03/10/2002. WASHINGTON, D.C.- Earl A. Powell III, director of the National Gallery of Art, has announced acquisitions recently approved by the Gallery's board of trustees, including Head of Fernande (19...

03/10/2002. TUCSON, ARIZONA.- The Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona presents The Ansel Adams Centennial, a pair of exhibitions on view through July 7, 2002. Together they celebrate the 100th birthday of American photography's ...

03/10/2002. FITZROY, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA.- The Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) presents "Matthew Sleeth. Tour of Duty", on view through April 6, 2002. Tour of Duty is a series of pictures from East Timor that say very little about that countr...

03/11/2002. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.- Terra Museum of American Art is proud to team up with Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education to raffle off an autographed copy of Michael Crichton's Jasper Johns in conjunction with the exhibition Jasper Johns: Prints from Four...

03/11/2002. FORT WORTH, TEXAS.- The first comprehensive retrospective of the renowned Spanish artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682) to be held in the United States will be on view at the Kimbell Art Museum from March 10 through June 16, 2002. Bartolomé...

03/11/2002. LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND.- Paul McCartney has decided to hold his first major art exhibition in his hometown Liverpool, reported The Independent newspaper. This exhibition will present around 70 paintings, sculptures and photographs at the Walker gallery. ...

03/11/2002. DETROIT, MICHIGAN.- Dr. Charles H. Wright, who helped build and create the Museum of African American History in Detroit, died at the age of 83. Dr. Charles Howard Wright was born on September 20, 1918 in Dothan, Alabama. He attended Southeast Alabam...

03/12/2002. NEW YORK CITY.- Plum Blossoms, the new Asian art gallery in Manhattan's Chelsea art district, is a wonderful and very large exhibition hall. Sprawling in perfect space, between 10th and 11th Avenue at 555 West 25th Street, the gallery feels like a mu...

03/13/2002. LONDON, U.K.- Two MPs have protested over an exhibition that will show dozens of human corpses and body parts, describing it as "shameful" and "ghoulish". "Body Worlds", due to open in the Atlantis Gallery in London on M...

03/13/2002. KABUL, AFGHANISTAN.- The reopening of the National Gallery in Kabul in February took place in the dark. The electricity was out again, a casualty of war, and yet the mood was hopeful, victorious, even joyful. Presiding over the ceremony, Hamid Kar...

03/13/2002. NEW YORK CITY.- In the galleries, the show at first seems alternately dominated by room-size installations and video projections. Among the eye-catching sculptural works are a sprawling, graffiti-inspired installation by the late San Francisco street...

03/13/2002. NEW YORK CITY.- A dark gallery is filled with what look to be life-sized, primitive votive figures that might come from Africa or the Caribbean, paired with a flashing psychedelic projection on the wall. The overall effect is quite engaging. Another ...

03/14/2002. TOLEDO, OHIO.- Play Ball! Baseball Cards from The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates Toledo's rich baseball heritage, the city's contributions to the national pastime, and the opening of Toledo's new ball park, Fifth Third Field.  Drawn fr...

03/14/2002. PORTSMOUTH, UK.- The Aspex Gallery presents "PIDGIN interrupted transmission - Erika Tan", on view through April 20, 2002. The dictionary definition of 'pidgin', is a Chinese corruption of the English term 'business', used to describe a col...

03/14/2002. LEESBURG, VIRGINIA.- The ART House Gallery presents "ARTiculation", a juried contemporary exhibition of Shepherd College students, featuring the creative visual exchanges of Karen Gergely, Christina Halverson, and Jennifer Williams. The exh...