NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) presents Ancestors of Congo Square: African Art in the New Orleans Museum of Art on May 13 to July 17. In keeping with the spirit of NOMA’s centennial year, the Museum highlights one of the mo…
Ancestors of the Lake: Art of Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay, New Guinea
HOUSTON, TX.- European navigators began traveling to coastal areas of New Guinea in the sixteenth century, but it was not until 1858 that the Dutch Etna Expedition reached Humboldt Bay and Lake Sentani (in the present-day Indonesian province of Papua, …
Why the Switch from Foraging to Farming?
By: Randolph E. Schmid, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP).- Thousands of years ago, our ancestors gave up foraging for food and took up farming, one of the most important and debated decisions in history. Was farming more efficient than foraging? Did …
Court: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston can Keep Work Sold in Nazi Era
BOSTON (AP).- A federal appeals court has ruled that Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts can retain ownership of a 1913 painting by Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka that was sold during the Nazi occupation of Austria. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rule…
Home of "Ice Giants" Thaws, Shows Pre-Viking Reindeer Hunts
JUVFONNA (REUTERS).- Climate change is exposing reindeer hunting gear used by the Vikings’ ancestors faster than archaeologists can collect it from ice thawing in northern Europe’s highest mountains. “It’s like a time machine…the ice has not been thi…
Mexican Archaeologists Extract 10,000 Year-Old Skeleton from Flooded Cave in Quintana Roo
MEXICO CITY.- One of the earliest human skeletons of America, which belonged to a person that lived more than 10,000 years ago, in the Ice Age, was recovered by Mexican specialists from a flooded cave in Quintana Roo. The information it has lodged for …
New Exhibition of African Art at the Dallas Museum of Art
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art will present a significant look at African visual culture through African Masks: The Art of Disguise, a new exhibition of approximately seventy works of art exploring the highly developed and enduring art of the Af…
Exhibition of 2000 Years of Southeast Asian Ancestral Art Opens in Canberra
CANBERRA.- The first large exhibition ever to explore the captivating art made in Southeast Asia to honour the ancestors and the spirits of nature opened this week at the National Gallery of Australia. Life, death and magic: 2000 years of Southeast Asi…
Exhibition of 2000 Years of Southeast Asian Ancestral Art Opens in Canberra
CANBERRA.- The first large exhibition ever to explore the captivating art made in Southeast Asia to honour the ancestors and the spirits of nature opened this week at the National Gallery of Australia. Life, death and magic: 2000 years of Southeast Asi…
Ancient Southwestern America at the Dawn of the 20th Century on Display
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- A little known American Indian archive was unveiled at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) from July 24 until October 24, 2010. Ancestors and Descendants: Ancient Southwestern America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century is the firs…