Exceptionnal collection of taxidermy birds…
The Owston Collection
Friday 25 June at 10.30am
Saturday 26 June at 10.30am
Overseas Passenger Terminal
Circular Quay
Sydney
Australia

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Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents ‘Van Meegeren’s Fake Vermeers’, an exhibition of ten famous forgeries of Han van Meegeren. Most are in the style of Johannes Vermeer, but the works also include forgeries of Frans Hals, Pieter de Hooch and Gerard ter Borch. The exhibition explores Van Meegeren’s technique, his masterpieces and his downfall.

Van Meegeren’s technique remains exceptional. For his masterpiece ‘The Supper at Emmaus’, Van Meegeren used a genuine seventeenth-century canvas and historical pigments. He bound the pigments with bakelite, which hardened when heated to produce a surface very …

Dead or Alive, presented by the Museum of Arts and Design from April 27 through October 24, 2010, will showcase the work of over 30 international artists who transform organic materials and objects that were once produced by or part of living organisms-insects, feathers, bones, silkworm cocoons, plant materials, and hair-to create intricately crafted and designed installations and sculptures.

The exhibition explores a territory related to MAD’s Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, which featured contemporary works created from multiples of ordinary manufactured items. In Dead or Alive, the materials transformed by …

Recent Work, Erwin Olaf’s second solo exhibition at Hamiltons introduces London to Dawn & Dusk, first shown at The Museum of The City of New York. It also features new images from the series Hotel, initiated in 2008 with Hotel 1, Kyoto; a continuation of Olaf’s exploration of mood, period and style as begun in his trilogy Rain, Hope and Grief, shown at Hamiltons in late 2008.

These photographs feature models posing sometimes elegantly, provocatively or demurely in replica hotel guest rooms across the world with subtle differences such as a …

Phillips de Pury & Company is pleased to announce it will offer The Halsey Minor Collection of Contemporary Art and Design.

Mr. Minor, a technology entrepreneur, founded CNET Networks in San Francisco in 1993. Since then he has amassed a highly important collection of works by renowned artists and designers including Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, Takashi Murakami, Mark Grotjahn, Florian Maier-Aichen, Walton Ford, Marc Newson, Diego Giacometti, Charlotte Perriand, and George Nakashima, among others.

Phillips de Pury & Company will present The Halsey Minor Collection as a single owner evening …

Finland, the country of thousand lakes is known for its serene beauty of forests and water. The summer nights where the sun never sets and contrasting harsh dark winters. The closeness to nature and its elements have always had a strong impact on Finnish architecture and design. With a bold, independent approach Finland have managed to acquire a unique position in contemporary architecture and design. Nurturing some of the most important designers of the 20th century.

Geographically, politically and culturally Finland has always been a stepping stone between east and west. …

The table consists of 22,742 pieces clicked together with traditional lego construction techniques (no glue), a 136mm grommet is located in its centre. It sits on a polished Stainless Steel square hollow section structure built by B.A. Engineering of Prussia St and is topped with a 10mm sheet of toughened glass manufactured by Action Glass.