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| Saturday, July 31, 2010 | |
 | 2010 Art Beijing Fine Art Fair Art Beijing Fine Art Fair is an innovative, new art fair brand launched by Beijing Art Fair Culture Co., Ltd., which also established the Art Beijing and Photo Beijing art fairs. Fine Art Beijing 2010 will be held in the Agricultural Exhibition Center of China in Beijing on September 16 – 19, including a VIP Preview on September 16.(view more...) |
| Thursday, July 29, 2010 | |
 | Giorgio Morandi Exhibition And Workshop At ShContemporary The Museum of Modern Art in Bologna, MAMbo, with the support of the Region of Emilia- Romagna, in co-operation with ShContemporary, will celebrate the work of one of the most admired Italian painters of the twentieth century, Giorgio Morandi. The Italian master’s extensive array of contemplative and introspective still-lifes, landscapes, engravings and etchings have earned him a distinctive place in Modern art history.(view more...) |
| Wednesday, July 28, 2010 | |
 | International Participation Doubles At The 3rd Edition Of India Art Summit The 3rd Edition of India Art Summit –India’s Modern and Contemporary Art Fair– is set to take place from 21-23 January 2011 in Pragati Maidan (ITPO), New Delhi. With 84 exhibiting galleries at this edition, and the inclusion of 34 leading international galleries (double the number that participated in 2009), India’s importance as an emerging global centre for art is further confirmed.(view more...) |
| Tuesday, July 27, 2010 | |
 | Sotheby’s To Offer Signature Jewels Of The Duchess Of Windsor Twenty‐three years after the legendary auction of the "Jewels of the Duchess of Windsor" – still the most valuable single‐owner jewellery collection ever sold – Sotheby’s will offer twenty pieces for sale in London on 30 November 2010, including some renowned examples illustrating both the exquisite taste of the famous couple and memorialising key events in their historic relationship. Together the pieces are estimated to fetch in the region of £3 million.(view more...) |
| Monday, July 26, 2010 | |
 | Well-Qualified Crowds Discover 2nd SOFA WEST: Santa Fe Dealers and galleries at the second annual SOFA WEST: Santa Fe 2010 held July 8-11 at the Santa Fe Convention Center reported steady sales, most to new clients from all over the United States. Overall fair attendance climbed to 12,000 from 10,000 persons last year. An estimated 1800 persons attended Opening Night on July 7, which was a special member preview for the prestigious Museum of New Mexico Foundation and SOFA VIPs.(view more...) |
| Sunday, July 25, 2010 | |
 | Palm Springs Art Museum Forms Planning Committee The Palm Springs Art Museum announced the formation of a Planning Committee to plan, direct, and oversee preparations for the newly announced Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Desert. Ed Monarch, museum Trustee and current Mayor of Indian Wells, will co-chair the committee with developer and long-time museum patron, Gerald Fogelson. (view more...) |
| Saturday, July 24, 2010 | |
 | Marrakech Art Fair From 9 to 11 October 2010, the city of Marrakech will be hosting the first edition of a modern and contemporary art fair in Morocco. A platform for exchanges between art dealers, gallery owners, artists, collectors and amateurs, this unprecedented appointment has already seduced a selection of international galleries which will meet at the Es Saadi Palace.(view more...) |
| Friday, July 23, 2010 | |
 | Saint Louis Art Museum Announces Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the selection of Lisa Ayla Çakmak as the 2010–2013 Mellon Fellow for European art to 1800. Selected from a field of 11 national post-doctoral applicants, Çakmak joins the Museum from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where she is the Niarchos Curatorial Fellow.(view more...) |
| Thursday, July 22, 2010 | |
 | The Louisville Arena Authority Commissions A Major Work Of Art For The KFC Yum! Center The Louisville Arena Authority (LAA) announced that a public work of art has been commissioned for the west side (Third Street) of the Main Concourse in the KFC Yum! Center. From within, the large-scale sculptural installation will be visible from the Concourse, the Lower Suite Level and the Upper Suite Level, offering visitors in each area a unique perspective of the piece.(view more...) |
| Wednesday, July 21, 2010 | |
 | Lauren Rogers Museum Of Art Receives Mississippi Arts Commission Grant Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in Laurel has been awarded a $34,400 grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission (MAC). This grant is a portion of the $1.64 million in grants the Commission will award in 2010-2011 and will be used for general operating support. The grants are made possible by continued funding from the Mississippi State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.(view more...) |
