LONDON.- As it launches a major exhibition of actress portraits, the National Portrait Gallery has announced the acquisition of a large and rarely seen picture of three of eighteenth-century society’s most glamorous and notorious women – as t…
National Portrait Gallery Acquires Rare Picture of Society Beauties as Macbeth’s Witches
LONDON.- As it launches a major exhibition of actress portraits, the National Portrait Gallery has announced the acquisition of a large and rarely seen picture of three of eighteenth-century society’s most glamorous and notorious women – as t…
1850 Severin Roesen Masterwork Expected to bring $600,000+ at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- A magnificent 1850 still life by German-born American painter Severin Roesen, Still Life with Fruit and Flowers in a Landscape, is expected bring more than $600,000 as the central highlight in Heritage Auctions’ Signature® Fine American, …
Antiquity Revived: Neoclassical Art in the Eighteenth Century at the MFA in Houston
HOUSTON, TX.- At the end of the 18th century, fresh archeological finds in Herculaneum and Pompeii inspired artists, intellectuals, and the public all over Europe to be newly fascinated with antiquities. “Neoclassicism” is the term given to t…
The Diamond Encrusted Skull by Damien Hirst on Display at Palazzo Vecchio
FLORENCE.- The diamond encrusted skull, For the Love of God, by British artist Damien Hirst, which gained iconic status following its first exhibition in 2007, is present at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence from 26 November 2010 to 1 May 2011. Promoted by t…
The Diamond Encrusted Skull by Damien Hirst on Display at Palazzo Vecchio
FLORENCE.- The diamond encrusted skull, For the Love of God, by British artist Damien Hirst, which gained iconic status following its first exhibition in 2007, is present at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence from 26 November 2010 to 1 May 2011. Promoted by t…
Burrell Collection Hopes to Acquire Rare 18th Century Golden Tiger Head from India
LONDON.- The Art Fund has offered a major grant to help save a golden, jewel-encrusted tiger’s head from 18th century India for public collections. The tiger’s head is known as the Tipu Sultan’s Throne Finial and was created in eighteent…
Irish Pavilion Presents Portfolio of Irish Architecture Practice de Blacam and Meagher
VENICE.- Commissioned by the Irish Architecture Foundation under the directorship of Nathalie Weadick and curated by Tom dePaor, Peter Maybury, Alice Casey and Cian Deegan, ‘of de Blacam and Meagher’ examines the built and unbuilt portfolio o…
Masterworks of N. C. Earthenware Comes to The Milwaukee Art Museum
MILWAUKEE, WI.- The first major North Carolina earthenware survey completed in the United States, Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware, opens at the Milwaukee Art Museum on Thursday, September 2, 2010, and runs through Monday, January…
Como, Italy exhibits Masters of Russian Avant-garde: Chagall, Kandinsky and Malevich
COMO, ITALY – The Villa Olmo is showcasing eighty works – including oil paintings, tempera works and drawings from leading Russian museums and private collections – tracing the great period of Russian avant-garde art from the beginning of the …