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Still Life Exhibition From the Prado Museum Opens at Caja Inmaculada in Zaragoza
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The Spanish Still Life in the Prado features 60 paintings by the leading artists working in this genre in Spain, including Van der Hamen, Arellano, Meléndez and Goya. Photo: EFE / Javier Cebollada.

ZARAGOZA.- Following the success of the first phase of Travelling Prado, a programme that brought a major group of portraits to 600,000 people Caja Inmaculada is opening its headquarters in Zaragoza with a new travelling exhibition from the Museo del Prado, devoted to the still life....More

Lynda and Stewart Resnick Donate $55 Million to LACMA
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced today it has received a gift of $55 million from Los Angeles-based philanthropists Lynda and Stewart Resnick, including $45 million toward LACMA’s ongoing Transformation, a campaign to unify the museum’s campus and refurbish and expand its gallery spaces. Additionally, the Resnicks have promised LACMA ...More

Important November Russian Art Auction Announced at Gene Shapiro Auctions LLC
NEW YORK.- Gene Shapiro Auctions LLC has announced an important auction of Russian, European, and Latin American art, to take place on November 5, 2008 in New York. The catalog for the auction has now been posted online at http://www.geneshapiro.com, and the printed full color catalog is available for purchase. ...More

Christie's to Offer an Exceptional Auction of International Modern and Contemporary Art in Dubai
DUBAI.- Christie’s, the world’s leading arts business, announce their fifth auction of International Modern and Contemporary Art in Dubai which will take place on 30 October 2008 and which will offer the strongest and most important selection of works to date in the region. The auction will present 157 exceptional paintings and sculptures from the leading artists of the UAE, Iran, Iraq, Syria,...More

SBMA Celebrates Decade of Photography Acquisitions
SANTA BARBARA, CA.- The Santa Barbara Museum of Art celebrates the gifts made possible by PhotoFutures, the avid collector’s group that has helped to build the Museum’s permanent photography collection as well as support photographic exhibitions. Founded in 1998 by William Brian Little and Mrs. Kingman Douglass, PhotoFutures enters their tenth year. In acknowledgement, ...More

Turn and Widen: 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale
SEOUL.- The 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale (media_city seoul 2008) is being held in Seoul Museum of Art until November 5, 2008. Seoul International Media Art Biennale has continued and prospered the event and its quality through the past four biennale since 2000, being much recognized both domestically and internationally as a notable media art festival....More

Sotheby's London to Hold Inaugural Sale of Modern and Contemporary Design in October
LONDON.- Sotheby’s London is delighted to announce that on Saturday, October 18, 2008, it will be staging its first-ever dedicated sale of Modern and Contemporary Design to coincide with its October series of Contemporary Art sales. The sale has also been scheduled to overlap with the ever-popular London Frieze Art Fair and the second Design Art London....More

"Water Planet" Showcases Connection Between Water and Life
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- and life is the subject of an innovative new exhibit that will open on September 27 as part of the new California Academy of Sciences.

Silvery, sculpted walls and dramatic lighting set the scene for a unique foray into...More

Christie's to Offer Fine Chinese Art From the Arthur M. Sackler Collections in March 2009
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s is pleased to announce the single owner sale of Fine Chinese Art from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, which will be offered on March 18, 2009. This is the first of a series of auctions consigned by the Arthur M. Sackler Collections Trust of its part of the large collection amassed over many decades by the internationally well-known collector Arthur M. Sackler. The sale is ...More

Danish Filmmaker Jesper Just has U.S. Premiere at Brooklyn Museum
BROOKLYN, NY.- A new film by the critically acclaimed Danish artist Jesper Just is having its United States premiere in his first solo exhibition at a New York museum. On view at the Brooklyn Museum through January 4, 2009, Jesper Just: Romantic Delusions also includes three of his widely praised earlier films: Bliss and Heaven (2004, 8:10 min), The Lonely Villa (2004, 4:30 min), and No Man ...More

Treasures from the British Museum Going to Royal BC Museum
VICTORIA, BC.- A visit to the Royal BC Museum (RBCM) in the spring and summer of 2009 will be a journey through the evolution of civilization across hundreds of thousands of years and all parts of the globe.

Treasures: The World’s Cultures from the British Museum, which makes its North...More

Miyako Ishiuchi - Photographs 1976 - 2005 at FOAM Fotografiemuseum
AMSTERDAM.- Foam presents, in cooperation with Dutch photographer and curator Machiel Botman, the first European retrospective of Japanese photographer Miyako Ishiuchi (b. 1947).

While the artist brought attention to herself at Biennial 2005 in Venice with her ...More

South Street Seaport Museum Exhibition Explores Roosevelt's Passion for Collecting and the Allure of the Sea
NEW YORK, NY.- Franklin Delano Roosevelt's driving love of sailing and his irrepressible passion for collecting will be celebrated in Treasures of a President: FDR and the Sea, an exhibition opening at the South Street Seaport Museum on October 22, 2008....More

Tacoma Art Museum Announces the 9th Northwest Biennial Participants
TACOMA, WA.- Tacoma Art Museum has announced the artists selected to participate in the 9th Northwest Biennial, which will be on view from January 31 through May 25, 2009. Rock Hushka, Director of Curatorial Administration and Curator of Contemporary and Northwest Art for Tacoma Art Museum, and Alison de Lima Greene, Curator of Contemporary Art and Special Projects at the Museum...More

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