05/15/2003. NEW YORK.- Sotheby’s Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Sotheby’s worldwide auction business, art-related financing and real estate brokerage activities, today announced results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2003.  Net los...

05/16/2003. OPORTO, PORTUGAL.- The Portuguese Institute of Photography, The Portuguese Photography Centre, the Cooperativa Árvore, the school Escola Superior de Artes e Design and FNAC, among others, will add an important component to the parallel activities, wi...

05/16/2003. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.- Telstra today announced it had renewed its sponsorship of Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), providing the public with free access to a host of exhibitions and events over the next three years. Telstra and the MC...

05/18/2003. NEW YORK.- The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation today announced the start of an international competition to design a memorial at the World Trade Center site for all those lost on September 11th and in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Cente...

05/18/2003. WAKEFIELD, ENGLAND.- The Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents today "Barbara Hepworth: Centenary 2003". Barbara Hepworth’s powerful words show her deep connection to the environment that surrounded her. Born in Wakefield, she referred to...

05/18/2003. ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIAN FEDERATION.- The State Hermitage Museum hosted the first meeting of the Hermitage Board of Trustees including prominent Russian and foreign politicians, artists and businessmen.The Board includes Alexey Kudrin, Finance Ministe...

05/18/2003. MIAMI - An idea born in Texas and developed in New York City is taking shape in the Miami Design District and appears to be catching on with emerging artists worldwide. Six months ago Tony Wynn reopened Serious Studios, an emerging-artist gallery...

05/20/2003. MANCHESTER, ENGLAND.- This summer, Cornerhouse presents visitors with a rare opportunity to immerse themselves in the world of the dimensionalized Internet and the landscape of the computer game. Lab3D is a unique exhibition of installed 3D virtual e...

05/21/2003. BARCELONA, SPAIN.- The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona presents TRASH CULTURE. The potholes of taste, an exhibition conceived and directed by the writer and journalist Jordi Costa.Trash culture raises to an aesthetic category everyth...

05/21/2003. MILWAUKEE.- The Milwaukee Art Museum announced the election of four new members of the Board of Trustees at its Annual Meeting held on May 19, 2003.  Newly elected members are Frederic G. Friedman, partner, Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren, and cur...

05/22/2003. NEW YORK.- Sotheby’s today announced that it will offer The Bill Blass Collection in a single owner sale beginning on the evening of October 21, 2003, and continuing October 22 and 23. A total of over 1,000 items will be offered from Mr. Blass’s apar...

05/25/2003. NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS.- The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art presents “Yankee Remix: Artists Take on New England,” on view through March 20...

05/27/2003. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.- Eccentric style icon Isabella Blow is famous for wearing outrageous yet glamorous headwear - most of which was custom made by London-based milliner Philip Treacy. An exhibition of these extraordinary hats, When Philip met Isab...

05/31/2003. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.- The Powerhouse Museum presents "When Philip met Isabella - Philip Treacy’s hats for Isabella Blow." Eccentric style icon Isabella Blow is famous for wearing outrageous yet glamorous headwear - most of which was custom ma...

05/31/2003. NEW YORK CITY.- The World Monuments Fund (WMF) and American Express Company today announced the names of nine endangered historic sites to receive preservation funding through WMF’s World Monuments Watch program. Since 1996, 100 sites in 52 cou...