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Busts by Bernini at the Getty Museum - Celebrated sculptures from the Bargello, Palazzo Barberini, Galleria Borghese, and other prominent Italian collections will be on view for the first time in America...
Two masterpieces exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum - In 2005, the Philadelphia Museum of Art acquired Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s Angel of Purity (Maria Mitchell Memorial), which had been commissioned for a church...
A masterwork by Caravaggio stolen in Ukraine - "The Taking of Christ" (also known as "The Kiss of Judas") was stolen from the Museum of western Art in Odessa, Ukraine. The canvas is one of the two versions that the Italian artist...
Roni Horn at the Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills - Horn's oeuvre, which spans almost four decades, encompasses sculpture, drawing, photography, language, and site-specific installation. Compelled by the elusive nature of identity, she concentrates on the...
Richard Diebenkorn at the Cantor Art Center - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University presents two exhibitions of Richard Diebenkorn's work from July 23 through November 9, 2008. Diebenkorn (1922–1993), who spent most of his life in California...
LACMA acquires an important collection of Oceanic Art - The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced the acquisition of one of the most significant private collections of Oceanic art assembled in the twentieth century. Representative...
Hals and Turner shine at Sotheby's auction of Old Master paintings - Sotheby's sale of Old Master Paintings this evening realised £51,488,650/$101,530,469/€64,813,991 – well in excess of the pre-sale estimate of £30.2- 44.2 million. In a sale that attracted...
Three drawings by Goya sold at Christie's - Three rediscovered drawings by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) were sold today (8 July) at Christie's in London for a combined total of £4,010,150 / $7,908,016 / €5,032,739. Last recorded at...
A great retrospective of J.M.W. Turner opens at the Metropolitan - The first major retrospective of the work of celebrated British artist J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) to be presented in the United States in more than 40 years will be on view at...
The Simon Sainsbury Bequest exhibited at the Tate Gallery - The Simon Sainsbury Bequest to the nation goes on public display for the first time from 8 July to 5 October 2008 at Tate Britain. All eighteen paintings from the Bequest are brought together...
Impressionists at the Kimbell from the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago - The loan of about 90 paintings from Chicago's world-renowned Impressionist collection is possible because of an ambitious reinstallation and expansion project at the Art...
Cézanne at his best at the Courtauld Institute Galleries, London - The Courtauld Gallery holds the finest group of works by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) in Britain. As the culmination of The Courtauld Institute of Art's 75th anniversary, the Gallery is showing...
Watteau's "La Surprise" rediscovered by Christie's - Christie's announce the rediscovery of La Surprise by Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). The painting has been missing for almost 200 years, presumed to have been destroyed, and was previously known...
Musée d'Orsay acquires "Corinthia", a masterpiece by Jean Léon Gérôme - Corinthia posted the evening's top price of €456,750, a world record for Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904). It was consigned by the artist's descendants and acquired by the Musée d'Orsay...
Monet masterpiece sells for £41 million ($80 million) at Christie's - Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale took place this evening (24 June 2008) and realised £144,440,500 / $283,970,023 / €182,428,352 - the highest ever total for...
Four Blue Cowboys: Richard Prince at the Gagosian Gallery - An avid collector and perceptive chronicler of American subcultures and vernaculars and their role in the construction of American identity, Prince has probed the mythical status of cowboys ...
UNESCO to inscribe new sites in the World Heritage List - During this year's session, hosted by Canada to coincide with the 400th anniversary celebration of the founding of Québec City, 41 States Parties to the World Heritage Convention will present...
Impressionist & Modern Art at Christie's London - Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale will take place on 24 June 2008 at 7pm and will offer an outstanding selection of paintings and sculptures, led by Claude Monet's Le bassin aux nymphéas...
Modern Indian Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art - The exhibition illustrates the range of artistic traditions and experiments in visual culture that emerged as South Asia transformed from a British colony to independent nation-states to a world economic power ...
Dave Kinsey at Larides Gallery, Newcastle - Dave Kinsey has been making cutting edge art for more than ten years. HOLY SH*T, his latest exhibition at Lazarides Gallery Newcastle, will feature a series of new paintings never before seen in the UK ...
Master photographer's works 1840 - 1940 at the Metropolitan - Framing a Century: Master Photographers, 1840-1940 tells the story of photography's first 100 years through the work of 13 key figures who helped shape the aesthetic and expressive course of ...
