Recent Art News
Brevard Art Museum
MELBOURNE, FL – Three landscape painters bring their distinctive point of view together in the exhibition A Mysterious Clarity on view at the Brevard Art Museum through January 4, 2009.
Christie's Latin American Art Sales
New York City - Christie’s two-day sales of Latin American Art totaled $14,150,963/ £9,433,975/ €11,230,923, and was 70% sold by lot. Combined with the $33.8 million fetched in the Spring auctions, Christie’s grand total for Latin American Art in 2008 is $48,012,313, representing the second highest annual total for Christie’s.
Francisco Godia Foundation
BARCELONA - The Francisco Godia Foundation was inaugurated with the presence of Infanta Cristina. The holdings of the foundation are now housed in the antigua casa Garriga Nogués, a modern building located at Diputación 250 where 296 works of art that comprise the collection can be seen.
Maria Elena Kravetz Gallery
Cordoba, Argentina - Maria Elena Kravetz Gallery to exhibit the paintings of Desirée Maldonado. on view from November 26th to December 20th, 2008.
Michael Kane at Rubicon Gallery
Dublin, Ireland - Michael Kane (b. 1935, Co. Wicklow) sees painting as a conductor of meaning in human experience. His work is uncompromisingly figurative. He does not particularly stress figure or ground but both seem larger and more mythical than ordinary reality. Kane’s figures make exaggerated gestures, and are themselves fashioned by large painterly gestures - yet his visceral execution draws profoundly on the intellect. Exhibition at Rubicon Gallery 24th November – 20th December 2008.
Sabine Weiss Photos
Paris - A half a Century of Photographs by Sabine Weiss Opens at Maison Europeenne de la Photographie. Swiss photographer Sabine Weiss has been photographing people with the same unflaggingly tender curiosity for 45 years. Assistant to fashion photographer Willy Maywald in the late 1940s, she was trained in the best studio lighting techniques and this experience paradoxically helped her to understand the full potential of natural light to convey emotion.
Colin McCahon at Auction
MELBOURNE - Deutscher and Hackett, a leading Australian fine art auction house, are excited to announce that its final auction for the year, to be held in Melbourne on November 26, will feature an exceptionally rare and important work by Colin McCahon. The painting, Mondrian’s Last Chrysanthemum: Scared, has been held in a private collection for the last 12 years, and its sale represents an exceptional opportunity to secure the work before it disappears once more.
White Bird Gallery

Cannon Beach, Oregon - White Bird Gallery presents its Annual Holiday Exhibition NOVEMBER 8, 2007 - JANUARY 5, 2008.
Portraits by Aboriginal Artists
OTTAWA.- Profoundly symbolic works by some of Canada’s most celebrated Indigenous artists send a powerful message on the evolution of Aboriginal self-determination in Canada. They will be presented by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (CMCP) at the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) in an exhibition entitled Steeling the Gaze: Portraits by Aboriginal Artists which will be on view until March 22, 2009.
Michelle Obama Painting
New York City - The New Museum unveiled a painting in tribute to incoming First Lady Michelle Obama. The portrait, titled "Michelle and Sasha Obama Listening to Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention August 2008," is now part of the exhibition Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton.

