Amsterdam - Beginning on April 24, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam dedicates a collection presentation to Barnett Newman (1905-1970), one of the most celebrated artists of Color Field Painting, a movement that was part of American Abstract Expressionism. Occupying two galleries, the Stedelijk presents a number of ... read entire article »
(image above: Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), Le Baiser. Estimate: 700.000 $ – 1.000.000 $) New York, NY - Christie’s will present its Impressionist & Modern Art Works on Paper Sale and Day Sale, Including Property from the Estate of Edgar M. Bronfman, on May 7 in ... read entire article »
The Foundation for Art and Creative Technology in Liverpool (FACT) is facing accusations of laying off paid employees and swapping them with volunteers. “Those affected were all really upset. They were very angry. The advertising for the volunteers says they ... read entire article »
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Renowned as a painter, printmaker, watercolorist, theoretician, and Bauhaus teacher, Wassily Kandinsky is a prodigious artists of the first half of the twentieth century. Beginning Thursday, June 5, 2014, the Milwaukee Art Museum will ... read entire article »
An 'office gallery' as its director Sylvie Tiao calls it, will be opened in Hong Kong by Pace. The rather small venue (1,200 sq. ft) will open on 13 May, to coincide with the Art Basel fair in the city. The space, located in Entertainment Building in Central Hong ... read entire article »
New York, NY - Christie’s will offer an exquisite ceramics collection in Impressions in Clay: Pablo Picasso Ceramics, featuring Property from the Estate of Edgar M. Bronfman from May 2nd to May 16th. The sale will be offered exclusively as an online-only ... read entire article »
It might be illegal to handle Syrian antiquities, as Arts Council England has warned UK exporters. According to the new European Union regulations, the exporters are breaking the law by handling looted artefacts: “the import, export or transfer of Syrian ... read entire article »
Rome - Andy Warhol, the father of Pop Art, gets his first major monographic exhibition in Rome. This exhibition is a sequel made after its highly successful period at the Palazzo Reale in Milan, where it attracted more than 225.000 visitors and was highly ... read entire article »
The photography festival Les Rencontres d’Arles is at 45th edition this summer in Provençal. It will be a “parade” of figures that have made considerable contributions in previous years, as director François Hébel said during a press conference. Lucien ... read entire article »
Turkish artists are concerned with the fact that Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party, the AKP, took 43% of the vote at the elections. Turkey's representative at last year’s Venice Biennale, Ali Kazma (photo), wrote an essay titled ... read entire article »
France's national museum of Asian art in Paris, Musée Guimet, is negotiating with the Nepalese government over two stolen statues held at the museum. “We intend to reach an agreement regarding the artefacts in advance of a major show devoted to Nepalese ... read entire article »
The deaccession of The Incredulity of St Thomas, a painting by Bernardo Strozzi, was cleared for sale by both the Arts Council and the Museums Association. The painting, dating to the early 1620s and worth around £2.5m, will be sold by the country-house ... read entire article »
New York, NY - Luhring Augustine announces an exhibition of new work by Tunga. This exhibition includes sculptures and drawings conceived over the past few years. For four decades Tunga has created a complex personal mythology through his integrated and ... read entire article »
Bonhams Fine Chinese Art sale in London is auctioning on 15 May a remarkable Imperial Chinese twelve-leaf screen containing 64 impressive porcelain panels illustrating tales from Chinese mythology. The piece, which may have graced an Imperial throne room, i ... read entire article »
New York, NY - Christie’s announces the Japanese and Korean art department will focus on tightly curated theme sales, after the successful sales of Japanese and Korean art during Asian Art Week this March. The art department will focus on these sales both ... read entire article »
MUNICH - A claim for restitution of a drawing by the Florentine painter and draftsman Andrea Boscoli (1560-1607) in the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munich was lodged by the heirs of Dr. Michael Berolzheimer (1866-1942) in a letter from the Holocaust Claim ... read entire article »
A Flemish helmet dating to around 1500, that once hung above the tomb of Sir Thomas Hooke, who was buried in 1677 in the church of Wootton St Lawrence, in Hampshire was sold for £45,000 at an auction at Thomas Del Mar in 2010 to an American collector. After ... read entire article »
VIENNA - WestLicht explores the infinite expanses of space. The exhibition gives a unique overview of the history of space photography, by featuring 150 spectacular photographs: from early 19th century black-and-white images of passing comets to the first ... read entire article »
A sweet and sticky exhibition titled STROKE goes on show at the Jupiter Artland sculpture park in Edinburgh on 17 May -13 July. Scottish artist Anya Gallaccio’s work has little to no chance to escape the longing viewers as she plans to coat the walls of one of ... read entire article »
Chicago - Conservator Faye Wrubel began restoring Gustave Caillebotte's "Paris Street; Rainy Day" at the Art Institute of Chicago last October. At first, she thought it would be a routine sprucing-up. The museum will unveil this painting to the public on April ... read entire article »
