COLLECT A PIECE OF ART HISTORY FOR JUST £45 AT RCA SECRET 2010 Exhibition open: 12 & 14-19 November, 11am-6pm daily, free admission. Sale day: Saturday 20 November, 8am-6pm. Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU www.rca.ac.uk/secret RCA Secret is an annual contemporary art exhibition and sale consisting of around 2,500 original postcard-sized […]
All Eyes on Kees van Dongen in Exhibition at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
ROTTERDAM.- Painter, society artist and womanizer, Kees van Dongen painted the Parisian avant-garde nude or clothed. This autumn Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents a selection of sixty masterpaintings from international collections. His models dres…
Famous Ascher Studio Re-Launches with New Collection of Scarves
LONDON.- Ascher Studio, fourth generation grand wizards of the fabulous scarf, are launching their first new collection of scarves in thirty years. To launch the collection, Ascher appeared at the New York International Gift Fair, where they took a sta…
South Korean Fashion Designer Andre Kim Dies at Age 74
SEOUL (AP).- Andre Kim, one of South Korea’s best-known fashion designers, has died. He was 74. Kim died Thursday, several weeks after being admitted to Seoul National University Hospital with pneumonia, hospital official Oh Dong-seo said. Kim was hi…
To Dye For: A World Saturated in Color at the de Young
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- This season, fashion designers all over the world are presenting tie-dye inspired collections on the runway as something new and fresh. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) investigates the trend by exploring its history, …
First Lady Michelle Obama Praises Designers Who Push Boundaries
WASHINGTON (AP).- Michelle Obama used this year’s luncheon for the National Design Award winners to sing the praises of those who push boundaries — or outright ignore them. With cool jazz playing in the White House foyer and lobster carpaccio on t…