Marking the next stage of its program to develop Qatar into a hub of culture and communications for the Gulf region and the world, the Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) today revealed its plans for the new National Museum of Qatar, as expressed [Read More]
Monthly Archives: March 2010
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‘This body of work will counter stereotypical myths of Papua New Guinea with honest representations of the people, their culture and identity. It is an attempt to relate the experience of communities that would otherwise just disappear, people at the bottom of [Read More]
Russian fine and decorative arts have yielded increasingly strong results at Moran’s for several years, and the March16th sale confirmed this trend. A watercolor portrait of a girl in traditional Russian costume by Konstantin Egorvich Makovsky (1839 – 1915) sold for $12,650 [Read More]
The renowned Scottsdale Art Auction, being held April 10, 2010, will have one-of-a-kind works of fine art expected to break records at this year’s event. A rare Charles M. Russell painting is estimated at $1.8 to $2.8 million, for example. Attendance at [Read More]
Clara Ledesma rare early artworks will be exhibited at ArteFactGallery 805 Lake Ave. March 25th-April 25th 2010. Exhibiting The Masterworks of Clara Ledesma dating 1950-1980. Ledesma a premier Dominican woman artist, her works are being compared to Leonora Carrtington-Paul Klee-Chagall. Ledesma painting [Read More]
The Art Institutes and Americans for the Arts “Life is Better with Art in it” Poster Design Competition Helps Students Attend College High school seniors, Natalie Frazier of Jacksonville and Michelle Carroll of Lake City placed in the top two at the [Read More]
Opening Celebration: Saturday, March 27 at 1pm Local artists Ali Calis and Ryan Little of Able Projects and a team of five teen Apprentice Artists from ArtWorks are creating an interactive mural for the Contemporary Arts Center entitled Stay Up Cincinnati. The [Read More]
Ever wondered who produced the first coordinated collection of mass-produced wallpapers and fabrics in Britain? Or built what has been called the world’s most fabulous decorators’ showroom and invented the hinged display screens now seen in showrooms worldwide? How about who was [Read More]
These photographs are taken from Hong Kong artist Caroline Chiu’s larger series entitled Dreaming: A Chinese Wunderkammer. Wunderkammer were 17th- and 18th-century European “wonder rooms” or “cabinets of curiosity”––some of the earliest known “museums”––which contained specimens reflecting the natural world, anthropology, archaeology, [Read More]
Von Lintel Gallery presents Sight Reading, a solo exhibition of new paintings by New York-based artist Valerie Jaudon. Open through April 17 2010. Valerie Jaudon’s new paintings feature bars and bands of white paint, either placed against a raw linen ground or [Read More]
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art celebrates the natural beauty and abundant local talent of Northwest Arkansas in Looking at Our Landscape, a juried community photography exhibition. More than 100 community members, from children aged 12 to adults over 80, submitted photographs [Read More]
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), presents Las Vegas Studio: Images from the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown March 21 through June 20, 2010, at MOCA Pacific Design Center. This exhibition presents original photographs and films produced [Read More]
A group of young, black students at New York’s Adelphi University looks into the camera, each with an individual intensity in his eyes. It is 1983, and a shared passion draws these men together in the name of a new form of [Read More]
Seven artists from the glassmaking world and beyond will research and experiment with new techniques and subjects as 2010 artists-in-residence at The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass. This year’s international roster includes a tattoo artist, a Danish glass designer and [Read More]