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Louvre Museum Reports it had 8.5 Million Visitors in 2009 The Louvre Museum says it had 8.5 million visitors last year, the same number it had in record-breaking 2008.
Temporary exhibits, including a show about the ancient Egyptians and another on Venetian Renaissance masters Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese, helped attract art lovers. Posted: January 12, 2010 |
Smithsonian Museums Report 30 Million Visits in 2009 The Smithsonian museums reported 2009 attendance of 30 million, up from 25 million the previous year. This marks the first time attendance has risen to 30 million since 2001. Admission to all Smithsonian museums in Washington, D.C., is free.
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History was the most-visited museum at the Smithsonian with 7.4 million visitors in 2009; attendance at the museum was up 450,000 from 2008. The National Air and Space Museum was the second most-visited Smithsonian museum on the Mall with 7 million visits last year and an additional 1.2 million visitors at its Hazy Center near Dulles airport. Posted: January 12, 2010 |
Why Van Gogh cut his ear: new clue An envelope depicted in a Van Gogh painting provides a clue that could help to explain why the artist slashed his ear. The envelope, in Still Life: Drawing Board with Onions, 1889, is addressed to Vincent from his brother Theo. Until now, no one has considered whether the artist was illustrating a specific letter. Posted: January 12, 2010 |
The Museum of Arts and Design will Present "Dead or Alive" Dead or Alive, presented by the Museum of Arts and Design from April 27 through October 24, 2010, will showcase the work of over 30 international artists who transform organic materials and objects that were once produced by or part of living organisms—insects, feathers, shells, bones, silkworm cocoons, plant materials, and fur—to create intricately crafted and designed installations and sculptures. Posted: January 12, 2010 |
Sotheby's to Offer Painting that Sparked Years of Debate and Controversy On 28 January 2010, Sotheby’s New York will offer a painting that has been at the center of one of the art world’s most heated debates for over eighty years: Portrait of a Woman, called "La Belle Ferronnière" by a follower of Leonardo da Vinci (est. $300/500,000). Depicting a lady in three-quarters profile, the portrait is another version of a composition in the Louvre, now believed to be by either Leonardo or one of his pupils, depicting Lucrezia Crivelli, a mistress of Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan. Posted: January 12, 2010 |
Rembrandt Painting Sold at $33,210,855 - A Record Price at Christie's Weak Old Master Sale
London (New York Times). A Rembrandt painting unseen in public for nearly 40 years sold for a record 20.2 million pounds ($33.2 million) at auction in London on Tuesday, the highest ever paid at auction for the 17th century artist. Christie's said that "Portrait of a man, half-length, with his arms akimbo", painted in 1658, fetched the 4th highest-price paid at auction for any old masters painting. It was bought by an anonymous client bidding via telephone, Christie's said. The top price at auction for any old master picture is 49.5 million pounds ($77 million) for "The Massacre of the Innocents" by Peter Paul Rubens set at Sotheby's in London in 2002. Posted: December 11, 2009 |
Australia Accused of Foolish Censorship over North Korean Art
Sydney (Associated Press). Australia was accused of censorship Tuesday after it denied visas to North Korean artists invited to a rare international exhibition of their work, saying their studio is a propaganda tool of their country's communist government. The co-curator of the exhibition said the works were nonpolitical, and that letting them be displayed while banning their creators from entering the country so they could talk about them did not make sense. Five artists from the Mansudae Art Studio were invited to the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in the eastern city of Brisbane to talk about their paintings and drawings that are part of the exhibition, which includes work from more than 100 artists from 25 countries in the region. Posted: December 11, 2009 |
Art Basel Miami Beach: The must-see list
Miami Beach, Florida. You don't have to be a connoisseur or recite art history to revel in the annual art invasion otherwise known as Art Basel Miami Beach and its surrounding 19 satellite art fairs. Posted: December 11, 2009 |
LACMA Presents 150 Years of American Masterpieces Major artists including John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, and George Bellows featured.
