PARIS (AP).- Preparing the biggest homecoming yet of its kind, authorities in New Zealand on Monday received 20 ancestral heads of Maori ethnic people once held in several French museums as a cultural curiosity. French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterr…
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. Ti…
Kunstmuseum Basel presents the work of self-taught photographer Karlheinz Weinberger
BASEL.- The exhibition presents the rarely shown work of the photographer Karlheinz Weinberger (1921–2006). Together with magazines and a selection of vintage apparel, the pictures document a youth culture in Zurich that emerged after World War II…
Sotheby’s New York announces sale of the collection of Suzanne Saperstein in April
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s announce that it will offer The Collection of Suzanne Saperstein in a dedicated sale on 19 April 2012 in New York. Carefully assembled over the course of two decades and housed in her celebrated Beverly Hills estate Fleur …
Giant child on rocking horse by Elmgreen & Dragset unveiled on the fourth plinth next month
LONDON.- The next commission for the Fourth Plinth, Powerless Structures, Fig 101, by Scandinavian artistic duo Elmgreen & Dragset will be unveiled at 09.30 on Thursday 23 February 2012 in Trafalgar Square, London. Commissioned by the Mayor of London …
In numbers: Serial publications by artists since 1955 at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts
LONDON.- In Numbers is a survey exhibition of the often-overlooked genre of serial publications produced by artists around the world from 1955 to the present day at the Institute of Contemporary Arts from 25 January to 18 March 2012. From the rise of t…
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 panoram…
Oldest nest site yet found provides first detailed look into complex dino reproduction behaviour
TORONTO.- An excavation at a site in South Africa has unearthed the 190-million-year-old dinosaur nesting site of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus—revealing significant clues about the evolution of complex reproductive behaviour in early di…
Cristián Samper to step down As Director of Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History
WASHINGTON, DC.- Cristián Samper, a biologist and international leader in the field of conservation biology, announced his resignation from the National Museum of Natural History where he has served as director since 2003. Samper was Acting Secretary …
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…