National Museum Wales announces it has bought a significant painting by William Dyce entitled Welsh Landscape with Two Women Knitting, 1860, thanks to crucial funding grants from membership charity the Art Fund, the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF), and others. Thanks to [Read More]
Daily Archives: June 18, 2010
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Sotheby’s London sale of South Asian Art brought an exceptional total of £5,465,550, well above the pre-sale expectations of £2,739,500-3,912,500 and a figure that is more than double the sum realised for the equivalent sale at Sotheby’s London last summer. The sale [Read More]
Following the great success at the Grand Palais in November 2009 in Paris, OpenArtCode group will exhibit in July 2010 in London. This time, the OpenArtCode artists will present and promote their art in a gallery on the River Thames in the [Read More]
We are all familiar with praying monks, but playing monks? A Book of Hours from Flanders finds them deep in a game of “Blind Man’s Bluff,” while on the opposite page peasant boys enjoy a rigorous game of hockey. Such delightful images [Read More]
The Allentown Art Museum presents 34 special quilt treasures from the museum’s extensive textile collection in “In Stitches,” the exhibition now on view in the Kress Gallery. These quilts, which were enthusiastically received by the public in a major quilt exhibition in [Read More]