AUSTIN, TX.- The Austin Museum of Art announced in January that Dana Friis‐Hansen, Executive Director and Chief Curator, was leaving the Museum. Friis‐Hansen joined the Museum as Chief Curator in 1999 and from 2002 until January 2011, he s…
Group Wants Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough’s Ouster Over Banned Video
WASHINGTON (AP).- A liberal group is calling for Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough to step down, and the board of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum is complaining that Clough bowed to political pressure in removing a video from an exhibit. Clough be…
British Museum to Manage Portable Antiquities Scheme, as Exciting New Finds Go on Display
LONDON.- Culture Minister Ed Vaizey confirmed that the future funding of the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) has been secured with a reduction of 15% in real terms over four years. From April 2011 it will be managed directly by the British Museum. Ne…
British Museum to Manage Portable Antiquities Scheme, as Exciting New Finds Go on Display
LONDON.- Culture Minister Ed Vaizey confirmed that the future funding of the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) has been secured with a reduction of 15% in real terms over four years. From April 2011 it will be managed directly by the British Museum. Ne…
New Book Says Painting Stored Behind a Couch for 25 Years may Be a Michelangelo
TONAWANDA (AP).- Could a painting of Mary holding the body of Jesus that hung for years in an upstate New York family’s home really be a 16th century Michelangelo? An Italian art historian thinks so after undertaking years of research, which he docume…
Baseball Legend, Yogi Berra, Adds Space to His Museum and Learning Center
PRINCETON, NJ.- It’s October and time for the World Series again. One of baseball’s legends, Yogi Berra, has added space to his museum and learning center in Montclair, NJ where he uses the life lessons he learned from baseball and the New Yo…
Paintings Taken by Serviceman in WWII Return to Germany
NEW YORK, NY.- In a ceremony at the Goethe Institute in Manhattan, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) displayed some of the 11 oil paintings that were taken by a U.S. serviceman from a Pirmasens air raid shelter after the allied invasion of…
Works of Art from the Spencer Collections Yield $32 Million at Christie’s
LONDON.- Christie’s offered a selection of
works
from the Spencer Collections this week at their London salerooms. The
auctions
realized a total of £21,076,288 / $31,989,353 / €25,360,494. The top
price was
paid for A Commander being a…
Works of Art from the Spencer Collections Realise $32 Million at Christie’s
LONDON.- Christie’s offered a selection of works from the Spencer Collections this week at their London salerooms. The auctions realised a total of £21,076,288 / $31,989,353 / €25,360,494. The top price was paid for A Commander being armed f…