PARIS (REUTERS).- Entering Anish Kapoor’s latest sculpture through a dark, windowless revolving door, visitors experience a momentary blackout before emerging into a womb-like cavity — warm, oppressive and bathed in red light. This is “Leviathan” at P…
Sculptor Anish Kapoor Unleashes Whale-Like Monster on Paris’s Grand Palais
PARIS (REUTERS).- Entering Anish Kapoor’s latest sculpture through a dark, windowless revolving door, visitors experience a momentary blackout before emerging into a womb-like cavity — warm, oppressive and bathed in red light. This is “Leviathan” at P…
Artist Anish Kapoor to Create a New Artwork for the Vast Nave of Paris’ Grand Palais
PARIS.- Each year MONUMENTA invites an internationally-renowned artist to turn their vision to the vast Nave of Paris’ Grand Palais and to create a new artwork especially for this space. MONUMENTA is an artistic interaction on an unparalleled scal…
Anish Kapoor to Create a New Artwork for the Vast Nave of Paris’ Grand Palais
PARIS.- Each year MONUMENTA invites an internationally-renowned artist to turn their vision to the vast Nave of Paris’ Grand Palais and to create a new artwork especially for this space. MONUMENTA is an artistic interaction on an unparalleled scal…
Gauguin Masterpiece Leads Christie’s Auction of Impressionist and Modern Art in London
LONDON.- The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Auction and the sale of The Art of the Surreal will take place on 9 February 2011 at 7pm with a pre-sale estimate of £73,880,000 to £109,060,000 (corresponding estimate in 2010: £56.5 million to £80…
Bonhams to Sell Rare, Radial-Engined Megola Motorcycle in Paris Auction
LONDON.- Headlining the motorcycles consigned to Bonhams first sale at the Grand Palais, Paris is a rare, radial-engined Megola. Powered by a 640cc five-cylinder engine built into the front wheel, the Megola was described by motorcycling historian Erwi…
Bonhams to Sell King Baudouin of Belgium’s Aston Martin at the Grand Palais
PARIS.- A 1955 Aston Martin DB2/4 Sports Saloon, which was owned by King Baudouin of Belgium, who reigned in Belgium from 1951 until his death in 1993, is to be sold at Bonhams’ Paris sale of Motor Cars at the Grand Palais on 5 February 2011. The …
ArtParis: the Event for the Modern and Contemporary Art Market Returns to the Grand Palais
PARIS.- ArtParis, the Paris springtime event for the modern and contemporary art market, is returning to the Grand Palais from 31 March to 3 April 2011. Some one hundred international exhibitors are being asked to conceive stands that showcase painting…
Important Exhibition of the Work of Pierre-Auguste Renoir at Hammer Galleries in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Hammer Galleries presents an important exhibition of the world renowned French Impressionist Master Pierre-Auguste Renoir for its inaugural exhibition at its new location – 475 Park Avenue, New York. RENOIR, curated by gallery President …
France 1500: Between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance at the Galeries nationales Grand Palais
PARIS.- This exhibition explores a time of unprecedented artistic contact and creative effervescence in France, which many people know little about. It is the first major exhibition devoted to a turning point in French history, in the reigns of Charles…