AMSTERDAM (AP).- Rembrandt’s “Night Watch” and other famed works by Dutch masters will return to their permanent home by 2013, as a radical decade-long renovation of the national Rijksmuseum nears completion. A sneak preview Wednesday showed the 19th-…
Harris Museum Buys 19th Century "Puck" Painting
LONDON.- An important 19th century painting featuring Puck, the mischievous character from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, has been bought for the Harris Museum & Art Gallery in Preston. Puck by Victorian artist Richard Dadd is a mys…
Gagosian Gallery Paris Presents an Exhibition of Unique Precious Objects by Victoire de Castellane
PARIS.- Gagosian Gallery Paris presents an exhibition of unique precious objects by Victoire de Castellane. The exhibition is on view from March 2 through 22, 2011. I start with a story, a world, never with the material. I find my stories in everything…
Artist Mark Ryden Presents New Work at Paul Kasmin Gallery
NEW
YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery presents The Gay 90’s:
Old Tyme Art Show, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by
the Los
Angeles artist Mark Ryden. On view at 293 Tenth Avenue from April 29 to
June 5,
2010, this will be Ryden’s first significant solo show in New York since
2003,
as well as his first with the gallery. In his hauntingly
beautiful and
masterfully executed oil paintings, Ryden creates his own contemporary
mythologies whose archetypes include fairy tale creatures, historical
figures,
and pop cultural icons.