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The Louvre has announced the expansion of space for works on Islam
21.07.2012 This autumn The louvre museum (Louvre) opens a new exhibition space dedicated exclusively to the art of Islam. An additional 4,600 square meters have been created for the new department in the heart of the museum, which will showcase about 20,000 works of art, the museum’s press service announced today.
Impressionism as an impression and inspiration in Amsterdam
21.07.2012 The masterpieces of Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro and other prominent representatives of Impressionism will show the Hermitage Amsterdam exhibition center.
In Vienna, argue about the authorship of an accidentally found mural
19.07.2012 Art historians argue about the authorship of the recently found in the garage in Vienna fresco "Trumpeting Putto", attributed earlier to the brush of Gustav Klimt (Gustav Klimt, 1862-1918)According to some experts, the author of this work is the brother of the artist, Ernst (Ernst Klimt, 1864-1892), according to the English The Guardian.
FBI agents returned Matisse’s painting stolen over 10 years ago
19.07.2012 The painting of the great French master Henri Matisse, which was stolen from the Museum of Caracas (Venezuela) more than ten years ago, was returned today, during a secret operation in one of the Miami Beach hotels.
This summer, Madrid became the artistic capital of Europe.
15.07.2012 This summer, Madrid presents the most impressive selection of fine art exhibitions among all European cities.
An exhibition dedicated to Catherine II opened in Scotland
14.07.2012 This year 250 years have passed since the coup d’etat, which brought Catherine the Great to the throne of RussiaThis event is dedicated to the exhibition in the National Museum of Scotland (Catherine the Great: Enlightened Empress) (Catherine the Great: An Enlightened Empress).
Asia’s largest art exhibition
14.07.2012 The main event of the art community in Asia will be the return to Shanghai of the international exhibition of fine art and jewelry (SFJAF). The event will be held in the city exhibition center, from November 3 to 11.
Three unusual exhibitions of exceptional artists in Ontario
06.07.2012 Three stellar exhibitions by prominent Canadian and one European artists will be held this summer at the Art Gallery of Hamilton in Ontario.
International Fair BEIRUT ART FAIR
06.07.2012 The BEIRUT ART FAIR annual international contemporary art fair will be held for the third time from July 5 to July 8, 2012 in Beirut, at the Beirut International Exhibition & Leisure Center (BIEL), with the participation of 43 galleries from the Middle East, Europe and North Africa.
An exhibition of portraits of French queens has opened in Versailles
05.07.2012 More than thirty women of the royal family and the French imperial family, who ever lived in the Grand Trianon Palace in Versailles, became the heroines of the exhibition Les Dames de Trianon, which opened yesterday in Paris.
Vienna celebrates Gustave Klimt’s birthday
04.07.2012 In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), considered one of the most influential artists of "Vienna Modernism", a number of museums in Vienna organize specialized exhibitions on the life and work of the author of the famous "Kiss".
Young and Beautiful: The Art of the American Twenties
04.07.2012 The Cleveland Museum of Art presents an unusual exhibition that, for the first time in history, brings together the work of more than sixty painters, sculptors and photographers who have explored a new approach to realism in the years between the First World War and the Great Depression.
Countdown: four weeks to leave a picture of Manet in England
02.07.2012 The Ashmolean Museum (Ashmolean, Oxford) has four weeks left to raise 595,000 pounds and save a portrait of Fanny Klaus (Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus, 1868) by Edouard Manet (1832-1883) for the public in Great Britain.
Dali’s stolen watercolor returned by mail
02.07.2012 The US Postal Service reported that a painting stolen from the Venus Over Manhattan gallery by Salvador Dali was mailed back to New York from Europe.
US court rejects lawsuit against Spanish museum
01.07.2012 A court in the Central District of California (USA) rejected the lawsuit by an American, who demanded the return of a painting by Camille Pissarro at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in MadridAccording to the plaintiff, the painting was stolen from his grandmother back in 1939.