Nashville TN.- The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of “Fit to Print: Contemporary Poster Art From the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery Collection”. The exhibition will open on Thursday, May 26 and wi…
Native Life in the Americas: Artists’ Views at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Tozzer Library present a new exhibition, Native Life in the Americas: Artists’ Views. The exhibition opens today, May 4, 2011, in Tozzer Library and will remain on view through Februa…
Getty Museum Displays Stories to Watch: Narrative in Medieval Manuscripts
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The illuminators of medieval manuscripts found creative ways to tell stories through pictures. A sequence of illustrations was often linked on a page, or several parts of a tale were incorporated in a single image. On view at the J. P…
Vargas, Sundblom and Elvgren Masterpieces Anchor Illustration Art Auction in Beverly Hills
DALLAS, TX.- Rare pin-up art from the greatest illustrators to ever pick up paint and brush will be the main draw when Heritage Auctions launches its first Signature(r) Illustration Art Auction of 2011, Feb. 11-12, at its Beverly Hills offices, continu…
Vargas, Sundblom and Elvgren Masterpieces Anchor Illustration Art Auction in Beverly Hills
DALLAS, TX.- Rare pin-up art from the greatest illustrators to ever pick up paint and brush will be the main draw when Heritage Auctions launches its first Signature(r) Illustration Art Auction of 2011, Feb. 11-12, at its Beverly Hills offices, continu…
First Solo Exhibition in London by Spanish Artist Francesc Ruiz Opens at Gasworks
LONDON.- For his first solo exhibition in London, Spanish artist Francesc Ruiz transformed Gasworks into a bookshop specialising in yaoi comic books. Gasworks Yaoi is the result of research conducted during Francesc Ruiz’s residency at Gasworks in autu…
Collect a Piece of Art History for Just £45 at RCA Secret 2010
LONDON.- RCA Secret is an annual contemporary art exhibition and sale consisting of around 2,500 original postcard-sized artworks, made and donated by professional artists, designers and illustrators, plus up-and-coming students and alumni from the Roy…
Botanical Illustration Exhibition Highlights the Art Behind Conservation
WASHINGTON, DC.- A new traveling exhibition, “Losing Paradise? Endangered Plants Here and Around the World,” will open at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Aug. 14. The exhibition, a collaborative effort between the Am…
Crystal Bridges to Loan Major Works by Parrish, Rockwell
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will share important works of art by America’s most beloved artist-illustrators with the Toledo Museum of Art. Maxfield Parrish’s lyrical nocturne The Lantern Bearers (1908), originall…