4:58pm
The 2010 edition of The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) got off to a flying and elegant start on preview day, 11 March, with an impressive concentration of Hermès handbags and Chanel suits per square mile.
The private view was attended by a record 10,500 people, and saw some key sales being made. Sculpture specialists Robert Bowman Gallery sold a white marble and bronze bust of Othello by Pietro Calvi to a private collector – who intends it for display at the National Gallery of Art, Washington – for a six-figure sum, while Ben Janssens Oriental Art sold more than...
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Tuesday, 2nd February 2010
7:02pm
If you can find the time for a day or so in Budapest before February 14, make the reservation now. For the city’s Fine Arts Museum - the Szepmuveszeti Muzeum - has organised and staged a huge and unmissable international loan show of Italian Renaissance art, 'Botticelli to Titian: Two Centuries of Italian Masterpieces'. Loans have come from the great museums of the world to supplement the by no means unimpressive home team, but it is those that have been drawn from little-known or little-visited institutions in eastern Europe that prove the irresistible lure to foreign visitors.
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Friday, 11th December 2009
4:02pm
1. Richard Wright wins 2009 Turner Prize:
Glasgow-based painter Richard Wright, 49, was announced the winner of the 2009 Turner Prize on Monday (pictured above). The artist used the painstaking techniques of Renaissance fresco-makers to make his gold-leaf fresco for the Turner Prize exhibition at Tate Britain in London. In keeping with Wright’s insistence that his works be destroyed after being exhibited, his latest fresco will be painted over when the show closes on 3 January 2010. Judges described Wright’s paintings as rooted in the fine art tradition yet ‘radically conceptual in impact.’ Wright beat the three other finalists,...
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Friday, 27th November 2009
2:57pm
1. Rediscovered painting of Charles I by Delaroche to be shown at National Gallery:
After the 1941 bombing of the Duke of Sutherland's London residence, Bridgewater House, Paul Delaroche’s Charles I Insulted by Cromwell’s Soldiers, which had extensive shrapnel damage, was rolled up and taken to safety at Mertoun, the duke’s Scottish home (pictured above). The painting was kept in storage for 68 years and thought by its owner to be ruined, before being rediscovered by National Gallery conservators as part of the research for an upcoming exhibition on Delaroche’s work. Painted in 1837 and described by the director...
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Thursday, 19th November 2009
5:25pm
1. Tate appoints its first photography curator:
Simon Baker has been appointed as the Tate’s first curator of photography and international art. Baker was previously associate professor in art history at the University of Nottingham, specialising in history of photography and Surrealism. He is co-curator of 'Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera', a photographic exhibition which will open in May at Tate Modern.
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2. Eli Broad expands plans for the Broad Art Foundation building:
Art collector Eli Broad has nearly doubled the size of the museum he plans to build in California to house...
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Now in its 30th year, the London Park Lane Arms Fair returns with its annual array of fine arms and armoury. Elsewhere in the capital, impressive surveys of Freud, Hirst and mid-century British art can be found.
George Gilbert Scott described the dome as ‘the noblest of all forms’, and it appears as a powerful symbol in secular and religious architecture throughout history. On the island of Malta, however, the craze for dome-building reached astonishing heights.
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