OTTAWA.- More than 80 of the most innovative and ambitious works created by artists across Canada are highlighted in the National Gallery of Canada’s (NGC) inaugural Canadian Biennial exhibition It Is What It Is: Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Ar…
Culture War Brews in Indian City of Mumbai
By: Erika Kinetz, Associated Press
MUMBAI (AP).- A battle for the cultural soul of Mumbai is brewing between Hindu radicals and the cosmopolitan urbanites who are the global face of this Indian city. The radicals appear to be winning. In the last few …
Christie’s Sale in Dubai Features Works from Around the Middle East & Turkey
DUBAI.- Christie’s October 26th, 2010 Dubai sale of Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art is blessed with a further selection of works from the renowned Farsi Collection, one of the most comprehensive groups of modern Egyptian art in private …
America’s Most Venerable Art Fair to Return with 70 Expert Art Dealers Held at the Park Avenue Armory
NEW YORK, NY.- The Art Show, the country’s longest running national art fair, opens its doors in New York on March 2, 2011. Now in its 23rd year, The Art Show brings together museum quality exhibitions of art ranging from cutting-edge, 21st century wor…
Shortlist Announced: Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010
LONDON.- Four photographers have been shortlisted for the £12,000 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, the major international photography award. Firmly established as the leading showcase for new talent in portrait photography, the prize is sp…
Shortlist Announced: Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010
LONDON.- Four photographers have been shortlisted for the £12,000 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, the major international photography award. Firmly established as the leading showcase for new talent in portrait photography, the prize is sp…
£300,000 Collection of Moorcroft for Sale At Bonhams
LONDON.- The largest and most valuable single owner collection of Moorcroft pottery ever to come to auction is for sale at Bonhams in London on 21 September. The Richard Wright collection has been put together over 25 years by Jackie and Richard Wright…
Tales of Resistance and Change: Artists from Argentina Exhibit in Germany
FRANKFURT.- The Frankfurter Kunstverein and the Embassy of Argentina in Germany present the exhibition “Tales of Resistance and Change. Artists from Argentina” produced by the Organizing Committee for the participation of the Argentine Republic as Gues…
Tales of Resistance and Change: Artists from Argentina Exhibit in Germany
FRANKFURT.- The Frankfurter Kunstverein and the Embassy of Argentina in Germany present the exhibition “Tales of Resistance and Change. Artists from Argentina” produced by the Organizing Committee for the participation of the Argentine Republic as Gues…
Le Fresnoy to Show "ABC: Contemporary Art from Belgium"
TOURCOING.- Proximity and evidence make us blind: France is unaware of the inventiveness, the diversity and the current creative agitation of some of our closest neighbours. However, for the Northern region, with the ABC exhibition of Belgian contempor…