The Getty Museum acquires an important Roman sarcophagus - The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the acquisition of a remarkable marble sarcophagus that dates to the third-century A.D. Never before seen by the public, Sarcophagus...
Tate Britain tries to save an important sketch by Rubens for the UK - The historian David Starkey has lent his support to Tate Britain's campaign, backed by The Art Fund, to acquire for the nation Rubens's oil sketch The Apotheosis of James I: Multiple Sketch...
Art Basel, the El Dorado of the international Art world - The 39th edition of Art Basel takes place in the museumrich city of Basel (Switzerland) from June 4 through June 8, 2008. As the world's premier art show, Art Basel is the annual meeting place of the ...
Tom Friedman at the Gagosian Gallery, London - Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Monsters and Stuff , new work by Tom Friedman. This will be his first solo exhibition at the London gallery. Empiricist, alchemist, sage and...
Rufino Tamayo shines at Latin American Art auctions - Tamayo's Trovador (The Troubadour), 1945, is an iconic work by the artist combining the ideal subject matter of the guitarist with the artist's signature brilliant palette and scale. The previous...
Moscow World Fine Art Fair 2008: Russian finest Art Fair - The Moscow World Fine Art Fair (MWFAF) celebrates its fifth edition in May with a return to the historic Manège, the Russian capital's largest cultural complex from 27 th May to 2 nd June, 2008...
Jeff Koons's Balloon Flower (Magenta) to be sold in June - Christie's is pleased to announce that it will offer Jeff Koons's Balloon Flower (Magenta), 1995-1999 from the Rachofsky Collection of Dallas at its June 30 Evening Sale in London (estimate on...
Richard Misrach's photographs of ocean & sea at the NGA - Monumental color photographs explore the sublime beauty and inherent danger of the sea and its surroundings in the days following September 11, 2001 in the exhibition Richard Misrach: On...
Thomas Moran's "Green River of Wyoming" sold for $17.74 million - Christie's Spring 2008 Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture sale totaled $72.6 million, set new records and established major new benchmarks across the category...
Important manuscript and Gutenberg Bibles at the Morgan - The Morgan Library & Museum will put on special exhibition beginning May 20 an extremely rare Renaissance illuminated manuscript, the Prayer Book of Queen Claude de France...
Medieval treasures from the Victoria & Albert Museum at the Metropolitan - The Victoria and Albert Museum in London holds one of the world's finest collections of European decorative arts. Thirty-five of its masterpieces will be on view at The Metropolitan...
Freud, Rothko and Richard Neutra shine at Christie's Post-War Art sale - Christie's highly anticipated Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale totaled $348,263,600, marking the second highest total ever in auction history for the category. Eight new...
American artist Robert Rauschenberg dies at 82 - Like so many other artists of his generation, Rauschenberg was soon classified as a "pop artist", but the truth is that his oeuvre is an extensive compendium of styles and influences. He was described...
Roy Lichtenstein's "Girls" at the Gagosian Gallery - In the summer of 1961 Lichtenstein embarked on a series of iconic images of women, taken directly from newspaper clippings and the romance comic books so prevalent in post-war America. The anonymity...
Léger, Munch shine at Sotheby's spring sale of Impressionists and modern - Sotheby's spring 2008 evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York achieved a total of $235,333,000, well above the low estimate of $203.9 million...
New auction records for Monet, Giacometti, Rodin - This evening's sale of Impressionist and Modern Art at Christie's New York totaled $277,276,000/£140,749,239/€178,887,742, Christie's third highest result ever for the category. The auction featured particularly...
"Said the hero to the thief", Connor harrington at Lazarides Gallery - Following on from his solo show at Lazarides Gallery in London, WEEKEND WARRIORS, this new series of work heralds a new way of working, while maintaining Harrington's..
Impressionist and modern Art auction at Christie's - Christie's New York Spring 2008 Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale takes place on May 6 and is a well-edited and focused 58-lot auction that features prime examples from every...
Philip Guston drawing retrospective at the Morgan Library & Museum - The extraordinary drawings of Philip Guston (1913–1980) are the subject of a major exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum, on view from May 2 through August 31, 2008. Together..
