LIVERPOOL.- An exciting new exhibition looks at a dazzling array of women’s accessories that helped add a sparkle to fashion from when Queen Victoria was a girl up to the outbreak of the Second World War. The Finishing Touch: Women’s Accessor…
British-Born Surrealist Painter Leonora Carrington Dies at Age 94 in Mexico City
Mexico City – Leonora Carrington, the Lancashire-born former debutante who eloped with Max Ernst and became one the greatest – and last surviving – female surrealist artists has died in hospital in Mexico City at the age of 94.Carrington was als…
Coveted Art Directors Club Award Goes to Designs for Tell Halaf Exhibition
BERLIN.- The designs for the ‘Tell Halaf Adventure’, executed by the architects neo.studio, have been selected for an award by the Art Directors Club (ADC) in Germany, in the section ‘Communication in Space’. Some 7000 projects were submitted to the 20…
Kiefer & Rembrandt: Rijksmuseum Inspires Anselm Kiefer to Create a Work of Art
AMSTERDAM.- One of Germany’s most well-known and influential artists, Anselm Kiefer, was invited by the Rijksmuseum to create a work of art inspired by The Night Watch. The result, the spectacular La berceuse (for Van Gogh), for which he was gi…
"The Power of Fantasy: Modern and Contemporary Art From Poland" Comes to Brussels
Brussels.- “The Power of Fantasy: Modern and Contemporary Art from Poland”, as major exhibition gathering many of the most significant works of contemporary art from Poland by a generation of artists who have made their careers since the fall of com…
"A Brush With War: Military Art From Korea to Afghanistan" Coming To Victoria, B.C.
Victoria, B.C.- The travelling exhibition of works by post World War II Canadian war artists reaches the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, B.C. in June. “A Brush with War: Military Art from Korea to Afghanistan” opens on June 24th and is on view unti…
Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons Rediscovers London’s Lost Museums
LONDON.- The Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons opened its latest exhibition London’s Lost Museums: Nature and Medicine, celebrating early natural history and anatomical collections once displayed in the capital, now ‘lost’…
Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons Rediscovers London’s Lost Museums
LONDON.- The Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons opened its latest exhibition London’s Lost Museums: Nature and Medicine, celebrating early natural history and anatomical collections once displayed in the capital, now ‘lost’…
Imperial War Museum in London Explores Achievements of Female War Artists
LONDON.- Women War Artists, a new exhibition at Imperial War Museum London will explore the remarkable experiences and achievements of female war artists from the First World War to the present day. The importance of women artists as eyewitnesses, part…
‘Miró’ At The Tate Modern ~ The First Retrospective of Miró in the UK in 50 Years
London.- Joan Miró’s works come to London in the first major retrospective to be held in the UK for nearly 50 years. Renowned as one of the greatest Surrealist painters, filling his paintings with luxuriant colour, Miró worked in a rich variety of …