02/11/2002. NEW YORK.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents "Surrealism: Desire Unbound", on view through May 12, 2002. A central theme of Surrealism, a major artistic movement of the 20th century, was desire in its many manifestations. The first major survey...

03/05/2002. WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden presents "Metropolis in the Machine Age," an exhibition exploring how the modern city inspired numerous avant-garde artists in the 1910s, 20s and 30s. The show continues through Se...

03/05/2002. ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA.- The Freedom Forum, the nonpartisan foundation that funds and operates the Newseum, closed the interactive museum of news in Arlington on March 3. The museum closing signals the next stage of the organization’s plan to relocate t...

03/05/2002. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.- The Frye Art Museum turns fifty years old and presents "The Frye at Fifty: Five Decades of Collecting". The Frye Art Museum opened on February 8, 1952, as "The Charles and Emma Frye Free Public Art Museum." F...

03/05/2002. ArtDaily Changes its Form and Content. Our original logo, the format and the content that we have had have been updated and revised. They are now part of our history. Today we offer our visitors an online newspaper with better, wider and richer conte...

03/06/2002. NEW YORK CITY.- Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Governor George E. Pataki today announced plans to move forward with two temporary memorial projects to commemorate the lives of those lost six months ago in the World Trade Center tragedy and in the 199...

03/06/2002. LONDON, ENGLAND.- Christie’s announced the auction of a further 149 Scottish paintings from the internationally acclaimed Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation. In November 2001, Christie’s Edinburgh successfully offered 100 works for sale on behalf of the ...

03/06/2002. FORT WORTH, TEXAS.- "The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints," the first in-depth examination of the influence of abstract expressionism on printmaking, is on view at the Amon Carter Museum on March 2, 2002. This is the first tr...

03/06/2002. PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA.- The Museum of American Heritage presents "Brains to Bytes: The Evolution of Information Storage", on view through May 26, 2002. The ways people store information have always been tightly interwoven with culture and l...

03/07/2002. NEW YORK CITY.- Apex Art presents "Art that heals", on view through April 6, 2002 and curated by Jean-Hubert Martin. The dominance of present art theory tends to make us forget old functions that are sometimes still very much alive in non-w...

03/07/2002. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.- For three days, fourteen Tibetan monks of the Gyuto Tantric University will work to create a sand mandala in the traditional Yamantaka format at the UCLA Hammer Museum. The public is invited to observe the monks during speci...

03/07/2002. OLD LYME, CONNECTICUT.- During the first quarter of the twentieth century, Old Lyme, Connecticut was the center of the Lyme Art Colony, one of most influential colonies in the history of American Art. Artists from across the country flocked to the a...

03/07/2002. AMSTERDAM.- On Tuesday 16 April at 4pm, Sotheby’s Amsterdam will offer a museum collection of specialised measures and weights. The instruments are part of the collection of the Museum of Weights and Measures in Delft, Netherlands, that recently clos...

03/07/2002. NEW YORK.- The Museum of Modern Art presents "Life of the City", on view through May 21, 2002. This is both a tribute to New York City and an exploration of photography’s role in shaping a community. The first of three components presents ...

03/08/2002. ROME, ITALY.- Robert Hughes has become the fo...