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The Prado Museum in Madrid Rearranges its Collection and Gains Exhibition Space
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The CEO of the Prado, Miguel Zugaza, during the presentation of the first official guide to the museum. At the press conference Zugaza also explained the rearrangements and expansion of the permanent collection. Photo: EFE/Zipi.

MADRID.- The Prado Museum held a press conference to explain the rearrangement and expansion of its permanent collection and also presented, in the presence of culture minister Cesar Antonio Molina, the first official guide to the museum....More

Sotheby's Launches Inaugural Sale of Arts of the Islamic World in Doha
LONDON.- Sotheby’s first ever Arts of the Islamic World auction in the Middle East, which takes place on March 19th 2009 will feature a number of exceptional and rare works spanning nearly 1,000 years from cultures as diverse as those from North Africa, the Middle East and Iran. Among the highlights of the ...More

Museum of Design and Applied Arts Opens Packaging - Wrapping to Design
LAUSANNE.- Packaging is a concept that goes well beyond wrapping. Even if its ultimate aim remains the protection and transport of its contents, over the course of the decades certain more subtle elements have been added to this list of specifications. Thus, one can attribute to it six main functions: to contain, transport, preserve, identify the producer, inform about the content and ...More

Unique Selection of 17th Century Paintings Included in The Age of Rembrandt
VIENNA.- The exhibition The Age of Rembrandt assembles 150 works by some 70 artists from the Albertina Museum’s 17th century Netherlandish holdings, including Hendrick Goltzius, Rembrandt van Rijn, Aert van der Neer, Aelbert Cuyp, and Adriaen van Ostade. The unique selection is completed by some 40 oil ...More

Installations II: Video from the Guggenheim Collection Opens in Bilbao
BILBAO.- From March 3, 2009, through March, 2010, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Installations II: Video from the Guggenheim Collections , a new exhibit featuring the Guggenheim collections’ works on video that reveals the vitality of this form of artistic expression....More

The Art Fund Announces that David Barrie will Step Down as Director and Trustee
LONDON.- Independent charity The Art Fund announced today that David Barrie is to step down as Director and Trustee this spring after seventeen distinguished years leading the organisation....More

Solo Exhibition by Becks Futures Prize Winner at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
GATESHEAD.- Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art presents a solo exhibition by Becks Futures Prize winner and locally based artist Matt Stokes. The Gainsborough Packet is a co-commission with London based gallery 176 and NewcastleGateshead’s Baltic. Stokes’s research-based practice is frequently...More

Face Off: A Selection of Old Masters and Others from The Menil Collection
HOUSTON, TX.- Face Off: A Selection of Old Masters and Others from The Menil Collection examines one of the most primary elements of human interaction: to look upon the face of another. Including prints from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries, a few pre-Renaissance sculptures, and a small group of modern and contemporary...More

Dulwich Picture Gallery Presents First Ever Exhibition Devoted to Sickert's Pictures of Venice
LONDON.- Everything that was new in British art a hundred years ago came from Sickert and he is known as the father of modern British art. Sickert was one of the most important British artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A pupil of Whistler, friend of Degas and acquaintance of Manet, he introduced Impressionism and Post-Impressionism to a younger ...More

John Eskenazi to Show Buddhist and Hindu Sculpture in New York
NEW YORK.- London dealer John Eskenazi will present his annual exhibition at Adam Williams Fine Art Ltd, 24 East 80th Street, New York, from Wednesday 4 March to Saturday 21 March 2009, coinciding with New York’s Asia Week and the International Asian Art Fair. John Eskenazi is one of the world’s most respected dealers in Indian, Gandharan, Himalayan and south-east Asian ...More

Ancient Ukraine, like Diamonds, is not Forever...
TORONTO.- All stunning and intriguing things must come to an end, and Sunday, March 22, 2009 is the final day for visitors to take in two feature exhibitions at the Royal Ontario Museum. ...More

Corning Museum of Glass Announces Radiant Survey of Studio Glass
CORNING, NY.- A new survey of one of the largest and finest collections of contemporary studio glass in the United States will open at The Corning Museum of Glass on May 16, 2009. Part of a year-long series of contemporary glass exhibitions and programming at the Museum, Voices of Contemporary Glass: The Heineman...More

James Adams at WIDE ANGLE 3: Discovered/Undiscovered
LONG BEACH, CA.- Los Angeles collectors Michael and Sirje Gold have tapped downtown Los Angeles-based artist James Adams for "discovery" at Wide Angle 3: Discovered/Undiscovered, the art auction segment of the venerable fundraising event benefitting the University Art Museum ...More

Samsung Digital Discovery Centre Opens
LONDON.- As the British Museum celebrates the 250th anniversary of opening to the public, it is looking to the future to find new ways to engage the next generation with the collection. Located just beneath the Great Court, the Samsung Digital Discovery Centre provides a state-of-the-art technological hub for children...More

Smithsonian Celebrates Women's History Month
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian celebrates Women's History Month in March with a series of films, lectures and performances at museums around the Institution. All programs are free unless otherwise indicated. ...More

LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph Announces 2009 Featured Photographers Martin Parr, Gilles Peress and Sylvia Plachy
LONDON.- For the third consecutive sold-out year, the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph will welcome over a thousand photographers and enthusiasts for 3 days of exhibitions, outdoor projections, workshops, interviews with legendary photographers and special events that will transform downtown Charlottesville, ...More

Perturbed Hindus Ask for Photo Removal from Helsinki Museum, Calling it Hurtful
NEW YORK, NY.- Perturbed Hindus have demanded immediate removal of photograph titled “Hinduism: The Night of Pushkar 2” from Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki (Finland), alleging it to be very disrespectful, hurting and irreverent....More

Aperture Foundation Announces Publication of: Sawdust Mountain Photographs by Eirik Johnson
NEW YORK, NY.- A culmination of four years photographing throughout Oregon, Washington, and Northern California, Eirik Johnson's Sawdust Mountain (Aperture, June 2009) focuses on the tenuous relationship between industries reliant upon natural resources and the communities they support. Timber and salmon are the bedrock of a regional Northwest identity, but the environmental ...More

The Nocturne in Printmaking to Close March 8 at Saint Louis Art Museum
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the March 8, 2009 closing of The Nocturne in Printmaking.

This exhibition brings together a selection of prints by European and American...More

Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebruns Bacchante Subject of March 12 Looking at Lunchtime Talk
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- The painting Bacchante by Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, who enjoyed celebrity as one of the most successful portrait painters of her era, will be the subject of the Thursday, March 12, Looking at Lunchtime Talk at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Danielle Steinmann, assistant curator of ...More

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