NOTRE DAME, IN.- Josef Albers was a painter, printmaker, sculptor, poet, teacher, and theoretician of art. His work at the Bauhaus and later at Black Mountain College and Yale University was influential in both the Color Field and Op Art movements. …
1,000 Items Related to Composer Felix Mendelssohn Donated to Museum in Leipzig
LEIPZIG.- The doyen of German Mendelssohn research, Dr. Rudolf Elvers, has collected items regarding composer and conductor Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy over more than four decades. His collection, which he formally presented to the Museum of City Histo…
A Collection of Gladys Knight’s Dresses to Be Sold at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
CHICAGO, IL.- During a special evening session of the house’s Vintage Couture and Accessories auction on April 11, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers will offer a collection of garments owned by Gladys Knight, a seven-time Grammy Award winner known to her fans…
A Collection of Gladys Knight’s Dresses to Be Sold at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
CHICAGO, IL.- During a special evening session of the house’s Vintage Couture and Accessories auction on April 11, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers will offer a collection of garments owned by Gladys Knight, a seven-time Grammy Award winner known to her fans…
New York City Museum and Visitor Center to Display Brooklyn Navy Yard’s 200-Year History
NEW YORK (AP).- For more than a century, tens of thousands worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, building some of the nation’s most storied warships — sailing frigates, Civil War ironclads, gunboats, sloops and 20th-century warships and submarines. T…
Private California Collection of Impressionist Paintings Highlights Christie’s Sale
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced it has been selected to offer The Walter and Phyllis Shorenstein Collection as part of its major fall 2010 and spring 2011 sales in New York and Hong Kong. Assembled over more than four decades by Walter Shorenstein,…
Private California Collection of Impressionist Paintings Highlights Christie’s Sale
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced it has been selected to offer The Walter and Phyllis Shorenstein Collection as part of its major fall 2010 and spring 2011 sales in New York and Hong Kong. Assembled over more than four decades by Walter Shorenstein,…
Exhibition Presents Photographs of José A. Figueroa’s "Other" Life in Cuba
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Couturier Gallery presents Mis 60 / My 60s, an exhibition of prominent photographer José A. Figueroa’s images of the barely-remembered “other” life in Cuba of the 1960s, the social everyday existence not portrayed by R…
Rupert Bunny: Artist in Paris Exhibition Arrives at Its Final Destination
ADELAIDE.- After enchanting audiences in Sydney and Melbourne, the sumptuous exhibition Rupert Bunny: artist in Paris arrives at its final destination, the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Around a hundred lavishly beautiful works of art are o…