CARDIFF.- From 9 July 2011, Wales will have its own National Museum of Art, showcasing the full rang e of the nation’s world-class art collection under one roof at National Museum Cardiff. For the first time, the National Museum ’s mix of fin…
Spanish Police Recover Stolen Masterpieces
MADRID (AP).- Spanish investigators have recovered stolen masterpieces by two of the country’s most revered artists: Goya and El Greco, a police statement said Friday. The oil on canvas works, Goya’s 18th-century “The Apparition of the Virgin of Pilar…
Musee Du Quai Branly Presents Exhibition on Dogon Culture and Art History
PARIS.- The DOGON exhibition presents Dogon culture and art history from the 1st century until today through more than 330 exceptional pieces from international collections and presented together for the first time in France. The exhibition is on view …
Musee Du Quai Branly Presents Exhibition on Dogon Culture and Art History
PARIS.- The DOGON exhibition presents Dogon culture and art history from the 1st century until today through more than 330 exceptional pieces from international collections and presented together for the first time in France. The exhibition is on view …
Offering of The Ullens Collection Sets A Record for a Single-Owner Sale of Contemporary Chinese Art at Auction
HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s Hong Kong set a Record for a Single-Owner Sale of Contemporary Chinese Art At Auction when its offering of 105 masterpieces from The Ullens Collection – The Nascence of Avant-Garde China brought HK$427,239,250 / US$54,77…
One Hundred Masterpieces from the Städel Museum at Rome’s Palazzo delle Esposizioni
ROME.- The exhibition presents, for the first time in Italy, a selection of works from the collection of the internationally renowned museum of Frankfurt, founded in 1815 through a bequest by merchant and banker Johann Friedrich Städel (1728-1816) and…
LACMA Presents First Ever Thematic Exhibition of Renowned American Sculptor David Smith
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy, the first major thematic exhibition devoted to the renowned twentieth-century American sculptor David Smith (1906-65). Organized by LACMA, the exhib…
‘Angry Young Men’ ~ Picasso, Miró, Dalí at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence
Florence, Italy.- From March 2011 until 17th July 2011, the Palazoo Strozzi in Florence is showing “Angy Young Men: Picasso, Miró, Dalí’. The exhibition, which was previously at the Kunstahalle in Bonn, is dedicated to the early work of Picasso, M…
Living Legend of the International Avant-Garde, Yayoi Kusama, at Gagosian in Rome
ROME.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of recent paintings and sculptures by Yayoi Kusama. Kusama is a living legend of the international avant-garde who has emphatically eschewed the categorizations of modern art. Flamboyant yet profound, her…
Living Legend of the International Avant-Garde, Yayoi Kusama, at Gagosian in Rome
ROME.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of recent paintings and sculptures by Yayoi Kusama. Kusama is a living legend of the international avant-garde who has emphatically eschewed the categorizations of modern art. Flamboyant yet profound, her…