ATLANTA, GA.- “The High’s collection of contemporary art is growing in exciting and diverse ways, and signals our commitment to creating an anthology of important 21st-century works,” commented Michael Shapiro, the High’s Nancy and …
GATESHEAD.- BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead presents a major exhibition of the work of painter, filmmaker and sculptor Robert Breer. Born in Detroit in 1926, Breer is one of the most ground-breaking and celebrated animators in history. Th…
LONDON.- Phillips de Pury & Company, announces highlights from the upcoming June Contemporary Art Evening and Day auctions. Highlights of the Contemporary Evening sale are on show now at Phillips de Pury & Compay’s new space, 45-47 Brook Street at…
DETROIT, MI (AP).- A nonprofit group is trying to restore Detroit’s status in the art world by drawing artists to an unlikely place: a century-old former bank in a neighborhood so infested with crime that some of the building’s pipes were stolen and it…
LONDON.- Works by some of Scotland’s leading contemporary artists will go on sale in The Scottish Summer Exhibition to be held at The Fleming Collection from 10 June to 3 September 2011. Following on from last year’s successful inaugural sell…
WEST PALM BEACH, FL.- The Norton Museum of Art announced a $1.5 million grant from The Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund/MLDauray Arts Initiative for a six-year project called RAW (Recognition of Art by Women). RAW’s mission is to discover, highlight,…
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announces a major acquisition by the museum’s Department of Contemporary Art: Robert Rauschenberg’s Combine of 1955, Short Circuit. This visually arresting and autobiographically rich work is the first major R…
Oklahoma City.- In preparation of the reopening of the museum’s Stuart Wing in October 2011, the Sandy Bell Gallery of the Fred R. Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma will be reinstalled with selected works from the permanent colle…
