemporary Art Fair. This year’s fair will take place at the China National Agricultural Exhibition Center from April 29 to May 2, 2010. We are pleased to invite you to take part in Art Beijing 2010 and Photo Beijing 2010.(view more...) |
| Friday, February 26, 2010 | |
 | Mayor Newsom Announces Agreement With SFMOMA For Fire Station Mayor Gavin Newsom announced that the City has reached a proposed agreement with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) for the exchange of the City’s existing fire station on Howard Street in return for a newly constructed, replacement fire station on Folsom Street. The agreement allows for SFMOMA to proceed with a $480 million campaign and expansion on Howard Street, while providing the City with a modern replacement for its outdated fire station.(view more...) |
| Thursday, February 25, 2010 | |
 | Fine American Paintings, Drawings And Sculptures At Christie's New York March 04 On March 4, Christie’s will offer its mid-season sale of Fine American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, featuring an excellent selection of 19th and 20th century works at prices ranging from $2,000 to $60,000.(view more...) |
| Wednesday, February 24, 2010 | |
 | Freer And Sackler Galleries Celebrate The Persian New Year For the second year, the Freer and Sackler galleries will mark the Persian New Year, known as "Nowruz," with traditional displays of the haft sin table, fire jumping, storytelling, live music, art making, delicious food and more. The Persian New Year formally begins March 20, the first day of spring, but the Freer and Sackler galleries will begin celebrating Sunday, March 7, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (view more...) |
| Tuesday, February 23, 2010 | |
 | Monaco's Grimaldi Forum Will Be Transformed Into A 4000sqm Arena Of Art The Grimaldi Forum will be transformed into a 4 thousand square meters art gallery for Art Monaco’10 – Special Edition. Monaco will serve as host to more than 60 exclusive galleries from around the globe. Galleries will showcase and sell their original creations during the fourday festival. A VIP reception on April 29 will kick off the event, followed by three full days of vernisagestyle exhibits open to the public.(view more...) |
| Monday, February 22, 2010 | |
 | Los Angeles County Museum Of Art Selects Blackbaud For A Technology Transformation Blackbaud, Inc., the leading provider of software and services for nonprofit organizations, announced that Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the largest art museum in the western United States, has selected and will implement its integrated solution for arts and cultural organizations.(view more...) |
| Sunday, February 21, 2010 | |
 | Important Antiquities Lent By Republic Of Italy On View At Metropolitan Museum A rare, recently excavated ancient Roman dining set consisting of 20 silver objects—one of only three such sets from the region of Pompeii known to exist in the world—and an important ancient Greek kylix (or drinking cup) have been installed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Galleries for Greek and Roman Art as part of an ongoing exchange of antiquities between the Republic of Italy and the Museum.(view more...) |
| Saturday, February 20, 2010 | |
 | Tata Nano To Be Featured At Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum The Tata Nano, designed to be the world’s most affordable car, will be on view at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum through April 25, 2010. Unveiled last year in India by Tata Motors, India’s largest automobile manufacturer, the Tata Nano is targeted to families who had not previously been able to afford a car. Billed as "the people’s car," the base model starts at $2,200 in India and can accommodate up to five adults.(view more...) |
| Friday, February 19, 2010 | |
 | St Pauls Cathedral Unveils New Work By Antony Gormley St Paul’s announced the installation of "Flare II", a new work by Antony Gormley in the dramatic setting of the Cathedral’s Geometric Staircase. (view more...) |
| Thursday, February 18, 2010 | |
 | Picasso Masterpieces Coming To Seattle This Fall The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) is proud to announce that it will present "Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris", an extraordinary exhibition of the work of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). This landmark project is scheduled to be on view at SAM Downtown from October 8, 2010 through January 9, 2011. The exhibition will present iconic works from virtually every phase of Picasso’s legendary career.(view more...) |
| Wednesday, February 17, 2010 | |
 | Shanghai In Art The Asia Pacific Contemporary Art Fair – ShContemporary - is gearing up for the fourth edition this coming September at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre. Last September, the show’s new format and a revived Asian art market attracted over 30,000 collectors, artists, curators, and art lovers to China’s most important annual art event.(view more...) |
| Tuesday, February 16, 2010 | |
 | The International Sculpture Center Announces The 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award Winners The International Sculpture Center (ISC) has announced it's 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to world-renowned British sculptors Phillip King and William Tucker. This year's recipients will be acknowledged at the ISC's 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award Gala being held on Friday evening, April 9, 2010 at Chelsea College of Art & Design's 45 Millbank, London, United Kingdom.(view more...) |
| Monday, February 15, 2010 | |
 | Public Art Project Documents A Changing America Few cities in America are feeling the cultural changes of urban immigration as rapidly and intensely as Minnesota’s capital of St. Paul.(view more...) |
| Sunday, February 14, 2010 | |
 | The Museum Of New Mexico Foundation To Host Special Member Preview At SOFA WEST 2010 Mark Lyman, President, The Art Fair Company, announced an expansion of The Museum of New Mexico Foundation's participation in the Opening Night Preview of the second annual Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair: SOFA WEST 2010 in Santa Fe, NM.(view more...) |
| Saturday, February 13, 2010 | |
 | HMS Victory Returns To Trafalgar The next commission for the Fourth Plinth is "Nelson's Ship in a Bottle", by leading Anglo-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare. This will be unveiled in Trafalgar Square on Monday 24 May 2010.(view more...) |
| Friday, February 12, 2010 | |
