The book ‘Off the Tourist Trail: 1,000 Unexpected Travel Alternatives’, names the Royal Ontario Museum’s (ROM) Michael Lee- Chin Crystal, designed by architect Daniel Libeskind, as one of the world’s architectural marvels and one of six modern buildings to rival Australia’s Sydney […]
Daily Archives: December 1, 2009
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Ariotek was created in 2009 from the amalgamation of three very successful web based companies. All three companies have been privately owned and profitable since creation, the oldest of which started trading in early 2001. Ariotek now host thousands of web sites, […]
This project is one part of a vast programme created to make better use of the cultural and environmental resources of Lago Trasimeno. The main goal is to improve the awareness of the masterpieces of art produced at a very important time […]
Andrew Wyeth, arguably one of America’s most famous artists, died in 2009 at the age of 91. The Dayton Art Institute placed on view, for a limited time, Wyeth’s painting, Ring Road of 1985, in recognition of the artist’s enormous legacy. Andrew […]
Friedrichshafen Airport has a new landmark: the Dornier Aerospace Museum Friedrichshafen depicts the fascination of flying in a spectacular way and merges it with the company history of Dornier. The museum was planned by Munich architects Allmann Sattler Wappner, the arrangement of […]
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art is delighted to announce a new media partnership with international satellite broadcaster BSkyB’s arts channel Sky Arts. The joint venture began in October 09, centers on Baltic’s autumn season and culminates in a documentary Sky Arts at […]
One of the major events at Sotheby’s this Autumn promises to be the sale in Paris on December 8 of a unique work by Jeff Koons: “Elephant” (Purple), donated by the artist to the Foundation Claude Pompidou in 2009. This masterpiece from […]
Fifteen masterworks from the collection of Helen E. Band estate brought in a combined $10,494,024, and with the other 84 lots in Heffel’s second session of Fine Canadian Art, totaled $17.5-million. The first session featuring Canadian Post-War and Contemporary Art that occurred […]