PARIS.- Sotheby’s announced the sale on 18 April 2012 in Paris one of the world’s most important collections of 17th & 18th Century French Silver – assembled for over half-a-century by Raymond Jourdan-Barry and his son Pierre. The superb…
Dr. Timothy Potts, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, to take the helm of the Getty Museum
LOS ANGELES, CA.- James Cuno, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, announced today that he has appointed Dr. Timothy Potts to be the director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Potts will assume his new role on September 1. Director of the Fitzwilli…
Sotheby’s finds hidden signature on Jean-Michel Basquiat’s "Orange Sports Figure"
LONDON.- Thirty years ago, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat secretly signed one of his paintings in invisible ink, says Sotheby’s auction house, which discovered the hidden autograph as it was preparing the painting for sale. Sotheby’s experts uncovered th…
Metropolitan Museum acquires Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ "The Man (Standing Lincoln)"
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired one of only 16 known casts of Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Abraham Lincoln, the Man (Standing Lincoln), a rare, authorized reduction of the large bronze monument that the sculptor originally cr…
First exhibition to explore Pablo Picasso’s lifelong connections with Britain opens at Tate
LONDON.- In February 2012 Tate Britain will stage the first exhibition to explore Pablo Picasso’s lifelong connections with Britain. Picasso and Modern British Art will examine Picasso’s evolving critical reputation here and British artists&#…
San Antonio Museums receive gifts from the Estate of Frances and Louis Wagner
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio Museum of Art, and Witte Museum, received a bequest of $800,000 per institution from the estate of Frances and Louis Wagner for an endowment to provide annual support for their lecture series. The Wag…
New Orleans Museum of Art appoints new Director of Interpretation and Audience Engagement
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Susan Taylor, the Montine McDaniel Freeman Director at the New Orleans Museum of Art, announced today the appointment of Allison Reid as Director of the Department of Interpretation and Audience Engagement. Previously the Vice Preside…
"The Execution of Maximilian: Border Paintings" by G.T. Pellizzi and Ray Smith at Y Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Y Gallery presents “The Execution of Maximilian: Border Paintings” by G.T. Pellizzi and Ray Smith, two Mexican-American artists of different heritages, but common cultural backgrounds. The exhibition refers to the violence represented by…
A new vision: Modernist photography on view at the Currier Museum of Art
MANCHESTER, NH.- The Currier Museum of Art’s latest special exhibition traces the development of the modernist movement from the 1920s to its impact on artists today. Featuring more than 150 works displayed in three expansive galleries, A New Visi…
New book by UCSB art historian is the first to catalog indigenous African art owned by an African collector
SANTA BARBARA, CA.- With a new book that formalizes and interprets a collection of indigenous African art owned by an African collector, Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, a professor of history of art and architecture at UC Santa Barbara, is changing the wa…