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| Pre-Colombian Masterpíeces from the Barbier-Mueller Collection on View in Barcelona |
Terra cotta urn from the Island of Marajó (Brazil), from 400 to 1.350 AC, a masterpiece from the Meso-American is part of the new exhibition of Pre-Columbian art at Museo Barbier-Mueller in Barcelona. Photo: EFE / Toni Garriga.
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BARCELONA.- The works of art on view invite the visitor to make a journey through Pre-Hispanic civilizations from Meso-America to the Amazon, which represents the original cultures from Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panamá, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and the Amazon. ...More
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| Sotheby's To Sell a Long-Lost Manuscript Containing Substantial Marco Polo Account |
LONDON.- Sotheby's London announced that it will offer in its sale of Western Manuscripts and Miniatures on Wednesday, 3 December, 2008, a previously unknown manuscript of Marco Polo’s account. Marco Polo, the most famous and popular of all mediaeval western travellers to the East, travelled from ...More
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| Pal Sarkosy Presents Never Before Seen Painting of Carla Bruni in Valencia |
VALENCIA.- Artist and father of French Prime Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, Pal Sarkozy, and publicist Werner Hornung, who have united their artistic creations under the name "Digital Fine Art" – based on a mixture of traditional drawings and digital techniques- inaugurated their exhibition titled ‘Out of Mind, 4 hands for 1 creation’ at the Gallery of the Ayuntamiento de Valencia. The exhibition includes a...More
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| Foundling Museum to Mark the 250th Anniversary of Handel's Death with Exhibition |
LONDON.- The composer George Frideric Handel was one of the noted philanthropists of the eighteenth century using his reputation as the leading composer to support charitable causes. He was a benefactor of the Foundling Hospital, Britain’s first home for abandoned and illegitimate babies, giving regular benefit performances of Messiah in the Hospital chapel to raise significant sums of...More
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| Museo Nacional de Arte in Mexico City Opens The Practice of Everyday Life |
MEXICO CITY.- On this occasion, Museo Nacional de Arte and Fundación/Colección Jumex join forces to present the exhibition The Practice of Everyday Life, curated by Frédéric Bonnet, an art critic and independent curator who, following a careful study of both collections put together a selection of works dating from between the...More
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| Annual Reinstallation of MoMA's Architecture and Design Galleries Features Bold Designs |
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge, an installation in The Philip Johnson Architecture and Design Galleries on the third floor that showcases 98 objects in the Museum’s collection whose impact is due not to their graceful formal qualities but to their designers’ radical engagement with meaning and emotion. The selection of...More
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| Fondazione FMR Donates Rare Michelangelo Book to the New York Public Library |
NEW YORK, NY.- Marilena Ferrari, President of the Fondazione FMR-Marilena Ferrari, will present for the first time in the United States, Michelangelo. La dotta mano (Michelangelo. The Learned Hand), a book dedicated to the genius of Michelangelo Buonarroti....More
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| DePaul University Art Museum Explores Colonial Andean Art in Exhibition Opening Early Next Year |
CHICAGO.- The emergence of a distinctive artistic tradition following the 16th-century Spanish invasion of South America will be explored in “Reverence Renewed: Colonial Andean Art from the Thoma Collection,” which opens January 15 at the DePaul University Art Museum....More
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| The Return of the Gods - Berlin's Hidden Olympus at National Museums in Berlin |
BERLIN.- The National Museums in Berlin will be commemorating the return of museum pieces from the Soviet Union to Berlin that took place in 1958. To also mark the occasion, the Collection of Classical Antiquities will be placing 170 art works on display, which, for restoration purposes, had had to remain in...More
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| Sotheby's London To Sell Possibly the Oldest Fragment of Part of the Gospel of John |
LONDON.- Sotheby's London announced that it will offer for sale a rare and exceptionally large fragment from what is possibly the oldest copy of part of the Gospel of John, dating to 200AD, to be included in the sale of Western Manuscripts and Miniatures on Wednesday, 3 December, 2008. Estimated at ...More
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| First Sizable Museum Exhibition for Daniel Roth at Kunstmuseum Bonn |
BONN.- For his first solo-exhibition in Kunstmuseum Bonn, Roth presents an installation using photography and sculpture. In recent years Roth has gained critical acclaim for his multi-media installations where the objects and images within serve as documentary evidence to a fantastic ...More
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| Contemporary Indigenous Fibre Art ReCoil on View at National Museum of Australia |
CANBERRA.- ReCoil: Change and Exchange in Coiled Fibre Art explores the influences underpinning changes to contemporary Indigenous fibre art happening in many parts of Australia.
