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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
PARIS.- For many years now, the Musée Jacquemart-André has dedicated major exhibitions to exceptional artists. Following on from Largillière, David and Fragonard, Van Dyck has place of honour this year with - a first for France - paintings and a dozen drawings on loan from the most prestigious public collections in Europe and the United States, e.g. the Louvre (Paris), the British
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
St. Petersburg, Russia - The State Hermitage Museum announces the exhibition “Timur’s Territory. St Petersburg – New York. To 50th anniversary of the birth of Timur Novikov ”, as a part of the “Hermitage 20/21” project. Timur Novikov (1958–2002) is considered to be the great representative of the modern Russian art. His works are to be held in the collections of the leading Russian and foreign museums,...
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BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
Jet Setting - TCS Expeditions, a private jet travel operator, is introducing a 14-day "World Highlights by Private Jet" tour. The trip combines life-list destinations, such as Jerusalem, Prague and St. Petersburg, Russia, with exotic locales like Fez, Morocco ; Cappadocia, Turkey ; and Tallinn, Estonia. Travellers can customize their visits. The 14-day itinerary is packed with cultural revelations....
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Magic Statistics (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
The collect for today, the 7th Sunday after Trinity, from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: Lord of all power and might, who art the author and giver of all good things; Graft in our hearts the love of thy Name, increase in us true religion, nourish us with all goodness, and of thy great mercy [...]
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Ears aren’t the only items that may suffer from blaring rock music. The preliminary results of a Russian study by scientists at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg found that rock concerts by the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and others in the adjacent Winter Square have affected their collections over the past three years, The Independent of London reported. The research, now being examined...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
"Scientists at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg have been examining how concerts by the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and others in the adjacent Winter Square have affected their collections over the past three years. The unpublished findings, they say, could affect the future of rock concerts staged at stately homes. The preliminary results of the three-year study, being examined by the...
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News & Information (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
The Guggenheim and the State Hermitage Museum in Russia will collaborate to open a new Contemporary art museum designed by Zaha Hadid in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 2013, the New York Times reported Thursday……Read more
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
Vladimir Voronin, the president of Moldova, made a wonderful announcement on Friday, saying that two paintings stolen from the State Hermitage Museum in Russia had been found in Moldova and would soon be returned, The Associated Press reported. There’s just one problem: He did not say what the works were, and the Hermitage’s press office said it had no idea what paintings he was talking about. In Russia...
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The Black Courtesan. (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
In conversation with an international courtesan recently. We were discussing which art museum is the most popular today. After having read the Art Newspaper - we finally got the answers to the puzzle. Below, the list of the most popular art museums by the Art Newspaper which includes the number of visitors and location. 8,300,000 - Louvre Paris 5,509,425 - Centre Pompidou Paris 4,837,878 - British...
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Explore : British Museum, Fine Arts, Glasgow, Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, Museum of Modern Art, Museums, National Gallery, Tokyo National Museum, Vatican Museums, Victoria and Albert Museum
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Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
(Courtesy of the Sun) Two galleries. Almost 40 million tourists. Extravagant resources and big names in art. When the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum and the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art opened on the Strip, both set out to feed art to the masses. Neither was enough to justify a stop in Las Vegas for the savvy cultural tourist. But [...]
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
In the Guggenheim Museum’s latest venture to expand overseas, the architect Zaha Hadid was selected on Wednesday to design a proposed museum, above, in Vilnius, Lithuania. The competition is part of a feasibility study by the Guggenheim Foundation and the State Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg, Russia. The directors of both institutions participated in the jury selection. In addition to Ms. Hadid...
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John Baker's Blog (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
A day out yesterday, to the Royal Academy to see some of the paintings we’ve never seen before. From Russia: French and Russian Master Paintings 1870–1925 from Moscow and St Petersburg The exhibition presents modern masterpieces drawn from Russia’s principal collections: the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art and the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and [...]
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008
VILNIUS, Lithuania, March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Three internationally
acclaimed architects, Daniel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid and Massimiliano Fuksas
will unveil their proposals for a new museum in Vilnius on April 8, 2008. A
jury chaired by Thomas Krens, the Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Foundation in New York and panel members Dr. Mikhail Piotrovsky, the
Director of the State Hermitage Museum in...
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Explore : Architects, Architecture, Cinema, Construction, Directors, Fine Arts, Jonas Mekas, Lithuania, Museums, Vilnius, Zaha Hadid
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Stephen Newton's diary of sorts... (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008
And finally, we tick our last Guggenheim – the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum – off the list; a trek that’s taken us to Bilbao, Berlin and New York. It’s particularly fitting that we finish here at the Venetian, Las Vegas as our first Guggenheim was Venice. Together with the Bellagio’s Gallery of Fine Art (which we missed [...]