An inedit "Tahitienne" sculpture by Paul Gauguin at Sotheby's - During his first visit to Tahiti (June 9, 1891 - June 14, 1893) Gauguin falls under the spell of the legendary beauty of Tahitian ladies. Upon his arrival, he draws a set of impressive...
Sotheby's sale of impressionist and modern Art includes Leger, Munch - The highlight of the May 7 Evening sale is Fernand Léger's Cubist masterpiece, Étude pour La Femme en Bleu (est. $35/45 million). Painted in 1912-13, the canvas is one of very...
Works by Malevich returned to the Heirs of the artist - When the Stedelijk Museum exhibited fourteen works of Malevich in the United States of America in 2003-2004, the Heirs of Malevich claimed ownership of them before a United States Court...
Sculptures by Jeff Koons at the Metropolitan Museum's roof - Sculptures by Jeff Koons (b. 1955) – an American artist known internationally for his controversial and intriguing contributions to contemporary art – comprise The Metropolitan Museum...
Viennafair 2008 - modern & contemporary Art fair focused on CEE - The current development of the international fair world shows that the VIENNAFAIR has taken the right path from its very first issue. The thematic focus on galleries from the...
Burne Jones last work to be exhibited in the UK for the first time in 40 years - The last and greatest work by Edward Burne-Jones, The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon (1881-1898), will return to the UK from Puerto Rico for the first time in forty years...
Art Cologne 2008 - modern & contemporary Art fair - Around 140 renowned galleries from Germany and abroad will be on hand at ART COLOGNE 2008 (16th to 20th April 2008) to provide a comprehensive overview of the art created in the 20th and 21st...
Medieval hunting manuscript by Gaston Phoebus at the Morgan - A new exhibition featuring nearly fifty miniatures from the Morgan's celebrated hunting manuscript by Gaston Phoebus (1331–1391), Le Livre de la chasse (Paris, ca. 1407), is on...
UNESCO concerned about fire damage at Castello di Moncalieri - April 10th 2008 - A fire broke out on 5 April causing severe damage to the royal apartments and to several floors in one of the watchtowers of the building, a former residence of the House ...
A panoramic landscape of Luxemburg by B. C. Koekkoek in Amsterdam - The absolute highlight of the 19th Century Paintings sale at Sotheby's Amsterdam on Monday 14 April 2008 is a panoramic landscape in Luxemburg by Barend Cornelis Koekkoek ...
Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Las Vegas closes - Thomas Krens , Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage Museum , and Robert G. Goldstein, President of the Venetian and ...
The most expensive piece of Islamic Art ever - An Abbasid ka'ba key, which unlocks one of the most venerated and highly honoured buildings in the world – certainly within the pan-Islamic community – today sold to an anonymous buyer for the remarkable sum ...
Emanuele Cacciatore at Abba Fine Art, Miami - To Emanuele Cacciatore, time is defined as the passage of a series of subsequent and disparate moments. One moment followed by the next, all of which possess a unique value and sublimity worthy of consideration...
David Hockney donates his largest work to Tate - David Hockney has gifted Bigger Trees near Warter 2007 to Tate. The oil painting, his largest ever, was made on fifty canvas panels and was executed outside, en plein air. Measuring 4.6 x 12.2 metres ...
James Ensor's controversial prints at the LACMA - The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents a special exhibition featuring approximately fifty works on paper by the Belgian artist James Ensor and nineteen of his predecessors...
The most important auction of Islamic Art at Sotheby's - The auction will comprise more than 400 lots of rare and important works of art, including metalwork, manuscripts, weaponry, ceramics, textiles and paintings that span from the 7th century through ...
Important works by Corot and Blanche at Christie's auction - Christie's sale of 19th Century European Art on April 8 will showcase a full spectrumof genres and styles including the superb Portrait of the Comtesse de Greffuhle by Jacques Emile Blanche...
Lee Ufan at the Lisson Gallery, London - Lisson Gallery is pleased to present new works by Lee Ufan in his latest solo exhibition in London. One of the most significant Asian artists of his generation, Ufan's exploration of "the art of emptiness" results in works...
National Gallery seeks information about the provenance of a Cranach - The National Gallery bought 'Cupid Complaining to Venus' in 1963 from the New York dealers E & A Silbermann. This firm stated at the time that it came to them from the sale ...
