London.- The Jaguar E-Type (UK) or Jaguar XK-E (US) celebrates it’s fiftieth birthday this year. Launched on the American market in March 1961, British buyers had to wait until July, before it was made available in right-hand drive for the domestic…
Stellar Collection of Congolese Sculpture Acquired by The Cleveland Museum of Art
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art announces the acquisition of a single collection of 35 works of Congolese sculpture from the Belgian collectors René and Odette Delenne. In exceptional condition, these works represent the deep cultural mean…
Statue of Ancient Egyptian King Amenhotep III Found at His Funerary Temple in Luxor
CAIRO (AP).- A team of Egyptian and European archaeologists has unearthed a statue of the ancient Egyptian king Amenhotep III at his funerary temple in Luxor. The 2.5-meter alabaster head of the 18th dynastic king remains intact, Zahi Hawass, antiquiti…
Bocas de Ceniza: The Film and Media Art Goetz Collection in Munich’s Haus der Kunst
MUNICH.- “Bocas de Ceniza” marks the beginning of the cooperation between the collection Goetz and Haus der Kunst. From now through 2014, Ingvild Goetz will regularly present works from her collection of film and media art in the 14 cabinet-like rooms …
Carpenter Center for Visual Arts Opens Antoni Muntadas’ "About Academia"
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- About Academia is the latest project by renowned artist Antoni Muntadas. Muntadas represented Spain at the 2005 Venice Biennial and was the recipient of the Velázquez Visual Arts Prize in 2009—the most important distinction to be …
British Artist Lindsay Seers Exhibits "It has to Be this Way" at BALTIC Centre in Gateshead
GATESHEAD.- BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art presents It has to be this way² by British artist and Derek Jarman Award winner Lindsay Seers from Saturday 12 February to Sunday 12 June 2011. “I was her mother but she was never my daughter and now…
Eighty Images by Vivian Maier from the 50’s and 60’s at Hilaneh von Kories Gallery
HAMBURG.- Between January 27 and April 28, 2011, Hilaneh von Kories Gallery in Hamburg is going to show “Twinkle, twinkle, little star”, an exhibit of more than eighty images by Vivian Maier from the 50’s and 60’s. Maier, who in her…
Eighty Images by Vivian Maier from the 50’s and 60’s at Hilaneh von Kories Gallery
HAMBURG.- Between January 27 and April 28, 2011, Hilaneh von Kories Gallery in Hamburg is going to show “Twinkle, twinkle, little star”, an exhibit of more than eighty images by Vivian Maier from the 50’s and 60’s. Maier, who in her…
Colorado University Art Museum Opens Four Concurrent Exhibitions
BOULDER, CO.- In 2008, the CU Art Museum received 156 photographs by Andy Warhol as a gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts as part of the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program. The CU Art Museum premiered 112 of the gifted photograp…
Moore Acknowledges Valued Service of Departing Gallery Director & Launches National Search
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Moore College of Art & Design announces that Rochelle F. Levy Director & Chief Curator Lorie Mertes will step down as director of The Galleries at Moore in mid-February. Mertes, who has lead the Galleries with distinction over the la…