| Tuesday, July 20, 2010 | |
 | 20/21 British Art Fair The 20/21 BRITISH ART FAIR, the fair that champions Modern British art, will take place from 15 – 19 September at the Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London. It will be opened by Ed Vaizey, MP, Minister for Culture, Communication and Creative Industries at 5pm on Wednesday the 15th.(view more...) |
| Monday, July 19, 2010 | |
 | NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman Announces $3 Million In Grants Under the massive silos and steel girding of an industrial steel blast furnace, National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman announced 21 grants totaling $3 million awarded through the NEA Mayors' Institute on City Design 25th Anniversary Initiative (MICD 25). The announcement was made at the base of the former Bethlehem Steel Plant known as SteelStacks Campus.(view more...) |
| Sunday, July 18, 2010 | |
 | UI Museum Of Art Director Candidate O’Harrow To Speak At Forum July 20 Sean O’Harrow, Ph.D., executive director of the Figge Art Museum, will visit campus Tuesday and Wednesday, July 20-21, as a finalist for the position of University of Iowa Museum of Art director.(view more...) |
| Saturday, July 17, 2010 | |
 | Katarzyna Gajewska In Origin Gallery, Ireland Origin Gallery is proud to present new works of Katarzyna Gajewska.(view more...) |
| Friday, July 16, 2010 | |
 | Sotheby’s London Annual Staff Exhibition This summer "Objets d’Art"- the ever-popular charity staff exhibition and highlight of Sotheby's July/August calendar - will be held to raise funds for CHASE hospice care for children. After the final auction of the summer season Sotheby's technicians and 'back of house' are able to air the galleries for this unique and diverse exhibition.(view more...) |
| Thursday, July 15, 2010 | |
 | Christie's To Offer An Unprecedented Grouping By Richard Avedon Christie’s Paris is proud to offer an extraordinary group of works by Richard Avedon (1923-2004) in "Avedon: Photographs from The Richard Avedon Foundation". One of the most important artists of the 20th century, Avedon’s work covered the most prominent figures of his time — icons of political and social significance — as well as groundbreaking fashion.(view more...) |
| Wednesday, July 14, 2010 | |
 | Curators And New Exhibition Sites Announced For Fifth Annual Scotiabank Nuit Blanche The City of Toronto announced the new curators for the 2010 edition of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. Gerald McMaster, Anthony Kiendl, Sarah Robayo Sheridan and Christof Migone will curate four exhibitions featuring a total of 40 contemporary art projects for one night only, all night long on October 2 from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.(view more...) |
| Tuesday, July 13, 2010 | |
 | Saint Louis Art Museum Names 2010 Romare Bearden Fellow The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the selection of Michelle Shelley-Moseley as the 2010—2011 Romare Bearden Fellow.(view more...) |
| Monday, July 12, 2010 | |
 | Custer’s Last Flag One hundred and thirty-four years ago today, George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry were overwhelmed near the Little Big Horn River by warriors of the Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne. No survivors remained among those who fought under Custer’s direct command and few physical artifacts of the battle were left on the field, the Indians carrying with them anything that might reflect on their prowess or prove to be of utilitarian use. (view more...) |
| Sunday, July 11, 2010 | |
 | J. Paul Getty Museum Acquires Turner Masterpiece The J. Paul Getty Museum announced that it made a successful bid at auction on J.M.W Turner's masterpiece painting "Modern Rome — Campo Vaccino" (1838-39). The auction took place at Sotheby's in London on Wednesday, July 7.(view more...) |
| Saturday, July 10, 2010 | |
 | MoMA’s Third Annual Film Benefit To Honor Kathryn Bigelow On Nov 10 The Museum of Modern Art’s third annual Film Benefit, to be held on November 10, will honor writer-director Kathryn Bigelow. Renowned for her Academy Award-winning film "The Hurt Locker" (2008), for over 30 years Bigelow has crafted a body of films that defy genre and gender expectations including such acclaimed works as "Near Dark" (1987), "Point Break" (1991), and "Strange Days" (1995).(view more...) |
| Friday, July 09, 2010 | |
