Attributed to Huizong, Auspicious Cranes, 1112, Chinese Handscroll, Laioning Provincial Museum, Shenyang.The appearence of 20 cranes at a festival was taken as a sign that Heaven had blessed the Emporer's rule, this work was produced by the Emporer as a piece of propaganda. Huizong was the Emperor.

WASHINGTON, DC - Swiss lighting artist Gerry Hofstetter projected images ranging from abstracts of the Cathedral’s stained glass windows to faces of people of all races onto Washington National Cathedral as a call for national and global unity in a project entitled “Lighting to Unite.” From sunset to...

MADRID - The fact that the Montserrat Museum could present a monographic exhibition, of great artistic interest, titled “Infants”, indicate that it’s holdings are important and that the theme of children had great resonance in Catalonian art during the 19th and 20th centuries. There are many commissio...

Dundee, Scotland - One of the most important collections of Scottish Victorian Art in the country is now on display at Broughty Castle Museum in Broughty Ferry near Dundee.  The Orchar Collection was built up by James Guthrie Orchar (1825-1898), a prominent businessman, great patron of the arts and a former Lord...

LONDON - ‘Elsewhere’ is a place and an idea. Being elsewhere is not only about the pleasures of the unknown in a new location, but also about ambiguities, confusions and confluences of identity, negotiations of difference and absence. 'KITUR. ELSEWHERE' an  Exhibition of Lithuanian Artists...

NEW ORLEANS, LA - American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced five historic New Orleans sites chosen to receive preservation grants for restoration projects. As part of the Partners in Preservation program launched in New Orleans last month, American Express and the National Trust for...

LONDON - The outcome of Vincent Honoré’s year-long curatorial residency with the Zabludowicz Collection, Past-Forward will be the third exhibition at 176, featuring more than 30 international contemporary artists whose works manipulate, re-play and disrupt existing structures of cultural production. The...

TEL AVIV - On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel, the Israel Museum presents two major sections of the Great Isaiah Scroll – the most complete biblical Dead Sea Scroll document ever found and one of the world’s greatest archaeological treasures – in a special installation in...

New York City - A 1976 triptych by Francis Bacon brought $86.3 million on Wednesday night at Sotheby’s, becoming the most expensive work of contemporary art ever sold at auction and a retort to doomsayers who had predicted that the art market would falter seriously this season because of broad economic anxieties....