□ Thursday, 13 Jul 2006

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...

□ Sunday, 9 Jul 2006

Met Museum Says Painting Is Authentic
The Metropolitan Museum of Art says the Duccio painting it bought last year for $50 million is authentic and denies claims by an art historian that it is a fake. The museum says the painting has been "carefully examined... as a matter of course" and that it had "no reason to doubt" the authenticity of Madonna and Child, attributed to medieval artist Duccio. More...

Spanish Sculptor Juan de Avalos, 94, Dies
Spanish sculptor Juan de Avalos, 94, died in Madrid. He was a member of the prestigious Fine Arts Academy. Francisco Franco chose De Avalos to create colossal statues that were to adorn his vast mausoleum in the Valle de los Caidos, northeast of the capital, eve though being politically opposed to the dictator's extreme right-wing policies. Juan de Avalos was working on a monument to Spain's King Alfonso XIII at the time of his death, in Madrid. More...

Wadsworth Atheneum Acquires Two Major Paintings
Two magnificent and radically divergent depictions of man facing nature have been acquired by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. The Shore at Trouville: Sunset Effect (1866) by Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) is the second work by the French Realist to enter the Wadsworth Atheneum's European painting collection. A gifted painter of seascapes, Courbet spent the summers of 1865 and 1866 in the coastal resort towns of Trouville and Deauville in Normandy, often in the company of the American expatriate artist James McNeill Whistler. This serene sunset view is the largest of the seascapes Courbet produced in that period. More...

□ Friday, 7 Jul 2006

Albert Oehlen - I Will Always Champion Good Paintings
The Whitechapel presents the first major UK show of an artist bringing painting back to the forefront of contemporary art. Albert Oehlen is the first survey of the work of a painter who engages directly with the history of painting. Rebellious, discordant and allusive, his paintings are driven by an explosive collision of line, color and form. More...

Andy Warhol's Stars, Deaths and Disasters at the AGO
The Art Gallery of Ontario presents the exhibit Andy Warhol / Supernova: Stars, Deaths and Disasters, 1962-1964 through October 22. Guest-curated exclusively for the AGO by film director David Cronenberg, Andy Warhol / Supernova: Stars, Deaths and Disasters, 1962-1964 focuses on one of the most influential periods in the artist's life. More...