NEW HAVEN, CT.- Scholars, artists and other individuals around the world will enjoy free access to online images of millions of objects housed in Yale’s museums, archives, and libraries thanks to a new “Open Access” policy that the University announced…
Digital Images of Yale’s Vast Cultural Collections Now Available for Free to Individuals
NEW HAVEN, CT.- Scholars, artists and other individuals around the world will enjoy free access to online images of millions of objects housed in Yale’s museums, archives, and libraries thanks to a new “Open Access” policy that the University announced…
Most Exciting Colourist Sale in Scotland for a Generation at Bonhams in August
LONDON.- Bonhams announces that as part of its Annual Scottish Sale in August it will be offering an outstanding collection of paintings by the Scottish Colourists. Works by all the major artists of the Colourist movement are featured, including ‘…
Italian Drawings from Renowned Collection Presented at the National Gallery of Art
WASHINGTON, DC.- Splendors of Italian draftsmanship from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, spanning the late Renaissance to the height of the neoclassical movement, are showcased at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. On view in the Gallery’s West B…
Italian Drawings from Renowned Collection at the National Gallery of Art
WASHINGTON, DC.- Splendors of Italian draftsmanship from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, spanning the late Renaissance to the height of the neoclassical movement, are showcased at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. On view in the Gallery’s West…
Downtown Manhattan Becomes a Dynamic Laboratory for Creative Thinking
NEW YORK, NY.- The Festival of Ideas for the New City is a major new collaborative initiative involving scores of Downtown organizations, from large universities to arts institutions and community groups, working together to affect change. The Festival…
Ancestors of the Lake: Art of Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay, New Guinea
HOUSTON, TX.- European navigators began traveling to coastal areas of New Guinea in the sixteenth century, but it was not until 1858 that the Dutch Etna Expedition reached Humboldt Bay and Lake Sentani (in the present-day Indonesian province of Papua, …
The MUDAM Displays Landscape Inspired Works from it’s Collection
Luxembourg.- “Walking Through …. MUDAM Collection” on view at the MUDAM in Luxembourg until June 11th, features works from the museum’s collection that have been inspired, in one form or another, by landscape. Looking at the landscape, the attenti…
"Native Life in the Americas" at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Tozzer Library present a new exhibition, Native Life in the Americas: Artists’ Views. The exhibition opens today, May 4, 2011, in Tozzer Library and will remain on view through Feb…
Leigh Anne Lester Wins 2011 Hunting Art Prize
HOUSTON,TX.- The graphite drawing was selected from 110 finalist pieces in the 31st annual award program, which is sponsored by the global oil services company and is the most generous annual art prize in North America for painting and drawing. The ann…