05/25/2005. NEW YORK.- Christie’s New York spring sale of American Indian Art on June 13 features a strong selection of Navajo pictorial weavings, an extremely rare Cherokee basket, and an assortment of early Cree garments. Leading the sale is a Navaj...

05/26/2005. FRANKFURT, GERMANY.- Jan De Cock has created his first monumental work in Germany for the exterior and interior of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Born in Belgium in 1976, he is one of the most interesting artists of the younger generation. A...

05/26/2005. WASHINGTON, DC.- Showcasing the artwork and community spirit of Washington, DC, students, Expressions 2005 reveals the energy, talent and creativity of the more than 200 young people involved in the award-winning Corcoran ArtReach program. Cor...

05/26/2005. NEW YORK.- The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission today approved, by a unanimous vote, a design for the expansion and renovation of the Whitney Museum of American Art. The Whitney is expanding in order to better serve the public, ...

05/26/2005. STANFORD, CA.- Some of the world’s oldest cultures have survived in the Amazon River basin and are among the last in the New World to retain their centuries-old, pre-conquest traditions and rituals. Through August 21, 2005, the Cantor Arts Cen...

05/26/2005. LONDON, ENGLAND.- Tate presents Sir Joshua Reynolds' celebrated Portrait of Omai as one of the important loans to Tate Britain's exhibition Joshua Reynolds: The Creation of Celebrity. The work, which remains in a private collection, will be am...

05/27/2005. LONDON, ENGLAND.- The British Architectural Library is delighted to announce that it has purchased at auction the most important 17th century architectural model still in private hands: the design model for Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Easton Neston, ...

05/28/2005. NEW YORK.- Governor George E. Pataki and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced a comprehensive allocation plan for the remaining Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) funds that will yield dramatic and long-lasting results for all of L...

05/27/2005. LONDON, ENGLAND.- The Art Fund has awarded a grant of £400,000 towards the purchase of Sir Joshua Reynolds’ striking Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The Archers, (c 1770), giving Tate a flying start in its bid to secure the painting –...

05/27/2005. LONDON, ENGLAND.- The vivid responses of a new generation of Chinese photographers and video artists to the rapid cultural, political, social and economic changes taking place in China will be on view in a compelling and varied exhibition at t...

05/27/2005. BROOKLYN, N.Y.- Monet’s London: Artists’ Reflections on the Thames, 1859–1914 will present selections from Claude Monet’s series of London paintings, created between 1899 and 1904, alongside artworks by his contemporaries, ...

05/27/2005. VENICE, ITALY.- Hans Schabus has been working untiringly on the Austrian Pavilion for four weeks now. The artist, born in Watschig, Austria, in 1970, has been nominated by Max Hollein, Commissioner of the Austrian Pavilion and Director of the ...

05/28/2005. DUBLIN, IRELAND.- An exhibition of works from the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s Collection opens to the public on Saturday 28 May 2005 at St Caimin’s Church of Ireland, Mountshannon, Co Clare, as part of the Iniscealtra Festival of th...

05/28/2005. NEW YORK.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852–1860, on view through August 21, 2005. Roger Fenton (1819–1869) was the most celebrated and influential photographer in En...

05/28/2005. NEW YORK.- Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Councilmember Alan Gerson and developer Burton Resnick today broke ground on a residential, retail center, and community recreational facility in Lower Manhattan. The deve...