National Gallery Announces “Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals”

LONDON.- This landmark exhibition presents the finest assembly of Venetian views by Canaletto and his 18th-century rivals to be seen in a generation. Bringing together around 50 major loans from the public and private collections of the UK, Europe and North America, Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals highlights the extraordinary variety of Venetian view painting, juxtaposing masterpieces by Canaletto with key works by artists including Luca Carlevarijs, Michele Marieschi, Bernardo Bellotto and Francesco Guardi. Featured works span the 18th-century, from [...]

The Saatchi Gallery Opens Largest Show Since Moving to Chelsea

LONDON.- On 2 June, the Saatchi Gallery will open its largest show since moving to Chelsea. Entitled Newspeak: British Art Now, the exhibition will feature some of the most exciting artists to have emerged in the UK in the last few years who are still largely unknown in the wider art world. Over a decade after Sensation and the advent of the YBAs, this new generation of artists are making work that collectively offers an arresting insight into the future [...]

Icon of Art History Henri Matisse’s “Dance” on Loan for Six Weeks at Hermitage Amsterdam

AMSTERDAM.- From Thursday 1 April the painting Dance (1909-1910) by Henri Matisse will be included in the exhibition Matisse to Malevich. Pioneers of modern art from the Hermitage. Dance, which will be seen at the Hermitage Amsterdam only until 9 May, has never previously been displayed in the Netherlands. It is one of the icons of art history and comes from the collection of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. It is rarely loaned out. Very recently the Ministry [...]

New Series of Paintings by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov at Sprovieri Gallery

LONDON.- The Kabakovs are Russia’s foremost living artists. In 2008 they launched the Garage Centre for contemporary art in Moscow, exhibiting their total installations for the first time in twenty years since they left the country, and their exhibition Incident at the Museum and Other Installations at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg in 2004 was the first exhibition by living Russian artists ever to be held there. Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Flying#13. Photo: Courtesy Sprovieri Gallery Ilya Kabakov [...]

United States Gives Russia Back Czar’s Stolen Medallion

MOSCOW.- The U.S. Ambassador to Russia returned a stolen silver medallion that belonged to the last Russian czar to Moscow Thursday after it was recovered from an online auction by U.S. investigators. Ambassador John Beyrle said that the recovery of the rare artifact signaled increasing trust between Moscow and Washington. “This detective story is a wonderful example of successful cooperation, which allows us to improve relations between Russia and the United States,” Beyrle said during a ceremony at his official [...]

Rare Tiffany Stained Glass Windows on View for the First Time in Montreal

MONTREAL.- After Paris, where it garnered both public and critical acclaim, the exhibition “Tiffany Glass: A Passion for Colour” will be shown in Montreal from February 12 to May 2, 2010. It is the first exhibition of this magnitude on one of the most famous American designers, Louis C. Tiffany (1848-1933), to be presented in Canada. Developed and produced by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, it will highlight Tiffany’s remarkable contribution to the design and technology of glass, which [...]

Ukrainian Museum Claims It Owns a Portrait of a Venetian Doge by Titian

KIEV.- The director of a Ukrainian museum claimed Tuesday that a portrait of a Venetian Doge in its collection is a work of Titian, even as an expert warned that art historians are best placed to make that call. Vladimir Ostrovsky said the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, conducted chemical and X-ray analyses that prove Titian’s authorship. The portrait is part of a collection at the Museum of Western and Eastern Art in the Black Sea port of [...]