By: Chevel Johnson, Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS, LA (AP).- It’s no coincidence that the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has taken the earthquake-ravaged country of Haiti under its wing. The city and the country share more than just a love of musi…
First Solo Exhibition in the U.S. of the Indonesian Painter, Nyoman Masriadi at Paul Kasmin Gallery
NEW YORK, NY- Paul Kasmin Gallery presents the first solo exhibition in the United States of the celebrated Indonesian painter, Nyoman Masriadi. On view at the gallery’s 293 Tenth Avenue space, this is Masriadi’s first large-scale exhibition …
Sotheby’s Hong Kong To Hold 20th Century Chinese Art Spring Sale 2011 in April
HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s Hong Kong 20th Century Chinese Art Spring Sale will be held on 4 April offering a selection of 119 lots estimated at HK$117 million*. The auction will revolve around two major themes – Chinese abstract art and Modern Chinese …
Sotheby’s Hong Kong To Hold 20th Century Chinese Art Spring Sale 2011 in April
HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s Hong Kong 20th Century Chinese Art Spring Sale will be held on 4 April offering a selection of 119 lots estimated at HK$117 million*. The auction will revolve around two major themes – Chinese abstract art and Modern Chinese …
Exhibition Offers a Survey of Developments in Sri Lankan Art at Asia House in London
LONDON.- Contemporary Art from Sri Lanka 2011 is the first international showcase of Sri Lanka’s leading contemporary artists since the end of the civil war in 2009. The definitive exhibitions offer a survey of current developments in Sri Lankan art an…
Exhibition Offers a Survey of Current Developments in Sri Lankan Art at Asia House in London
LONDON.- Contemporary Art from Sri Lanka 2011 is the first international showcase of Sri Lanka’s leading contemporary artists since the end of the civil war in 2009. The definitive exhibitions offer a survey of current developments in Sri Lankan art an…
Lisson Gallery in London Presents the First Solo Exhibition in London by Haroon Mirza
LONDON.- Lisson Gallery presents the first London solo exhibition by Haroon Mirza, on view from Feb. 15th through Mar. 19th. Working with video, sculpture, light and sound, Mirza creates large scale installations and assemblages that explore moments in…
Interview with Beate Salje, Director of Berlin’s Museum of the Ancient Near East
BERLIN.- For everything we’ve ever wanted to know about the Museum of the Ancient Near East… Director Beate Salje has the answers. Who were the most important discoverers and excavators of the archaeological objects in your collection? Well for a sta…
Exhibitions: Pablo Picasso Zurich Exhibition Recreates Landmark 1932 Show
ZURICH (REUTERS) .- In September 1932, already a world-famous artist, Pablo Picasso drove from Paris to Zurich for the opening of a mega-exhibition of his works that was to mark a turning point in Western cultural history. Although he curated the exhi…
Chinese Ceramics, Culture and Commerce on View at the Norton Museum of Art
WEST PALM BEACH, FL.- On the Silk Road and the High Seas: Chinese Ceramics, Culture and Commerce examines why Chinese ceramics were such prized commodities, both at home and abroad. Examples of proto-porcelain appeared in China about 3,000 years ago an…