The most important work by Francis Bacon in private hands is for sale - A masterwork of the 20th century Art is for sale. Next May 14th 2008, Sotheby's will auction "the most important work by Francis Bacon in private hands", Triptych 1976, which...
Glasgow Art Fair 2008 opens March 27th 2008 - Having firmly established itself as the UK's most prestigious contemporary art fair outside of London since its inception in 1996, Glasgow Art Fair 2008 will showcase a record 46 selected galleries from Scotland...
Turner to Monet - the triumph of landscape- National Gallery of Australia - The exhibition, from 14 March to 9 June 2008, features more than 100 landscape masterpieces by many of the greatest artists of the time. Turner to Monet reveals the genre...
"War Paint" at the Lazarides Gallery - Lazarides Gallery is proud to present War Paint, an exhibition of artworks inspired by UNKLE album, War Stories, with works from RobertDel Naja, Warren du Preez, Nick Thornton Jones, William Bankhead and Ben Drury...
A beautiful 12th century Buddha goes for $14 million - In today's sale of Japanese and Korean Art, a newly discovered wood sculpture of Dainichi Nyorai, the supreme Buddha, attributed to the sculptor Unkei achieved $14,377,000, exceeding ...
Franz West at the Gagosian Gallery - In the early 1970s Franz West began making small-scale assemblages incorporating found materials such as cardboard, bandages, and wire, which he then covered with a coat of plaster and white paint. He called these sculptures...
A masterwork by Rembrandt for sale (and then donate it) - The work, "Conspiracy of the Batavians Under Claudius Civilis" is one of Rembrandt's greatest masterworks, painted at the heights of the artist's skills, in 1666. The work belongs to the Royal ...
Getty Museum acquired an important painting by Paul Gauguin - The J. Paul Getty Museum announced the acquisition of an exceptional painting by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) that dates to his first extended stay in Tahiti. Arii Matamoe (The Royal End) ...
A new Renoir for the National Gallery of Ireland - The National Gallery of Ireland has today (Wednesday, March 12th 2008) placed on view its recent acquisition, 'Young Woman in White Reading' by French nineteenth-century master, Pierre-Auguste Renoir...
Lucas Cranach at the Royal Academy of Arts, London - As the leading member of a German family of artists, Lucas Cranach was a painter, printmaker and book illustrator with a most individual manner and a highly successful business. He was surely one...
Japanese and Korean Art at Christie's New York - Commencing the Asia Week sales at Christie's in New York, the March 18 auction of Japanese and Korean Art will present some of the most valuable works ever offered in the category. A newly discovered ...
Bonhams break record for Middle East contemporary Art - Bonhams, the UK-headquartered international fine art auction house established since 1793, broke three world records at its inaugural Middle East art auction in Dubai, United Arab Emirates ...
Van Gogh's "Child with an orange" for sale at the TEFAF - No doubt Vincent van Gogh is one of the "superstars" in the Art market. Despised in life, after his death his works experienced an extraordinary revaluation, reaching its zenith in the late eighties and ...
Plen-Air practice in the Forest of Fontainebleau, at the NGA - The quiet but significant revolution that was launched by artists working outdoors in 19th-century France is explored through some 100 paintings, pastels, and photographs as well as artist..
New galleries of contemporary Art at the Tate Modern - A new modern art collection, to be known as ARTIST ROOMS, has been established, it was announced today, created through one of the largest and most imaginative gifts of art ever made to museums ...
Claude Monet's "Le Pont dy chemin de fer" to be auctioned in May - A masterwork of the Impressionism comes to the Art market. Claude Monet's "Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil", one of the greatest Impressionist pictures left in private hands ...
The Getty Museum acquires three important works of Art - The Getty Museum acquires a Lorrain painting, a bust by Messerschmidt and an important English manuscript. With its unusual depiction of some of the lesser-known events from Christ's life, the ...
Rembrandt's Portrait of Aeltje Uylenburgh at the MFA of Boston - Portrait of Aeltje Uylenburgh, aged 62 (1632), considered one of the finest Rembrandts in private hands, will be on view for the first time in the United States at the Museum of Fine Arts...
