Tag: 1930s

Elvis Presley’s White Knabe Grand Piano Expected to Bring $1,000,000+ at Auction

MEMPHIS, TN.- Elvis Presley’s beloved White Knabe Grand Piano, as featured in his music room at Graceland from 1957 to 1969, is expected to bring $1,000,000+ as the centerpiece of Heritage Auctions’ Signature® Elvis Memorabilia Auction, Aug. 14, …

Salvador Dalí’s Mustache Finds New Home on a Delta Plane in Celebration of New Exhibition

ATLANTA, GA.- In celebration of the High’s new exhibition, “Dalí: The Late Work,” Delta has decked out a 757 plane with a Salvador Dalí-esque mustache. The plane, which went into service yesterday, will fly domestically. The High invit…

Salvador Dalí’s Mustache Finds New Home on a Delta Plane

ATLANTA, GA.- In celebration of the High’s new exhibition, “Dalí: The Late Work,” Delta has decked out a 757 plane with a Salvador Dalí-esque mustache. The plane, which went into service yesterday, will fly domestically. The High invit…

Art Institute of Chicago Opens Henri Cartier-Bresson Retrospective

CHICAGO, IL.- Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) is one of the most original, accomplished, and influential figures in the history of photography. His celebrated work of the early 1930s helped to define the artistic potential of modern photography;…

Group Exhibition "The Mass Ornament" on View at Gladstone Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone Gallery presents The Mass Ornament, an exhibition curated by John Rasmussen. This group exhibition takes its title from a collection of essays by the German writer and cultural critic Siegfried Kracauer that were originally pub…

Robert Capa Exhibition at Círculo de Bellas Artes Focuses on Famous Photograph

MADRID.- Robert Capa is, without a doubt, one of the leading photographers of the twentieth century. His most striking images—of the Spanish Civil War, of the Sino-Japanese conflict, of World War II—all appeared in the pages of the leading pi…

Important British Treasure Saved for the Jewish Museum London

LONDON.- The Jewish Museum has successfully raised the funds to secure the ‘Lindo lamp’, the earliest known English Hanukah lamp and one of the treasures of British Jewish heritage, ensuring its continued place in the museum’s collection…

Exhibition of Norman Rockwell Study Photographs and Paintings Announced at Brooklyn Museum

BROOKLYN, NY.- To create many of his iconic, quintessentially American paintings, most of which served as magazine covers, Norman Rockwell worked from carefully staged study photographs that are on view for the first time, alongside his paintings, draw…

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