Sotheby’s to Sell Francis Bacon’s Figure In Movement, Gift from the Artist to...
LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced the sale of Francis Bacon’s Figure In Movement, the most significant painting by the British artist to appear at auction in several seasons, in its Evening Sale of...
View ArticleNew Book Says Painting Stored Behind a Couch for 25 Years may Be a Michelangelo
TONAWANDA (AP).- Could a painting of Mary holding the body of Jesus that hung for years in an upstate New York family’s home really be a 16th century Michelangelo? An Italian art historian thinks so...
View ArticleNew Large-Scale and Single Continuous Installation by Roxy Paine at James...
NEW YORK, NY.- For Roxy Paine’s fourth solo exhibition at James Cohan Gallery, the gallery presents the artist’s new large-scale installation Distillation (2010). A single continuous piece, the artwork...
View ArticleSocial Realist Artist Jack Levine Dies on Monday at New York City Home at Age 95
NEW YORK (AP).- The social realist artist Jack Levine, who skewered the rich and powerful in paintings that echoed Old Masters like Goya and El Greco stylistically, has died. He was 95. Levine’s...
View ArticleLuba Caryatid Stool Achieves Record for a Work of African Art at Sotheby’s:...
PARIS.- A packed saleroom at the Galerie Charpentier for the sale of African & Oceanic Art witnessed fierce competition between collectors (mainly from Europe or America) present at the auction or...
View ArticleKimbell Art Museum Presents First Major U.S. Exhibition Devoted to Salvator Rosa
FORT WORTH, TX.- Kimbell Art Museum presents the first major U.S. exhibition devoted to the work of Salvator Rosa (1615–1673), one of the boldest artists and personalities of 17th-century Italy,...
View ArticleMet Museum’s New Installation Positions African Masks with Works by Modern...
NEW YORK, NY.- Highly creative re-imaginings of the iconic form of the African mask comprise a unique installation held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning March 8. Featuring 20 works of art—19...
View ArticleFor the First Time Ever, National Gallery Painting by Van Gogh Comes to Life
LONDON.- For the first time ever, a painting is being made into a ‘living wall’ outside the National Gallery. With over 8,000 living plants, General Electric (GE) has brought a masterpiece to life with...
View ArticleCompany Organizes Murder-Mystery Scavenger Hunt at the Metropolitan Museum of...
NEW YORK (AP).- An assistant museum curator who questioned the authenticity of a Leonardo da Vinci has been murdered — but before he died he left a code in his appointment calendar and a cryptic trail...
View ArticleMetropolitan Museum displays Romare Bearden’s The Block for centennial...
NEW YORK, N.Y.- On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Romare Bearden, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will display Bearden’s The Block, a six-panel tableau that portrays one city...
View ArticleFirst solo show in Mexico by Darío Villalba at Luis Adelantado Gallery in...
MEXICO CITY.- Luis Adelantado Gallery presents the first solo show in Mexico, by the national prize of art, Darío Villalba(1939, San Sebastián, Spain). A man observes works of Spanish artist Dario...
View ArticleMetropolitan Museum launches expanded and redesigned website with more than...
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art has relaunched its website, www.metmuseum.org, it was announced today by Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of the Museum. Key features of the expanded...
View ArticleNew York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art opens new galleries for the art of the...
NEW YORK, N.Y.- The grand reopening of a suite of 15 dramatic New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia took place at New York’s Metropolitan Museum...
View ArticleStorytelling in Japanese Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Japan has enjoyed a long tradition of storytelling through paintings and illustrated books, which continues today in the popular art of manga (comic books for children and adults)....
View ArticleMetropolitan’s Gary Tinterow appointed Director of the Museum of Fine Arts,...
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, announced that Gary Tinterow has been named as its seventh director. Tinterow, an internationally recognized curator and scholar who is currently the...
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