LONDON.- Leading children’s charity the NSPCC and international auction house Bonhams will be holding a sale of iconic images by a host of world renowned photographers on 17 May 2012 to raise vital funds for the charity’s Rebuilding Childhood…
Mathieu Mercier: Sublimations on view at Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry – le Crédac
IVRY-SUR-SEINE.- Mathieu Mercier’s work is an indecisive crossing of the avant-gardes’ project, which attributes a practical value to the artistic object, with the Duchampian gesture that imparts a symbolic value to the object that normally s…
3,000 oil paintings from National Museums Liverpool join the Your Paintings website
LONDON.- The Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF), in partnership with the BBC, today announced that all oil paintings in National Museums Liverpool have been added to the Your Paintings website for the nation to enjoy. Your Paintings is a project to crea…
Egyptian archaeologists begin restoring 4,500-year-old wooden boat found near pyramids
CAIRO (AP).- Archaeologists on Monday began restoration on a 4,500-year-old wooden boat found next to the pyramids, one of Egypt’s main tourist attractions. The boat is one of two that were buried next to the Pharaoh Khufu, spokesmen for a joint Egypti…
Sotheby’s to sell George Daniels’ personal collection of clocks and watches in London in November 2012
LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced the Single Owner sale of the George Daniels’ Horological Collection, which will take place in London on 6th November 2012. George Daniels (19 August 1926 – 21 October 2011) was a world-known horologist and the mos…
Rijksmuseum exhibits works by Rembrandt and Vermeer in Turkey for the first time
AMSTERDAM.- For the first time, the Rijksmuseum is organising an exhibition on the Dutch Golden Age in Turkey, including five paintings by Rembrandt and ‘The love letter’ by Vermeer. Over 100 masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum collection will be on disp…
First major exhibition of photographs and videos by Ai Weiwei opens at Jeu de Paume
PARIS.- “Ai Weiwei – Interlacing” is the first major exhibition of photographs and videos by Ai Weiwei. It foregrounds Ai Weiwei the communicator – the documenting, analyzing, interweaving artist who communicates via many channels. Ai Weiwei …
Alan Dimmick: Photographs from the last 15 years of contemporary art in Scotland.
GLASGOW.- The exhibition Photographs from the last 15 years of Contemporary Art in Scotland presents over 300 black and white photographs from the archive of the Glasgow-based photographer Alan Dimmick, focusing on his unique documentation of people, p…
Lincoln’s Cottage in DC tackles modern slavery
By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- The house where President Abraham Lincoln drafted the Emancipation Proclamation some 150 years ago is confronting the reality that more people are held in modern-day slavery than at the height of th…
Smithsonian launches new website for teaching African American Civil Rights through American art
WASHINGTON, DC.- Oh Freedom! Teaching African American Civil Rights through American Art at the Smithsonian is a new Web-based project developed jointly by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Americ…