LONDON.- This Hayward Gallery exhibition is the first major survey in the UK of works by David Shrigley. Spanning the upper galleries, David Shrigley: Brain Activity, covers the full range of Shrigley’s diverse practice from the past two decades o…
Exceedingly rare Calvin and Hobbes original artwork offered by Heritage Auctions in February
NEW YORK, NY.- An incredibly rare piece of original, published Calvin and Hobbes artwork – 1989-90 Calendar Cover Watercolor Illustration Original Art (c. 1988) – by artist Bill Watterson, is expected to bring $50,000+ when it comes to auction as…
Israel Museum jointly acquires Marclay’s The Clock with Tate and Pompidou
JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum announced the joint acquisition of Christian Marclay’s video work The Clock (2010), together with the Centre Pompidou in Paris and London ’s Tate. This internationally acclaimed masterwork of video art, which was…
Bank of America Merrill Lynch art conservation project helps restore 20 works of art across globe
LONDON.- At an event at London’s Courtauld Gallery last night (31 January), Bank of America Merrill Lynch announced this year’s conservation funding recipients through its unique Art Conservation Project. This year, participating institutions…
Exhibition of treasures from London’s Society of Antiquaries highlights milestones in British history
NEW HAVEN, CT.- This February, the Yale Center for British Art will present historic treasures of international importance from the Society of Antiquaries of London, a society for people concerned with the study of Britain’s past that was establis…
Sweden’s Nationalmuseum acquires Tradgardsinterior by artist Johan Krouthén
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum has acquired the painting Trädgårdsinteriör från Linköping by Swedish artist Johan Krouthén. The detailed painting depicts army surgeon Ernst Boman and his family and is dated 1887-1888. Nationalmuseum previously only o…
Ashmolean opens the year with Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Edward Hodgkin
OXFORD.- On 2 February 2012 the Ashmolean will open an exhibition of Indian paintings from the outstanding private collection of the artist Howard Hodgkin. Hodgkin has been a passionate collector of Indian paintings since his school days and his collec…
Christie’s 2011 sales total US$5.7 billion; significant increase in private sales and via online
LONDON.- Christie’s announces 2011 sales of £3.6 billion / US$5.7 billion, up 9% by £ (14% by US$) compared with 2010 (figures include buyer’s premium). This includes private sales of £502 million / US$808.6 million, an increase of 44% by…
Restored Rubens masterpiece goes back on public view at The Courtauld Gallery
LONDON.- The newly-conserved masterpiece Cain Slaying Abel by Sir Peter Paul Rubens went back on public display at The Courtauld Gallery, today. The magnificent painting, widely considered to be one of the most important in the Gallery’s world-cl…
German architect Mies van der Rohe’s Modernist masterpiece Tugendhat to reopen again
BRNO, CZECH REPUBLIC (AP).- It was completed in 1930, a Modernist masterpiece by legendary German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. But Villa Tugendhat’s early history was rocked by the turbulence of the 20th Century: The Nazis seized it, then came W…