Line of Thought: Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art explores the work of 15 contemporary artists
LONDON.- The exhibition Lines of Thought explores the work of 15 contemporary artists, whose practice has focused in particular on using line in creatively challenging ways. With works representing different generations, it is remarkable to observe how…
Solo exhibition of new sculpture by Karla Black opens at Stuart Shave/Modern Art
LONDON.- Stuart Shave/Modern Art announces a solo exhibition of new sculpture by Karla Black. This is the artist’s first solo show with Modern Art. Karla Black’s sculptures are formed from materials that are loose, impermanent and fragile – combin…
Berenstain Bears co-creator Jan Berenstain dies
PHILADELPHIA (AP).- Jan Berenstain, who with her husband, Stan, wrote and illustrated the Berenstain Bears books that have charmed preschoolers and their parents for 50 years, has died. She was 88. Berenstain, a longtime resident of Solebury in southea…
Exceptional price for very rare print by famous First World War artist at Bonhams
LONDON.- A very rare print by the acclaimed First World War artist Christopher Nevinson, which had never been seen at auction before, made over £50,000 at Bonhams Prints auction in London last week. The work, The Doctor (The Out-patient), dates from 1…
Tim Hyde’s The Island: Prologue in the Project Space at Meulensteen
NEW YORK, NY.- Meulensteen announces the opening of Tim Hyde’s The Island: Prologue in the Project Space. The installation presents photographs, drawings and text as an overture to a body of work that the artist is developing for his forthcoming m…
Largest gathering of plein air artists in history to occur this April in Las Vegas’ Red Rock Resort
AUSTIN, TX.- The 1st Annual Plein Air Convention, the United States’ most significant gathering of American and international outdoor painters, will make its debut in Las Vegas at Red Rock Resort, Casino & Spa, April 12-15, 2012. The conference wi…
Spain rejects Peruvian government claim to multimillion-dollar shipwreck treasure
MADRID (AP).- Spain on Monday rejected Peru’s claim to a huge multimillion-dollar undersea treasure recovered from the wreckage of a ship that had left from Lima’s port more than 200 years ago. Spain recovered the nearly 600,000 coins — mostly si…
New arts of Japan gallery opens culminating five-year initiative to expand presentation of Asian art
HOUSTON, TX.- The new, permanent Arts of Japan Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, opened to the public on February 19. The Japan gallery is the final installation in a suite of permanent Arts of Asia galleries surrounding Cullinan Hall in the…
Hermann Historica oHG Spring auction offers a wide variety from all collection fields of history and military history
MUNICH.- From 23 April to 4 May 2012 this year’s spring auction of the Hermann Historica oHG will take place, as usual with a wide range of high-quality offerings. Approximately 6800 lots from all areas of the auction house – antiquities, arms and…
Exhibition of fifty years of Latin American art from the Neuberger Museum on view at Gallery 1285
PURCHASE, NY.- The Neuberger Museum of Art of Purchase College, one of the country’s premier museums of modern, contemporary, and African art, has organized a new exhibition, Fifty Years of Latin American Art: Selections from the Neuberger Museum …