AMSTERDAM.- The highlight of the Old Master Paintings sale at Sotheby’s Amsterdam on Tuesday, 10th May, 2011 is A school class with a sleeping schoolmaster by Dutch Golden Age Artist Jan Steen (1626-1979). This painting may be regarded as one of J…
The Highlight of Sotheby’s Amsterdam Old Master Paintings Sale: A School Class by Jan Steen
AMSTERDAM.- The highlight of the Old Master Paintings sale at Sotheby’s Amsterdam on Tuesday, 10th May, 2011 is A school class with a sleeping schoolmaster by Dutch Golden Age Artist Jan Steen (1626-1979). This painting may be regarded as one of J…
South Carolina Museum Honoring Civil Rights Leader Mays Opens
GREENWOOD (AP).- A museum dedicated to the life of Benjamin E. Mays, an educator who was an early inspiration to Martin Luther King Jr. and who was often referred to as the father of the civil rights movement, opened Tuesday in his hometown of Greenwo…
Champagne from Baltic Sea Shipwreck Up for Grabs at Auction in Finland in June
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Two bottles of champagne, thought to be about 200 years old and part of a cache of 150 salvaged from a 19th century shipwreck in the Baltic Sea, will be auctioned in Finland in June. The cache, which belongs to the government of Al…
Champagne from Baltic Sea Shipwreck Up for Grabs at Auction in Finland in June
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Two bottles of champagne, thought to be about 200 years old and part of a cache of 150 salvaged from a 19th century shipwreck in the Baltic Sea, will be auctioned in Finland in June. The cache, which belongs to the government of Al…
Russia’s Venerable Bolshoi Theater to Reopen in October After Years of Reconstruction
MOSCOW (AP).- Russia’s venerable Bolshoi Theater — which survived fires, a Nazi bombing and Lenin’s request to have it blown up — is almost ready to reopen after years of reconstruction and will look just as it did during the czarist era. Th…
The Linda Pace Foundation Announces Acquisition of a Sound Sculpture by Susan Philipsz
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The Linda Pace Foundation announces a major acquisition and related exhibition of sound sculpture Sunset Song, 2003, by Susan Philipsz, a Turner Prize-winning artist. The work joins the more than 500 objects in the Foundation’s d…
Library of Birmingham Boosted by Important 19th Century Photography Collection
BIRMINGHAM.- A collection of rare photographs from the first photography commission for a Royal trip abroad has been purchased by Birmingham Library and Archive Services. Taken by the pioneering British photographer Francis Bedford (1816-1894), they ch…
Exhibition on Pioneer of Modern German Art ~ Max Liebermann in Bonn
BONN.- In cooperation with the Hamburg Kunsthalle, the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany is showing a comprehensive retrospective on Max Liebermann (1847–1935). Max Liebermann plays an outstanding role in the history…
Library of Birmingham Boosted by Important 19th Century Photography Collection
BIRMINGHAM.- A collection of rare photographs from the first photography commission for a Royal trip abroad has been purchased by Birmingham Library and Archive Services. Taken by the pioneering British photographer Francis Bedford (1816-1894), they ch…