06/12/2002. NEW YORK.- When British artist Jenny Polak began working on Varick Street in Lower Manhattan in 1996, she was unaware that the building across the street from her new job was a detention center...

06/13/2002. NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.- Yale Center for British Art President Richard C. Levin has named Amy Meyers, curator of American Art at the Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Colle...

06/13/2002. NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.- The Yale Center for British Art presents "Cooking the Books: Ron King and Circle Press," on view through September 8, 2002. Ron King founded Circle Press i...

06/13/2002. SAUDI ARABIA.- Important Islamic and other antiquities were destroyed at the Abdul Rauf Hasan Khalil Museum, one of Saudi Arabia’s largest private museums. One of three buildings housing the collection in Jeddah was completely destroyed, despit...

06/14/2002. DENVER, COLORADO.- The Denver Art Museum has imposed a moratorium on all acquisitions and loans until the opening of the addition. This will allow the museum to focus its time and resources on its preparation for the opening. Museum director Lewis Sh...

06/15/2002. LONDON.- Gateshead’s Millennium Bridge, "the blinking eye" designed by Wilkinson Eyre architects and already a local icon, has become the first bridge to win the Building of the...

06/15/2002. PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.- ...

06/15/2002. NEW PRESTON, CONNECTICUT.-  Bill Blass, the American designer who built a multimillion-dollar business on understated clothes and a keen pe...

06/16/2002. LONDON, ENGLAND.- 58 new buildings across the UK and EU have been honoured by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). This year sees...

06/16/2002. BOSNIA.- Reconstruction work on the 16th century Stari Most bridge in Mostar will commence this month UNESCO announced last Thursday. The bridge was destroyed in 1993 duri...

06/17/2002. ZURICH.- The Kusthalle Zurich presents Eija-Liisa Ahtila, on view through August 11, 2002. The Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila has been making a name for herself since th...

06/17/2002. LESHAN, SICHUAN PROVINCE.-  The Leshan Giant Buddha will be guarded with electronic surveillance. It was carved in...

06/19/2002. WASHINGTON, D.C.- Americans for the Arts announced the results of the most comprehensive impact study of the nonprofit arts industry ever conducted in the United States. E...

06/19/2002. NEW YORK AND SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA.- Sotheby’s, the world’s oldest fine arts auctioneer, and eBay Inc., the world’s online marketplace, launched their strategic online alliance. This alliance includes three major components: ...

06/19/2002. BASEL.- The Architekturmusem presents "Miriam Bäckström, Claudio Moser, Heidi Specker and Edwin Zwakman photographed the Architekturmuseum," on view through 11 August 2002. These artists, two male and two female, have all previously addr...