LONG BEACH, CA.- The Long Beach Museum of Art is presenting the grand finale of its 60th Anniversary celebration with A Light in the Shadow – Decades of Art by Women. The Celebrating Sixty exhibition series will continue this summer with a special…
Maya Angelou Gets Her Dot on Michael Jackson Portrait
WINSTON-SALEM (AP).- Poet Maya Angelou is inviting fans of Michael Jackson to be represented in a pointillism portrait of the late singer, who died almost a year ago. Angelou met Monday at her home in Winston-Salem, N.C., with artist David Ilan, who i…
The British Museum opens " Statuephilia ~ Contemporary Sculptors"
LONDON – The British Museum houses one of the greatest sculpture collections in the world. This autumn, it will showcase a group of major works by leading contemporary British artists in a series of installations paying tribute to the cultural si…
IVAM Celebrates Ramón Gaya’s 100th Anniversary with Exhibition
VALENCIA.- On the occasion of Ramón Gaya’s hundredth anniversary IVAM exhibits “Homenaje a la pintura” [Homage to painting], which is co-organized by the State Society of Cultural Commemorations (SECC), in order to recall the love for painting expres…
IVAM Celebrates Ramón Gaya’s 100th Anniversary with Exhibition
VALENCIA.- On the occasion of Ramón Gaya’s
hundredth anniversary IVAM exhibits “Homenaje a la pintura” [Homage to
painting], which is co-organized by the State Society of Cultural
Commemorations
(SECC), in order to recall the love for p…
Getty Trust President and CEO James Wood Dies at Age 69
LOS ANGELES (AP).- James N. Wood, the president and chief executive of the J. Paul Getty Trust, who also worked for 25 years at the Art Institute of Chicago, has died. He was 69. He died unexpectedly of natural causes, Mark Siegel, who chairs the Getty…
William Lee Golden Honored at Tennessee State Museum
NASHVILLE, TN.- The stars came out to pay
tribute
to William Lee Golden of the Oak Ridge Boys at a special reception at
the
Tennessee State Museum centering around an exhibit of his paintings.
William Lee
told the assembled crowd, “I…
Unique Exhibition on the Story of The Royal Ballet Announced
LONDON.- With the recent revelations of Dame Margot
Fonteyn’s part in the attempted Panamanian coup of 1959, it is clear there are
many untold stories in the distinguished life of The Royal Ballet. This
fascinating story starts in County Wickl…