| Thursday, October 30, 2008 | |
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WCMA Receives Grant From The Terra Foundation For American Art The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) has been awarded a grant of $400,000 from the Terra Foundation for American Art to help implement the exhibition "Prendergast in Italy." The exhibition, organized by WCMA in partnership with the Terra Foundation, will open in the summer of 2009 and travel to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. The grant is the largest the museum has ever received for an exhibition. (view more...) |
| Tuesday, October 28, 2008 | |
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America's Legendary Grand Sport Racer To Make Its Auction Debut In Arizona Preeminent international auction house, RM Auctions will mark their 10th anniversary Automobiles of Arizona auction event in Phoenix, Arizona with the sale of one the rarest and most valuable Corvettes in history – an all mighty 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport (chassis no. 002). (view more...) |
| Friday, October 24, 2008 | |
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Rare Chinese Ming Dynasty Dish For Sale At Bonhams A rare large blue and white 'melon' dish from the Yongle Emperor period in China, (reigned 1403–1424) is for sale at Bonhams next Chinese sale on 6 November in New Bond Street. This elegant blue and white dish (43cm – 16in diameter), decorated with a flowering melon plant, is estimated to attract bids in the region of £20,000 to £30,000. (view more...) |
| Wednesday, October 22, 2008 | |
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HKIAAF Reaffirms Hong Kong As Centre Of Art Business In Asia The Hong Kong International Arts and Antiques Fair (HKIAAF), a four-day premier art exposition staged at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, came to a successful conclusion on 7 October, 2008. Attended by almost 18,000 visitors from all over the world, HKIAAF 08 showcased some 2,000 superb works of art, worth a total of over HK$300 million, exhibited by over 70 leading Asian, European and American galleries. This was Hong Kong’s first art fair in more than a decade where masterpieces spanning 5,000 years from Neolithic ceramics through to cutting-edge contemporary art, were on display. (view more...) |
| Tuesday, October 21, 2008 | |
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Tate Acquires Major New Works Of Contemporary Art At Frieze The following works have been acquired as gifts to the Tate Collection thanks to the The Outset /Frieze Art Fair Fund to benefit the Tate Collection. (view more...) |
| Friday, October 17, 2008 | |
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Akron Art Museum To Receive Major Donation Of Vogel Works The Akron Art Museum has been selected to receive a gift of fifty works of art from New York collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, with the help of the National Gallery of Art, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The gifts are part of a national gifts program entitled The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States. (view more...) |
| Thursday, October 16, 2008 | |
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$4.8 Million Paul R. Jones Art Collection Donated To UA One of the top 100 art collectors in the United States, Paul R. Jones of Atlanta, has donated his 1,700-piece art collection valued at $4.8 million to The University of Alabama. The Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art includes one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of 20th century African American art in the world, amassed over decades by Jones, who has been described by Art & Antiques magazine as "one of the top art collectors in the country." (view more...) |
| Tuesday, October 14, 2008 | |
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Accordia Wins The RIBA Stirling Prize 2008 Accordia in Cambridge designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Alison Brooks Architectsv, and Macreanor Lavington has won the 13th RIBA Stirling Prize in association with The Architects' Journal. The presentation of the UK's premier architectural award took place at a glittering award ceremony this evening (Saturday 11 October) at the Arena and Convention Centre, Liverpool, and was televised live on Channel 4 at 9pm. (view more...) |
| Monday, October 13, 2008 | |
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Hirst Sale Signals Peak In The Art And Antiques Market - 'For Now' Fewer housing transactions are taking their toll on mid to lower range arts and antiques sales but the super rich continue to snap up rare and contemporary high end pieces as they seek refuge from the current financial crisis, according to the RICS UK Arts and Antiques survey published. (view more...) |
| Saturday, October 11, 2008 | |
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HGA Selected As Executive Architect For Weisman Art Museum Addition HGA Architects and Engineers (HGA) has been selected as the executive architect and engineers in association with Gehry Partners, LLP, Los Angeles, California, as design architect, for the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum addition at the University of Minnesota. (view more...) |
| Thursday, October 09, 2008 | |
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Maine Center for Creativity Announces Winner of Art All Around Competition The Maine Center for Creativity (MCC), a Mainebased nonprofit dedicated to promoting the growth of the arts and creative industries in Maine, has announced the winner of its Art All Around international design competition. Jaime Gili, a Venezuela-born artist living in London, will receive the $20,000 prize and see his designs transform the sides of eight tanks and the tops of an additional eight tanks at the Sprague Energy tank farm in South Portland. (view more...) |
| Wednesday, October 08, 2008 | |
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Carnegie Museum Of Art Creates New Curatorial Department Carnegie Museum of Art announced the creation of a new curatorial department of photography and has appointed its first head, Linda Benedict-Jones. Benedict-Jones has been the executive director of Silver Eye Center for Photography on Pittsburgh’s south side since 1999 and will assume her position at Carnegie Museum of Art on December 15, 2008. (view more...) |
| Tuesday, October 07, 2008 | |
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Speed Art Museum Announces Short List Of Architects For Museum Expansion During its Annual Meeting, the Speed Art Museum announced the selection of eight architectural firms as the finalists to design its future building expansion. (view more...) |
| Monday, October 06, 2008 | |
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Philips Reveals Future Of Home Lighting At MoMA Already illuminating thousands of commercial environments today, Philips' solid-state lighting technology moves into the home as part of Cellophane House, on view at The Museum of Modern Art's Home Delivery, Fabricating the Modern Dwelling exhibit in New York. Surpassing the limitations of conventional lamps and fixtures, Cellophane House is a five-story, fully transparent and sustainable house illuminated solely by LED sources as a provocation for the future possibilities of residential lighting. (view more...) |
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