DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art and the Menil Collection in Houston announced today the joint acquisition of a major sculpture by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, one of the most significant and provocative artists to emerge since the 1990s….
San Francisco.- The travelling exhibition “Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris” reaches the de Young Museum in San Francisco on June 11th. The de Young will host this extraordinary exhibition of more than 100 masterpieces …
PEARL HARBOR (AP).- Political assassinations in Tokyo. Censorship and the stifling of dissent. A nation hungry for oil and other natural resources. Kimono-clad women in department stores and boarding street cars. A smiling Babe Ruth posing for photos …
CODY, WY (AP).- Wyoming artist Harry Jackson, known for both his works of abstract expressionism and images of the American West, has died at the age of 87. Funeral home officials told the Casper-Star Tribune that Jackson died Monday at the veterans’ h…
GENEVA (AP).- Sotheby’s says it will auction jewels belonging to a former American World War II spy who married into Spanish aristocracy and rubbed shoulders with world leaders and Hollywood celebrities. The auction house says the collection of necklac…
VIENNA (AP).- An Austrian museum plans to return a precious Gustav Klimt painting to the heir of its rightful owner after researchers discovered it was confiscated by Nazis during World War II, officials said Thursday. The painting, “Litzlberg am Atte…
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…
WARSAW (AP).- Workers in Warsaw laying a new tram line have uncovered a German bunker dating back to World War II, officials said Thursday. The bunker was discovered in recent days at Plac Zbawiciela, or Savior’s Square, a major traffic hub in the Pol…
BERLIN (AP).- An exhibit opening in the German capital on Tuesday examines the role Adolf Eichmann’s 1961 trial in Israel played in shaping modern understanding of the Holocaust and World War II, giving survivors an unprecedented chance to tell their s…
BERLIN (AP).- An exhibit opening in the German capital on Tuesday examines the role Adolf Eichmann’s 1961 trial in Israel played in shaping modern understanding of the Holocaust and World War II, giving survivors an unprecedented chance to tell their s…
