LONDON.- This year’s sale of South Asian Art at Sotheby’s in London will take place on Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 and it will bring to the market a first class array of works that track the course of Indian art: from classic Modern masterworks to cu…
The Best School of London Post-War and Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s
LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that its Contemporary Art Evening Auction on Monday, June 28, 2010 will present collectors with a one-off opportunity to acquire some of the best Post-War and Contemporary artworks by the venerated and highly sought-af…
German Artist and Capitalist Realism Movement Founder Sigmar Polke Dies at Age 69
COLOGNE.- Artist Sigmar Polke’s gallery in London says the German painter has died at age 69. The Michael Werner Gallery said Friday that Polke died the day before in Cologne following an illness. Polke was a contemporary of Gerhard Richter, with whom …
Christie’s Russian Art Sales Results Illustrate a Buoyant Market
LONDON.- The mid-season Russian Art Sale
took
place today at Christie’s and realized £11,935,750 / $17,330,709 /
€14,466,129
selling 76% by lot and 90% by value. The sale had a pre-sale estimate of
£7 to
£10 million. Enthusiasm a…
Art Antiques London ~ Fair for Collectors & Connoisseurs at Royal Albert Hall
LONDON.- This June, Kensington Gardens will
provide the stunning backdrop to Art Antiques London, which runs from 9
through16 June 2010, a new art and antiques fair aimed at both the seasoned
connoisseur and those who admire and value beauty…
James A. Michener Art Museum to exhibit "Images of American Life"
DOYLESTOWN, PA – The grittier side of life will be
on display in the upcoming exhibit Painting the People: Images of American Life
from the Maimon Collection, which opens July 11 and runs through October 18,
2009 at the James A. Michener Art Mus…
Art Space Gallery shows Paul Hamlyn’s ~ ‘Rendlesham Forest’
LONDON – Living and working in Suffolk and London,
Paul Hamlyn’s paintings draw on aspects of the British landscape into
which he weaves a narrative that infuses the work with a dreamlike,
surreal sensibility. His solo exhibition at Art Space …
Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) features “Pathways to Unknown Worlds"
Philadelphia, PA – Jazz pioneer,
bandleader, mystic, philosopher, and consummate Afro- Futurist, Sun Ra, (born
Herman Poole Blount 1914, Birmingham, Alabama, died 1993) and his personal
mythology have grown increasingly relevant to a broad range…
The Delaware Art Museum presents "Out of the Commonplace ~ The Folk Art of Delaware"
Wilmington, DE
– The Delaware Art Museum
presents Out of the Commonplace: The Folk Art of Delaware , featuring over 30 paintings,
sculptures, quilts, and woodworks by Delaware artists, on view May 16, 2009 –
August 16, 2009.  …