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HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, Mar 19, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) – The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (AGNS) is delighted to announce a series of major gifts and a programming sponsorship from BMO Financial Group. BMO will be gifting a major installation by artist Attila Richard Lukacs, as well as a collection of video art representing [...]

By Chris Michaud NEW YORK | Mon Mar 19, 2012 7:40am EDT

Standing on bohemian, buzzing Bermondsey Street in south London, outside Europe’s biggest commercial art gallery, its owner Jay Jopling gazes through a row of upright, painted steel fins that demarcates the courtyard. “I wanted a low wall, to be welcoming, open, but the local planning department wouldn’t allow it,” he explains. “I never forget walking [...]

The art critic and curator Andrew Renton made his first appearance as a commercial gallery director at Maastricht last week, where Marlborough Fine Art has hung a number of paintings by younger artists selected by Renton, who has been head-hunted from Goldsmiths College of Art to bring the gallery into the 21st century. The paintings [...]

The Art of Video Games exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum opened last Friday to much fanfare. It was a watershed moment for those who have long championed the cause of video games as art. But the final product did not meet expectations for some. Visitors set social networks abuzz with how underwhelmed they [...]

Art review Slippery Slope: art collection as obsession At Seattles Wright Exhibition Space, artists, art collectors and art dealers reveal their pack-rat side with Collecting: Art is a Slippery Slope. By Michael Upchurch Seattle Times arts writer

Steelers president Art Rooney II speaks to Steelers.com about the releases of veterans Aaron Smith and James Farrior: Aaron has been a staple on our defense since he became a starter in 2000 and has helped us rank among the leagues top defenses ever since, Rooney said. He has done so much for the Steelers [...]

(CBS) BOSTON – A Massachusetts high school student says shes a little bit flattered that someone stole a piece of her artwork from a state office building, but mostly shes upset. Emily Moreau, a 16-year-old junior at Chelmsford High in suburban Boston says she was told that three well-dressed men entered the state Transportation Building [...]

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The 76th edition of the Whitney Biennial, which opened yesterday, is a show without a name. “It’s not even Untitled, ” joked Ed Halter, one of the film program’s co-curators. “It’s basically titleless.” Indeed, the MO of this year’s organizers, the Whitneys Elisabeth Sussman and the independent curator Jay Sanders, seems to be to step out [...]