08/07/2003. WASHINGTON, D.C.-  Several projects designed to improve the quality of life for people living and working in Lower Manhattan got the green light today by <CORTE> Housing and Urban Development Secretary Mel Martinez. Man...

08/08/2003. NEW YORK.- Sotheby’s Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BID; LSE), the parent company of Sotheby’s worldwide live auction business, art-related financial services and <CORTE> real-estate brokerage activities, today announced ...

08/10/2003. KATONAH, NEW YORK.- The Katonah Art Museum presents today “Food Matters: Explorations in Contemporary Art,” on view through October 26, 2003. <CORTE> It is life sustaining, a form of cultural expression, a part of big business,...

08/13/2003. TUCSON, ARIZONA.- Margrethe Mather and Edward Weston: A Passionate Collaboration is the first exhibition to explore the complex relationship <CORTE> this remarkable pair shared for over a decade. They had a profound influence o...

08/14/2003. RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the architectural firm of Rick Mather + SMBW have engaged in planning the largest expansion project in the museum’s history. The expansion will include the addition of 100,000 new s...

08/15/2003. NEW YORK.- The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation announced today that the agency, in conjunction with the September 11th Fund, will fund <CORTE> a large scale tourism and marketing campaign to attract visitors to China...

08/15/2003. LONDON, ENGLAND.- Harry Gordon Selfridge (1858-1947) American entrepreneur and founder of the iconic Oxford Street store Selfridges, is to be <CORTE> honoured with an English Heritage Blue Plaque on August 14 at 10am. The un...

08/18/2003. DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA.- The Center for Documentary Studies presents “What Helps Dodge Helps YOU.” In 1986 the Dodge Steel Castings factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, closed down. More than one hundred <CORTE> people los...

08/18/2003. GREENWICH, CONNECTICUT.- The Bruce Museum presents “Wendell Minor’s America the Beautiful: Celebrating 15 Years of Picture Book Art,” on view through November 2, 2003. The award-winning artist-illustrator Wendell Minor celebrates ...

08/19/2003. DUNDEE, SCOTLAND, UK.- A world exclusive print of a never before published photograph of the Beatles, taken during the height of their fame during the filming of Help! in the 1960s, is the star lot in a unique online TICR cha...

08/19/2003. BARODA, INDIA.- Painter Bhupen Khakhar, 69, died in Baroda, India from prostrate cancer. Bhupen Khakhar was born in 1934 in Bombay, and was a <CORTE> respected member of an older generation of modern painters. Originally a c...

08/22/2003. NEW YORK.- Governor George E. Pataki today broke ground for the construction of a pedestrian bridge at Vesey Street spanning across Route <CORTE> 9A/West Street from the World Financial Center to the east side of Vesey Street, ...

08/23/2003. DES MOINES, IOWA.- The Des Moines Art Center announces the presentation of the exhibition Space Program: <CORTE> Tthe Minimalist Aesthetic/Selections from the Permanent Collections on view from August 23 – October 19, 2003. ...

08/24/2003. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.- The Chicago Art Dealers Association (CADA) closes today ABSOLUT VISION 8: A World of Art in Chicago. Organized and presented <CORTE> by the CADA, the eighth annual VISION was launched on Friday, July 18, ...

08/25/2003. LINCOLN, MA.-DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park announces the launch <CORTE> of a brand new publication that chronicles the shared history of the institution’s founders—Julian de Cordova and Mary Elizabeth Dana de Cordova (...