NEW YORK, NY.- Elizabeth Taylor’s renowned collection of jewelry, works of art, clothing and memorabilia will be sold at a series of auctions, Christie’s said on Saturday. “Christie’s will be selling the historic collection of Elizabeth Taylor,” who di…
Bruce Silverstein Gallery Shows Works by Artists Who Found the Night to Be an Inspiring Subject
NEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Silverstein Gallery presents NIGHT, an exhibition of the work of Brassaï, Ilse Bing, Robert Doisneau and André Kertész. The leading artists working with photography in Europe during the 1920s and 30s found the night to be an ins…
Major Chinese Ceramics Sale at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong Fails to Live Up to Hype
HONG KONG (REUTERS).- A major collection of Chinese ceramics seen as one of the best to be sold in decades, fell flat in a Sotheby’s sale on Thursday, in a surprise setback for the market given a relative lack of Chinese buying interest and high estima…
Prado Museum Presents an Exhibition of a Previously Unknown Period in Ribera’s Career
MADRID.- The Museo del Prado presents The Young Ribera, a survey of Ribera’s activity during his period in Rome and in the years following his arrival in Naples in 1616. The exhibition runs from April 5 through July 31, 2011. This is a period of …
Seventy-Two Years After the Nazis Arrived, Restored Renaissance Synagogue to Reopen in Poland
ZAMOSC (AP).- Seventy-two years after the Nazis arrived, the Polish town of Zamosc is getting its synagogue back. One of the most important surviving synagogues in Poland, a Renaissance gem looted by the Nazis and suffering from decades of neglect, is …
The Whitney Explores New Narratives through a Multi-Year Series of Collection Exhibitions
NEW YORK, N.Y.- This spring, the Whitney Museum of American Art inaugurates a multi-year exhibition initiative aimed at reassessing the Museum’s collection and, by extension, the history of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American art. As we a…
Giant Sea Monster Returns to Yorkshire Museum
YORK.- One of the biggest sea monsters ever found in Britain is going back on display as a complete fossil for the first time in decades. The giant ichthyosaur would have been about eight metres long and swam in the tropical waters which covered North…
Bulgarian Mogul Vasil Bozhkov Exhibits His Thracian Collection at the National History Museum in Bulgaria
SOFIA (REUTERS).- Bulgarian mogul Vasil Bozhkov is opening up his private collection of rare Thracian artefacts, offering a glimpse of a little-known ancient civilization which has left no written records. “Thrace and the Ancient World” runs until June…
Museum of Glass Exhibition Opens at New York’s National Museum of the American Indian
TACOMA, WA.- Preston Singletary: Echoes, Fire, and Shadows, a mid-career survey of the artist’s work organized by the Museum of Glass, opened at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City over the weekend. It will remain on view …
Unprecedented Collection of 182 Ferocious Prehistoric Shark Teeth for Sale in Dallas
DALLAS, TX (AP).- An unprecedented collection of 182 ferocious prehistoric shark teeth, assembled on gaping jaws large enough to swallow several humans whole, is set to be auctioned in Texas. The teeth are those of the ancient Megalodon, a massive kill…