PARIS.- Gathered together under the prestigious dome of the Grand Palais from 15th until 22nd September 2010, 80 art dealers and 7 great jewellers will present to the public their most beautiful masterpieces. Created in 1956 by the Syndicat National d…
Fondation Maeght Hosts a Retrospective of the Work of Alberto Giacometti
SAINT-PAUL-DE-VENCE.- From 27 June to 31
October
2010, the Fondation Maeght is presenting an exceptional retrospective of
the
work of Alberto Giacometti. Giacometti & Maeght 1946-1966 will
assemble the
artist’s best-known masterp…
Fondation Maeght Mounts a Retrospective of the Work of Alberto Giacometti
SAINT-PAUL-DE-VENCE.- From 27 June to 31 October 2010, the Fondation Maeght is presenting an exceptional retrospective of the work of Alberto Giacometti. Giacometti & Maeght 1946-1966 will assemble the artist’s best-known masterpieces, including t…
A Real Van Gogh: How the Art World Struggles with Truth
AMSTERDAM.- Vincent van Gogh’s paintings and drawings are fabulously expensive. Millions of people admire his work, but are those masterpieces all genuine? To this day, the international art world struggles to separate the real Van Goghs from the …
New Book: Internet, Technology Change High-End Art Dealing
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- When Philip Mold began as a professional art dealer 22 years ago, the buying and selling of high-end artwork was confined to a small group of well-versed art historians who scoured the globe in search of masterpieces. But the timel…
Como, Italy exhibits Masters of Russian Avant-garde: Chagall, Kandinsky and Malevich
COMO, ITALY – The Villa Olmo is showcasing eighty works – including oil paintings, tempera works and drawings from leading Russian museums and private collections – tracing the great period of Russian avant-garde art from the beginning of the …
John Steinbeck’s Apartment Archive to be Auctioned at Bloomsbury Auctions
NEW YORK (AP).- John Steinbeck kept his California roots close when writing such masterpieces as “The Grapes of Wrath” and “East of Eden,” but the Nobel Prize winner also loved New York and made it his home for much of his life. Now, a trove of his per…
Google Celebrates 110th Birthday of Rene Magritte with a Magritte Doodle
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Google is celebrating the 110th birthday of Rene Magritte by incorporating some of Magritte’s masterpieces with the Google logo. Ever so often, Google does a “doodle”, or a “decoration” they make to their logo. Over th…
Galerie Gmurzynska Presents Exhibition by Award-Winning Architect Zaha Hadid
ZURICH.- Zaha Hadid, Pritzker Prize winning architect, has curated and designed her latest exhibition entitled ‘Zaha Hadid and Suprematism’ for the famed Galerie Gmurzynska on the historic Paradeplatz in Zurich. Recently named one of the 100…
National Gallery Announces "Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals"
LONDON.- This landmark exhibition presents the finest assembly of Venetian views by Canaletto and his 18th-century rivals to be seen in a generation. Bringing together around 50 major loans from the public and private collections of the UK, Europe and …