YAN’AN, CHINA (REUTERS).- Sculptor Wang Wenhai has dedicated his life to one man – China’s controversial former paramount leader Mao Zedong. Since Mao’s death in 1976, Wang has made well over 2,000 sculptures of the “Great Helmsman,” most of them from…
Chinese Sculptor Moulds Memory of Mao
YAN’AN, CHINA (REUTERS).- Sculptor Wang Wenhai has dedicated his life to one man – China’s controversial former paramount leader Mao Zedong. Since Mao’s death in 1976, Wang has made well over 2,000 sculptures of the “Great Helmsman,” most of them from…
Daniel Brodsky Elected Chairman of Metropolitan Museum Board of Trustees
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today the election of business and civic leader Daniel Brodsky, a Trustee of the institution since 2001, as its next Chairman of the Board. Mr. Brodsky will officially assume the chairmanship on S…
"Andrew Rogers: Time and Space" on View at the 18th Street Arts Center
Santa Monica, CA.- From May 7 through 28 May , the 18th Street Arts Center will present “Andrew Rogers: Time and Space”, a selection of 68 large-scale photographs of Rogers’s ground-breaking outdoor art project. The exhibition will showcase aerial …
Image of Francis Bacon, One of Ireland’s Top Artists, to Sell in First Irish Art Sale at Bonhams
LONDON.- An evocative portrait of Francis Bacon, one of Britain’s leading 20th century artists, painted by one of his friends, Louis Le Brocquy, Ireland’s foremost living artist, is for sale at Bonhams inaugural Irish Art Sale in London on 9t…
A Fixture of South Florida’s Contemporary Art Scene, Art Palm Beach Returns in January
PALM BEACH, FL.- International Fine Art Expositions (IFAE) announces the details of Art Palm Beach, 2011. A fixture of South Florida’s contemporary art scene for 13 years, Art Palm Beach has become one of the most influential contemporary art fai…
Spy Museum Adds Another Former Spy to Staff in Washington DC
WASHINGTON, DC.- The International Spy Museum has welcomed an experienced intelligence analyst, author and scholar as the organization’s new historian. Mark Stout has 13 years in intelligence, including time spent with both the CIA and the State D…