The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has awarded a $50,000 grant to underwrite the 2010 Telluride Film Festival’s Guest Director program, this year featuring novelist and screenwriter of “The English Patient,” Michael Ondaatje. This is the third consecutive year that [Read More]
Daily Archives: September 5, 2010
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The history of the legendary New York, Ontario and Western Railway comes to life in the paintings of American railroad artist, historian and educator, Manville Burton Wakefield (1924-1975). Born in Grahamsville, N.Y., Wakefield spent his career studying and documenting the area surrounding [Read More]
A rare early 19th century view of Jamaica by John Lynn (1828–1838), The barque Woodmansterne calling for a pilot off Port Royal, Jamaica, upon arrival after her maiden voyage, 1829,i s to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of [Read More]
At 11 a.m. on Wednesday, 1 September 2010, Michael Eissenhauer, Director General of the National Museums in Berlin, was delighted to be able to greet Harald Fuchs (48), from near Erlangen, as the millionth visitor to the Neues Museum and handed him [Read More]
White Cube Mason’s Yard presents an exhibition of new works entitled ‘The Principle of Moments’ by British artist Darren Almond. Open through 2 Oct 2010. Known for works that meditate on notions of time, landscape and travel, as well as political and [Read More]
After the great success at Palazzo della Ragione di Milano, with more than 38.000 people visiting the show, from 28 August to 14 November 2010, the Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere e Arti – Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti in Venice will host the [Read More]
With their current exhibition For Me / For You Kaune, Sudendorf Gallery pesents new works by Berlin fine art photographer Stefan Heyne. Heyne was born in 1965 in Brandenburg/Havel and studied scenography at the art school Berlin from 1987 to 1993. He [Read More]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), kicks-off the school year with its annual College Night celebration on Thursday, September 23, from 7 – 11 p.m. This marks the 6th year of this FREE event (created by the MFA in 2005), welcoming [Read More]
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Adolph Gottlieb. A Retrospective, the first retrospective exhibition of this great American Abstract Expressionist painter to be shown in Italy. Open through January 9, 2011. Like those previously dedicated to William Baziotes and Richard Pousette-Dart at the [Read More]