04/04/2002. LONDON.- Dr Andrew Sayers from Australia is a hot contender to head London's National Portrait Gallery (NPG). In London, the innovative Dr Charles Saumarez Smith, 47, was confirmed as leaving the NPG to head the National Gallery, aft...

04/04/2002.   ROME.- Italy is angry over Australian art critic Benjamin Genocchio’s review of its old masters exhibition in Canberra and is threatening with a $50-million lawsuit for his fighting front-page words in the ...

04/05/2002. NEW YORK CITY.- Israeli-born video artist Irit Batsry, who has lived and worked in New York since 1983, is the winner of the Whitney Museum's second Bucksbaum Award, the $100,000 prize and artist-in-residency award...

04/05/2002. SAO PAULO, BRAZIL.- The 25th Sao Paulo Bienni...

04/05/2002. HOUSTON, TEXAS.- In the April 2002 issue of Artnews, written by Houston artist and critic Christopher French, there is an interesting article on the chief curator of the Menil Collection, Matthew Drutt. Two of the ...

04/05/2002. GOTEMBERG, SWEDEN/ PARIS, FRANCE.- Canadian photographer Jeff Wall has been named winner of the 2002 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography, a prize consisting of $48,800 and a gold medal. The awa...

04/05/2002. BERLIN, GERMANY.- Spanish art disembarks in Berlin. Sixteen artists exhibit their work at the National Gallery Hamburger Bahnhof. They are the proposed artists from Spain for the Big Sur exhibition. The sixteen Spanish artists from t...

04/05/2002. NEW YORK.- In New York until June 16, the Metropolitan Museum of Art dazzles its visitors with an exhibition dedicated to the unknown civilization of Sanxingdui, in Sichuan, which flourished in the Southeast of Chi...

04/05/2002. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.- The exhibition Gregg Bordowitz: Drive, opens today at the Museum of Contemporary Art, on view until July 7, 2002. The show includes a soapbox car covered in AIDS-drug company logos, posters advo...

04/05/2002. BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.- Star Wars: The Magic of Myth opens today at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, on view until July 7, 2002. The show includes 130 models, props, costumes and characters used to create the Star Wars fil...

04/05/2002. NEW YORK.- The exhibition Marcel Breuer: A Centennial Celebration opens today at the Archives of American Art, New York City, on view until June 29, 2002. The show includes papers, letters, files, photographs and printed material doc...

04/05/2002. MONTERREY, MEXICO.- A retrospective exhibition on the work of Spanish sculptor Eduardo Chillida opens today at the Museum of Contemporary Art. The exhibition includes 81 pieces, among them sculptures, drawings, rel...

04/06/2002. NEW YORK.- During the spring of 2002, Sotheby's will offer property from the Estate of Warner Le Roy including magnificent examples of American, Impressionist and Modern, ...

04/06/2002. WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS.- Norman S. Hirschl, one of the two founders of the Hirschl & Adler Galleries in Manhattan, died at the age of 86. Hirschl & Adler Galleries was founded i...

04/06/2002. PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.- The Frick Art Museum presents "Rubens, Jordaens, Van Dyck, and Their Circle: Flemish Master Drawings from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen...