COUNTY DURHAM.- One of the treasures of The Bowes Museum’s sequence of period room panelling will be highlighted as the Object of the Month for August. Every Thursday at 2.30 curator Howard Coutts will reveal the story behind a segment of panellin…
Workers in New York City Begin to Dismantle Ground Zero Ship
NEW YORK (AP).- Plank by plank, archeologists on Monday began the delicate process of dismantling a section of an 18th century ship that was found buried across the street from the World Trade Center site. Each plank will be freeze-dried so that the fr…
17th Century Automata Lion Clock Roars in £117,600 at Bonhams
LONDON.- An early 17th century gilt brass automata lion clock, which moves its eyes in time with the seconds and roars a chime every hour, sold for £117,600 at Bonhams, New Bond Street as part of its Fine Clocks and Barometers sale on Wednesday 14 Jul…
The Joe Grimberg Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles at Sotheby’s
LONDON.- One of the highlights of
Sotheby’s fall
2010 Asia Week sales in New York will be a single owner offering of the
Joe
Grimberg Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles on 14 September 2010. The
bottles
date from as early as the beginni…
The Joe Grimberg Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles at Sotheby’s New York
LONDON.- One of the highlights of Sotheby’s fall 2010 Asia Week sales in New York will be a single owner offering of the Joe Grimberg Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles on 14 September 2010. The bottles date from as early as the beginning of the …
The Great Kings of India to Hold Court at the Art Gallery of Ontario
TORONTO.- This fall the Art Gallery of Ontario opens its doors to the magnificent world of India’s great kings. Maharaja: The Splendour of India’s Royal Courts, organized in collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, will make …
New Mackinac Art Museum Opens Ahead of Schedule
MACKINAK ISALND (AP).- The new Richard and Jane Manoogian Mackinac Art Museum has opened on Mackinac Island. The museum at the island’s Indian Dormitory opened weeks ahead of schedule Friday in time for the Independence Day weekend. It will showcase h…
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg presents Interior / Exterior ~ Living in Art
WOLFSBURG, GERMANY – In 2006, under the artistic direction of Prof. Dr. Markus Brüderlin, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg set out in search of modernism in the 21st century, integrating its exhibition projects thematically and conceptually into a …
British, Dutch and Flemish Masters to Lead Sotheby’s 2010 Summer Sale
LONDON.- Sotheby’s summer Evening Sale of
Old
Master and British Paintings in London will take place on Wednesday,
July 7,
2010 and taking centre stage will be J.M.W. Turner’s breathtaking
masterpiece
Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino. The s…
British, Dutch and Flemish Masters to Lead Sotheby’s 2010 Summer Sale
LONDON.- Sotheby’s summer Evening Sale of Old Master and British Paintings in London will take place on Wednesday, July 7, 2010 and taking centre stage will be J.M.W. Turner’s breathtaking masterpiece Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino. The sale wil…