Archive for March, 2007
The government of Au-Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates has paid the International Agency for French Museums, $520 million dollars for the rights to use the name “Louvre” on the new art museum, set to open on 2012.
The building itself, pictured above in a computer rendering, will cost around $108 million dollars and was designed [...]
Femme, femme, femme: Paintings of Women in French Society from Daumier to Picasso from the Museums of France. The exhibition, shown exclusively at NOMA, begins March 3, 2007 .
“The works in Femme, femme, femme are appearing together for the first and only time,” said E. John Bullard, director of the New Orleans Museum of Art. [...]
A humble electrician from
Colombia has won the Fernando Botero painting “Hombre Fumando” (Man Smoking, 1977 pictured left) through a sweepstakes contest held by the colombian brewery Bavaria.
The man identified as Luis Alfredo RodrÃguez is a humble electrician from the city of Buenaventura the main maritime port of Colombia on the Pacific Coast
RodrÃguez says he plans [...]
This is the first comprehensive survey of Edward Hopper’s career to be seen in American museums outside New York in more than 25 years. Focusing on the period of the artist’s great achievements—from about 1925 to midcentury—the exhibition will feature such iconic paintings as Automat (1927), Drug Store (1927), Early Sunday Morning (1930), New York [...]