 | James T. Ulak Receives Japan's Prestigious "Order of the Rising Sun" Award James T. Ulak, deputy director and senior curator of Japanese art at the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Galleries, has been selected to receive the "Order of the Rising Sun," an award conferred by the Japanese government for exceptional civil or military merit. (view more...) |
| Thursday, July 08, 2010 | |
 | Early Diego Velazquez Masterpiece Identified At Yale Based on the research of John Marciari, currently Curator of European Art and Head of Provenance Research at the San Diego Museum of Art and formerly the Nina and Lee Griggs Associate Curator of Early European Art at the Yale University Art Gallery, the seventeenth-century Spanish painting portraying the Education of the Virgin in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery has been reattributed to Diego Velazquez. (view more...) |
| Wednesday, July 07, 2010 | |
 | Dark Sounds At The Guggenheim On July 15 the Guggenheim will launch Dark Sounds, a three-part series of live music performances accompanying the exhibition "Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance", currently on view at the museum through September 6. (view more...) |
| Tuesday, July 06, 2010 | |
 | Sotheby's Announces The First Sale Dedicated To Calligraphies Sotheby’s announced that it will mount a sale "Hurouf: The Art of the Word" to take place in Doha, Qatar, at The Ritz-Carlton Doha hotel, on the 15th December. Ranging from very early Islamic calligraphies through appealing Ottoman pieces of the 18th-19th Centuries to the productions of artists working today who have drawn on this important tradition, the sale will incorporate Arabic, Farsi and Ottoman Turkish works. Prior to the sale, highlights will travel throughout the Gulf Region.(view more...) |
| Monday, July 05, 2010 | |
 | Bellevue Arts Museum Announces BAM Artsfair Award Winners Bellevue Arts Museum just announced the winners of the Carol Duke Artist Awards of Excellence sponsored by Tiffany & Co. The prestigious award is given every year to the top ten artists of BAM artsfair, a long-standing, much treasured community event featuring over 300 juried artists from across the nation and a multitude of free community programs. The award comes with a $1,000 cash prize which will be presented at BAM’s annual fundraiser, Artful Evening, on July 17th.(view more...) |
| Sunday, July 04, 2010 | |
 | Paris Photo 2010 Held at the Carrousel du Louvre from 18th to 21st November 2010, Paris Photo, the world’s leading fair for 19th Century, modern and contemporary photography will bring together 103 exhibitors including 90 galleries and 13 publishers. With 78% of foreign participation, 25 represented countries, 31 new comers, the 14th edition is rich in discoveries. (view more...) |
| Saturday, July 03, 2010 | |
 | Rubens, Guercino, Pencz, And Van Dyck To Highlight Christie's Summer Auction Christie’s Old Masters and 19th Century Art Evening Sale will take place on 6 July 2010 and will offer a rich array of 68 paintings, drawings and watercolours spanning 600 years of European art history. Leading the sale is A Commander being armed for Battle, a highly important portrait by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) which is offered from the Spencer Collections and sold by order of the Trustees (estimate: £8 million to £12 million). (view more...) |
| Friday, July 02, 2010 | |
 | Ringo Starr's Gold Drum On View At Met Museum On July 7, Ringo Starr's 70th birthday, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will inaugurate a special display of his gold-plated snare drum that will remain on view to the public through December 2010 in the Museum's second-floor Musical Instruments Galleries. On loan from Ringo Starr, it was originally presented to him by the Ludwig Drum Company during The Beatles' 1964 visit to Chicago when the legendary rock group, in which Mr. Starr was the drummer, was on its first tour of the United States.(view more...) |
| Thursday, July 01, 2010 | |
 | Sotheby’s To Sell Rare Nineteenth-Century Sculptures Recently Discovered In Ireland On Thursday, 8th July 2010, in a sale of European Sculpture and Works of Art, Sotheby’s London will offer three sculptures recently discovered in Ireland. When Sotheby’s Sculpture specialist Erik Bijzet first cast his eye over the photographs of the sculptures that had been brought into Sotheby’s Dublin office, he was immediately struck by their intrinsic quality and importance. Created in nineteenth-century Rome, the works are seminal examples of Neo-classical sculpture and provide a rare occasion to acquire fresh to the market pieces in mint condition. (view more...) |
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