STANFORD, CA.- Stanford University will become home to the core of the Anderson Collection, one of the most outstanding private collections of 20th-century American art in the world, which is being donated to the university by Harry W. and Mary Margare…
Stanford University to Receive Anderson Collection of 20th-Century American Art
STANFORD, CA.- Stanford University will become home to the core of the Anderson Collection, one of the most outstanding private collections of 20th-century American art in the world, which is being donated to the university by Harry W. and Mary Margare…
Getty Acquires Important Research Collection for Modern and Contemporary Art
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Research Institute announced the acquisition of the Harald Szeemann Archive and Library—one of the most important private research collections for modern and contemporary art in the world. The largest collection ever ac…
MoMA PS1 Presents the First Large-Scale Museum Exhibition of Ryan Trecartin’s Work
New YorkM City.- MoMA PS1 presents the first large-scale museum exhibition in New York of work by the artist Ryan Trecartin. “Ryan Trecartin: Any Ever” fills seven galleries with sculptural theater installations that house projections of the seven …
MKG in Hamburg Reappraises Art Nouveau with Exhibition of More than 180 Posters
HAMBURG.- On the occasion of the reappraisal of one of the most comprehensive collections of commercial art in the world, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg will show a selection of 180 works of the decades when picture production exploded –…
‘An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of American Art’ at the New Britain Museum of American Art
New Britain, CT.- Until July 3rd 2011 the New Britain Museum of American Art’s McKernan Gallery features ‘An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of American Art’. The exhibition is composed of works from the personal collection of Jonathan “…
The Whitney Museum of American Art Presents Exhibiton Exploring Its Founding Collection
New York, NY – At the turn of the twentieth century, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, an heiress and sculptor born to one of America’s wealthiest families, began to assemble a rich and highly diverse collection of modern American art. This group of obj…
Sotheby’s Sets Record for an Islamic Work of Art at Auction with £7.4 Million Sale
LONDON.- Today, Sotheby’s London established a new record for an Islamic work of art at auction when an illustrated folio from the Shahnameh made for Shah Tahmasp of Persia, universally acknowledged as one of the supreme illustrated manuscripts of…
Sotheby’s Sets Record for an Islamic Work of Art at Auction with the £7.4 Million Achieved for the Shahnameh
LONDON.- Today, Sotheby’s London established a new record for an Islamic work of art at auction when an illustrated folio from the Shahnameh made for Shah Tahmasp of Persia, universally acknowledged as one of the supreme illustrated manuscripts of…
Newark Museum Celebrates One Hundred Years of Collecting and Exhibiting Tibetan Art
NEWARK, NJ.- The Newark Museum celebrates a 100-year milestone in 2011, the formation and exhibition of its internationally acclaimed Tibetan collection. Since the first group of 150 objects was initially displayed in 1911, the Newark Museum has become…