MADRID.- Cuenca participates at PHotoEspaña for fifth consecutive year, and hosts for the third time OpenPHoto Cuenca, the exhibition programme consisting of proposals from embassies and cultural institutes. The iniciative is sponsored by Town Hall of…
NEW YORK, NY.- American Friends of the Louvre announced that it has received a $3 million grant through the generosity of Pierre Omidyar, a member of Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute’s Board of Directors and the founder and Chairman of eBay Inc…
WASHIGNTON, D.C.- The Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery have received a major gift to support Persian art and culture and related programs at the museums. The donor, Jahangir Amuzegar, has established two endowments: the …
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, and Volkswagen announced details of a two-year partnership today at a press conference at MoMA. The major components of the partnership are the support for an international contemporary art exhibition …
NEW YORK, NY.- The grand reopening of a suite of 15 dramatic New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia will take place at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on November 1. The greatly enlarged, fre…
NUREMBERG.- Bitter oranges and lemons are found in portraits since the 15th century. Varied meanings are tied up with the fruits. In the Baroque age, it was popular to symbolize the descent of a portrait subject from the Dutch ruling dynasty of Orange…
BILBAO.- The year 2011 marks the centenary of the birth of Matta, one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century art because of his importance as a member of the Surrealist group and his enormous influence on the development of American Abstr…
NEW YORK, NY.- Two new galleries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and related education programs-all focusing on the art and culture of Morocco, Spain, North Africa, and the Western Mediterranean during the eighth through 19th century-have been funded…
BERLIN.- In collaboration with the Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V. Bonn (Foundation for Art and Culture, Bonn), the Villa Schöningen presents in its spring exhibition a selection of early works by Andy Warhol. On view from May 3 to July 24, 2011, …
BERLIN.- In collaboration with the Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V. Bonn (Foundation for Art and Culture, Bonn), the Villa Schöningen presents in its spring exhibition a selection of early works by Andy Warhol. On view from May 3 to July 24, 2011, …
