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The J. Paul Getty Museum Observes Day Without Art
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum’s 20th annual observance of “Day Without Art”, a day when the international arts community pauses to remember and respond to the AIDS crisis and its impact on cultural life, will take place on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 (World AIDS Day). In commemoration of the day, the Getty will shroud the sculpture... [Read full article]
Sculptor Norman Mooney Places “Windseeds” at Devos Estate
BROOKLYN, NY.- Causey Contemporary announced that sculptor Norman Mooney permanently placed his newest sculpture, Windseeds at the Richard and Helen DeVos estate in Michigan. The piece which consists of three separate eight food diameter cast aluminum isohedrons is the second in a new scluptural direction for Mooney. The first cast aluminum sculpture... [Read full article]
Sotheby’s to Sell “The Old Dealer” by Charles Spencelayh-Artist’s Masterpiece
LONDON.- Sotheby’s sale of Victorian and Edwardian Art on Thursday, December 17, 2009 will bring together some 100 works by leading artists of the era and is expected to raise in excess of £4.2 million. Among the categories of works to be offered will be a strong contingent of classical, mythological, genre, landscape and fairy pictures. The... [Read full article]
National Trust and Royal Academy of Arts Collaborate on New Public Art Commission
LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts and the National Trust today announced a major new public art commission to go on display on the façade of the Royal Academy’s 6 Burlington Gardens as part of the forthcoming exhibition GSK Contemporary, Earth: Art of a changing world, which opens on 3 December 2009. The commission represents the first collaboration... [Read full article]
Fine Portrait by York’s Most Famous Artist Bought by York Art Gallery
YORK- One of the finest portraits ever painted by York ’s most famous artist has been purchased by York Art Gallery. William Etty’s ambitious Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball was commissioned in 1833 by MP Charles Watkin Williams–Wynn and depicts two of the patron’s five daughters. It is one of only a handful of society portraits painted by... [Read full article]
New Tour at Frank Lloyd Wright Synagogue in Pennsylvania
ELIKINS PARK, PA (AP).-Did you hear the one about the rabbi and the architect? Few people have. Which is why the members of Beth Sholom — who worship in the only synagogue designed by Frank Lloyd Wright — are stepping forward to tell the story of how their landmark spiritual home was built. Described as a symbolic Mount Sinai made of concrete, steel... [Read full article]
Cai Guo-Qiang Hangs Out at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum
TAIPEI.- The Taipei Fine Arts Museum presents a retrospective exhibition for the artist called “indispensable to this world” by The New York Times. Cai Guo-Qiang has left his mark on various cities and countries, from Fujian to Shanghai, from China to Japan, and from New York to the world. His work expresses a kind of metaphysical thinking derived... [Read full article]
Bonhams to Sell “White Gold: One of the Finest Collections of Meissen in the World”
LONDON.- The preferred gifts of kings, Meissen porcelain, from many of the noble houses of Europe, will be sold at Bonhams on November 25 2009 when the first part of the Hoffmeister Collection is auctioned. The world-famous Hoffmeister Collection was assembled over the last 40 years by two German brothers who have a passion for this rare 18th-century... [Read full article]
Huntington and LACMA Jointly Purchase Iconic Art Nouveau Chair
SAN MARINO, CA.- The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced today the joint purchase of an iconic chair designed by groundbreaking English architect, graphic artist, and craftsman Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo (1851–1942). One of only five chairs in the set known to exist, the Huntington/LACMA... [Read full article]
Clark Art Institute Acquires Great Barbizon School Painting by Rousseau
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute has announced the acquisition of a major nineteenth-century landscape painting by Pierre Étienne Théodore Rousseau. The acquisition brings to the public one of the greatest Barbizon School paintings, Farm in the Landes (House of the Garde), which until now has been held in private collections... [Read full article]
Sotheby’s Sale of American Paintings to be Held in December
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s auction of American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture on 3 December 2009 will offer collectors a rich array of works by American artists from the 19th and 20th centuries. The auction includes a number of major paintings and sculptures almost entirely unknown to the market, many of which have been in private collections for... [Read full article]
Google Chief Eric Schmidt Announces Documentation of Iraqi Museum Treasures
BAGHDAD (AP).- Google is documenting Iraq’s national museum and will post photographs of its ancient treasures on the Internet early next year, Google chief Eric Schmidt announced Tuesday. The museum was ransacked in the chaotic aftermath of Saddam Hussein’s ouster in April 2003, and only reopened to visitors early this year. Schmidt, who... [Read full article]
Getty Museum Opens Exhibition Featuring J. Paul Getty’s Antiquities
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Celebrating 70 years of collecting, Collector’s Choice: J. Paul Getty and His Antiquities, on view from November 18, 2009–February 8, 2010, at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa, presents seldom-seen works of art that captured J. Paul Getty’s eye and inspired the creation of a museum modeled on an ancient Roman villa.... [Read full article]
Artist Jeanne-Claude, Who Co-Created ‘The Gates’ with Husband Christo, Dies at Age 74
NEW YORK, NY (AP).- Artist Jeanne-Claude, who created the 2005 Central Park installation “The Gates” and other large scale “wrapping” projects around the globe with her husband Christo, has died. She was 74. Jeanne-Claude died Wednesday night at a New York hospital from complications of a brain aneurysm, her family said in an e-mail statement.... [Read full article]
Top 10 Craziest & Most Original Artworks
Rotating Wall Art Richard Wilson, one of Britain’s best known sculptures is drawing inspiration for the world of construction and engineering with his latest art called Turning the Place Over. The art is a section cut out from a building and rotates itself on a pivot with a cost of £450,000. It is described as one of the most daring piece of public... [Read full article]
