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£80 million plans unveiled today to create world’s leading design museum in London
LONDON.- The Design Museum today unveiled plans to create the world’s leading museum of design and architecture at the former Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington, London. Designs for the site have been produced by two of the world’s most innovative architectural practices: John Pawson has redesigned the interior of the Grade 2* listed... [Read full article]
Lucian Freud My Father-A personal portrayal: Sculpture by Jane McAdam Freud
LONDON.- This January, artist Jane McAdam Freud presents a large scale sculpture portraying her father Lucian Freud. It will be unveiled and exhibited for the first time in London’s Freud Museum – once home to her great grandfather, Sigmund Freud. Jane spent many hours with her father in the months before his death in July 2011 making sketches... [Read full article]
Elizabeth Taylor-owned Dutch master Frans Hals painting coming to New York auction
NEW YORK (AP).- A 17th century portrait that once hung over the fireplace of Elizabeth Taylor’s Bel Air home — and only recently reattributed to the Dutch master Frans Hals — is expected to fetch up to $1 million at auction. “Portrait of a Man,” painted in the early 1630s, is being offered at Christie’s sale of Old Masters... [Read full article]
Paul Klee and Cobra in international exhibition at the Cobra Museum in Amstelveen
AMSTELVEEN.- From 28 January through 22 April 2012, the Cobra Museum will present Klee and Cobra: A Child’s Play. The exhibition reveals the influence that Paul Klee (1879-1940) had on the Cobra movement (1948-1951), seen from the perspective of their shared fascination for the wondrous world of children’s imagination. This theme has... [Read full article]
“Rockwell’s America” named London’s best art exhibition for 2011 by American Spectator magazine
LONDON.- The American Spectator magazine’s December/January 2012 issue named theNational Museum of American Illustration‘s Norman Rockwell’s America – at London’s oldest art museum, Dulwich Picture Gallery for their Bicentennial Celebration last year- to be London’s best art exhibition of 2011. The exhibition drew record-setting... [Read full article]
Tatsuo Miyajima: Three Time Train / Counter Voice on the Wall Lokremise at Kunstmuseum St.Gallen
ST. GALLEN.- Time and space are recurring themes in the work of the Japanese artist, Tatsuo Miyajima. The basis for the art of Tatsuo Miyajima (born 1957 in Tokyo, lives in Ibaraki) are illuminated LED displays in color. In various tempos, these displays count relentlessly from 1 to 9, only to start again from the beginning. The electronic look of... [Read full article]
From Manhattan to the Bauhaus: First Lyonel Feininger retrospective in North America is exclusive to Montreal
MONTREAL.- Through May 13, 2012, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting the first posthumous retrospective in North America on Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956). Lyonel Feininger: from Manhattan to the Bauhaus offers the first comprehensive panorama of the oeuvre of this American artist, who has been strangely forgotten since he spent most of... [Read full article]
Bonhams to sell beautiful JMW Turner painting of Kirkby Lonsdale Churchyard
LONDON.- A beautiful painting of Kirkby Lonsdale Churchyard by Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (1775-1851) is to be offered for auction as part of the 19th Century Paintings sale on Wednesday 25th January 2012, at Bonhams New Bond Street, London. The watercolour of a lyrical English landscape has not been seen at auction since 1884 and is estimated... [Read full article]
Second Israeli art sale at Bonhams celebrates European view of the Holy Land
LONDON.- Many of the works of art in Bonhams sale of Israeli Art on Feb 29th was made by new arrivals from Europe. A work by Reuven Rubin (Israeli, 1893-1974), a Rumanian émigré who became Israel’s first ambassador to Rumania, leads the sale. Titled ‘Les Oliviers’ and dated ‘Rubin Les Oliviers 1958′ , it is an oil on canvas... [Read full article]
University of Richmond Museums opens Dancing with the Dark: Joan Snyder Prints 1963-2010
RICHMOND, VA.- On view in the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, from January 24 to April 22, 2012, Dancing with the Dark: Joan Snyder Prints 1963-2010 features a selection of more than sixty works created between 1963 and 2010 by Joan Snyder (American, born 1940), and the exhibition is the first retrospective of... [Read full article]
Exceptional ensemble of nearly 200 works from the Library of R. & B. L. for sale at Sotheby’s
PARIS.- Paris auctioneers Binoche & Giquello, in association with Sotheby’s, announced the sale of Part II of the Library of R. & B. L. in Paris on 28 March 2012. Expert Yves Lebouc (Bouquinerie de l’Institut) will team up with Sotheby’s specialists for the sale – to be held at the Galerie Charpentier – with the gavel... [Read full article]
Istanbul’s Pera Museum exhibition sheds light into the beginning of Turkish-Dutch relations
ISTANBUL.- As one of the first key exhibitions of the year 2012, the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum is presenting Sultans, Merchants, Painters: The Early Years of Turkish-Dutch Relations; an exhibition commemorating four hundred years of cultural, diplomatic and trade relations between Turkey and the Netherlands. Organized in collaboration... [Read full article]
Italy returns 2,000 year-old statue to Libya
TRIPOLI (AP).- Italy has returned to Libya the head of a 2,000 year-old statue that was smuggled out of the country in the 1960s. Prime Minister Mario Monti gave the sculpted head of Domitilla Minor, the daughter of Roman emperor Vespasian, to Libyan authorities during his trip to Tripoli on Saturday. An artifact returned by Italy to Libya, known... [Read full article]
Exhibition of new work by Dublin-born artist Richard Gorman at Kerlin Gallery in Ireland
DUBLIN.- Kerlin Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by Richard Gorman. Kozo is an exhibition of works on handmade Japanese echizen kozo washi paper using techniques including dyed paper pulp poured into moulds and gouache paint on paper made by the artist. Richard Gorman made the paperworks at Iwano Heyzabouro paper mill in Imadate Fukui in... [Read full article]
Americana Week totals $17.9 million at Sotheby’s New York; highest total since 2007
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s Americana Week auctions concluded today in New York with a combined total of $17,900,261 – Sotheby’s highest total for this annual week of sales since 2007. The Important Americana auction on Friday and Saturday was led by two record-setting results: the previously undocumented Exceptional Lieutenant Colonel Oliver Arnold... [Read full article]
