WASHINGTON (AP).- President Barack Obama praised the winner of a top architecture prize Thursday for embodying a style that is, in his words, as “effortless as it is beautiful.” Obama lauded Eduardo Souto de Moura of Portugal at an awards ceremony wher…
Manuela Marques Wins BES Photo Prize 2011
LISBON.- Organized in partnership with the Museu Colecção Berardo – Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, Lisbon – the BES Photo prize is an annual initiative that aims to reward the work of artists in the field of Photography. Ever since its very…
Bonhams Appoints Filipa Rebelo de Andrade as New Representative in Portugal
LONDON.- Bonhams, the international fine art auction house, has appointed Filipa Rebelo de Andrade as the company’s representative in Portugal. She is based in Lisbon. Filipa’s professional experience includes an art curatorship at the Fundac…
Bonhams Appoints Filipa Rebelo de Andrade as New Representative in Portugal
LONDON.- Bonhams, the international fine art auction house, has appointed Filipa Rebelo de Andrade as the company’s representative in Portugal. She is based in Lisbon. Filipa’s professional experience includes an art curatorship at the Fundac…
Wikileaks Trove Used in Fight Over Shipwreck Trove
TAMPA, FL (AP).- Deep-sea explorers in Florida are using some of the trove of recently leased WikiLeaks documents to try to force the U.S. government out of their legal battle with Spain over a shipwreck treasure. Odyssey Marine Exploration of Tampa …
George Best 1968 European Cup Winner’s Medal Fetches £156,000 at Bonhams
LONDON.- The 1968 European Cup winner’s medal awarded to the legendary Northern Irish football player, George Best (1946-2005), sold for a staggering £156,000 today (20 October) at Bonhams, Chester, as part of the Sporting Memorabilia sale. The m…
SK Stiftung Kultur in Cologne Presents 160 Works of Art Made by Joachim Brohm
COLOGNE.- The exhibition Joachim Brohm. COLOR features a total of around 160 exhibits from different sequences of photographs created in Germany, France, the United States, Portugal and Japan between 1980 and 2010. Among the works on show are a signifi…
Pedro Barateiro’s "Theatre of Hunters" at Kunsthalle Basel
BASEL.- In Theatre of Hunters, his first major solo exhibition outside of Portugal, Pedro Barateiro presents a sequence of installations that include “staged” sculptures, found objects, photographs, drawings, paintings and films that encompas…
Sotheby’s Offers Paintings from the Former Collection of Madame Antenor Patiño
PARIS.- On
September 22 & 23, to
mark the opening of the Autumn auction season in Paris, Sotheby’s will
bring to a conclusion the story of
the legendary collection begun by Antenor Patiño (1894-1982) and
continued with
supreme elega…
Paintings from the Former Collection of Madame Antenor Patiño to Be Sold
PARIS.- On September 22 & 23, to mark the opening of the Autumn auction season in Paris, Sotheby’s will bring to a conclusion the story of the legendary collection begun by Antenor Patiño (1894-1982) and continued with supreme elegance and refine…