Recent paintings inspired by Jane Wilson’s childhood home at DC Moore Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Jane Wilson: Recent Paintings features work inspired by the landscape of the East End of Long Island and the artist’s childhood home in Iowa. The catalog accompanying the exhibition presents an overview of Wilson’s sixty-year career and features a compilation of writing about her art by such figures as John Canaday, Fairfield Porter, James Schuyler, and Stephen Westfall. Wilson’s ethereal new paintings are sensitive investigations of color, documents of fleeting hours, and experiential understandings of seasons. The artist [...]

Columbia Museum of Art hosts exhibition of unsurpassed collection of Hudson River School paintings

COLUMBIA, S.C.- Forty-five magnificent paintings from the rich collection of the New-York Historical Society will be on view at the Columbia Museum of Art this fall, beginning November 19, 2011 and on view through April 1, 2012 in a major traveling exhibition Nature and the Grand American Vision: Masterpieces of the Hudson River School Painters. Though individual works are very seldom loaned, these iconic works of 19th-century landscape painting are traveling on a national tour for the first time and are circulating to [...]

Exclusive selling exhibition Hunters & Gatherers: The Art of Assemblage opens at Sotheby’s

NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s New York announce that from 18 November to 16 December, 2011 it is hosting its third selling exhibition in S|2, the newly constructed gallery space within Sotheby’s York Avenue headquarters dedicated to private sales. This show focuses on the accumulative tendency in art that has been broadly labeled ‘assemblage’. It features American Indian, African & Oceanic art, Modern and Contemporary art, Photography and Design. The works in the exhibition range in price from $25,000 to over $10 million. [...]

Clyfford Still Museum in Denver reintroduces the life and work of the American artist

DENVER, CO.- The Clyfford Still Museum opened its doors to the public on November 18, 2011, reintroducing the life and work of one of America’s most significant yet least understood artists. The new museum, which houses 94% of Clyfford Still’s total creative output, allows the public to explore the full trajectory of the artist’s 60-year career for the first time, including his rarely seen figurative works from the 1930s, paintings from the 1960s and 1970s created after Still’s retreat from the [...]

Forever in a Moment: 19th Century Photographs of Egypt at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida

ST. PETERSBURG, FL.- Egypt was an exotic land to nineteenth-century European artists. Painters, writers, and photographers traveled to Egypt to explore, document, and interpret this great country, its civilization, and its newly discovered antiquities. Technical advances in the young medium of photography encouraged direct observation and the advancement of knowledge. The more than 40 images in Forever in a Moment capture this wonderful sense of discovery. The exhibition is the third in a series unveiling the magnanimous gifts of photography from [...]

Art Dubai announces 2012 galleries: Major new galleries join the global selection of participants

DUBAI.- The sixth edition of Art Dubai takes place March 21-24, 2012, at Madinat Jumeirah, UAE. Art Dubai 2012 includes leading galleries and dynamic young spaces from across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Australia, Asia and Africa. The most established international fair in MENASA (Middle East/North Africa/South Asia), Art Dubai 2012 features a carefully selected roster of 74 galleries from 31 countries. “Art Dubai epitomizes the globalised phenomenon that is today’s art world,” said Antonia Carver, Fair Director, Art Dubai. “Over the [...]

Indian Modernist art focus of new exhibition series at Rubin Museum of art

NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, a new, three-part exhibition series providing a detailed look at the colorful history of modernist art in post-colonial and post-Independence India will premiere at the Rubin Museum of Art. On view from November 18, 2011 – April 9, 2012, the first installment of the series, The Body Unbound, traces the trajectory of figuration in modernist Indian art from the 1940s to the 1980s and show how the country’s shift from colonial subject to sovereign nation impacted artistic [...]

