COLOGNE.- Even today, the world of the ancient Greek gods has lost none of its fascination. Accounts of the deeds of mighty Zeus, his jealous wife Hera, the twins Apollo and Artemis, beautiful Aph-rodite, and Dionysos the god of wine, are as enthrallin…
Dundee Museum announces biology-inspired art collection, with support of the Art Fund
DUNDEE.- The University of Dundee Museum Collections have been awarded a grant of £100,000 from the Art Fund to build a collection of art inspired by D’Arcy Thompson, the University’s first Professor of Biology. Curator Matthew Jarron explai…
Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris presents "Hybrid Witness" by Eko Nugroho
PARIS.- In Paris since September, at the Villa Raffet as part of a residency programme by SAM Art Projects, Eko Nugroho is an Indonesian artist born in Yogyakarta in 1977. Following the exhibition by Inci Eviner organised by SAM Art Projects in 2011, t…
Artist Gary Taxali collaborates with the Royal Mint
TORONTO, ON.- Internationally celebrated contemporary visual artist and award-winning illustrator, Gary Taxali, recently appointed to the Stamp Advisory Committee for Canada Post, has collaborated with the Royal Canadian Mint to create a series of six …
Art Stage Singapore 2012 hits the mark
SINGAPORE.- The sophomore edition of Art Stage Singapore 2012, Asia’s global art gathering, closed on Sunday, 15 January 2012. Despite a challenging economic situation, there were many important sales made at the fair. Some of them included: •…
Works from the early 1970s to the present by Hamish Fulton at Turner Contemporary
MARGATE.- This is Hamish Fulton’s first one-person show in a UK public gallery since 2002. The exhibition brings together works from the early 1970s to the present, including a new film of a group walk in Margate commissioned by Turner Contemporary in …
Bonhams to sell belt buckle believed to be oldest Cricket artifact outside Britain
CHESTER.- Bonhams to be sell the oldest known cricket artefact outside the British Isles, a belt buckle featuring an Afro-European slave playing cricket in Barbados, in its Sporting Memorabilia sale on 30 May 2012 in Chester. The buckle, which has attr…
Researchers, tribes clash over Native bones; new federal protections may soon transfer to tribes
BERKELEY, CA (AP).- On a bluff overlooking a sweep of Southern California beach, scientists in 1976 unearthed what were among the oldest skeletal remains ever found in the Western Hemisphere. Researchers would come to herald the bones — dating bac…
Rare South African coins highlight $10.7+ million Heritage NYINC world coins auction
NEW YORK, N.Y.- A unique South African bronze 1928 pattern sovereign, graded Matte Proof 64 by NGC, brought $184,000 as the top lot in Heritage Auctions’ $10.7+ million Jan. 2-3 World & Ancient Coins Signature® Auction at the Waldorf-Astoria Hote…
Suspicions rise in Chile’s Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda’s death; exhumation may go forward
ISLA NEGRA (AP).- The suspicions have lingered for decades. Pablo Neruda, Chile’s Nobel Prize-winning poet, would have been a powerful voice in exile against the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. But that all changed just 24 hours before Neruda wa…