ANKARA, TURKEY (AP).- Workers have begun dismantling a giant sculpture meant to promote reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia. Television footage on Tuesday showed a crane bringing down one of the two heads of the 35-meter (115-foot) stone sculpt…
14,000 People Visit Turner Contemporary on Opening Weekend
MARGATE.- A record 14,000 people visited Turner Contemporary in Margate over the gallery’s opening weekend. The building was officially opened by Tracey Emin and Jools Holland on Saturday 16 April at 10 am. Several local businesses reported reco…
Bert Green Fine Art Shows "Randall Cabe: Revealed Secrets: New Paintings"
Los Angeles.- Until April 27th, Bert Green Fine Art is showing “Randall Cabe: Revealed Secrets: New Paintings” at their gallery in Los Angeles. This is their second solo exhibition of the works of Randall Cabe, a Los Angeles-based painter, college …
Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí Presents Early-Period Work Study for "Honey is Sweeter than Blood"
FIGUERES.- At eleven o’clock this morning in the Loggias Room at the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí presented its latest acquisition of work by the artist, an oil-on-wood painting entitled Study for “Honey…
A Minute with: Julian Schnabel on Palestinian Film… Which May Be His Last
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Julian Schnabel, maker of films such as “Basquiat”, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” and “Before Night Falls”, says his latest film is the one he most wants people to see and could be his last. In the film, “Miral,” starring Fr…
Robert De Niro Testifies in Gallery Owner Lawrence Salander’s Art Fraud Trial
NEW YORK (AP).- It’s a role that moviegoers might not know Robert De Niro plays: overseeing his painter father’s estate. The Academy Award-winning actor served as a star witness Friday in an art-fraud trial, testifying against a former gallery director…
Canvases and Letters Show how Pink Floyd Founder Syd Barrett Put Painting Before Pop Music
LONDON (REUTERS).- He helped create one of rock’s greatest bands, but the late Syd Barrett always considered himself a painter before a Pink Floyd founder. Speaking at an exhibition of the troubled musician’s canvases and letters, his sister Rosemary B…
Canvases and Letters Show how Pink Floyd Founder Syd Barrett Put Painting Before Pop Music
LONDON (REUTERS).- He helped create one of rock’s greatest bands, but the late Syd Barrett always considered himself a painter before a Pink Floyd founder. Speaking at an exhibition of the troubled musician’s canvases and letters, his sister Rosemary B…
Kunsthaus Wien Presents a Comprehensive Retrospective Devoted to HR Giger
VIENNA.- In this comprehensive retrospective devoted to HR Giger, who was born in 1940 in Chur, Switzerland, Kunsthaus Wien takes a fresh look at the works of a controversial artist who, more than almost anyone else, has had a far-reaching influence on…
Sotheby’s to Sell One of the Greatest Venetian View Paintings Ever Executed
LONDON.- On July 6, 2011, Sotheby’s London will sell one of the greatest masterpieces of Venetian view painting ever executed. Estimated in the region of £20 million* (US$30 million), Francesco Guardi’s Venice, a view of the Rialto Bridge, L…