Views and Souvenirs from the Grand Tour Assembled in New Installation at Metropolitan Museum

NEW YORK, NY.- In the 18th century, privileged Europeans embarked on the Grand Tour, traveling principally to sites in Italy, where they visited cherished ruins of the ancient world and the splendid architecture of the Renaissance and Baroque eras. The influx of these travelers to destinations north and south – Venice, Rome, and Naples in particular – led to a flowering of topographical paintings, drawings, and prints by native Italians serving a foreign market eager to return home with pictures [...]

Pierre-Auguste Renoir at Madrid’s El Prado Museum

MADRID.- The artistic career of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), one of the leading figures of Impressionism, is characterised by an all-absorbing passion for painting that led him to achieve great renown and popularity among his contemporaries. The outstanding group of 31 works by the artist, which are the finest among the collection of paintings by Renoir assembled by the American collector Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1956), founder of the Sterling and Francine Clark Institute (Williamstown), will be displayed at the Prado in [...]

Metropolitan Museum of Art Honors Artist John Baldessari with Retrospective Exhibition

NEW YORK (REUTERS).- More than 120 works, including two huge canvases commissioned for the exhibition, are included in a retrospective of legendary American artist John Baldessari at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The show, “John “Baldessari: Pure Beauty” which opens on Tuesday, is the first for the Los Angeles-based artist in New York for 20 years and includes works dating back to 1962. John Baldessari’s Palm Tree/Seascape hangs in the museum lobby of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in [...]

“Picasso Looks at Degas” Exhibition at Museu Picasso in Barcelona

BARCELONA.- The Museu Picasso in Barcelona presents, from 15 October to 16 January 2011 the major exhibition «Picasso Looks at Degas». The exhibition is curated by Elizabeth Cowling, Professor Emeritus of History of Art at Edinburgh University, and Richard Kendall, the Clark’s Curator at Large and is organized by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown and the Museu Picasso, Barcelona, with the special cooperation of Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Throughout his life Pablo Picasso [...]

Major New Exhibition Dedicated to Salvador Dalí at The Modern Masters Gallery

LONDON.- The Modern Masters Gallery presents a major new exhibition dedicated to the master of Surrealism, Salvador Dalí, ‘Vision of a Genius’. This new exhibition running until February 28th, 2011, is to be held at the gallery which is located on Cork Street, in the heart of Mayfair, London’s famous fine art quarter. The exhibition consists of a grouping of Dalí artworks in three-dimensions and a rare, never seen before in the UK, collection of paintings, drawings and watercolours. Amongst [...]

Baltimore is the Last Stop on National Tour for Acclaimed Andy Warhol Exhibition

BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art presents the first U.S. museum exhibition to explore the late works of the iconic American artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987). On view October 17, 2010 through January 9, 2011, more than 50 works reveal the Pop artist’s energetic return to painting and renewed spirit of experimentation during the last decade of his life. This period shows Warhol in the midst of his celebrity creating more paintings and on a vastly larger scale than at [...]

Milwaukee Art Museum to Celebrate Architecture in 2011 with Ambitious Exhibition

MILWAUKEE, WI.- To celebrate the 10th anniversary of its iconic addition designed by Santiago Calatrava, the Milwaukee Art Museum has announced an ambitious exhibition and program series for 2011 that focuses on architecture. The Calatrava-designed Quadracci Pavilion—whose moving parts are unprecedented in U.S. architecture—has resulted in a revitalized waterfront in Milwaukee, allowed for acclaimed exhibitions, and more than doubled Museum attendance. The 2011 anniversary program will present three exhibitions, Frank Lloyd Wright: Organic Architecture for the 21st Century (February 12–May [...]

