□ Tuesday, 18 Jul 2006

Record Breaking Online Art Collaboration
The One Million Masterpiece, the world's largest collaborative arts project, launched and promises to unite people from all cultures across the world. Using the internet as a global canvas, the One Million Masterpiece invites one million people to create their own piece of art. More...

$20 Admission? How 'Bout $49.99?
C'mon, Met, you're thinking too small. Act like a business and really stick it to patrons. The Metropolitan Museum of Art just made a colossal blunder. More...

In a Lawsuit Aimed at Iran, Terror Victims Focus on Ancient Artifacts in a Chicago Museum
That a victim of a Palestinian suicide bombing would seek legal redress from an American museum might seem baffling to the uninitiated. But for Daniel Miller, 27, it is simply a way of extracting justice from a government that he blames for his suffering. More...

China's New Rich Drive Up Prices of Contemporary Chinese Art
Michelle Yu, 36, took her windfall from investing in Chinese Internet companies such as Sina Corp., quit her job as a marketing director for property developer Soho China Ltd. More...

□ Monday, 17 Jul 2006

Norman Rockwell Exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts
The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston presents the exhibit Norman Rockwell, The Problem We All Live With Best known for his covers of the Saturday Evening Post, American artist Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) also provided illustrations for Look magazine. More...

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...