(image above represents Jonathan Yeo (B. 1970), Girl Reading (Malala Yousafzai), 2013. Oil on canvas, 89cm x 89cm. Estimate: $60,000-80,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2014) New York, NY - Jonathan Yeo Portraits exhibition hosted at the London National Portrait Gallery will offer at auction the portrait of Malala ... read entire article »
A proposal made by the artists Mohamed Ali Fadlabi and Lars Cuzner for the Norway 200th constitution anniversary was met with criticism by anti-racist organizations. The artists say that they want to “highlight a forgotten event in Norwegian history” by ... read entire article »
French artist Miguel Chevalier brought some stunning digital design to create a pixellated masterpiece on the floor of the Sacré Coeur church in Casablanca, Morocco. The work, called “Magic Carpets 2014” is an ode to traditional Moroccan craftsmanship and ... read entire article »
BERN - How artists take their lines for a walk is the theme of the latest exhibition at the Zentrum Paul Klee. Their line formations are like abstract scribbles, letters, hieroglyphics and calligraphic signs. The exhibition investigates the features that ... read entire article »
LONDON - Sappho inspired by Cupid (picture above) is a sensual work by the French 17th century Master, Jean-Honoré Fragonard. The painting will be sold at Bonhams Old Master Paintings Sale in London, on 9 July. Its value is ranged between 800.000 £ - ... read entire article »
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, an artist from Brooklyn, is working since 2012 at the courageous project "Stop Telling Women to Smile". "Street harassment is a serious issue that affects women world wide. This project takes women’s voices, and faces, and puts them in ... read entire article »
WASHINGTON (AFP) - One of the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex specimens ever found moved into its new home in Washington, on Tuesday. Dubbed "the nation's T. rex", the skeleton was discovered in 1988 by a Montana rancher and becomes the first at the ... read entire article »
A lucky Fabergé egg is on display at Wartski in London until Thursday 17 April. Lucky, due to the fact that, being previously lost, is was recently bought by a Midwest American seller for its estimated scrap metal price of $14,000. The unknown dealer wa ... read entire article »
WASHINGTON, DC - The Japanese city of Edo ceased to exist on September 3rd, 1868. Then, it was renamed Tokyo (“Eastern Capital”) by Japan’s new rulers. Painting “Kiyochika: Master of the Night” is on view at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery since March ... read entire article »
According to Qatar Museums Authority (QMA), a former fire station in Doha will be transformed into an art centre. The building, which will serve as a space for artist residences and exhibitions, will include 24 studios and a 700 sq. m gallery housed in the old ... read entire article »
Painting above represents art of Camille Pissarro, France, 1830-1903, Prairie à Éragny, 1886, Éragny, France, oil on canvas, 59.4 x 73.0. ADELAIDE - The Art Gallery of South Australia has hosted French Impressionist painter, Camille Pissarro’s Prairie à ... read entire article »
After Tunisian revolution in 2011, 165 archaeological objects turned up in Sakher el-Materi’s villa in Hammamet, 70km southeast of Tunis. Among them was the “Mask of Gorgon”, a white marble artefact originally discovered in Annaba, formerly the Roman African ... read entire article »
ROME - After the success of the previous exhibition back in 2010, this current exhibition called "Hogarth, Reynolds, Turner. British Painting and the Rise of Modernity" focuses on the British environment. The exhibition is promoted by the Fondazione Roma, in ... read entire article »
The Art Newspaper Russia handled its annual awards in a dazzling event at Moscow's Manege on April 4. Fifteen dancing Pushkins, a gondola and the battleship Potemkin with a choir of sailors and an intriguing Dasha Zhukova – Roman Abramovich love story by the ... read entire article »
VENICE - The exhibition “The Illusion of Light” explores the physical, aesthetic, symbolic, philosophical and political stakes of an essential dimension of human experience. And we are talking about a fundamental element of art: "LIGHT". Since the ... read entire article »
PARIS (AFP) - On Sunday, France's main Jewish body called for the cancellation of an auction of Adolf Hitler and Nazi air force chief Hermann Goering's personal effects, due to take place in Paris at the end of this month. The umbrella organisation CRIF said ... read entire article »
Financial police in Italy seized a collection of antiquities worth at least €150m from a villa south of Rome. Hundreds of archaeological artefacts were confiscated from a property in Lanuvio, belonging to an Italian art collector. The raid took place within ... read entire article »
Impressionist painter E. Charlton Fortune's "Hall of Flowers," 1915, sold to the highest bidder for $365,000 at California and Western Paintings auction, on April 8. Inspired by the creative atmosphere surrounding the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, the ... read entire article »
One of the most valuable jewels from Imperial Russia could be hidden somewhere in Britain, after a mysterious stranger paid for it in cash, 62 years ago. It is the greatest Easter egg hunt in the world — the search for a 20 million £ egg. In 1952, a man ... read entire article »
Ukrainian crisis affects once again the artistic life in Kyiv. After the announcement in February that the Second Kyiv Biennale of Contemporary Art will be postponed until 2015, now the second edition of the Kyiv Sculpture Project due to open in May, wa ... read entire article »
