LONDON.- Blondie’s Lead Singer Debbie Harry by Andy Warhol to spearhead Sotheby’s forthcoming Contemporary Art Auction this June. The artist’s 1980 acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas of Debbie Harry, the renowned lead singer of the new…
Sotheby’s Announces Sale of Works from the Collection of Eurythmics Legend Dave Stewart
LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that it will offer for sale a group of works by Damien Hirst, Gilbert & George and Angus Fairhurst from the collection of Eurythmics legend, Grammy and BRIT Award winning musician, songwriter, record producer, and a fr…
Kate Gilmore Launches "Walk the Line" at London’s Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art
LONDON.- On 6 June, 2011, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art launched Walk the Line, a dynamic site-specific sculptural artwork by the American artist Kate Gilmore on Exchange Square, London. Inaugurating a new strand of events, entitled Par…
Curator Michael Taylor Appointed New Director of Dartmouth’s Hood Museum of Art
HANOVER, NH.- Michael R. Taylor, the Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, has been named the director of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth. Taylor succeeds Brian Kennedy, who served as director for five ye…
Portrait of Blondie Bombshell Debbie Harry to Star in Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction
LONDON.- Blondie’s Lead Singer Debbie Harry by Andy Warhol to spearhead Sotheby’s forthcoming Contemporary Art Auction this June. The artist’s 1980 acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas of Debbie Harry, the renowned lead singer of the new…
Saffronart to Offer an Exceptional Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art at Auction
MUMBAI.- Saffronart, the world’s largest online fine-art auction house, will showcase an important selection of works by modern masters and contemporary artists at its annual Summer Online Art Auction. With a total of 65 lots, the auction includes…
The Richmond Art Gallery To Host Four Canadian Artists Working With Fibre
Richmond, BC.- The Richmond Art Gallery presents “Fibred Optics” a group exhibition of works by four Canadian artists. “Fibred Optics” features four artists whose work incorporates natural and synthetic fibres, old and new technologies, and methodol…
New Exhibition at the Smart Museum Examines the Human Form in Contemporary Art
Chicago.- The University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art presents “Go Figure”, a new exhibition that examines the human form in contemporary art. Covering the last sixty years, and encompassing figurative work that includes invented personae and i…
Mike and Doug Starn’s Big Bambú on View in the Courtyard of Casa Artom on the Grand Canal
VENICE.- Mike and Doug Starn’s Big Bambú is being presented as an official collateral exhibition of the 54th Venice Biennale, a special project of GLASSTRESS. The first exhibition of the Starns’ Big Bambú series was on the roof of the Metropolitan Mu…
Courtauld Institute of Art Opens "One of a Thousand Ways to Defeat Entropy" in Venice
LONDON.- This major international exhibition features monumental new works by four of the most exciting and renowned artists working today: Alexander Ponomarev (Russia), Hans Op de Beeck (Belgium), Adrian Ghenie (Romania) and Ryoichi Kurokawa (Japan). …