Traditional Arts
On Monday 18 June, Australian auction house Mossgreen will hold an auction of fine Chinese, Japanese and South East Asian arts. Comprising 186 lots, the collection covers Chinese ceramics, ivories and jades, through to Japanese ceramics, lacquer and...
WHAT: "Histoires de Voir: Show and Tell"WHEN: Through October 21, Tuesday-Sunday, 11am-6pm.WHERE: Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, 261 Boulevard Raspail, Paris.WHY THIS SHOW MATTERS: This is an exceptional exhibition of international outsider and...
Mossgreen Auctions achieved an extraordinary 100% clearance rate and a sale total of $787,485.60 against an estimate of $330,900.00 for their auction of the Indigenous art collection of John W. Kluge.The amazing result featured a number of works which soared...
Sotheby’s Australia produced a solid result with their June 5 Important Aboriginal Art sale held in Melbourne. A clearance rate of 59% and a sale total of $1,167,450 (hammer price) was good news even though the sale total was below expectations."These...
To honor Memorial Day, ARTINFO set out to compile a list of visually intriguing and moving war memorials in the United States. In doing so, we found that we could not overlook a number of important memorials that were erected in other countries and...
During the Middle Ages, books of hours were more popular than any other text, even the Bible. These intricately illustrated devotional texts began to appear around 1250 and contained a series of psalms meant to be read at eight specific hours of the day,...
ATHENS — Faced with massive public debt, Greece is finding that its fabled antiquity heritage is proving a growing burden — with licensed digs postponed, illegal ones proliferating, museum staff trimmed and....
"All such sites are part of our civilisation' irrespective of which faith they represent" President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday expressed concern over the damage caused to the ancient Katasraj Temple in Chakwal district of Punjab and the drying up of the...[...
John Taylor, a world renowned Egyptologist from the British Museum, has uncovered a previously unattributed collection of fragments from an extremely rare and valuable Egyptian Book of the Dead at Australia’s Queensland Museum.The fragments were discovered...
Melbourne, Australia based auction house Mossgreen Auctions will hold a major sale of important international art and antiques at their South Yarra saleroom on Monday the 23rd of April at 6:30pm local time.For online bidding see:http://www.the-saleroom.com/en...
