03/17/2002. PÚBOL, SPAIN.- In June, 1939, Salvador Dalí designed a remarkable Surrealist pavilion for the New York World's Fair which was built by architect Ian Woodner and called Dream of Venus. From March 15 - June 30, 2002, the Museum of Contemporary Art e...

03/17/2002. NORWICH, UK.- The Norwich Gallery is hosting the exhibition titled "David Ostrem Smash Your Face In", on view from March 19, to April 27, 2002. The exhibition was curated by Roy Arden in association with the Or Gallery Vancouver and fund...

03/18/2002. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN.- The University of Michigan Museum of Art presents "Women Who Ruled: Queens, Goddesses, Amazons 1500-1650", on view through May 5, 2002. The exhibition focuses on the visual representation of powerful women in the sixte...

03/18/2002. LONDON, ENGLAND.- The Wallace Collection celebrates the return from conservation of five Venetian view paintings with a special display highlighting exciting new discoveries regarding their attribution, dating and production, titled "18th-Centur...

03/18/2002. SEDONA, ARIZONA.- Painter Margaret Tomkins, 85, died. Her husband, sculptor James Fitzgerlad, died in 1973. She had exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago; the Palace of the Leg...

03/18/2002. WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum celebrates the variety and beauty of wood turning, one of the most popular craft art techniques today, in "Wood Turning since 1930." On view from March 15 throu...

03/19/2002. LONDON.- An eagerly awaited announcement is expected today that Charles Saumarez Smith, current director of the National Portrait Gallery, will become the next director of the National Gallery. Nobody is awaiting it more eagerly than the man himself,...

03/19/2002. LONDON.- Behind the controversial traveling corpse show, "Body Worlds", opening in the Atlantic Gallery this week, lies a morbid international trade in cadavers - some believed to be from prisoners, homeless people and the mentally ill. The...

03/20/2002. NEW YORK.- A monumental bronze sculpture by the Spanish artist Manolo Valdés will be exhibited next April 21 in the heart of Manhattan, between Park Avenue and 57th street, announced the Marlborough Gallery at a press conference. The sculpture, title...

03/20/2002. MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA.- The Art of Laurence Hope is at the Heide Museum of Modern Art until April 14. It is hard to reconcile the Laurence Hope photographed poring over an opal with Andy Warhol in 1971 or filmed playing a gangster alongside Germain...

03/20/2002. SAN BARTOLO, GUATEMALA.- An accidental find by an archaeologist in Guatemala has turned out to be the oldest-known Mayan wall painting. The mural, which is 1.2m long, dates from 100 AD and is being seen as one of the most important finds in Mayan arc...

03/20/2002. NEW YORK CITY.- The opening of the much-debated exhibition "Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art" on Sunday at the Jewish Museum, featuring Nazi and Holocaust imagery spurred protesters throughout the day but was generally marked by subd...

03/20/2002. LONDON.- The creator of the controversial exhibition featuring human corpses and body parts that is coming to London this week after drawing crowds around the world, Professor Gunther von Hagens, speaks about the show. According to him, the reason fo...

03/20/2002. LIMA, PERU.- A great archaeological complex in the jungle zone of el Cusco was presented yesterday as the major and most important Inca deposit discovered in the last four decades in Peru, according to the National Geographic Society, who conducted t...

03/21/2002. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.- The exhibition Love & Death: Art In The Age Of Queen Victoria, which recently opened at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, is a project which poses many questions about the Victorian era and its r...