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Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- London's National Gallery and the National Galleries of Scotland seek to buy a Titian painting for 50 million pounds ($92 million) as part of a plan that would allow the U.K. to continue showing the most important private collection of Old Masters on loan to the nation.
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The art world is hoping to secure taxpayers' money to buy a painting from its wealthy owner to ensure it stays in Britain.
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AN unexpected £100 million needs to be found to secure a world-famous art collection in Edinburgh's National Galleries of Scotland.
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A solid gold sculpture of supermodel Kate Moss is to go on display at the British Museum in London.
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A modern art sculpture portraying a crucified green frog holding a beer mug and an egg that Pope Benedict has condemned as blasphemous may have its days numbered.
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A solid gold sculpture of British supermodel Kate Moss worth 1.5 million pounds (2.8 million dollars, 1.9 million euros) was unveiled in London on Thursday
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Portsmouth's Art 'Round Town galleries, openings on the first Friday of month, ellO Gallery, Nahcotta, Kennedy Studios, N.H. Art Association, Piscataqua Fine Art, and Three Graces Gallery.
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Bricks and mortar or cyberspace, that is the question.
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A £1.5m solid gold sculpture is made of supermodel Kate Moss as part of a British Museum exhibition.
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CORNING -- Vandals have ripped apart a sculpture in Riverfront Centennial Park dedicated to the late community leader, athlete and businessman Ted Sprague.
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The first glimpse of a £1.5 million solid gold sculpture of supermodel Kate Moss has been revealed.
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A list of exhibits currently on display at area galleries Aug. 28-Sept. 3, WeekEnder:4-Pagination
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"Frolic: Humor and Mischief in New Taiwanese Art," an exhibit currently on display at East Tennessee State University's Slocumb Galleries and the Tipton Street Gallery in downtown Johnson City, brings a sense of fun with a touch of mischief to the fall art scene.
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CANBERRA.- To coincide with the centenary of the birth of Sir Donald Bradman AC (27 August 1908), the National Portrait Gallery will receive a superb portrait of the Australian cricket legend painted by Bill Leak, as a gift to its collection. Painted from life in 1990, the portrait will be donated by Mr L Gordon Darling AC CMG, the National Portrait Gallery’s Founding Patron, and has been on
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WELLESLEY.- As many of you will recall, last November I informed the community that in the course of searching the collections of the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, museum staff discovered that the painting, Woman and Child, by Fernand Leger (French, 1881-1955), painted in 1921, was missing. The painting was reported as missing to law enforcement authorities and an investigation began
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BATH.- The Art Fund, the UK’s leading independent art charity, has helped Victoria Art Gallery in Bath acquire a painting by one of the UK’s most important artists working in Britain today. Silence by Sir Howard Hodgkin is the first painting by the artist to enter the permanent collection at the Victoria Art Gallery – the very gallery where Hodgkin publically exhibited his work for the first
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WASHINGTON.- “Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities,” on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum Sept. 26 through Jan. 4, 2009, examines the friendship of two iconic artists who were attracted to the distinct landscapes of the American southwest and far west and committed to depicting its essence with modernist sensibilities. This exhibition, the first to pair these artists, celebrates their mutual appreciation of the natural world and reveals the visual
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AGLASUN.- Towards the end of July 2007, archaeologists of the KULeuven (Belgium) directed by Prof. Marc Waelkens discovered in the largest room of the Roman Baths under excavation since twelve years the remains of a colossal, ca 5m tall statue of the emperor Hadrian (117-138 AD) composed of a 0.70 m tall head, the lower part of the right leg and the joining 0.80 m long foot.
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