Paul Rubens News

The Collegiate Chorale raised more than $300,000 at its annual Spring Benefit featuring the U.S. premiere of Kurt Weill and Franz Werfel's The Road of Promise at Carnegie Hall on May 7, 2015. Proceeds will go toward The Chorale's artistic and education initiatives.

The National Portrait Gallery's recently acquired self-portrait of Sir Anthony van Dyck was today displayed at Turner Contemporary, Margate, the first venue in its nationwide tour. It is set to be one of the star attractions of the Kent gallery's new exhibition Self: Image and identity - self-portraiture from Van Dyck to Louise Bourgeois which opens to visitors today 24 January 2015.

The National Portrait Gallery's recently acquired self-portrait of Sir Anthony van Dyck was today displayed at Turner Contemporary, Margate, the first venue in its nationwide tour. It is set to be one of the star attractions of the Kent gallery's new exhibition Self: Image and identity - self-portraiture from Van Dyck to Louise Bourgeois which opens to visitors on Saturday 24 January 2015.

Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today that George R. Goldner, who has been the Drue Heinz Chairman of the Museum's Department of Drawings and Prints since 1993, will step down at the end of January 2015. He announced further that Nadine Orenstein, currently a Curator in the department who specializes in European prints and books through the 19th century, will become the Drue Heinz Curator in Charge of the Department of Drawings and Prints on February 1.

According to the El Pais, Spain's Museo del Prado has lost 885 artworks. According to reports, between 2008 and December 2012 the Service Deposit located 41 works of the 926. Its loss and recovery was attributed to the 'rearrangement of collections'.

The National Portrait Gallery has released a photograph of its patron HRH The Duchess of Cambridge being shown the Van Dyck Self-portrait it is campaigning with the Art Fund to save for the nation. The Duchess was given a private view of the portrait, on display at the Gallery, with director Sandy Nairne, during The Portrait Galaon the 11 February.

The National Portrait Gallery and the Art Fund today (Friday 31 January 2014) announced that they have received over £3.2 million in support of their appeal to secure the last self-portrait of Sir Anthony Van Dyck, and prevent it from going to a private collection overseas. This includes a recent pledge of £1 million from The Monument Trust, the largest single gift yet given to the campaign. A further £1 million has been raised from the public, with more than 5,600 individual contributions received so far from supporters both nationally and internationally.

The National Portrait Gallery and the Art Fund today (Monday 25 November 2013) launch an appeal to raise £12.5 million and secure the last self-portrait of Sir Anthony Van Dyck. The painting has been in a British private collection for nearly 400 years but has been sold to a private collector who now wishes to take it abroad. This is the only chance a museum or a gallery in the United Kingdom has of acquiring the masterpiece.

According to Deadline, the network has put a pilot into development based upon the Norwegian fiction writer's 2008 novel HEADHUNTERS with Alexander Woo on board to pen the script.

Though Dance New Amsterdam (DNA) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this past May, the organization had a successful first filing and continues forward while working with its community ties and partnerships. Artistic and Executive Director Catherine Peila has announced an exciting roster of both new and returning artists as part of DNA PRESENTS 2013-14 season. To kick off the season, a launch party today, September 17, 2013 will feature performances from season artists and special guests DJ's.

Interwoven Globe: The worldwide Textile trade 1500-1800 opens September 16th and runs through January 5th 2014 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is a story of hidden treasures speaking to one another on a cross-cultural global connection told through design and traveled by boat. Base-cemented for years within the METS vaults, now resuscitated, alive in nine galleries you can even see what Louis XVI commissioned but never got to; he lost his head too soon.

Telbec/ - Aimia, a global leader in loyalty management, and the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) announce the four artists who have been shortlisted for the Aimia | AGO Photography Prize, Canada's leading international contemporary photography award. The winner of the $50,000 Prize is chosen entirely by public vote, and online voting opens today at AimiaAGOPhotographyPrize.com and, for the first time, on the Prize's Facebook page. Visitors to the AGO can also cast a vote inside the Aimia | AGO Photography Prize 2013 Exhibition, on view at the AGO from Sept. 11, 2013 to Jan. 5, 2014.

