JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, will present one of the most important private collections of illuminated Hebrew manuscripts and printed books in the exhibition A Journey through Jewish Worlds: Highlights from the Braginsky Collection of Hebr…
Bank Art Conservation Programme Provides Funds to Restore Iconic Maclise Masterpiece
DUBLIN.- Bank of America Merrill Lynch announced that through its Art Conservation Programme, the company will provide funding to the prestigious National Gallery of Ireland to facilitate the restoration of the iconic The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoif…
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Art Conservation Programme Provides Funds to Restore Iconic Maclise Masterpiece
DUBLIN.- Bank of America Merrill Lynch announced that through its Art Conservation Programme, the company will provide funding to the prestigious National Gallery of Ireland to facilitate the restoration of the iconic The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoif…
For Sale: Jewels Britain’s King Edward VIII Showered on U.S. Lover
LONDON (REUTERS).- Jewels bought by Britain’s King Edward VIII for his American wife Wallis Simpson are expected to fetch up to 3 million pounds ($4.55 million) at auction in November, Sotheby’s said on Thursday. The king, who renounced his claim to th…
Hitched: Wedding Clothes and Customs Explored in Exhibition at Sudley House
LIVERPOOL.- This summer, during the height of the UK wedding season, Sudley House opens an exhibition of wedding outfits that reveals the changing face of marriage over the last 150 years. “Hitched: Wedding Clothes and Customs” is on display from 23 …
Secret Portrait of Artist’s Confiscated Children to Sell at Bonhams
LONDON.- A portrait by British artist Sir Herbert James Gunn (1893-1964) of his three children, entitled Design for a Portrait Group, is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its 20th Century British Art sale on 30 June 2010. It has been e…
Ghirlandaio and Renaissance Florence at Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
MADRID.- On 23 June the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza presents the temporary exhibition Ghirlandaio and Renaissance Florence. Comprising a survey of quattrocento Florentine art, its starting point is one of the great icons in the Museum’s permanent col…
Norbertellen Gallery Presents a Survey of Indian Mithila Art
Los Angeles , CA – Norbertellen Gallery
is pleased to present a survey of Indian Mithila art over the last 20
years. The ancient land of Mithila
comprises what is today part of the north Indian state of Bihar as well as part
of …
Hayward Gallery Reopens with International Survey of 36 Artists
LONDON.- The New Décor is an international survey of 36 contemporary artists from 22 countries who explore interior design as a means of engaging with changes in contemporary culture that range from the impact of globalism to our shifting boundaries o…