11 Amazing Horseshoe Sculptures

Tom Hill, a talented self-taught sculptor, uses recycled horseshoes to create incredible life-size animal sculptures. The artist utilizes a gas forge, anvil, hammer, as well as various welding techniques to heat and shape horseshoes into amazing sculptures. For more creative sculptures by Tom Hill, visit tomhillsculpture.com

Turner and The Masters Opens at the Museo del Prado with Additional Works of Art

MADRID.- Having already been seen in London and Paris, Turner and the Masters will now be shown at the Museo del Prado in Madrid. Its aim is to reveal to visitors the extent of Turner’s links with other historically important artists and the profoundly original way in which he assimilated their influence. This comparison will assist in an understanding of how Turner’s approach to and assimilation of other artists was intended not just as an homage to them but also [...]

Opening Session of Photographs from the Polaroid Collection 100% Sold

NEW YORK, NY.- Tonight at Sotheby’s, bidding began for Photographs from the Polaroid Collection with the opening session bringing a remarkable $7,197,439, well-above expectations (est. $2.9/4.5 million) and with every lot finding a buyer. With more than 300 hundred lots left to sell tomorrow, the running total has already exceeded the low estimate for the entire sale (est. $6.9/10.7 million). Competition was fierce with a full salesroom competing against numerous telephones resulting in as many as ten different bidders vying [...]

Francesca DiMattio Creates New Installation for ICA’s Art Wall

BOSTON, MA.- The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston has commissioned New York-based painter Francesca DiMattio to create the fourth installation of the Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall. The Art Wall is dedicated to site-specific works by leading contemporary artists. DiMattio was inspired by the ICA’s striking building and location on Boston Harbor to create Banquet—a new, multi-panel painting of monumental scale. Located inside the museum’s glass-enclosed lobby, Banquet explores how the ICA’s architecture blurs our concept of interior and exterior [...]

For Sale: One of the Most Significant Archaeological Projects of Recent Times

LONDON.- One of the most significant archaeological projects of recent times – a reconstruction of the great Orpheus pavement – is to be sold by Chorley’s on Thursday, 24th June 2010. Made from 1.6 million pieces of small, hand-cut clay blocks called tesserae, the 2,200 square foot (205 square metre) mosaic took 10 years for brothers Bob and John Woodward to complete. The Roman period was one of great prosperity for Britain and Gloucestershire was no exception. Large settlements were [...]

Espace Dali Lends Mae West Sofa to the Pompidou Centre, Paris

PARIS.- Espace Dali in Paris, France’s only museum dedicated to Dali, has loaned the iconic Mae West Divano, created by the Catalan genius during the 1940’s, to be part of the ‘Dreamlands’ exhibition organised by the Pompidou Centre, in Paris, which runs from May to August 2010. Based on the famous American actresses sensual lips, Dali pays homage to Mae West with this inspired and original artwork. The ‘Dreamlands’ exhibition, which is being held in the Grand Galerie of the [...]

Sahure: Death and Life of a Great Pharaoh at Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung

FRANKFURT.- From June 24 to November 28, 2010 the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung will present the exhibition “Sahure – Death and Life of a Great Pharaoh.” Ruling Egypt from about 2428 to 2416 BC, Sahure was a both politically and culturally outstanding king of the Fifth Dynasty and thus a prominent representative of the Old Kingdom, the “Age of the Pyramids.” Amongst all known pyramid complexes, that of Sahure in Abusir near Cairo, which boasts several superlatives, takes a special position. The [...]

World-Record Price for Jehangir Sabavala at Saffronart Auction

MUMBAI.- Saffronart, the world’s largest online fine-art auction house, concluded its Summer Online Auction on June 17th, 2010 with impressive results, including a world-record price in auction for Jehangir Sabavala. With 81% of the lots on offer selling, the auction achieved a remarkable total of Rs 30 crores (USD 6.7 million), re-confirming the upward trajectory in the Indian art market. Within the first day of the two-day auction of Modern and Contemporary Indian art, several of the lots crossed their [...]

Bruce Munro Installs CDSea at Long Knoll, Wiltshire

WARMINSTER.- Bruce Munro installed his new artwork ‘CDSea’ in a field near Kilmington over the weekend, after his appeal to collect unwanted CDs from the general public netted him 600,000 discs for the installation. Munro’s ‘CDSea’ is the first of a number of self-funded installations using discarded or recycled materials, planned for Long Knoll Field, which is bisected by a public footpath. “It’s a great public gallery space” says Munro. Over the weekend 140 friends and colleagues, including Kevin McCloud [...]

The Art Detective Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures

NEW YORK.- When Philip Mold began as a professional art dealer 22 years ago, the buying and selling of high-end artwork was confined to a small group of well-versed art historians who scoured the globe in search of masterpieces. But the timeless world of art has changed in the age of the Internet and technology. Once limited to examining 15 to 20 works per day, Mold and his staff can now judge the value of between 50 and 100 works [...]

Rare Hampstead Scene by Christopher Wood to Sell at Bonhams

LONDON.- A London scene by English artist Christopher Wood (1901-1930), entitled Skating at Hampstead, 1929, is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its 20th Century British Art sale on 30 June 2010. It has been estimated at £50,000 – 70,000. The picture was bought by the present owner from the Redfern Gallery in 1955. Christopher Wood, who tragically died at the age of 29, is best known for his coastal scenes, paintings of Breton, largely [...]

National Gallery Announces Bridget Riley: New Paintings and Related Work

LONDON.- Bridget Riley (b. 1931) is one of the most significant and original painters of our time. This Sunley Room exhibition focuses upon her most recent paintings and will enable visitors to investigate how Riley’s work relates to the National Gallery Collection. Two of Riley’s works will be made directly onto the walls of the exhibition space. ‘Composition with Circles 7′ is a wall-drawing that Riley and her studio will create especially for the longest wall of the Sunley Room. [...]

Archaeological Team’s Radar Reveals Extent of Buried Ancient Egypt City

CAIRO (AP).- An Austrian archaeological team has used radar imaging to determine the extent of the ruins of the one time 3,500-year-old capital of Egypt’s foreign occupiers, said the antiquities department Sunday. Egypt was ruled for a century from 1664-1569 B.C. by the Hyksos, a warrior people from Asia, possibly Semitic in origin, whose summer capital was in the northern Delta area. Irene Mueller, the head of the Austrian team, said the main purpose of the project is to determine [...]

Godfried Bomans in the Starring Role in Exhibition at De Hallen Haarlem

HAARLEM.- This summer De Hallen Haarlem presents an exhibition on Godfried Bomans. For years he was the most-read author in The Netherlands. The exhibition gives a picture of Bomans’s multifaceted talent: as a writer, as a composer and as a TV personality. It also shows original illustrations for his books and work by artists who were among his friends, including Mari Andriessen, Anton Heyboer and Kees Verwey. The exhibition Bomans in De Hallen Haarlem runs from 19 June through 5 [...]

Excellent Sales and Buoyant Atmosphere Reported at Inaugural Art Antiques London Fair

LONDON.- Art Antiques London opened its doors to the public on June 10th, following a highly successful private preview and glamorous First Night Party in aid of The Bush Theatre on 9th June. The two events attracted around 1,800 people. The Fair, which won plaudits for its spacious and elegant presentation, played host to 63 international specialists from a wide range of disciplines. The Fair was busy from the outset and maintained a steady flow of visitors throughout. The final [...]