□ Monday, 17 Jul 2006

Vatican TO SHOW MORE MODERN ART
The Vatican's museums are planning to add modern art to their collections, according to reports in Italy. More...

□ Saturday, 15 Jul 2006

The International Art + Design Fair, 1900-2006
The fair, at The 7th Regiment Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street, New York, runs from October 6 through October 11, 2006. The youngest of the New York fairs in the Haughton International stable, the event is a celebration of the continuing strength of the market for modernist works... More...

□ Friday, 14 Jul 2006

Most Expensive Painting at Neue Galerie
The Neue Galerie presents the exhibition Gustav Klimt: Five Paintings from the Collection of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer, on view through September 18, 2006. Klimt worked on Adele Bloch-Bauer I for three years. More...

□ Thursday, 13 Jul 2006

The 2006 Summer Auction at 3rd Ward
The pieces displayed in 3rd Ward's Summer Group Show offer a snapshot of the up-and-coming Brooklyn art scene. The subject matter and approaches vary, but all are rooted in this time and place. More...

Marie Schwartz Donates $1 Million For Visual Arts Gallery
Makiko Kudo, Princess Yue-yang, 2004. Oil on canvas. 71.65 inches x 89.37 inches. Courtesy: Greene Naftali Gallery, New York. Opera: The First Emperor. More...

Kasimir Malevich at Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao
For the first time in our country the exhibition gathers over one hundred works by Kasimir Malevich (Kiev, 1879-Saint Petersburg, 1935), the founder of suprematism and one of the key figures in the European avant-garde. More...

□ Wednesday, 12 Jul 2006

First Major Exhibition of Early 20th Century Ukrainian Art
The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs announces the first major exhibition of early 20th century Ukrainian art in the United States. More...

Escala Group's Art & Antiques Division Realizes $2.4 Million
Escala Group (Nasdaq: ESCL), a global collectibles company in stamps, coins, and art and antiques, today announced that Greg Martin Auctions achieved over $2.47 million at its sale conducted June 26 and 27. More...

□ Tuesday, 11 Jul 2006

Greece demands return of stolen heritage
Greece is to reclaim hundreds of looted art works and antiquities from museums and private collections around the world, the government said yesterday. More...

Getty Museum Will Return 2 Antiquities to Greece
The Getty Museum has agreed to return two artifacts to Greece. "The compromise accord, which was initially hammered out in May at a meeting in Athens between the museum's director, Michael Brand, and the Greek culture minister, Georgios A. Voulgarakis, provides for the return to Greece of a large stele, or grave marker, acquired by the museum in 1993 and an archaic votive relief bought by the museum's founder, the oil magnate J. Paul Getty, in 1955. It also includes a provision for heightened collaboration between the museum and the Greek government." More...