LIVERPOOL.- An exciting new exhibition looks at a dazzling array of women’s accessories that helped add a sparkle to fashion from when Queen Victoria was a girl up to the outbreak of the Second World War. The Finishing Touch: Women’s Accessor…
Harris Museum Buys 19th Century "Puck" Painting
LONDON.- An important 19th century painting featuring Puck, the mischievous character from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, has been bought for the Harris Museum & Art Gallery in Preston. Puck by Victorian artist Richard Dadd is a mys…
First Exhibition to Focus on Motif of the Open Window in 19th Century Art at Metropolitan Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- During the Romantic era, the open window appeared either as the sole subject or the main feature in many pictures of interiors that were filled with a poetic play of light and perceptible silence. Rooms with a View: The Open Window in th…
University of Sydney’s Nicholson Museum Presents Classical Nudes Exposed in Photography
SYDNEY.- One hundred nude images inspired by the Classical past on display at the University of Sydney’s Nicholson Museum during January’s Sydney Festival (from January 4 to April 17 2011). Exposed: Photography and the Classical Nude is a celebration o…
Getty Villa Announces Exhibition that Presents Early Photographs of the Holy Land
LAS ANGELES, CA.- In Search of Biblical Lands: From Jerusalem to Jordan in 19th-Century Photography on view at the Getty Villa from March 2 through September 12, 2011, features some of the first photographic images of the eastern margins of the Mediter…
The Cultural World Gathers in Qatar to Inaugurate MATHAF: Arab Museum of Modern Art
DOHA, QATAR.- In the presence of His Highness the Emir, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, international dignitaries, leaders of prominent cultural institutions, scholars and more than eighty artists join the inaugural ceremony for Mathaf: Arab Museum …
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art Announces Details of Its Three Opening Exhibitions
DOHA.- Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art revealed the details of the three exhibitions it will present when it opens to the public on December 30, 2010. Historic works of Arab modernism and a multitude of new works commissioned by Mathaf will be on vie…
Qatar Museums Authority Announces Opening of New Arab Museum of Modern Art
DOHA, QATAR.- Conceived as a gathering place where questions are asked, ideas are explored and creativity is fostered, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art will open to the public on December 30, 2010, in Doha, Qatar. Mathaf (pronounced Mat-haff, which me…
Qatar Museums Authority Announces Opening of New Arab Museum of Modern Art
DOHA, QATAR.- Conceived as a gathering place where questions are asked, ideas are explored and creativity is fostered, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art will open to the public on December 30, 2010, in Doha, Qatar. Mathaf (pronounced Mat-haff, which me…
Chrysler Museum Reveals Portrait of America through Photography
NORFOLK, VA.- The Chrysler Museum of Art presents Portraying a Nation: American Portrait Photography, 1850–2010, which is on view through March 27, 2011 in the Frank Photography Galleries. From the rise of the daguerreotype in the 1840s to the di…