OAKLAND, CA.- On February 7, Jan David Winitz, founder and president of Claremont Rug Company, cited three major developments in the market for 19th century, art-level Oriental rugs as indicative of collectors’ rising interest in this emerging ni…
Selections from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection at the Santander Art Gallery
MADRID.- “Spirit and Space”, is the title of the exhibition that Fundación Banco Santander organises at the Santander Art Gallery at Boadilla’s Financial City from February 9th until April 29th. 124 works of art, 69 artists from 20 dif…
Increasing Interest in Rare, 19th Century Oriental Carpets Continues Unabated Among Art Collectors
OAKLAND, CA.- On February 7, Jan David Winitz, founder and president of Claremont Rug Company, cited three major developments in the market for 19th century, art-level Oriental rugs as indicative of collectors’ rising interest in this emerging ni…
New Portrait of the Princes William and Harry at National Portrait Gallery in London
LONDON.- A previously unseen portrait of Prince William and Prince Harry by Fergus Greer and a portrait of Tracey Emin by David Bailey will form part of a new display highlighting the photographs recently acquired by the National Portrait Gallery. Eigh…
New Portrait of the Princes William and Harry at National Portrait Gallery in London
LONDON.- A previously unseen portrait of Prince William and Prince Harry by Fergus Greer and a portrait of Tracey Emin by David Bailey will form part of a new display highlighting the photographs recently acquired by the National Portrait Gallery. Eigh…
Second Annual Collectors Evening Secures Six New Acquisitions for the High
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art hosted its second annual Collectors Evening on Friday, January 28. Participants voted to secure four new acquisitions for the Museum: Vik Muniz’s “Leda and the Swan, after Leonardo da Vinci” (2009); a…
Second Annual Collectors Evening Secures Six New Acquisitions for the High
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art hosted its second annual Collectors Evening on Friday, January 28. Participants voted to secure four new acquisitions for the Museum: Vik Muniz’s “Leda and the Swan, after Leonardo da Vinci” (2009); a…
Getty Acquires Significant Group of South African Photographs
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced yesterday the acquisition of nine photographs by two important South African photographers, Pieter Hugo and Zwelethu Mthethwa. Five photographs are from Hugo’s Permanent Error series, which documents…
Clara Kim to Join Walker Art Center as Senior Curator of Visual Arts
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Clara Kim has been named Senior Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center, effective August 1. Kim is currently Gallery Director and Curator of REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater) in Los Angeles. She will lead the artis…
Bumper Year for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
ROTTERDAM.- For Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen an extraordinarily successful year has drawn to a close. More than 320,000 people visited the 30-plus presentations that the museum organised in its own building and on location. The museum made exceptional…