LONDON.- A musical hall extraordinaire, beatbox champ and an operatic soprano; these are just a handful of the colourful collection of local performers who are entertaining visitors at Stratford Underground station, courtesy of a new film and installat…
Sotheby’s to Offer Most Important Work by Titian to Appear at Auction in Nearly Twenty Years
NEW YORK, NY.- A monumental work by the Renaissance master Titian will be offered early next year in Sotheby’s sale of Important Old Master Paintings in New York on 27 January 2011. A Sacra Conversazione: The Madonna and Child with Saints Luke and…
Caravaggio-Inspired Dutch Masterpiece Acquired for Fitzwilliam Museum
LONDON.- The Art Fund has helped the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge enrich its world-class collection with a Caravaggio-inspired Dutch oil on canvas. Young woman tuning a lute (1626-7) by Hendrik ter Brugghen, is now on public display within the Fitzwil…
Caravaggio-Inspired Dutch Masterpiece Acquired for Fitzwilliam Museum
LONDON.- The Art Fund has helped the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge enrich its world-class collection with a Caravaggio-inspired Dutch oil on canvas. Young woman tuning a lute (1626-7) by Hendrik ter Brugghen, is now on public display within the Fitzwil…
Saint Louis Art Museum Receives Major Gift from Danforth Family
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum announced that Carolyn Danforth has initiated a series of donations that will bring the extraordinary collection of American Indian artworks assembled by her late husband, Donald Danforth Jr., to the Museum. I…
Saint Louis Art Museum Receives Major Gift from Danforth Family
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum announced that Carolyn Danforth has initiated a series of donations that will bring the extraordinary collection of American Indian artworks assembled by her late husband, Donald Danforth Jr., to the Museum. I…
Two Important Paintings Consigned to Auction through Christie’s iPhone App
LONDON.- The auction of Modern and Contemporary Australian Art at Christie’s on 23 September 2010 will offer a pair of rediscovered paintings of historical importance that was found in an attic and which was identified and consigned to auction thr…
Two Important Paintings Consigned to Auction through Christie’s iPhone App
LONDON.- The auction of Modern and Contemporary Australian Art at Christie’s on 23 September 2010 will offer a pair of rediscovered paintings of historical importance that was found in an attic and which was identified and consigned to auction thr…
Mosque Developer Claims a Classic NYC Background
NEW YORK (AP).- Eight years ago, Sharif El-Gamal was just another ambitious striver from Brooklyn, casting about for career leads and dreaming of a grander future in real estate. A handful of modest deals later, he’s sitting on one of the most politica…
Bosnia Turns Marshal Tito Nuclear Bunker into Art Gallery
KONJIC (AP).- It was built to withstand nuclear war, a secret bunker to shelter communist Yugoslavia’s strongman and his inside circle. Decades later, the massive underground complex is about to be reborn as one of the world’s quirkiest art galleries. …