Chinese snuff bottle auction at Bonhams highlights New York Asia Week
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams will be participating in Asia Week 2012, which brings together a variety of art outlets to celebrate Asian art from China, India, Japan, Korea, the Himalayas and Southeast Asia. Bonhams will highlight this week with three preview…
Nejad Devrim to lead Sotheby’s London sale of Contemporary Turkish art this April
LONDON.- Sotheby’s London announce that its sale of Contemporary Turkish Art, will take place on Thursday 26th April 2012 during Sotheby’s Turkish and Islamic Week: Classical to Contemporary, which will commence on the 24th of April 2012*. Compris…
Royal Ontario Museum announces scientists name two new species of horned dinosaur
TORONTO, ON.- Two new horned dinosaurs have been named based on fossils collected from Alberta, Canada. The new species, Unescopceratops koppelhusae and Gryphoceratops morrisoni, are from the Leptoceratopsidae family of horned dinosaurs. The herbivores…
New brochure from Claremont Rug Company highlights spectrum of art-level 19th century Oriental pieces
OAKLAND, CA.- Claremont Rug Company today announced the availability of a new, 28-page brochure which features 29 important, art-level 19th century Oriental rugs available at the Gallery. “This brochure comes at a particularly significant time,…
David Zwirner to open two major galleries in London and New York in 2012
LONDON.- David Zwirner announced that the gallery will expand its activities with a gallery in London and a new, five-story construction in New York. The gallery’s first European location will be an 18th-century Georgian townhouse on 24 Grafton St…
Sotheby’s Hong Kong to hold 20th century Chinese art Spring sale 2012 in April
HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s Hong Kong will hold its 20th Century Chinese Art Spring Sale 2012 on 2 April, offering more than 140 lots at a total estimate of HK$160 million / US$20.5 million*. This sale includes outstanding modernist, abstract, realist, …
Landmark Metropolitan Museum exhibition considers two centuries that shaped the Medieval world
NEW YORK, NY.- At the start of the seventh century, the eastern Mediterranean—from Syria through Egypt and across North Africa—was central to the spiritual and political heart of the Byzantine Empire, ruled from Constantinople (modern Istanbu…
Gustav Klimt: The Drawings at Albertina pays tribute to the phenomenal draftsman
VIENNA.- It is the 150th anniversary of Gustav Klimt’s birthday that offers the Albertina the occasion to pay tribute to the phenomenal draftsman. The Albertina is in possession of 170 of the artist’s most important drawings, among them shee…
First major presentation of Claude’s influence on Turner opens at the National Gallery
LONDON.- The National Gallery’s spring exhibition, Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude, is the first major presentation of Claude’s influence on Turner. Turner’s daring free painting technique and radical approach created a revolutio…
TEFAF Maastricht Celebrates its Silver Jubilee March 16th through 25th
Maastricht, Netherlands.- Exhibitors at TEFAF Maastricht will be bringing an extraordinary array of rare and beautiful works of art as The European Fine Art Fair celebrates its Silver Jubilee at the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Cen…