NEW YORK CITY.- Situated behind a wrought-iron gate on an attractive brick terrace in upper Manhattan, the Hispanic Society of America is an imposing museum and research library. It has a world-class collection of Iberian art that includes works fro…
Academy unhappy but helpless to stop Oscar auction
BEVERLY HILLS (AP).- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is not pleased with plans to auction off 15 Oscar statuettes from such films as “Citizen Kane,” ”Wuthering Heights” and “Little Women.” But the academy says its hands are tied in blo…
Time is out of joint: Photography 1966-2011 by Boris Mikhailov on view at Berlinische Galerie
BERLIN.- With a show of works by Boris Mikhailov, born in Ukraine in 1938, the Berlinische Galerie is acknowledging a major position in contemporary photography. Mikhailov establishes many links between documentation and conceptual art, and in so doing…
"Painting Air: Spencer Finch" opens at the Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design
PROVIDENCE, RI.- The Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design announces Painting Air: Spencer Finch, a major exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Spencer Finch. In this two-part show, the Museum debuts a largescale installation by Finch, shown with m…
Andrea Galvani’s first solo exhibition with Meulensteen opens in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Meulensteen announces Andrea Galvani’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, entitled A Few Invisible Sculptures. What are we talking about when we talk about sculpture? With the rigor and method characteristic of the American writer …
Claim surfaces of Anne Frank baptism by Mormons
SALT LAKE CITY (AP).- A new claim has surfaced that the Mormon church has posthumously baptized a Holocaust victim, this time Anne Frank. The allegations come just a week after The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints apologized when it was brou…
Poland, US museum tussle over Auschwitz barracks
WARSAW (AP).- Polish and U.S. officials are engaged in intense talks to determine the fate of a sensitive object: a barrack that once housed doomed prisoners at the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp and is now on display at the United States Holocaust Memor…
Bonhams to sell pistols of aide-de-camp to King George III, a veteran of American War of Independence
LONDON.- This exceptional pair of Indian 28-bore silver-mounted flintlock pistols with silver barrels was owned by Lt. Col. Alexander Ross (1742-1827), whose extraordinary record of distinguished combat in theatres of war took place on three continents…
Baryshnikov shows his dance photography at the Gary Nader Art Centre in Miami
MIAMI (AP).- The dancer in the photograph isn’t frozen in time. Her body is the source of light on a darkened stage, and with a blur of muscle, she’s dancing straight at the viewer who has stepped into her moment. The image is one of roughly two dozen …
Florida museum auctions off antique cars, carousel, bringing in $38.3 million in sales
BOCA RATON (AP).- Two brothers’ unique private museum of classic cars, rare musical instruments and other collectibles was emptied Saturday with the final strike of an auctioneer’s gavel, bringing in $38.3 million in sales. Two days of bidding on 550 l…