VENICE, Italy, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Organizers of the Venice (Italy) Biennale say they plan to bestow a Golden Lion Award for lifetime achievement to Japanese-born artist Yoko Ono.
LONDON, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- British collector Charles Saatchi is planning a 15-room private gallery of contemporary art in London that could rival the nearby Tate museum.
LONDON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Prices for contemporary art were riding high at art auctions in London, as a portrait painted by Francis Bacon in the 1950s sold for $27.3 million.
WESTBOROUGH, Mass., July 10 (UPI) -- The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative approved last week a $700,000 grant to provide a museum of contemporary art with a 50-kilowatt solar power system.
PARIS, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- French billionaire Francois Pinault confirmed Monday that he will build a museum of contemporary art on the Ile Seguin, in the Seine River in Paris.
RIDGEFIELD, Conn., Aug. 17 (UPI) -- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum has reopened in an 18th century church building that cost $9 million to renovate in Ridgefield, Conn.
LONDON, April 23 (UPI) -- U.S. museum are focusing their buying on works of contemporary artists, installation art and multi-media, according to The Art Newspaper's annual survey.
NEW YORK, March 24 (UPI) -- Three contemporary art museums in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago are collaborating on a program to buy and exhibit the work of emerging artists.
PEEKSKILL, N.Y., March 15 (UPI) -- A new venue for the display of contemporary art is opening in New York's Hudson River valley, making it a new center for post-World War II art.
MOSCOW, March 8 (UPI) -- The Russian Culture Ministry has set up a steering committee to organize the first Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art for next year. Several locations for the show, to run from Jan. 15 to March 15, 2005, are being considered, including the former Lenin M
