Los Angeles.- The Merry Karnowsky Gallery is proud to present this summer’s group exhibition featuring Deedee Cheriel’s Songs For Infinite Starry Nights, Femke Hiemstra’s Big Thousands of Golden Flowers, & Audrey Kawasaki’s Restless…
MoMA Wales Shows the Welsh Landscapes of Matthew Wood
Machynlleth, Wales.- The Museum of Modern Art, Wales is proud to present “Matthew Wood: 110 Paintings of Wales”, on view at the museum until September 3rd. After producing landscape paintings in Shropshire, Brussels and a variety of other European lo…
Great Olmeca Treasures on View at the National Museum of Anthropology
MEXICO CITY.- After the success at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and de Young Museum in San Francisco, in the United States, where nearly 600,000 persons visited it, the exhibition Colossal Masterworks from Olmeca World is now open at the Na…
The Metropolitan Museum Announces Highest Attendance in 40 Years ~ 5.68 Million Visitors
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that 5.68 million people visited the Met during the fiscal year that ended on June 30. The number, which includes attendance at The Cloisters museum and gardens, is the highest recorded in 40 y…
Aldourie Castle in Scotland ~ Winner of The Historic Houses Restoration Award 2011
LONDON.- The Historic Houses Association (HHA) and Sotheby’s announced that the winning entry of their Restoration Award for 2011 – an award now in its fourth year – is Aldourie Castle, on the southern shore of Loch Ness, near Inverness, Scotland…
The Pace Gallery Presents "Soft Machines" ~ A Group Exhibition
NEW YORK, NY.- The Pace Gallery presents Soft Machines, a group exhibition of artists exploring the influence and effects of control mechanisms on the human body. The exhibition features works by Stuart Brisley, Kathryn Garcia, Anthony Keith Giannin…
British Realist Painter Lucian Freud ~ Distinguished & Highly Regarded ~ Dies Aged 88
London.- Lucian Freud 1922 – 2011. Lucian Freud was born in Berlin, the son of architect Ernst Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud. In 1933, his family fled to London to escape the rising tide of Nazism, and Lucian and his two brothers w…
Urban Curations Online Exhibition Shows Contemporary and Street-Inspired Art
London.- Infinity Bunce founded Urban Curations. Infinity – an artist herself has been curating for many years around London, so she decided she needed a base and set up Urban Curations, which is a showcase for street urban and fine artists, photog…
Only Copy of Magna Carta in the USA Treated at National Archives in Washington
WASHINGTON (AP).- A painstaking conservation effort to remove old patches and repair weak spots in a 714-year-old copy of the Magna Carta has revealed that the full text of that English declaration of human rights remains intact even though some wor…
The Art Institute of Chicago Presents Soviet TASS Posters at Home & Abroad, 1941–1945
Chicago, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to present “Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941–1945” from July 31st through October 23rd. In 1997, 26 tightly wrapped brown paper parcels were discovered deep in …