06/30/2006. WASHINGTON.- The National Portrait Gallery reopens after extensive renovations with a series of great exhibits. “Americans Now,” drawn from the Portrait Gallery’s permanent collection, will feature individuals prominent in spor...

10/18/2006. LONDON, ENGLAND.- For the first time in Britain, a major exhibition will trace the career of one of the very greatest painters - Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599-1660). 'Velázquez' will follow the artist from his beginnings in Sevil...

01/14/2007. DUBLIN, IRELAND.- The National Gallery of Ireland presents A time and a Place - Two Centuries of Irish Social Life, on view through January 28, 2007 and sponsored by Key Capital Private and Deutsche Bank. This major exhibition devoted to Iris...

06/04/2008. LONDON.- The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting, opening at Tate Britain on 4 June, is the first exhibition to survey the history of British painters’ representations of the Middle East from the seventeenth to the early twenti...

11/27/2008. LONDON.- The composer George Frideric Handel was one of the noted philanthropists of the eighteenth century using his reputation as the leading composer to support charitable causes. He was a benefactor of the Foundling Hospital, Britain’...

11/01/2011. LONDON.- A new display at the National Portrait Gallery marks the fiftieth anniversary of the first issue of Private Eye, the highly successful satirical magazine. Portraits on show by Lewi...

02/04/2013. BRUNSWICK, ME.- Frank H. Goodyear III and Anne Collins Goodyear have been named co-directors of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. The announcement was made today by Bowdoin College Dean for Aca...

03/02/2017. The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents the most comprehensive loan exhibition in over forty years devoted to the most important chapter in the history of watercolor painting in this country. A...

12/17/2017. This week, the search for the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2018 was launched with prize money of £140,000 at stake. The biggest museum prize in the world, Art Fund Museum of the Year seeks out a...

12/27/2018. The first survey exhibition in 20 years of British artist Julian Trevelyan (1910–1988) is on view at Pallant House Gallery. A painter, printmaker and designer, Trevelyan was experimental th...

12/08/2018. Visitors to the critically acclaimed Mantegna and Bellini exhibition at the National Gallery can now see two panels of a single painting by Andrea Mantegna that have just been reunited f...

03/25/2019. Tudors to Windsors traces the history of the British monarchy through the outstanding collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. This exhibition highlights major events in British (and world) history from the sixteenth century to the prese...

12/02/2019. You’ll find them up in the balcony, or in standing room, silently mouthing the libretto or humming along with the score. These are the superfans: the compulsive lovers of opera or ballet or theater who see every performance; who travel from city...

06/30/2020. As part of the expanded online programme to accompany ONE: A Global Sale of the 20th Century, Christie’s presents Dialogues: Modern & Contemporary Art, an online auction running from 26 June...

10/11/2021. The Bodleian Libraries announced that, for the first time, a Curator of Photography will be appointed to care for and develop the libraries’ growing photography collections, thanks to a ...