Though Dance New Amsterdam (DNA) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this past May, the organization had a successful first filing and continues forward while working with its community ties and partnerships. Artistic and Executive Director Catherine Peila has announced an exciting roster of both new and returning artists as part of DNA PRESENTS 2013-14 season. To kick off the season, a launch party on September 17, 2013 will feature performances from season artists and special guests DJ's. The A.O. Movement Collective opens the season October 25. DNA introduces new projects with Artists in Residence Daniel Clifton , Catherine Galasso, Monstah Black and Kendra Portier, with return LateNite alums Victoria Libertore and Jaamil Olawale Kosoko

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577 – 1640) was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of an extravagant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality. He is well-known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's galleries for its world-renowned collection of European Old Master paintings from the 13th through the early 19th century will reopen today, May 23 after an extensive renovation and reinstallation.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's galleries for its world-renowned collection of European Old Master paintings from the 13th through the early 19th century will reopen on May 23 after an extensive renovation and reinstallation. This is the first major renovation of the galleries since 1951 and the first overall reinstallation of the collection since 1972. Increased in size by almost one-third, the space now accommodates the display of more than 700 paintings in 45 galleries, including one rotating special exhibition gallery. The galleries are organized both chronologically and geographically to provide an overview of painting in Italy, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and Great Britain. Many of the galleries have new floors and moldings and the suites of galleries unfold with a new logic and grandeur. Sculpture, medals, ceramics, and other decorative arts have been judiciously incorporated where their presence adds a layer of meaning to the display of paintings. Key works have been conserved or embellished with period frames. Important loans complement the permanent collection and celebrate the reinstallation.

The Yale University Art Gallery, in New Haven, Connecticut, the oldest and one of the most important university art museums in America, is in the final phase of a renovation and expansion that will transform the visitor experience of both the museum and its esteemed collections. The project will enable the Gallery not only to enhance its role as one of the nation's most prominent teaching institutions but also to join the ranks of the country's leading public art museums. The expanded Gallery will open in December 2012.

This Saturday night in Los Angeles, Spike TV will honor the man responsible for one of the most iconic characters of all time, as Paul Reubens will receive the Visionary Award for his work as Pee-wee Herman over the past three decades at 'SCREAM Awards 2011.'

Fall Lecture Series at The Frick Collection runs from October 13th until December 1st featuring lectures: A GALLERY OF WORTHIES: THOMAS JEFFERSON AND JEAN-ANTOINE HOUDON, FIZZ AND SPARKLE: THE EFFERVESCENT LIFE OF DEBORAH, THE DOWAGER DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE, THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PLACE IN GOYA'S ART, THE OTHER VERSAILLES: WHERE THE DECORATIVE ARTS BECAME MODERN, BARTOLOMÉ MURILLO: VIRTUOSO DRAFTSMAN with apperances by Anne L. Poulet, Michael Gallagher, Charlotte Mosley, Reva Wolf, Joan DeJean,and Jonathan Brown.

Fall Lecture Series at The Frick Collection runs from October 13th until December 1st featuring lectures: A GALLERY OF WORTHIES: THOMAS JEFFERSON AND JEAN-ANTOINE HOUDON, FIZZ AND SPARKLE: THE EFFERVESCENT LIFE OF DEBORAH, THE DOWAGER DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE, THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PLACE IN GOYA'S ART, THE OTHER VERSAILLES: WHERE THE DECORATIVE ARTS BECAME MODERN, BARTOLOMÉ MURILLO: VIRTUOSO DRAFTSMAN with apperances by Anne L. Poulet, Michael Gallagher, Charlotte Mosley, Reva Wolf, Joan DeJean,and Jonathan Brown.