Sotheby’s October Evening Sales of 20th Century Italian Art and Contemporary Art Total $48.8 Million

LONDON.- This evening, Sotheby’s Sales of 20th Century Italian Art and Contemporary Art, brought a combined total of £30.4 million/$48.8 million (Est. £22.3-30.5 million*) – substantially more than in the equivalent sales last year (£20 million). Commenting on the 20th Century Italian Art Sale results, Claudia Dwek, Co Chairman Sotheby’s Italy, said: “We are delighted with the results of this evening’s sale. The auction achieved the above-estimate sum of £17 million representing the highest ever total for a sale in [...]

Exhibition of Titian Masterpieces Opening at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta

ATLANTA, GA (AP).- An exhibition of works by the Italian master Titian and others is opening in Atlanta and puts two of the Renaissance artist’s finer masterpieces on U.S. display for the first time. “Diana and Actaeon” and “Diana and Callisto” were painted between 1556 and 1559 for King Philip II of Spain. Designed as a pair, with a stream flowing from one to the other, the pieces were part of a six-painting series exploring mythological themes. The two works [...]

Exhibition Reveals How Gustave Courbet Realized the Vision of a Poetic Art of Modernity

FRANKFURT.- The French painter Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) ranks among the most fascinating nineteenth-century artists. He is regarded as the crucial pioneer of political realistic painting and as a revolutionary of the Paris Commune. But Courbet also had an entirely different side: he was one of the great dreamers in history. In his portraits, but also in his landscapes, drawings, and still-lifes, he depicts a world of absorption and introversion – in stark contrast to the frenzied industrialization of his age. [...]

Jean-Michel Basquiat Show at Modern Art Museum of the City of Paris Fetes His 50th Birthday

PARIS (AP).- At the end of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s short life, the explosively talented but troubled New York artist had a dream — to stage a major exhibit of his eyepopping, doodle-covered work in Paris. Nearly 50 years after his birth, and 22 years after his death at age 27 of a drug overdose, Basquiat’s wish has finally come true. “Basquiat,” which opened Friday at the Modern Art Museum of the City of Paris, brings together more than 150 pieces that [...]

Artworks by Mark Fredrickson

Mark Fredrickson is one of the finest and talented Artists from Tucson, Arizona. He studied in Chattanooga and learns drawing and photography. His works shows inspirational and motivational illustration. He works as freelance illustration. He got many awards from its Exceptional and Amazing illustrations. This gallery is picked from portfolio of Mark Fredrickson.

Frieze Art Fair Features 173 of the World’s Most Exciting Contemporary Art Galleries

LONDON.- The Frieze Art Fair has now opened to the public and features 173 of the world’s most exciting contemporary art galleries. Visitors can also take part in Frieze Projects, the fair’s unique programme of artist commissions, which this year features nine new works that all explore ideas of performativity. Frieze Film is being shown in a specially constructed cinema outside the fair’s entrance and is free to the public. Frieze Art Fair Stand Prize Winner The Frieze Art Fair [...]

First Exhibition Devoted to Pablo Picasso at First Museum Exhibition Devoted to Pablo Picasso

ZURICH.- From 15 October 2010 until 30 January 2011, the Kunsthaus Zürich will revive the first museum exhibition devoted to Pablo Picasso. Mounted at the Kunsthaus Zürich in 1932, the show was a crucial moment in the history of modern art. Picasso had organized a very personal look at his work, with pieces chosen from his pink and blue periods and his Cubist and neo-classical phase as well as Surrealist creations, and the homage now on show reconstructs this subjective [...]

World Records for David Hockney, Aaron Young, Sterling Ruby & Dana Schutz at Phillips de Pury

LONDON.- Phillips de Pury & Company’s October Contemporary Art sales totaled £8,819,900 /$14,129,480 (including premium). The Contemporary Art Day sale saw active bidding with strong results with many works achieving over their pre-sale high estimate and totaled £2,257,000/$3,615,714 (including premium) selling 84% by value and 77 % by lot. “We are pleased to have built on the success of last night and to continue our tradition as Contemporary Art taste-makers. Today’s Day sale saw strong sell through rates with competitive [...]