The (Red) Auction raises over $40 million to fight VHS in Africa - On the evening of Valentine's Day, over $40 million was raised to fight AIDS in Africa in an historic auction -- the most significant charity auction of Contemporary Art ever -- organized by Bono...
Guarneri del Gesu violin sold for a record price - Sotheby's announced yesterday the sale, by private treaty, of a rare and important Guarneri del Gesù violin to the Russian businessman and collector, Maxim Viktorov. The violin, which was the composer Henri...
Four masterworks stolen from the Buhrle Collection in Zurich - Four masterworks by some of the greatest masters of the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting were stolen yesterday from the E.G. Bührle Collection in Zurich, Switzerland...
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions at the Metropolitan Museum - Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions will be a revelation to those who think of Poussin primarily as the master of complex, figurative compositions and the illustrator par excellence of ancient..
Emmy Cho "InventedWorlds" at Abba Fine Art Gallery - Our modern world is composed of an amalgamation of different influences from all sorts of different cultures; it is a product of globalization, and a result of centuries of cultural exchanges..
Franz Marc's Weidende Pferde sold for $24.3 million / £12.3 million - Weidende Pferde III (Grazing Horses III) depicts the most iconic motif in Franz Marc's oeuvre, red horses, and this important work is the only example from the artist's Weidende Pferde series...
A Triptych by Francis Bacon sells for $51.7 million / £26.3 million - Triptych 1974-77 by Francis Bacon (1909-1992) sold for £26.3 million ($51.7 million/€35.2 million), becoming the most expensive work of art ever sold at Christie's in London and...
Sotheby's auction of contemporary Art includes works by Bacon and Warhol - Executed in 1969 at the height of his career, Study of Nude with Figure in a Mirror by Francis Bacon (1909-92) has been included in all of his major retrospective exhibitions to date...
Jasper Johns: Gray at the Metropolitan Museum of Art - Opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on February 5, Jasper Johns: Gray will be the first exhibition to examine the use of the color gray in the work of American artist Jasper Johns. From the..
The return of the Gods: neoclassical sculpture at the Tate Gallery - The Return of the Gods is the first exhibition in Britain to focus on British neoclassical sculpture. Displayed in the monumental Duveen galleries from 28 January to 1 June it will bring together...
Old masters at Sotheby's, including a work by Tilman Riemenschneider - Sotheby's two-day sale of Old Master Paintings and European Works of Art in New York brought a total of $82.5 million (est. $68.3/99.7 million*). The top selling lot was a masterpiece...
Tate Gallery acquires Louise Bourgeois's giant spider "Mamal" - Louise Bourgeois is one of the most important living artists, best known for her 'Cells', 'Spiders' and various drawings, books and sculptures. Her most famous works are possibly the spider...
News from the Met: Montebello retirement and loan of Greek vases - As a result of the agreement negotiated by Philippe de Montebello, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Ministero per I Beni Culturali e Ambientali, the Republic of Italy...
From Russia: masterworks from Russian museums at the Royal Academy - After almost two months of negotiations, the Russian Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography finally approved the loan of a spectacular group of works of Art for the exhibition..
Important triptych by Francis Bacon leads Christie's February auction - Perhaps the most important triptych by Francis Bacon (1909-1992) to ever appear at auction leads Christie's Post War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale on Wednesday, 6 February 2008...
Major works by Egon Schiele come to auction - An impressive collection of eight major works by Egon Schiele (1890-1918) will be offered in Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale including Art of the Surreal on 4 February 2008. Estimated...
French Museums to offer free admission - Most of France's nationals museums will offer free admission until June 30th 2007, as part of an attempt from French government to open up culture to the people. Other museums will also offer free admission, but...
The Lascaux cave paintings, threatened by a fungus - One of the jewels of prehistoric art, the Lascaux Cave paintings in France, could be seriously damaged by a fungus. Therefore, a group of archaeologists have decided to apply a fungicide over the paint...
Bernar Venet monumental exhition in Florida - For the first time, Sotheby's will present an exhibition of a single artist, the renowned sculptor, Bernar Venet, on the lush grounds of the Isleworth Golf & Country Club in Windermere, Florida, outside Orlando...
Art market 2007 - a complete analysis - A brief review of the Art market for year 2007, with the stars of the season and the main successes and disappointments - from the +$70 million Rothko and Warhol or the most expensive antiquity ever auctioned...
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