CINCINNATI, OH.- Impressionist master Claude Monet (1840-1926) retreated to Giverny, the small village northwest of Paris, in 1883, and then spent the next 43 years experimenting with landscape and garden painting, creating works that are among the mos…
First Marc Chagall retrospective ever held in Spain opens at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
MADRID.- The first retrospective on the Russian artist Marc Chagall to be organised in Spain opens on 14 February at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid. More than 150 works from public and private collections and institutions aroun…
David Datuna’s portrait of supermodel Natalia Vodianova sells for $790,000
MOSCOW.- Supermodel Natalia Vodianova held the annual benefit gala to raise funds for her Naked Heart Foundation on February 11th in Moscow. American artist David Datuna donated a portrait of Vodianova for a special auction held by Simon de Pury of Phi…
Kupferstichkabinett in Basel presents a first survey of Róza El-Hassan’s graphic work
BASEL.- Róza El-Hassan (b. Budapest 1966) is one of the most prominent representatives of Hungarian contemporary art. Over the past twenty years, the artist has gained international renown with her drawings, objects, installations, videos, and actions…
AOA New York 2012 Tribal Art Fair attracts world’s leading specialists
NEW YORK, NY.- From May 10 to May 13 more than a dozen of the world’s leading dealers in antique tribal art from Africa, Oceania and the Americas will jointly show their most interesting acquisitions at the second annual 2012 AOA New York Africa O…
AOA New York 2012 Tribal Art Fair attracts world’s leading specialists
NEW YORK, NY.- From May 10 to May 13 more than a dozen of the world’s leading dealers in antique tribal art from Africa, Oceania and the Americas will jointly show their most interesting acquisitions at the second annual 2012 AOA New York Africa O…
Michael Brand appointed Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales
SYDNEY.- Australian Dr Michael Brand, consulting director of the Aga Khan Museum currently under construction in Toronto and the former director of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, has been appointed director of the Art Gallery of New South Wal…
Dutch writer Arnon Grunberg presents Les vacances de Monsieur Grunberg at Foam in Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM.- Summer holidays and photos are inextricably linked: the first thing that people pack, after their passport, tickets and money, is their camera. Les vacances de Monsieur Grunberg, a project by novelist Arnon Grunberg and visual artist Wendel…
Turn your smart phone into an art phone: Download the Art + Soul of the South free iPhone app
AUGUSTA, GA.- The Morris Museum of Art, the first museum dedicated to the art and artists of the American South, announces the release of its first iPhone app, available immediately for download for FREE in the Apple App Store here. The app enables us…
Monumental black and white tapestries from Craigie Horsfield’s Circus series at Marvelli Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Marvelli Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Craigie Horsfield, February 4th through March 22nd, 2012. The exhibition, Horsfield’s first in New York since 1996 at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, includes monumental black and white tapestrie…