Yearly Archives: 2008

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 [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 [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 [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 [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. [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 [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 [Read More]

A rare and famous portrait of Boris Karloff in his full Frankenstein makeup, rendered by renowned illustration early twentieth-century artist Rolf Armstrong, now has a permanent home in the Norman Rockwell Museum, located in Stockbridge, MA, thanks to Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries. [Read More]

A new addition to the very rare works of the Master Leonardo Da Vinci has come to light. The painting, a nuptial portrait of a young woman in profile, dates from Leonardo’s first Lombard period, ca.1485. The finding is one of the [Read More]

From October 11, 2008, through January 4, 2009, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, will present “At Home with Gustav Stickley: Arts and Crafts from the Stephen Gray Collection.” The exhibition will feature approximately 140 exceptional works from a [Read More]

A major retrospective selling and loan exhibition of works by Edward Seago (1910-1974) organised by The Taylor Gallery Ltd in collaboration with Colnaghi. Includes loans from the private collection of H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh and the Norwich Castle Museum and Art [Read More]

“Standing in the way” by German-Polish artist Art is going to be presented five times in the city centre of Schwetzingen till the 19th October in an unrivalled art contest in the metropolis of Rhein-Neckar. The open air exhibition with cumbersome title [Read More]

NEW YORK – AXA Art Insurance Corporation is pleased to announce its support of ‘IMAGELESS: The Scientific Study and Experimental Treatment of an Ad Reinhardt Black Painting’, an exhibition on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from July 11 through September [Read More]

SNOWMASS VILLAGE, CO – On July 9, 2008 Anderson Ranch Arts Center presents the National Artist Award to George Condo, and the Service to the Arts Award to Mera and Don Rubell at its 12th Annual Recognition Dinner, Snowmass Club, Snowmass Village [Read More]