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Sotheby’s Institute of Art: a summer of art in London and New York
Every summer, Sotheby’s Institute of Art welcomes hundreds of passionate students from all over the world to our campuses in the great art capitals of London and New York. Taking full advantage of each city’s rich cultural offerings, our Summer Study courses enable students to enhance their knowledge of art and the international art market…
Tragic composer Peter Warlock’s hand written score for masterwork for sale at Bonhams
LONDON.- The autograph manuscript of Peter Warlock’s masterpiece The Curlew is to be auctioned at Bonhams Fine Books, Maps and Manuscripts sale in London on March 27th. It is estimated at £4,000-6,000. The Curlew, a setting of four poems by W B …
Asia Week NY Announces 8-day extravaganza of Gallery Open Houses & Museum Exhibitions
NEW YORK, NY.- For Asia Week New York starting on March 16th, nearly three-dozen galleries will host simultaneous exhibitions to spotlight prized ancient, antique, and contemporary Asian artworks. International and Manhattan dealers will showcase an …
John Smith: Worst Case Scenario – Films from 1975-2003 at Weserburg
BREMEN.- The exhibition is taking place within the scope of the 17th Internationales Bremer Symposium zum Film “Was ist Kino? Auswählen, Aufführen, Erfahren” (What Is Cinema? Select, Present, Experience), in collaboration with the Universit…
Bonnie and Clyde guns to be auctioned in Missouri
By: Alan Scher Zagier, Associated Press
KANSAS CITY (AP).- Eighty years after their Depression-era robbery and murder spree captivated the country, Bonnie and Clyde continue to fascinate crime and history buffs. At least that’s the hope of a Missouri f…
Heart of Brooklyn launches national initiative
BROOKLYN, N.Y.- Heart of Brooklyn, a cultural partnership of six neighboring cultural institutions anchored around Grand Army Plaza in central Brooklyn, announces the next phase of Building Strong Community Networks — a catalyst for promoting crit…
Exhibition of Dale Chihuly Venetians marks the re-opening of the Fort Collins Museum of Art
FORT COLLINS, CO.- Chihuly Venetians: From the George R. Stroemple Collection opened at the Fort Collins Museum of Art on Wednesday, December 14, 2011. It will be on view until March 18, 2012. This exhibition marks the re-opening of the museum that h…
Quai Branly Museum in Paris exhibition displays the disturbing history of human zoos
PARIS (AP).- It’s a queasy experience, viewing chained tribal dancers do a white man’s bidding, or African women stripped and photographed to feed European curiosity. Until just a few generations ago, this is how most white people learned about those w…
The Nelson-Atkins Museum Opens Modernist Photographer Brett Weston
Kansas City, Missouri.- The Nelson-Atkins Museum is pleased to present “The Photographs of Brett Weston”, on view from November 23rd through April 1st 2012. Over his long and prolific career, photographer Brett Weston (1911-1993) exemplified the mod…