ANDOVER, Mass. – On July 31 at 10:00 a.m., the Addison Gallery of American Art, the academic art museum of Phillips Academy, will turn its keys over to Shawmut Design and Construction, thus beginning the first major building project in the museum’s 77-year history. Praised for its commitment to world-class exhibition, publishing and education programs that cultivate a love of the beautiful in students from Phillips Academy and the surrounding region along with the public at ... Read More

BERWYN, Ill., – Through support by the Berwyn Development Corporation (BDC), Berwyn’s City Council Alderman Michele Skryd announced an Artspace pre-feasibility workshop, scheduled to take place on Monday, August 4th at the Berwyn Police Station Community Room (6401 31st Street, Berwyn IL 60402). The workshop will address a wide variety of planning items and key-components surrounding the Artspace program, including an in-depth presentation and explanation of projects that ... Read More

MIAMI – Costa, Europe’s Number One Cruise Line, has commissioned a monumental bronze sculpture by world-renowned artist Fernando Botero for its newest ship, the Costa Luminosa. The bronze sculpture is currently taking shape at the Mariani foundry in Pietrasanta, Italy, where Botero creates his works using the ancient traditional technique of lost wax casting. Once completed, the work of art will be installed in the atrium of the Costa Luminosa in May 2009, when the ship comes ... Read More

ROCHESTER, NY – “The Photograph Collection: An Introduction” feature some of the star objects and photographers from the George Eastman House photography collection. This newly mounted and changing exhibition will greet visitors to the world’s oldest museum of photography. The new installation includes landscapes by Ansel Adams, advertising work by Edward Steichen, and color celebrity portraits by Nickolas Muray. (Elizabeth Taylor by Nickolas Muray ca. 1950. ... Read More

Through September 14 of this year, the Museum of the American Hungarian Foundation in New Brunswick, New Jersey, is presenting the exhibition “Magyar Grafika: Hungarian Posters, Advertising and Ephemera.” The colorful exhibit features seventy-five posters from the 1910′s through the 1980′s, a glimpse of 20th-century Hungarian life in a nutshell, covering movies, sports, travel, and commerce. Most of “Magyar Grafika” comes to the Museum as a loan from a ... Read More

LONDON – “Cerdlun” is a phrase coined to blend the Welsh words for “postcard” and “picture”. Cerdlun will be a large trumpeted exhibition/sale of original work donated by artists, celebrities and well wishers from all over the world, to raise money for one of Wales’ best loved art galleries, Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, in Llanbedrog. The art is A5 or postcard size, on subjects and in a medium of the artists’ choice i.e. a painting, textile, drawing, cartoon, doodle or ... Read More

WASHINGTON – VSA arts is bringing New York sculptor Mark C. Parsons to Arlington Arts Center on August 9-10 to hold a free sculpture workshop. Parsons will spend two days with participating children, discussing science as inspiration for art and teaching the students about relief sculpture techniques. Students will experiment with images and texture in clay, later creating both plaster molds and wax castings of their work. Parsons, an established professional sculptor who has ... Read More

New York / Berlin – From July 14-31, artnet Online Auctions will offer over 100 contemporary color photographs by 50 renowned artists including William Eggleston, Nan Goldin, Eliot Porter, Thomas Ruff and William Wegman. Leading the sale is an outstanding group of photographs from the 1950s, including two classic urban scenes by modernist photographer Marvin E. Newman, Coney Island I and Coney Island II, 1953 (estimate: $3,000-4,000 each). In sharp contrast is Train 22 Near Watuga, ... Read More

Artists Linda Richter and Jake Richter, long time residents of the Caribbean island of Bonaire, announced today that they have opened a new fine art gallery on the island, the Richter Art Gallery. The Richter Art Gallery, located in a new, specially constructed addition onto the Richter’s home in the Belnem area of Bonaire, features a variety of fine art and unique craft works, all created by the Richters. Linda Richter specializes in fine oil painting and having developed a special ... Read More

Wider programme and new date offer an autumn highlight in the art calendar From November 17 until 23, the viennaartweek takes place outside the VIENNAFAIR for the first time. Along with the new date comes the opening up of the concept for the public interested in art. The festival is an event organised by the Art Cluster Vienna, an association of all important Viennese museums, exhibitions and cultural institutions. All over Vienna there will be exhibitions and talks, guided tours and ... Read More

Wichita – The exhibition American Ruins, which opened on June 29th at the Wichita Art Museum, proves you don’t have to leave the country to experience haunting historic sites. This photography exhibition celebrates places within the United States where crumbled walls and weathered stones stand in honor of our American past. Their geographical and historical diversity allow us, as Americans, to see where we came from and understand where we’re headed. Arthur Drooker has ... Read More

Sotheby’s Institute of Art has announced the appointment of Dr. Jos Hackforth-Jones as its new Director of the London Institute.Dr. Hackforth-Jones will assume her appointment as Director in September, 2008. She joins Sotheby’s Institute of Art from Richmond The American International University in London where she serves as President and Provost. Dr. Hackforth-Jones is a distinguished academic administrator, noted art historian, author, curator and lecturer. At Richmond, she raised ... Read More

DALLAS, TX – Artfest International, Inc. (OTCBB: ARTI) — Artfest is bringing to the USA art community a once in a lifetime exclusive opportunity to appreciate international Russian art that has never been shown in exhibition this side of the iron curtain. The world class Hotel Palomar Dallas will be the venue for the Russian Masters auction with eleven internationally acclaimed artistic talents unveiling their works through Artfest for the first time in the United ... Read More

WASHINGTON – French national Bernard Jean Ternus pleaded guilty today to conspiring to transport in interstate and foreign commerce four stolen paintings knowing that they were stolen, the Department of Justice Criminal Division, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, the FBI and the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced. Ternus also pleaded guilty today to visa fraud. Ternus, a French citizen, pleaded guilty to the ... Read More

YOUNTVILLE, Calif., – Festival del Sole Napa Valley, Bank of America, and the Napa Valley Museum present The Art Books of Henri Matisse, an exhibition of original illustrations and text by one of the preeminent artists of the twentieth century, on view at the Napa Valley Museum from July 13 through August 10, 2008. Best known for his boldly colored paintings, Matisse began experimenting with printmaking in 1903 and eventually illustrated 12 books, each issued in a limited edition ... Read More