LONDON.- The Culture Minister has placed a temporary export bar on a painting by the Spanish artist Murillo. This will provide a last chance to raise the money to keep the painting of The Virgin and Child in the United Kingdom. The Minister’s ruling fo…
Guggenheim Museum Launches YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video Blog
NEW YORK, NY.- The Take is a blog created by the Guggenheim and inspired by YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video. With writing by experts, scholars, and artists from the worlds of film, video, and Internet culture, the Take will feature discussio…
Churches and a Gallery in Rome to Honor Caravaggio with Rare Night Visits
ROME (AP).- Churches and a gallery in Rome housing works by Caravaggio will stay open overnight to mark the 400th anniversary of the Italian painter’s death. Visitors can enter for free from dusk Saturday until Sunday morning at the Borghese Gallery, w…
Italian Police Show Latest Recovery of Looted Art at the Colosseum
ROME (AP).- Italian police have recovered hundreds of ancient artifacts in their latest effort to crack down on the looting of art, and have looted art, and they chose a unique setting to display them Friday: the Colosseum. The 337 pieces displayed in …
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will exhibit "Art in the Age of Steam "
KANSAS CITY, MO – A major international exhibition opening this fall at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Art in the Age of Steam: Europe, America and the Railway, 1830-1960, will capture the excitement and range of emotions that steam-powered train…
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College Reopens with Fresh Look
AMHERST, MA.- On Saturday, July 3, the Mead Art Museum at
Amherst College unveiled the first in a series of new displays that
promise to
refresh every gallery in the museum before the start of the 2010-11
academic
year. A computer-animated t…
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College Reopens with Fresh Look
AMHERST, MA.- On Saturday, July 3, the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College unveiled the first in a series of new displays that promise to refresh every gallery in the museum before the start of the 2010-11 academic year. A computer-animated tour of eac…
Los Angeles Show has Largest Traveling Exhibit of Mummies
LOS ANGELES (AP).- A 10-month-old baby who lived in Peru 6,420 years ago and a 17th-century nobleman; a South American woman with a tattoo on each breast and one on her face, a woman who had tuberculosis, a child who had a heart condition and a youngst…
Vogel Collection and Andy Warhol Polaroids at PAFA
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) presents two simultaneous exhibitions featuring gifts from Dorothy and Herbert Vogel and the The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. In 1992, Herbert and Dorothy Vogel pledged …
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza opens Monographic Exhibition Devoted to Henri Fantin-Latour
MADRID.- The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid is
presenting Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), the first major monographic exhibition to
be devoted in Spain to this French painter. It has been organized in conjunction
with the Fundaçao Calouste Gulbe…