04/16/2002. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.- ’Michelangelo is often thought of principally as a sculptor and painter, rather than as an architect,’ says J. Carter Brown, chairm...

04/16/2002. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.- The Geometry of Seeing: Perspective and the Dawn of Virtual Space, an exhibition that examines the multifaceted nature of perspective science a...

04/16/2002. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.- The Getty Research Institute presents “The Sacred Spaces of Pieter Saenredam,” on view through July 7, 2002. Pieter Saenredam (1597-1665) was o...

04/16/2002. PHOENIX, ARIZONA.- The Phoenix Art Museum presents ’Clearly Thinking: The Sculpture of Peter Ivy and Michael Scheiner,’ on view through August 11, 2002. Artists Michael Scheiner an...

04/16/2002. NEW YORK.- Abstract painter Harvey Quaytman, 64, died. He was born in 1937 in Far Rockaway, New York, N.Y. He studied at the Boston Museum School, Tufts University, Boston, and Syracuse Un...

04/16/2002. LONDON, ENGLAND.- Artist Damien Hirst will create a large installation with empty carbon dioxide cylinders that will portray the amount of carbon dioxide the artist generates ina year (aro...

04/16/2002. LONDON, ENGLAND.- Architect Sir Peter Faulkner Shepheard, 88, died. He was born on November 11, 1913. He studied at Birkenhead school and later at Liverpool School of Architecture. In 1942...

04/16/2002. NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum today announced at a press conference the exhibition and international tour of Matthew Barney: The CREMASTER Cycle, an ep...

04/16/2002. NEW YORK.- A rare portrait of Edward Weston, two complete Ansel Adams portfolios and a selection of turn-of-the-century Native American photographs from a private collec...

04/17/2002. BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.- The Institute of Contemporary Art presents ’Chic Clicks: Creativity and Commerce in Contemporary Fashion Photography,’ on view through Ma...

04/17/2002. ATLANTA, GEORGIA.- For the first time in nearly 20 years, the treasures of France’s second largest museum are leaving Paris and heading to the United States for their co...

04/17/2002. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.- Chuck Collins, Chair of the Art Institute Board of Trustees announced today that Larry Thomas has been appointed Interim President of the San...

04/17/2002. HOUSTON, TEXAS.- The Menil Collection has named James T. Demetrion new interim chief. This will be the second time in three years that the museum loses a director and names an interim chie...

04/17/2002. MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA.- The renovations at the Bass Museum of Art have lasted four years, when they were supposed to take 18 months, reproted the Miami Herald. Themuseum’s executive d...

04/17/2002. BERLIN, GERMANY.- Architect I. M. Pei just presented his remodelling project for the German Historical Museum in Berlin. Pei deisgned for the Historical Museum, a curved gl...