The Paul Hamlyn Foundation is delighted to announce that the PHF Awards for Visual Arts and Composers, the largest awards of their kind in the UK, are to be increased to £50,000. The Foundation has also launched a website, www.fundingforartists.org.uk, listing other sources of funding for individual artists and composers. Both developments follow a review of […]
Guggenheim Project by Pedro Reyes Explores Stillness and Quiet within New York City
NEW YORK, NY.- While the vitality and stimulation of the urban environment can be pleasant, those living in or visiting densely populated areas, such as New York, can have wildly different experiences. The ever-present cacophony of traffic, constructio…
Guggenheim Project by Pedro Reyes Explores Stillness and Quiet within New York City
NEW YORK, NY.- While the vitality and stimulation of the urban environment can be pleasant, those living in or visiting densely populated areas, such as New York, can have wildly different experiences. The ever-present cacophony of traffic, constructio…
Only Connect: Unconventional New Display at the National Portrait Gallery in London
LONDON.- Opening this weekend, Only Connect is an unconventional new display at the National Portrait Gallery presenting a web of portraits connecting sitters across three centuries. Comprising paintings, sculpture, photographs, engravings, drawings, m…
Park Avenue Armory to Present Tune-In Music Festival
NEW YORK, NY.- As part of its first full artistic season, Park Avenue Armory will launch the Tune-In Music Festival February 16-20, 2011, a contemporary music festival bringing together some of today’s leading new music performers and re-establishing t…
Sotheby’s Hong Kong to Sell the Andrew Lloyd Webber Wine Collection
HONG KONG.- Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of the most prolific and best-known composers of our day. Famed for writing such musical greats as The Phantom of the Opera, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Evita and Cats, his music is universally …
Dallas Contemporary Announces Music Performance to be Held in October
DALLAS, TX.- Dallas Contemporary opens Part II of its sound art concert series New Sounds for a New Space Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 7 p.m. The event begins with open doors at 6 p.m. and performance at 7 p.m. FREE for members of any arts organization…
John Bock Develops a Masterful Meta-Structure at Temporare Kunsthalle Berlin
BERLIN.- FischGrätenMelkStand (herringbone milking parlor) is the title of the final project at Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, curated by artist John Bock. Like previous artist-curated exhibitions, his complex concept is based around an emphatically su…
Joan of Arc Commemorative Alms Dish Dated 1429 to Sell at Bonhams
LONDON.- A brass alms dish decorated with the arms of the French national heroine and Catholic saint, Joan of Arc (1412-1431), is to be sold at Bonhams at its monthly Period Design sale on 6 July 2010. Believed to date from the early 15th century and i…