Los Angeles, November 13, 2009. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915, a major exhibition highlighting the variety and strength of American artistic achievement during an epochal century and a half, from the colonial era through the period leading to World War I. American Stories— the first survey of American narrative painting in more than thirty-five years—features over seventy works, including loans from leading museums and private collections, as well as key works from LACMA’s collection. LACMA’s presentation—the exhibition’s only West Coast showing—will be on view in the museum’s Art of the Americas building from February 28 through May 23, 2010. “American Stories features many of America’s most celebrated artists, represented by some of their best works—iconic examples that have appeared in American textbooks for generations,” says Bruce Robertson, Consulting Curator of American Art at LACMA. “These images reflect their times, but they also actively develop and shape what we know about the past, as great works often do.” Posted: November 30, 2009 |
A Masterpiece Recovered: Delaroche’s Charles I Insulted Painting damaged in the Blitz goes on public display for the first time in almost 70 years. Posted: November 30, 2009 |
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Native American art comes to auction at Bonhams & Butterfields in San Francisco on Monday, December 14, 2009 featuring several important collections which have never-before been offered publically. Posted: November 30, 2009 |
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The BBC and the British Museum have joined forces in an original and unprecedented public service partnership, focusing on world history. At its heart is a landmark series on BBC Radio 4, ‘A History of the World in 100 Objects’ which will broadcast from January 18, 2010. This series is a narrative global history told through the British Museum’s unparalleled world collection. Posted: November 30, 2009 |
Kunsthalle Dusseldorf Eats the Universe with Exhibition of Art Made with and Involving Food Dusseldorf. Eat Art, a term coined by Daniel Spoerri for art made with and involving food, has its institutionalized origins in Düsseldorf. Two years after opening his restaurant at the Burgplatz, the Swiss artist founded the Eat Art Gallery in 1970 and inspired numerous artists to produce various editions made of edible materials and food wastes. The exhibition “Eating the Universe” — a title created in the 1970's by Peter Kubelka, former professor for Film and Cooking at the Frankfurt Städelschule, for a TV-show about cooking as an artistic genre — takes generous stock of the phenomena from today's perspective and traces the original character of eat art from its origins until today. Posted: November 30, 2009 |
Major Picasso Exhibition Featuring Unique Paintings at Heather James Fine Art Palm Desert, CA. Heather James Fine Art in Palm Desert, CA, has established itself among U.S. and international art collectors as one of the nation's premier galleries with shows by Monet, Rauschenberg and diverse, up-and-coming young artists. Today it announces a world-class Picasso exhibition that will survey the master's paintings, drawings and sculptures from several of his major periods, including Cubism, and will highlight an important private collection of 80 pieces of Picasso's ceramics. These works will appeal to a wide range of collectors with prices from $5000 to $25 million. The show will run November 28, 2009, through March 14, 2010. Posted: November 30, 2009 |
Pope Benedict Meets Artists from Around the World in the Sistine Chapel Posted: November 24, 2009 |
Andy Warhol's Iconic '200 One Dollar Bills' from 1962 Sells for $43,762,500 at Sotheby's. Posted: November 14, 2009 |
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Max Beckmann Painting is Top Lot at Villa Grisebach Fall Auctions Posted: November 6, 2009 |
Many Cities Host Shows About Leonardo Da Vinci's Art and Inventions Posted: November 6, 2009 |
Crocker Art Museum Announces Major Expansion to Open in 2010 Posted: November 6, 2009 |
Sotheby's Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art Brings $181,760,000 (PDF File) Posted: November 4, 2009 |
Art Experts Find Possible New Da Vinci Painting Posted: October 18, 2009 |
James Turrell Creates His Largest-Ever Walk-In Light Installation in the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Posted: October 18, 2009 |
Record Breaking Prices at Bonhams New York European Paintings Auction Posted: October 18, 2009 |
A New Design and Expanded Miami Art Museum will Open in 2013 Posted: October 18, 2009 |
Salvador Dali Foundation presents recently acquired Painting Made in 1920s Posted: October 18, 2009 |
2,000 Works by Hélio Oiticica Destroyed in Fire Posted: October 18, 2009 |
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