NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum presents the second exhibition in its recently inaugurated ‘Studio 231’ series. “Head Gas” is the first New York exhibition by Italian-born, Berlin-based artist Enrico David. Over the past twenty years,…
Bridgeman Art Library announces representation of the Father Brown Collection taken on the Titanic
LONDON.- The Bridgeman Art Library, the leading source of cultural and historical art images for reproduction, announced its representation of the Father Brown Photographic Collection, a valuable chronicle of life onboard the Titanic before tragedy str…
Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University presents four new exhibitions
MILWAUKEE, WI.- The Haggerty Museum of Art on the campus of Marquette University will feature four exhibitions from January 18 through May 20, 2012 including The Europeans Photographs by Tina Barney; Philip Guston Inevitable Finality, The Gemini G.E.L….
Cleveland’s Rock Hall of Fame and Museum opens new library and archives to public
CLEVELAND (AP).- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opened its new library and archives to the public on Tuesday to give scholars and fans access to the stories behind the music through such “artifacts” as personal letters from Madonna and Areth…
France in miniature, sixteen scale models of fortified towns under the great glass roof of the Grand Palais
PARIS.- Arranged around a 650 square-metre map of France, sixteen scale models of fortified towns, produced in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, are to go on show in this prestigious Champs-Élysées setting. Interactive multimedia displays and innova…
Italian Old Masters in New York: Glowing gold-ground works offered by Moretti Fine Art
NEW YORK, NY.- Moretti Fine Art will stage their third annual winter exhibition of early Italian Old Masters at their gallery at 24 East 80th Street, New York, from 18 January to 10 February 2012. Entitled The Middle Ages and Early Renaissance: Painti…
Egyptian and Swiss archaeologists find rare tomb of woman in Egypt’s Valley of Kings
CAIRO (AP).- In a rare find, Egyptian and Swiss archaeologists have unearthed a roughly 1,100 year-old tomb of a female singer in the Valley of the Kings, an antiquities official said Sunday. It is the only tomb of a woman not related to the ancient Eg…
Sotheby’s to sell exceptional private collection of fresh-to-market drawings by Lucian Freud
LONDON.- In the wake of the strong prices achieved for works on paper by Lucian Freud in 2011, including the auction record which was established by Sotheby’s London in June 2011**, Sotheby’s announced that it will offer for sale an outstandi…
Miami Art Museum receives $1 million grant for the collection of Contemporary art
MIAMI, FL.- As part of its commitment to serving the greater Miami community and in anticipation of its move to a new and expanded facility, Miami Art Museum has redoubled its efforts to build its collection of great works of art for the public to enjo…
British scientists find scores of ‘lost’ Charles Darwin fossils in an old wooden cabinet
LONDON (AP).- British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years. Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway, University …