Author: Darko Topalski

LONDON.- Leading independent art charity The Art
Fund today announces that it has helped save two important objects housed at
Seaton Delaval Hall, the Vanbrugh mansion which has been the subject of a major
fundraising campaign by the National Trust. The Art Fund has
pledged £100,000, enabling the Hall to acquire the ‘Fairfax Jewel’, which
consists of three enamelled roundels set in an engraved, rectangular gilt-metal
plaque, and the ‘Marble Bust of Charles II’ by Bushnell. News of the
charity grant comes on the day that the National Trust announces that Seaton
Delaval Hall, close to Blyth in south east Northumberland, has been saved for
the nation.

Vienna, Austria – Comprising 170 works, the exhibition Impressionism – Painting Light
unfolds the mesmerizing world of
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting at The Albertina through January 10, 2010. In addition to 75 paintings
from the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud in Cologne, the
show will include an enriching range of superb works from the Albertina and the
Batliner Collection as well as loans from private collections and international
museums.

NEW YORK, NY.- Since its opening in 1959, the
Frank Lloyd Wright–designed Guggenheim building has served as an inspiration for
invention, challenging artists and architects to react to its eccentric, organic
design. The central void of the rotunda has elicited many unique
responses over the years, which have been manifested in both site-specific solo
shows and memorable exhibition designs. For the building’s 50th
anniversary, the Guggenheim Museum invited more than two hundred artists,
architects, and designers to imagine their dream interventions in the space for
the exhibition “Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum”.

AMSTERDAM.- Sotheby’s announced that it will offer
for sale 163 works from the former Peter Stuyvesant Collection, property of
British American Tobacco Netherlands (BAT), on Monday, March 8, 2010 at
Sotheby’s in Amsterdam. The works from the collection to be offered for
sale are estimated to realize in excess of €.4 million. The collection is the
largest collection of Post War and Contemporary Art ever to come at auction in
the Netherlands. Starting in the late 1950s it became famous as the
Peter Stuyvesant Collection and now consists of more than 1000 works created by
artists from over 40 countries.