CAIRO (REUTERS).- Egypt’s culture minister blamed “incompetent” security staff for the theft of a $55 million Van Gogh painting from a Cairo museum and said worries for the safety of the country’s art treasures are depriving him of sleep. “I feel like…
Egypt Bars Officials from Travel Over Art Theft: Report
CAIRO (REUTERS).- Egypt’s general prosecutor has blocked nine Culture Ministry officials from travel as part of an inquiry into the theft of a Van Gogh painting worth an estimated $55 million, a state-owned newspaper said on Monday. The painting, known…
Photojournalist Steve McCurry Featured New Exhibition at Birmingham Museum in UK
BIRMINGHAM, UK – Birmingham Museum and Art
Gallery
presents the first and only UK exhibition of critically acclaimed
photojournalist Steve McCurry, in association with Magnum Photos. The
exhibition
includes over eighty striking images th…
Steve McCurry Launches New Exhibition at Birmingham Museum
BIRMINGHAM.- Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery presents the first and only UK exhibition of critically acclaimed photojournalist Steve McCurry, in association with Magnum Photos. The exhibition includes over eighty striking images that span a remarkabl…
Abu Dhabi to Host Exhibition in the Middle East from the Guggenheim Collection
NEW YORK, NY.- More than fifty masterful paintings
from the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York,
representing the work of over forty of the most important artists of the
twentieth century, will be on view in Abu Dhabi from…
Ferran Garcia Sevilla at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
DUBLIN.- An exhibition by Ferran Garcia Sevilla, a leading Spanish artist whose career has embraced many of the most influential art movements of the past 40 years, opened to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Thursday 10 June 2010. Ferran…