The 3rd Annual Governors Island Art Fair Opens 4th September

NEW YORK, NY.- Every year The 4heads Collective hotwires an abandoned military barracks on historic Governors Island in beautiful New York Harbor – launching a sizable exposition of independent artists and galleries known as the Governors Island Art Fair. Entering its 3rd year this fall, this extensive exhibition once again features an exciting and diverse selection of artists from around the world. As working artists living in New York City, The 4heads Collective takes a unique swing at the art [...]

Titian Masterpiece “David and Goliath” Suffers Water Damage After Fire

VENICE (AP).- A painting by Renaissance master Titian in one of Venice’s most picturesque basilicas has suffered water damage after firefighters doused the basilica while battling a nearby blaze. Venice’s museum superintendent, Vittorio Sgarbi, says the damage isn’t serious. The fire broke out Sunday night at the seminary next to the Santa Maria della Salute basilica, a 17th century octagonal-shaped church that dominates the view of the Grand Canal. A firefighter boat is moored in front of the Santa Maria [...]

Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award Winner Announced

BRISBANE.- Victorian artists Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine were announced as the winners of the Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award in 2010. Premier and Arts Minister Anna Bligh presented Knowles and Sowerwine with the $75,000 prize at a special event held at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art. Queensland Art Gallery Director Tony Ellwood said Knowles and Sowerwine were among the seven finalists short-listed for this prestigious national art award, the most significant prize for new media in [...]

Rijksmuseum Acquires Two 20th-Century Masterpieces

AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum has acquired two masterpieces for its collection of 20th-century art and history: the famous chair designed by Gerrit T. Rietveld around 1918 and a relief by Jan J. Schoonhoven from 1963. Both artworks will be added to the permanent collection of the new Rijksmuseum in 2013. With its red-and-blue colour scheme designed by Rietveld around 1929, this chair became not only a visual manifestation of the Dutch art movement neoplasticism (De Stijl) that Rietveld (1888-1964) was part [...]

Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art At Sotheby’s

NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s September 2010 series of Asia Week auctions in New York will include Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art on 15 September. The sale will feature paintings, ceramics, jades and furniture including a number of Imperial works from distinguished private collections. Overall the sale is estimated to fetch between $11.8/16.2 million. Among the highlights of the sale is a Superb and Rare White Jade Vase and Cover, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period, an exquisitely carved vessel from [...]

Egyptian Minister, Farouk Hosni, Questioned in Van Gogh Theft

CAIRO (AP).-Egyptian prosecutors questioned the culture minister for three hours over the theft of a Vincent van Gogh painting that has put him on the defensive over the state of museum security around the country. Farouk Hosni said he sought in Sunday night’s session to dispel accusations he failed to respond adequately to calls for increased security at Egyptian museums, including the one from where the van Gogh was stolen. No alarms and only seven of 43 security cameras were [...]

In September 2010, Vevey, Switzerland will Be Draped in Images

VEVEY.- The visual arts festival IMAGES in Vevey (Switzerland) features monumental photography exhibitions by renowned artists – including a new urban project from French artist JR, realised in coproduction with the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne. From September 4th to 26th, the city situated at Lake Geneva will be entirely dedicated to the Image. It will also present the winners of the two competitions it organises – the European First Film Awards and the Vevey International Photo Awards. Entirely free, the [...]

Doyle New York to Auction a Chinese Imperial Zitan Table

NEW YORK, NY.- Doyle New York, one of the world’s leading auctioneers and appraisers, will hold an auction of Asian Works of Art on Monday, September 13, 2010 at 10am (EST). The sale offers over 430 lots showcasing the arts of China, Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia dating from the Neolithic Period through the 20th century. Offerings include porcelain and pottery, jade, ivories, scholar’s objects, bronzes, swords, textiles, screens and paintings. The public is invited to the exhibition on view [...]

Exhibition at Pablo Picasso Graphics Museum Covers a Almost 70 Years of Artistic Creation

MUNSTER.- On its 10th anniversary the Pablo Picasso Graphics Museum, Münster, is focusing on the theme of the studio picture in the works of Picasso. “I don’t say everything, but I paint everything,” the artist is purported to have said once. The studio pictures are among the most intimate things the artist ever revealed about himself. It is a recurring theme in the work of the great Spaniard. The exhibition “Pablo Picasso – In the Artist’s Studio” covers a period [...]

Ostrale 010: International Exhibition of Contemporary Arts Opens in Dresden

DRESDEN.- The OSTRALE´010 is presenting for the 4th time the complete spectrum of contemporary art in the dilapidated structures of the former Erlwein Schlachthof in the Ostragehege in Dresden. The OSTRALE developed in a very short time to one of the most important art festivals in Germany and Europe. The OSTRALE`010 invited particularly artists who will deal with the still on the ground left arisings and bring them together to new order in the transformic sense of artistic Rites of [...]

Norton Museum of Art to Exhibit Painting by Van Gogh on Loan from National Gallery

WEST PALM BEACH, FL.- For the next several months the Norton Museum’s celebrated painting by Paul Gauguin, Christ in the Garden of Olives, 1889 (illustrated at right), will be featured in the exhibition Gauguin: Maker of Myth at the Tate Modern, London, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. In this work Gauguin portrayed himself in a tragic, iconic mode as Jesus Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane on the night of his betrayal by Judas Iscariot. In a [...]

Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg Presents Exhibition of American Impressionist Paintings

ST. PETERSBURG, FL.- Transcending Vision: American Impressionism 1870-1940 from the Bank of America Collection features more than 100 paintings, drawings, and prints by more than 70 artists, including some of America’s most important. This spectacular exhibition, on view from August 28, 2010-January 9, 2011, is mainly comprised of oil paintings and encompasses the Hudson River School, American Impressionism, and a few works on the cusp of Modernism. It focuses on one of the most fertile periods in American art and [...]

Internationally Acclaimed Architects and Artists at the Venice Architecture Biennale

VENICE.- The Venice Biennale, which has its offices in Ca’ Giustinian (San Marco, 1364/A), has for over a century been one of the most prestigious cultural institutions in the world. Ever since its foundation in 1895, it has been in the avant-garde, promoting new artistic trends and organising international events in contemporary arts. It is world-beating for the International Film Festival, for the International Art Exhibition and for the International Architecture Exhibition, and continues the great tradition of the Festival [...]

Georgia Museum of Art Acquires Two Paintings from West Foundation Collection

ATHENS, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art (GMOA), located on the University of Georgia (UGA) campus, recently acquired two significant American paintings from the West Foundation Collection of Atlanta, Ga. The foundation gave Benjamin West’s Portrait of Captain Christopher Codrington Bethell (1769) and John Linton Chapman’s Via Appia (1867) to the museum in honor of GMOA director, William U. Eiland, and in anticipation of the museum’s reopening this winter. A native of Springfield, Pa., Benjamin West was appointed historical painter [...]

Under Renovation and Expansion, the Stedelijk Museum Opens a Major Exhibition

AMSTERDAM.- While work continues on the renovation and expansion of the Stedelijk Museum, the museum is hosting a unique and compelling program called The Temporary Stedelijk at the Stedelijk Museum. Conceived by Stedelijk Museum Director Ann Goldstein, this special interim program, inspired by the building as it approaches completion, brings art, artists and the public back into the museum. The Temporary Stedelijk features two major exhibitions: Taking Place, in which specifically selected works of contemporary art are presented in spaces [...]