Louis Vuitton Young Arts Project: A Cultural Collaboration for the Future of London

LONDON.- Louis Vuitton announced the launch of the Louis Vuitton Young Arts Project, an unprecedented partnership between Louis Vuitton and five of London ’s leading art institutions: Hayward Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, South London Gallery, Tate Britain and Whitechapel Gallery. The Louis Vuitton Young Arts Project embodies the brand’s creative spirit and its long tradition of arts patronage, as well as its ongoing commitment to corporate social responsibility and to London . Following the sponsorship of numerous exhibitions at [...]

Minister of State Martin Mansergh Launches Irish Museums 2010 Program

DUBLIN.- The most extensive showing to date of the Museum’s own Collection; an exhibition based on the work of American composer Morton Feldman and the many celebrated artists in his circle; a series of displays marking important new donations to IMMA, and a special exhibition promoting engagement with the visual arts by those with disabilities are all part of a busy and wide-ranging programme for 2010 at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, announced today (Wednesday 27 January) by the [...]

Michael Landy to Transform Gallery into Container for the Disposal of Works of Art

LONDON.- Michael Landy, one of the most acclaimed and respected British artists of his generation, transforms the South London Gallery into Art Bin, a container for the disposal of works of art. Over the course of the sixweek exhibition the enormous 600m³ bin will gradually fill up as people discard their art works in it, ultimately creating, in Michael Landy’s words, “a monument to creative failure”. Photograph of Michael Landy, 2009 Landy famously destroyed all his possessions in his 2001 [...]

Sotheby’s next big Impressionist and Modern Art sale

Sotheby’s next big Impressionist and Modern Art sale in New York next month is led by an evening sale which is estimated to fetch at least $117 million. 23 of the 68 works in that sale, including paintings by Monet, Degas, Picasso and Modigliani are described as coming from ’an Important European Collection.’ The most valuable is van Dongen’s ’Jeune Arabe’ (pictured), from 1910 which is estimated at $7 million to 10 million dollars. Altogether the works have a minimum [...]