NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery presents a two-fold exhibition of works by the renowned pop artist Kenny Scharf, on view at the gallery’s Chelsea locations from January 27th through February 26, 2011. NATURAFUTURA, a new series of large-scale …
Fry Art Gallery Buys Striking Eric Ravilious Watercolour with Art Fund Help
LONDON.- A striking watercolour by Eric Ravilious has been purchased by the Fry Art Gallery with the help of the Art Fund. Entitled Caravans, the work depicts the artist’s temporary home and studio during the early 1930s. This is the first time t…
Fry Art Gallery Buys Ravilious Watercolour with Art Fund Help
LONDON.- A striking watercolour by Eric Ravilious has been purchased by the Fry Art Gallery with the help of the Art Fund. Entitled Caravans, the work depicts the artist’s temporary home and studio during the early 1930s. This is the first time t…
Brooklyn Museum Acquires 18th Century Painting by Agostino Brunias Depicting Colonial Elite
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum has acquired, by purchase from the London Gallery Robilant + Voena, Agostino Brunias’s (1730-1796) painting Free Women of Color with Their Children and Servants in a Landscape, (circa 1764-96), a portrait of the eight…
Brooklyn Museum Acquires 18th Century Painting by Agostino Brunias Depicting Colonial Elite
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum has acquired, by purchase from the London Gallery Robilant + Voena, Agostino Brunias’s (1730-1796) painting Free Women of Color with Their Children and Servants in a Landscape, (circa 1764-96), a portrait of the eight…
J Henry Fair: Abstraction of Destruction on View at Gerald Peters Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Gerald Peters Gallery presents J Henry Fair: Abstraction of Destruction, an exhibition of roughly thirty c print photographs ranging in size from 50 x 75 to 30 x 45 inches. Each photo, while abstract to the eye contains mysterious hints…
New North Carolina Museum of Art Building Wins 2011 AIA Award
NEW YORK, NY.- The 127,000-square-foot, single-story project—one of only ten to receive the Honor Award for Architecture this year—was selected from hundreds of submissions worldwide. The AIA announcement of the Award notes the building interior’s …
Research by Italians Confirms that Raphael’s ‘Madonna dell Granduca’ was Amended
FLORENCE.- An X-ray analysis has shown that the dark background that appears in one of the most famous paintings by Raphael, the Madonna dell Granduca, is not original, but was added by a painter, who is still unknown. It was until the seventeenth cent…
Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Artist Jake Berthot at Betty Cuningham Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Betty Cuningham Gallery will present an exhibition of recent paintings by Jake Berthot, on view from January 6 – February 19, 2011. This will be the third solo exhibition for the artist at the gallery, located at 541 West 25th Stre…
Images Taken in Iceland by British Photographer Dan Holdsworth at BALTIC
GATESHEAD.- Blackout, presented at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art through February 20, brings together a remarkable new sequence of images taken in Iceland by British photographer Dan Holdsworth. Occupying a space between documentary and the make-b…