NEW YORK, NY.- Rising from the ruins and horror of World War I, European art and culture returned to the classical past, seeking tranquility, order, and enduring values. Artists turned away from prewar experimentalism and embraced the heroic human figu…
Guggenheim Announces "Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918-1936"
NEW YORK, NY.- Rising from the ruins and horror of World War I, European art and culture returned to the classical past, seeking tranquility, order, and enduring values. Artists turned away from prewar experimentalism and embraced the heroic human figu…
Saint Louis Art Museum Announces Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the selection of Lisa Ayla Çakmak as the 2010–2013 Mellon Fellow for European art to 1800. Selected from a field of 11 national post-doctoral applicants, Çakmak joins the Museum from the Museum o…
The Wapping Project Bankside Presents Photography by Stephen J Morgan
LONDON.- In a series of understated and eloquent photographs, Stephen J Morgan encapsulates Birmingham with a measured beauty, capturing its Irishness and its brutal ugliness. Falling into the centre of mainstream European fine art photography, Stephen…
Early Diego Velázquez Masterpiece Identified at Yale University
NEW HAVEN, CT.- Based on the research of John Marciari, currently Curator of European Art and Head of Provenance Research at the San Diego Museum of Art and formerly the Nina and Lee Griggs Associate Curator of Early European Art at the Yale University…
The Language of Flowers at Nationalmuseum in Stockholm
Stockholm, Sweden – This spring the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm opens its doors on a resplendent exhibition entitled The Language of Flowers. The exhibition presents floral motifs in European art from the Renaissance up to the present day, primar…
Sotheby’s Amsterdam Presents Works by Cornelis Springer and Georg Baselitz
AMSTERDAM.- In an evening sale on Monday 14 June 2010 Sotheby’s Amsterdam will offer both 19th Century European Paintings and Modern & Contemporary Art. Sotheby’s has combined these two collecting fields into one sale since there is a demonst…