In highlighting the rich legacy of inter-cultural exchange behind the coiling ...More
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| Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Presents Focus: Ranjani Shettar |
FORT WORTH.- Ranjani Shettar creates large-scale, abstract sculpture by combining manmade and natural materials such as wood, beeswax, cloth, thread, rubber, PVC pipe, wire, steel, and beads. Her works, which appear to be as impulsive and random as they are patterned and logical, are frequently arranged as sculptural installations that interact with and articulate the space ...More
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| Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting on View at the Hammer |
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Oranges and Sardines examines art through the eyes and minds of artists and is a testament to the persistence of the visual art object, particularly abstract painting. In this exhibition six contemporary abstract painters— Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool— were asked to select one or two of their recent ...More
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| Color into Light: Selections from the MFAH Collection Opens in December |
HOUSTON, TX.- The ways in which artists use color as a liberating force, from the high modernist era of the 1940s and 1950s to today´s digital revolutions, is the focus of Color into Light: Selections from the MFAH Collection, opening December 13 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The show also offers ...More
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| Long Beach Museum of Art Presents Modernism and the Milton Wichener Collection |
LONG BEACH, CA.-The Long Beach Museum of Art presents Modernism and the Milton Wichner Collection through August 16, 2009. This exhibition and its related programming highlights the Museum’s important collection of European and American works of modern art including the 1979 gift to LBMA from Milton Wichner, a Los Angeles-...More
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| Gold Hitler Bookmark Recovered in Stolen Artifact Sting |
SEATTLE.- Christian Popescu, 37, of Kenmore, Wash., was charged today in U.S. District Court in Seattle with sale or receipt of stolen goods. Popescu was arrested late yesterday, after setting up a deal to sell an 18 carat gold bookmark which allegedly was first given to Adolf Hitler by his mistress Eva Braun. The bookmark was stolen in the fall of 2002, from an auction house in Madrid, ...More
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| Young People Create Manifesto for a Creative Britain |
LONDON.- Tate Modern hosted a major conference attended by more than 500 young people from across England on Wednesday 26 November 2008. At this, the first conference of its kind in the UK, 11- 19 year olds presented a Manifesto for a Creative Britain comprising eleven manifesto points, the culmination of an ...More
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| The Royal Ontario Museum Sparkles with a Season of Gems |
TORONTO.- Starting this December, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) celebrates A Season of Gems with two exhibitions and a new permanent suite of galleries showcasing some of the world’s most dazzling diamonds, gemstones and minerals....More
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| Nominations Being Accepted for 2009 VMFA Muse Awards |
RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is now accepting nominations for its 5th Annual Muse Awards. The nomination deadline is March 12.
The Muse Awards honor extraordinary creativity in Virginia business and recognize...More
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The Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia is selling two major works by two Australian artists from it's collection to raise the remaining funds needed to purchase a painting by Cezanne titled Bords De La Marne. Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Edmund Capon, is the driving force behind the purchase of the work for AUD$16.2 million from a Swiss private collection which will be the most expensive work ever purchase by a gallery in Australia. Having committed to purchasing the work without having all the funds available, Capon and the gallery have had to do everything that they can to raise the extra funds in hurry and have been begging for donations at every opportunity. 
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