| SFMOMA Raises US$250M For Expansion And Endowment San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Board Chair Charles R. Schwab announced that the museum has received landmark contributions totaling more than $250 million to expand the museum and grow its endowment. (view more...) |
| Thursday, February 11, 2010 | |
 | SOFA NEW YORK: Flying High Under The Radar Long heralded as the nation’s premier fair for outstanding contemporary decorative arts and design, the 13th International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair in New York City will open on the evening of Thursday, April 15 and run through Monday, April 19, 2010 at the Park Avenue Armory.(view more...) |
| Wednesday, February 10, 2010 | |
 | The Getty Announces Major Gift Of Photographs By Manuel Alvarez Bravo The J. Paul Getty Museum announced a gift of 52 photographs by acclaimed Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1902–2002) from his compelling work in Mexico from the 1920s to the 1970s. The photographs are a gift from Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser of Los Angeles, who have continued their tradition of generous giving to the Getty since 2000, bolstering the Museum’s already stellar holdings of photographs by the artist to 247.(view more...) |
| Tuesday, February 09, 2010 | |
 | Jeff Koons To Create New BMW Internationally acclaimed artist Jeff Koons will create the 17th BMW Art Car in the 35th anniversary year of the program. (view more...) |
| Monday, February 08, 2010 | |
 | Christie's Announces The 2010 Inaugural Green Auction Christie’s International, the world’s leading art business, announces "A Bid to Save the Earth" Green Auction. This first-of-its-kind charity auction will take place on April 22, 2010 to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. The Evening Sale event will be held at Christie’s, Rockefeller Center, New York and be carried live globally via Christie’s LIVE on www.christies.com. (view more...) |
| Monday, February 08, 2010 | |
 | The Polaroid Collection At Sotheby’s Sotheby’s is to offer Photographs from the Polaroid Collection on 21 and 22 June 2010 in New York. The collection of more than 1,200 works provides unique insight into the influence of Polaroid’s revolutionary technology - which all but eliminated the distance between inspiration and realization - on the history of photography. The collection was begun by Edwin Land, the inventor and founder of Polaroid, and is vast in its breadth and ambition. (view more...) |
| Sunday, February 07, 2010 | |
 | Red Dot Art Fair Is Pleased To Announce Its Return To New York City Red Dot Art Fair is honored to partner with MillionTreesNYC, a project initiated by Bette Midler and Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg. MillionTreesNYC has a goal to plant and care for one million trees across the City’s five boroughs over the next decade. Our opening reception on Thursday, March 4th, from 6 – 9 PM will benefit this great initiative. All donations collected during the opening reception will go directly to future tree plantings.(view more...) |
| Saturday, February 06, 2010 | |
 | Magnum Photo Collection Acquired By MSD Capital Magnum Photos, Inc., MSD Capital, L.P. and the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin jointly announced a landmark partnership under which the Magnum Archive Collection, which contains nearly 200,000 original press prints of images taken by world-renowned Magnum photographers, will be preserved, catalogued and made accessible by the Ransom Center. The Collection will reside at the Ransom Center pursuant to an agreement with its new owner, an affiliate of MSD Capital, which recently acquired the prints from Magnum Photos.(view more...) |
| Friday, February 05, 2010 | |
 | Rediscovered "Self-Portrait with a Black Eye" By Lucian Freud Highlights Sotheby's Auction Sotheby’s is delighted to announce that it will offer for sale the recently rediscovered oil on canvas "Self-Portrait with a Black Eye", circa 1978, by the celebrated British artist Lucian Freud (b. 1922) in its London Evening Sale of Contemporary Art on Wednesday, February 10, 2010. The self-portrait, which headlines a group of five important works by the artist in the auction that have come from a private European collection, has never been recorded in the published literature on Lucian Freud and has remained in the same collection for over 30 years since its conception. (view more...) |
| Thursday, February 04, 2010 | |
 | Dubai To Honour All International Patronage In Visual Arts, Film, Literature And Performing Arts Dubai is honouring all regional and international patrons of the arts, who have made financial contributions towards strengthening Dubai's art scene, with the first ever recognition of its sort in the Arab world.(view more...) |
| Wednesday, February 03, 2010 | |
 | Major Works By Klein And Auerbach Lead Christie's Auction Of Post-War And Contemporary Art The Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale will take place on 11 February 2010 at 7pm, and will offer 52 lots with a total pre-sale estimate of £26,290,000 to £38,260,000. The auction wil represent a broad spectrum of art from the last 60 years and is highlighted by an important core group of works from the early 1960s including the masterpiece "Relief éponge or (RE47II)", one of only two gold sponge reliefs ever created by Yves Klein (estimate: £5 million to £7 million), alongside a further important work by the artist, ANT 5, and together with major paintings by Peter Doig, Martin Kippenberger, Raqib Shaw, Neo Rauch, Frank Auerbach, Andy Warhol, and Nicolas de Staël among others.(view more...) |
| Tuesday, February 02, 2010 | |
 | Ohio Alliance For Arts Education Announces New Research Opportunity The Ohio Alliance for Arts Education announced that it is launching a research effort to measure arts education in Ohio's schools. The Ohio Alliance for Arts Education (OAAE), along with its partners the Ohio Arts Council and Ohio Department of Education, will distribute the Ohio Arts Education Survey to school principals statewide on March 15, 2010. The information collected through the surveys will build on prior studies carried-out between 1989 and 2004 and will create a snapshot of the current status of arts education in Ohio's schools.(view more...) |
| Monday, February 01, 2010 | |
 | The 5th Asia International Arts And Antiques Fair Will Be Held In May Devoted to promoting the cultural exchange amongst the art & antique circle and the community, AIAA 2010 - Asia International Arts and Antiques Fair, will be held from 21-23 May 2010 at AsiaWorld-Expo. This fair is organized by Paper Communication Exhibition Services, supported by the Overseas Chinese News and the Guangdong Antiques and Arts Trade Association.(view more...) |
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