Tribal Art Fair Amsterdam launches online this Spring 2021
Burkina Faso, Lobi, chair, 98 x 30 cm. Photo: Galerie Lemaire, Amsterdam.
AMSTERDAM
.- Following the success of the Tribal Art Fair Amsterdams first online fair, held at the end of October 2020, the organiser has decided to hold an online spring edition. Featuring 30 tribal art dealers from nine countries, the Tribal Art Fair Amsterdam Online is taking place from Thursday 29 April at 3pm until Monday 3 May 2021 at 10pm (Dutch time) at www.tribalartfair.nl/onlinefair.
Over the past 18 years, Tribal Art Fair Amsterdam has grown into an internationally acknowledged fair for collectors, dealers, interior decorators and museum curators in the field of tribal art. Usually held at De Duif in Amsterdam, the pandemic meant that it was held online last autumn, with some 9,000 online visitors. In addition to the galleries which participated in the first online fair in 2020, there are nine new galleries signed up to join this spr
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, appoints Christian Schörnich as Chief Operating Officer
Schörnich comes to the Museum from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, where he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for the past five years.
HOUSTON, TX
.- Gary Tinterow, Director, the Margaret Alkek Williams Chair, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, today announced the appointment of Christian Schörnich as the Chief Operating Officer. Schörnich comes to the Museum from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, where he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for the past five years. During this time, Schörnich managed departments of more than 250 employees and successfully led an organizationwide redesign while implementing the Symphonys ambitious strategic goals.
Queensland Olympic Games bid gets a mixed reaction from the state s regions
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Regional Queenslanders have their say on the Olympics bid.
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The Queensland Olympics bid success has sparked mixed reactions from the state s regions, with some seeking involvement and others strongly opposed to the financial costs.
Key points:
Overnight Brisbane was announced as the preferred candidate city to host the 2032 Olympics Games
Australian Olympic Committee President John Coates said the successful Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in 2018 helped secure Queensland s case
It is the first time the International Olympic Committee has shown interest in a region, rather than a single city
Perfect whisky collection sells for over $9 million at auction
The Macallan 1926 Fine and Rare 60 Year Old 75cl / US Import. Photo: Peter Dibdin.
Whisky history was made on Monday 22 February 2021 as the curtain came down on the auction of the Perfect Collection of whisky.
With a total final hammer price of $9,100,000 (£6,675,000), the collection of 3,900 bottles has become the highest value private collection ever to sell on the secondary market at an auction dedicated to one single collectors whisky. The auction has been hosted in two parts by market leaders Whisky Auctioneer due to the sheer scale of Mr Goodings whisky library - a man who dedicated two decades of his life in pursuit of the perfect collection.
Rare Thomas Moran watercolor to be unveiled at the Amon Carter Museum
Thomas Moran (18371926), Mount Superior, as viewed from Alta, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah, ca. 1879, watercolor and graphite on paper, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, 2020.1
FORT WORTH, TX
.- This summer, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art will unveil the acquisition of a rare watercolor, Mount Superior, as viewed from Alta, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah (ca. 1879) by Thomas Moran in an exhibition that will explore the origin of the worka little-known story of the artists westward journey along the transcontinental railroadwithin the context of both the history and the art of the period, as well as the artists renowned career. The new acquisition will be exhibited alongside a variety of Morans work including an oil painting and prints from the museums collection as well as contemporaneous photographs, watercolors, and ephemera, illuminating the life and cultural back