VALENCIA.- The Government of Valencia has awarded the U.S. artist Jasper Johns with the Julio González Prize, an artist considered along with Robert Rauschenberg as the forerunners of American Pop Art. The Julio González Prize awarded by the Generali…
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Presents the First Museum Exhibition of Artist Steve Wolfe
LAS ANGELES, CA.- —The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Steve Wolfe on Paper, the first solo museum exhibition of artist Steve Wolfe. For the last twenty years, Wolfe has created objects and drawings of astounding craft and visual…
Frick Collection Announces an Exhibition of Developments in Picasso’s Drawings
NEW YORK, NY.- Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) is generally acknowledged to be the greatest draftsman of the twentieth century. The Frick Collection, New York, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., have co-organized an exhibition for 2011&#…
Maria Bussmann Transports Viewers into Her Personal Cosmos of Memory and Imagination
VIENNA.- A journey in drawing, a journey in thought, a journey of a different kind: Maria Bussmann invites visitors to the exhibition Long Beach, NY in the Secession’s Grafisches Kabinett to take a walk along the beach. On 20 metres from a contin…
Milwaukee Art Museum Frames a Decade with Newest Exhibition
MILWAUKEE, WIS.- The Milwaukee Art Museum’s newest exhibition, Framing a Decade: Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings, 2001–2011, highlights a selection of the nearly three thousand works new to the Museum’s prints and drawings collection…
The CAC Málaga Presents a Survey of Julião Sarmento’s Work from the Last Decade
MALAGA.- The CAC Málaga is presenting Julião Sarmento 2000-2010, a retrospective exhibition covering the last ten years of the work of this artist, who is the leading international name in contemporary Portuguese art. Sarmento’s work is notable …
Visionary Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Peter Cort Marzio, Dies
HOUSTON, TX.- Peter Marzio, visionary Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, dedicated his career to making the art of world cultures accessible to all. He often recounted how art had changed his life. As a freshman on an athletic scholarship at…
Picasso Auction from the Collection of His Longtime Chauffeur Canceled Amid Mystery
PARIS (AP).- A Paris auctioneer called off the scheduled sale Thursday of a trove of drawings Picasso gave his longtime chauffeur, after a separate cache of previously unknown Picassos turned up in an electrician’s garage — a revelation that stun…
Collection of Russian Imperial Correspondence Sold for $410,000 in Geneva
GENEVA.- Geneva based auctioneers Hôtel des Ventes sold a highly important and unique collection of extensive correspondence, photographs and drawings exchanged between H.I.H Grand Duke George Alexandrovich, H.I.H Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna, H.I…
Sotheby’s Sets New World Record for a Printed Book at Auction with Audubon’s Birds of America
LONDON.- Moments ago, in a crowded saleroom in Sotheby’s New Bond Street galleries in London, a magnificent, rare, copy of John James Audubon’s Birds of America sold for £7,321,250, establishing a new world record price for any printed book …