THE HAGUE.- The Mauritshuis has acquired the exceptional history painting, Moses and Pharaoh’s Crown by Jan Steen (1626-1679), from a private collection. The museum already owns a superb collection of fourteen paintings by Steen, including undisp…
Nordic Water Tales by Susanna Majuri at Galerie Adler
FRANKFURT.- Stories are a wonderful thing! You can lose yourselves in them, assume a different form or personality – and yet, in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth. Finnish photo artist Susanna Majuri (*1978) is the storyteller of the Nort…
Smithsonian Institution’s "New Harmonies" Traveling Exhibition on Five-State Tour
ASBURY PARK, NJ (AP).- The Smithsonian hears America singing, playing instruments and telling its history through music. The Washington cultural institution’s New Harmonies program will feature this musical history with a traveling exhibit in five stat…
Smithsonian Music Exhibit on 5-State Tour
ASBURY PARK, NJ (AP).- The Smithsonian hears America singing, playing instruments and telling its history through music. The Washington cultural institution’s New Harmonies program will feature this musical history with a traveling exhibit in five stat…
Mozambican Artist Malangatana Ngwenya Dead at 74
LISBON, PORTUGAL (AP).- Malangatana Ngwenya (Mah-LANG-gah-tah-nah en-GWEN-yah), a Mozambican painter, poet and politician who became one of the African country’s most famous artists for his work drawing on the country’s rocky history, died Wednesday, a…
Olympic Documentary Filmmaker Bud Greenspan Dies at Age 84 in New York City
NEW YORK (AP).- Oh, to catch Bud Greenspan’s eye and then turn up in one of his Olympic documentaries. For many athletes, from the famous to the obscure, the honor ranked just behind winning a medal. The filmmaker, whose riveting tales soared as trium…
National Gallery of Art Announces Gauguin: Maker of Myth" in Washington, Next Year
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art will present Gauguin: Maker of Myth, the first major exhibition of his work since The Art of Paul Gauguin, the Gallery’s blockbuster retrospective of 1988–1989 that traveled to Chicago and Paris. …
National Gallery of Art Announces Gauguin: Maker of Myth" in Washington, Next Year
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art will present Gauguin: Maker of Myth, the first major exhibition of his work since The Art of Paul Gauguin, the Gallery’s blockbuster retrospective of 1988–1989 that traveled to Chicago and Paris. …