06/02/2003. LONDON, ENGLAND.- Some of the earliest recorded works by Sir Joshua Reynolds and John Constable will be among the highlights to be offered in Sotheby’s sale of Important British Paintings on Thursday June 12, 2003. The sale will provide a broad overv...

09/11/2004. AMSTERDAM.- Two-day sale at Sotheby’s Amsterdam totals €4.25 million THE two-day auction "Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Other European Houses", conducted in ...

07/02/2008. JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum announced today the restitution of three gold-glass medallions dating from the fourth century CE, two from the catacombs in Rome and one discovered in Cologne, to the heirs of the Dzialynska Collection at Goluchow...

07/17/2008. LONDON.- Two of the art world's most distinguished experts in contemporary and modern art are joining the Board of Trustees of the UK's leading independent art charity, The Art Fund. Richard Calvocoressi and James Lingwood will join the 15 str...

06/08/2010. LONDON.- On Tuesday 6th July 2010, in the first ever sale of its type, Sotheby’s will bring together some 21 lots, the intrinsic quality and importance of which will be matched by extrao...

07/15/2010. EDINBURGH.- The abbey was founded in 1128 by King David I of Scotland for the Augustinian Canons. According to medieval legend, a vision of a stag with a cross glowing between its antlers came to David while hunting in the area. Interpreting...

05/09/2011. LONDON.- On Thursday 5 May, curators from eight museums and galleries won a share of £75,000 to buy a unique object for their public collections. They were all shortlisted for Art Fund Collect</...

07/05/2011. LONDON.- Possibly the most seductive image in British art, this ravishing portrait was recorded as; "Nell Gwin naked leaning on a bed, with her Child by Sr Peter Lilly. This picture was painted at the express command of K. Charles 2d nay he ca...

12/03/2014. The Scottish National Portrait Gallery today unveiled a new acquisition, Portrait of Lady Montgomery by Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823). This elegant and impressive full-length portrait was...

10/11/2015. Vassar will be the first U.S. college to present Ulysses Cylinders by Dale Chihuly and Seaver Leslie with Flora C. Mace & Joey Kirkpatrick. This collaborative exhibition combines magnificent glass s...

01/14/2021. The Smithsonian’s eye-popping $2 billion expansion plan was supposed to propel the institution into the 21st century. Complete with an ambitious expansion of its 19th-century red administration building, the Castle, that would have added dini...

09/04/2022. If you’ve paid any attention to that roiling mass of talent variously known over the past century as folk, naive, primitive, art brut, self-taught or outsider, chances are you’ve come across the infectious creations of Nellie Mae Rowe (1900...

10/20/2022. Bonhams announces the sale of the Chris Wynn collection of early Purdeys to take place in London on Wednesday 9 November. The outstanding collection has been described by Nick Harlow, the Gun Room ...

05/07/2023. Arthur Bispo do Rosario, a former Marine Corps signalman, boxer, tram cleaner and domestic worker in Rio de Janeiro, had no interest in defining his extensive activities as art. His unusual embroidered garments and textiles, ingenious assemblages and...

09/10/2024. The National Gallery of Art has acquired 12 works of art by four artists donated by the estate of Maria and Conrad Janis, son of esteemed gallerist Sidney Janis. These works support our goal of expanding narratives of 20th- and 21st-century American ...