More than 125 art dealers, antique dealers and gallery owners present at PAN Amsterdam

AMSTERDAM.- PAN Amsterdam is twenty-five years old and a celebration for every art lover. This fair of today for art, antiques and design presents a fascinating cross-section of what the trade currently has to offer and is an important indicator of the mood of the art market. One hundred and twenty-five art dealers, antique dealers and gallery owners will be showing a fascinating variety of old, modern and contemporary art in an inspiring setting—from Jan Steen and Studio Job to a Roman [...]

“Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus” exhibition opens at the Detroit Institute of Arts

DETROIT, MI.- Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, at the Detroit Institute of Arts Nov. 20, 2011–Feb. 12, 2012, brings together for the first time many of Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn’s finest paintings, prints and drawings that portray Jesus and events described in the Bible. The exhibition has been organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Musée du Louvre and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The exhibition of 64 works includes approximately 52 small, intimate paintings, prints and drawings by Rembrandt [...]

First individual exhibition in Poland of works by the world famous artist Wolfgang Tillmans

WARSAW.- Zachęta Ermutigung, the first individual exhibition in Poland of works by the world famous photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, has been prepared by the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf in cooperation with Zachęta National Gallery of Art. In the late 1980s, this artist (born in 1968 in Remscheid, near to Düsseldorf) living in London and Berlin started to experiment in an unconventional way with black and white prints and photographic enlargements of various details. In the 1990s, he came to the fore with works [...]

Collection of 300 drawings made during Rodin’s last thirty years on view at the Musée Rodin

PARIS.- We know Rodin the sculptor, but do we know Rodin the creator of drawings? This exhibition spectacularly presents a collection of 300 drawings of his last thirty years. During the last part of his life, drawing was the artist’s predominant form of expression. At over 60, Rodin embarked upon a true career as a drawer. He had always drawn, but the drawings that date from after 1890 can be considered the last manifestation of his genius. Drawing every day from [...]

Orange County Museum of Art appoints founder of Prospect New Orleans Dan Cameron as Chief Curator

NEWPORT BEACH, CA.- The Orange County Museum of Art announced the appointment of Dan Cameron as Chief Curator. With more than three decades of organizing acclaimed exhibitions of contemporary art throughout the United States and abroad, Cameron’s experience and perspective will strengthen the museum’s curatorial program and bring a major new voice into the artistic community of Southern California. Among his many accomplishments, Cameron was the first U.S. commissioner for the Aperto section at the 1988 Venice Biennale; in 1994 he curated Cocido [...]

Heather Gaudio Fine Art in New Caanan announces waterways photography exhibition

NEW CANAAN, CT.- Heather Gaudio Fine Art, a contemporary art gallery featuring paintings, sculptures, photography, and works on paper present their latest exhibition, Waterways, at their gallery located at 21 South Avenue in New Canaan, CT. The exhibition features a powerful display of works by established photographers and sculptors, who have captured the beauty and fluidity of water in each of their representations. The exhibition, which runs from November 17th through January 26th, showcases aqueous photographs by Shawna Ankenbrandt, Ethan Boisvert, [...]

Sotheby’s in New York announces sale of rare synagogue interiors by Marc Chagall

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Sotheby’s New York announces that it will present for sale three exceptionally rare oil paintings of synagogue interiors by Marc Chagall (1887-1985). In all, only six finished oils of synagogues by the artist are known to exist. These three paintings come to market for the first time in 66 years from a descendent of the original owner Max Cottin, who acquired them from the 1945 exhibition at the Gallery of Jewish Art in New York. Leading this offering in [...]

Bonhams offers two masterpieces of American landscapes by Russian painter in $14 Million Russian sale

LONDON.- Two rare works by the celebrated Russian artist Nikolai Roerich are amongst the highlights of the Russian sale, taking place on the 30th November at Bonhams, New Bond Street in London. “The Grand Canyon” (estimate 100,000-150,000 GBP) and “Rocky Landscape” (estimate 100,000-150,000 GBP) depicting breathtaking landscape of the South-West are among a small group of paintings completed by the artist during his short stay in New Mexico, Arizona and California in August-October 1921. Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich (Russian, 1874-1947), The Grand Canyon, [...]