NEW YORK (AP).- Huguette Clark, the Montana copper mining heiress who died in New York last month at 104, has left most of her $400 million fortune to the arts. According to her will, obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday, Clark gave a prized…
Director and Chief Curator of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Professor Mordechai Omer, Dies
TEL AVIV.- The Tel Aviv Museum of Art announced the passing away of Director and Chief Curator of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on Friday morning, 10 June 2011, after a brave battle against cancer. Museum workers will sorely miss his leadership, his visio…
Director and Chief Curator of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Professor Mordechai Omer, Dies
TEL AVIV.- The Tel Aviv Museum of Art announced the passing away of Director and Chief Curator of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on Friday morning, 10 June 2011, after a brave battle against cancer. Museum workers will sorely miss his leadership, his visio…
Solo Show by Dutch Artist Gabriel Lester at Galerie Fons Welters in Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM.- Galerie Fons Welters presents It is no great wonder if in the long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur, a solo show by Dutch artist Gabriel Lester. In dialogue…
Amedeo Modigliani Biography Is Subject Discussion at The Library of Congress
Washington , DC – Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) was considered the quintessential bohemian artist, his legend almost as infamous as Van Gogh’s. In Modigliani’s time, his work was seen as an oddity: contemporary with the Cub…
Morris Museum Presents an Exhibition of an Unsung American Illustrator: Antonio Petruccelli
MORRISTOWN, NJ.- The Morris Museum opened a new exhibition, Antonio Petruccelli: An Unsung American Illustrator. Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994) was a prolific, innovative 20th century illustrator. The exhibition features over 65 works, including cover…
Police Searching for the Thief Who Tunneled into a NYC Home and Stole Art
NEW YORK, NY (AP).- Authorities are ramping up their effort to solve a Manhattan mystery: Who drilled a hole into the home of a beef fortune heir and stole a collection of iconic artworks by Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol? The culprits also made off…
Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Pledges Fortune to Philanthropy
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen, who has been treated for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, said on Thursday he is committing most of his estimated $13.5 billion fortune to philanthropy after his death. Allen follows in the footsteps of…
PAFA to Showcase Seminal Flag Painting by Celebrated Artist Jasper Johns
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- This summer, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) will feature JASPER JOHNS: FLAG, one of Johns’ most sensuously painted flags in a single-object exhibition, on view June 26 through September 12. An icon of modern art, Jo…