NEW YORK, NY.- On Independence Day (Monday, July 4)—the next in the series of Met Holiday Mondays—the public will have an additional opportunity to view the Museum’s galleries, including popular exhibitions Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty; R…
MAXXI’s First Birthday: 479,628 Visitors in 310 Days of Opening: 1,547 a Day
ROME.- MAXXI, the National Museum of XXI Century Arts designed by Zaha Hadid celebrated its first birthday having opened to the public on 30 May 2010 after a three-day inauguration (27, 28, 29). To mark the occasion there was a great family party on Sa…
Charif Benhelima’s First Exhibition in Berlin Opens at Galerie Michael Janssen
BERLIN.- Galerie Michael Janssen presents for the first time Belgian photographer Charif Benhelima with the exhibition Harlem on my Mind: I was, I am. Long before Harlem became one of the trendiest neighborhoods in the real estate market of Manhattan, …
Lawsuit: Cezanne at New York City’s Metropolitan Wrongly Acquired
NEW YORK (AP).- A man claims a Paul Cezanne painting at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum was stolen from his great-grandfather during the Russian Revolution. The Wall Street Journal reports that Pierre Konowaloff sued the museum Wednesday in Manhat…
Lawsuit: Cezanne at New York City’s Metropolitan Wrongly Acquired
NEW YORK (AP).- A man claims a Paul Cezanne painting at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum was stolen from his great-grandfather during the Russian Revolution. The Wall Street Journal reports that Pierre Konowaloff sued the museum Wednesday in Manhat…
King Tut NYC Exhibition at Discovery Times Square Exposition Extends to January 17, 2011
NEW YORK, NY.- At a sold-out lecture last evening in New York City, Dr. Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, announced a two-week extension of the King Tut exhibition Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Ph…
Sculptural Installations by Contemporary Icelandic Artist Katrin Sigurdardottir on View at Metropolitan
NEW YORK, NY.- Katrin Sigurdardottir at the Met is an exhibition of two new sculptural installations created specifically for the Metropolitan by Sigurdardottir, an Icelandic artist (born in 1967), who lives and works in New York City and Reykjavik. Si…
NYC to Plunk Down Pianos at Ferry, Brooklyn Bridge
NEW YORK (AP).- Consider them keys to the city: Anyone who gets a sudden itch to tickle the ivories will be able to play free public pianos in 50 places throughout New York City, from the Coney Island boardwalk to the Metropolitan Museum. An art instal…