LONDON.- Stuart Cumberland is a great painter. However, as brilliant as he may be, a good painter is like a fluent speaker of an obscure language, on holiday in the U.S. Ultimately someone’s going to ask “D’ya speak English?”. If communication req…
VMFA Will Be The First US Museum Exhibiting Its Art In Beijing’s Palace Museum
RICHMOND, VA.- Governor Bob McDonnell today signed an historic cultural exchange agreement to bring “Treasures from the Forbidden City,” a showcase of approximately 200 objects from Beijing’s Palace Museum to Virginia in the summer of 2014. Th…
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts to Be First Museum to Exhibit Collection in Palace Museum
RICHMOND, VA.- Governor Bob McDonnell today signed an historic cultural exchange agreement to bring “Treasures from the Forbidden City,” a showcase of approximately 200 objects from Beijing’s Palace Museum to Virginia in the summer of 20…
Italian Governor Gian Mario Spacca Wants Shared Custody of Statue with the Getty Museum
LOS ANGELES (AP).- An Italian lawmaker offered a cultural exchange proposal Monday that sounded a little like an ultimatum, saying officials at the J. Paul Getty Museum should behave ethically and return knowingly looted art. Gov. Gian Mario Spacca of…
Clark Art Institute Launches International Tour of Masterpieces in Milan
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- Continuing its commitment to global outreach and cultural exchange, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute launched the first international tour of masterpieces from its collection of nineteenth-century European paintings with…
Moscow Museum of Modern Art Presents Cultural Exchange Project: VoTH
MOSCOW.- VoTH is a project of cultural exchange between Russia and the Netherlands, initiated by Dutch curators Marjan Teeuwen and Ine Lamers (Marjan Teeuwen / KW_14 is responsible for the organization of the exhibitions and the catalogue). The core of…
Moscow Museum of Modern Art Presents Cultural Exchange Project: VoTH
MOSCOW.- VoTH is a project of cultural exchange between Russia and the Netherlands, initiated by Dutch curators Marjan Teeuwen and Ine Lamers (Marjan Teeuwen / KW_14 is responsible for the organization of the exhibitions and the catalogue). The core of…
Diverse Cultures Contributed to New Mexico Art
SANTA FE (AP).- For centuries, New Mexico has been home to a distinctive tradition of painting Catholic saints in simple portraits, rather than adhering to the elaborate styles of European art. Some critics have said the paintings resulted from untrain…
Jewish Museum Charts Inter-Faith Dialogue through Rare Manuscripts
LONDON.- The exhibition will bring together a collection of 24 rare manuscripts, many exquisitely illuminated, including three from the Vatican Library, eight from the British Library, three from Lambeth Palace Library and eleven from the Bodleian Libr…