02/27/2003. NEW YORK, Creating a special niche in the prestigious roster of New York shows, Art New York celebrates its inaugural fair this spring. An intimate fair whose purpose is to link curious new collectors with both young and established galleries, Art Ne...

02/28/2003. NEW YORK CITY.- Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced the appointment of 21 members to the Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission, a cultural advocacy body mandated by the City Charter that has advised the Mayor, Cultural Affairs Commissioner, ...

03/01/2003. PORTLAND, MAINE.- With a generous gift from Eva and David Bradford, the Portland Museum of Art is poised to present an on-going series of exhibitions devoted to German prints of the early 20th century. The first such exhibition focuses on the artist ...

03/01/2003. NEW YORK.- More than 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and original prints by some of the most prominent artists of the 20th century have been donated by the Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Foundation to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. These work...

03/03/2003. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.- The New Britain Museum of American Art presents “150 Years of Photography: A Woman’s Choice,” on view through March 16, 2003. Some 40 years ago, Lillian Farber had literally never taken a picture. Today, she is a well-known...

03/06/2003. NEW YORK.- FBI agents are currently investigating art dealer Larry Gagosian. He had sold art works to Sam Waksal and had reccommended sending the works to the New Jersey headqaurters of ImClone to avoid paying sales tax. The federal agents are invest...

03/07/2003. TORONTO, CANADA.- Art  Toronto 2003 will be held from November 13 – 17 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.  Canada’s fair for modern and contemporary art closed its third successful year with record sales and attendance. A relatively sm...

03/08/2003. LINCOLN.- DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park is proud to be among the seven venues selected for the national traveling exhibition “Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection,” on view through May 25, 2003. Tools as Art celebrates the amazing variety of ...

03/10/2003. PARIS, FRANCE.- This Spring in Paris Sotheby’s will sell a remarkable collection assembled by a man whose life has been punctuated with passions for different civilizations. In the mid-1950s he took a trip to the then Belgian Congo and immediately fe...

03/11/2003. MAASTRICHT.- According to a report that will soon be published, the European Union’s "blinkered and restrictive bureaucracy" is seriously damaging the Continent’s £8 billion-a-year art market. The organizers of the Maastricht ar...

03/12/2003. LONDON, ENGLAND.- The National Portrait Gallery presents “You Look Beautiful Like That - The Portrait Photographs of Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé,” on view through 8 June 2003. The exhibition was organized by the Fogg Art Museum, <CORTE> Harv...

03/13/2003. LONDON, ENGLAND.- Fine art and antiques shipped from China during the formative years of that country’s trade with the West are to be sold in a themed sale titled Export Art of the China Trade at Bonhams in London on Tuesday 18 March 2003. The sale i...

03/18/2003. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.- The Japanese American National Museum presents “Finding Family Stories.” Finding Family Stories, a three-year arts partnership project that brings together cultural institutions representing Southern California’s diver...

03/20/2003. NEW YORK.- Sotheby’s Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Sotheby’s worldwide auction business, art-related financial services and real estate brokerage activities, today announced results for the full year and fourth quarter ended December 31, 2002...

03/21/2003. NEW YORK.- The US government has sued the Contemporary Art Holding Corp (CAHC), owned in part by Lawrence Gagosian. The suit was filed in a Manhattan federal court to recover $26.5 million in alleged back taxes and penalties. According to the prosecu...