NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips de Pury & Company launches its Spring Photographs season with a single-owner sale titled The Face of Modernism: A Private West Coast Collection. Comprised of 28 lots, this single-owner collection provides a glimpse into a pivota…
On the 210th anniversary of Victor Hugo’s birth, Christie’s announces the sale of the Hugo Collection
PARIS.- On the 210th anniversary of Victor Hugo’s birth, Christie’s announced the sale of The Hugo Collection on April 4th. An important group of nearly 500 books, paintings, drawings, engravings, photographs, furniture and other personal obj…
Designers Miuccia Prada, Elsa Schiaparelli in new Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit
MILAN (AP).- Miuccia Prada never met her designing compatriot Elsa Schiaparelli in life but the two are being united in an exhibit on the sidelines of Milan Fashion Week. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has paired designs by the two female Italian styli…
LACMA to begin transport of boulder for major artwork, Levitated Mass, by artist Michael Heizer
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The 340-ton megalith that is to be part of artist Michael Heizer’s monumental artwork, Levitated Mass, is scheduled to begin its journey to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) on the night of Tuesday, February 28. Due to…
New York City’s Hispanic Society of America, which holds a world-class collection, seeks to make itself known
NEW YORK (AP).- 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 from s…
The Ashmolean Museum campaigns to save a masterpiece by Edouard Manet for the nation
OXFORD.- The Ashmolean Museum is mounting a campaign to save Edouard Manet’s Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus, 1868, for the nation. On the advice of the Reviewing Committee, the Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has extended the temporary export bar on t…
Unprecedented imaging project supported by the Getty reveals master work in minute detail-online
LOS ANGELES, CA.- It is now possible to zoom into the intricate, breathtaking details of one of the most important works of art in the world, thanks to a newly completed website focused on the Ghent Altarpiece. A stunning and highly complex painting co…
MoMA presents exhibition covering Cindy Sherman’s career, from the 1970s to the present
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents the exhibition Cindy Sherman, a retrospective tracing the groundbreaking artist’s career from the mid-1970s to the present, from February 26 to June 11, 2012. The exhibition brings together 171 key …
Exhibition of the largest single collection of 13th century Mongolian artifacts opens at the Field Museum
CHICAGO, IL.- An unrivaled conqueror who changed the course of world culture is the subject of new exhibition at The Field Museum. Genghis Khan (Feb. 24 through Sept. 3, 2012) showcases the largest single collection of 13th century Mongolian artifacts…
Exhibition in Bonn features the journeys August Macke undertook during his brief life
BONN.- To help mark the 125th birthday of August Macke (1887 – 1914) the August Macke Haus for the first time highlights his extensive travels. The fascination of the unknown and search for new creative impulses have for centuries caused artists t…