TETAF Maastricht presents its 24th edition
Maastricht, 01/31/11 In less than two months another edition of TETAF Maastricht will be inaugurated, the most influential art and antiques fair in the world. It will be held in the conference and exhibition centre MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre) More than 30.000 works of art will be on view in this edition from, among others, the Spanish dealers...
The Clark Institute's impressionist holdings on tour
01/27/11 Los fondos impresionistas de The Clark de gira El hotel Ritz de Madrid ha sido el lugar elegido para presentar la gira por Europa de los tesoros de The Clark The Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute has presented the first international tour of their master works through Milan, Giverny, Barcelona and London in the Ritz hotel in Madrid. La...
Russian Icons travel to Alicante
01/24/11 Bancaja presents for the first time in Spain the collection of icons from the Museum of Culture and Russian Antique Art Andrey Rublev, housed in the monastery Spaso-Andronikov in Moscow, considered to be the greatest collection of Russian iconography datable between the eleventh and twentieth century. The exhibition "Sacred Russia. Icons from...
Luc Tuymans, retrospective at home
Brussels, 01/21/11 Luc Tuymans, retrospectiva en casa Su asombrosa pintura nos adentra en un pasado brutal y político pero envuelto en la lírica del olvido El conocido artista belga Luc Tuymans (1958) abre el año con una exposición retrospectiva en el BOZAR de Bruselas, una muestra coproducida con otras instituciones, el San Francisco Museum of Modern Art y el...
Folk and contemporary art in downtown London
London, 01/20/11 The mayor of London, Boris Johnson has announced the names of the artists who will exhibit their works in the fourth Plinth of Trafalgar square, gathering the testimony of Yinka Shonibare, Antony Gormley, Marc Quinn, Thomas Schütte, Mark Wallinger and Rachel Whiteread. The project by the Scandinavian pair Elmegren & Dragset will be titled...
Santander bank to bring the new Velázquez to Spain
Yale, 01/17/11 Santander bank has financed the restoration of the painting The Education of the Virgin, attributed to Diego Velázquez. Its preservation, under the supervision of Yale University Art Gallery, as well as its evaluation by an expert committe and its transportation to Spain for its complete restoration, are backed up by the Spanish financial firm,...
China against the artist Ai Weiwei
Shangai, 01/15/11 Shangai city authorities demolished this week the studio of the famous artist and dissident Ai weiwei in response to his critical stand, according to Weiwei's own admission through his Twitter account. The workers demolished the building on Tuesday, as the artist informed the press through a statement released on the internet, accomapanied by...
The Prado looses visitors in 2010
Madrid, 01/12/11 With the inauguration of the Prado's expansion, the centre surpassed the 2,7 million mark. The total number of people who visited the museum in 2010 (2.732.000), is almost identical to the 2009 figure (2.764.155) and 2008 (2.759.029), the first full year with the expansion opened to the public. In spite of this, 57,58% of the public visited the...
New home for Dalí in America
Florida, 01/12/11 The american city of St. Petersburg, Florida, has just opened the Salvador Dalí Museum, the space that houses the largest collection of works by the surrealist artist outside of Spain. the total amount reaching 2.140 pieces, 96 of which are oils. The museum is the new site of a private institution that was born in 1982 to gather the legacy...