Washington, D.C.- The “Earth as Art” Exhibition at Library of Congress Opens May 31 where it will remain on view for a year, before the 40 award-winning Landsat satellite images become a part of the permanent collection of the Library’s …
South Dakota Repository’s Images Get Gallery Treatment
By: Dirk Lammers,Associated Press
GARRETSON, S.D. (AP).- The millions of satellite images collected at a federal repository north of Sioux Falls help document forest fires, droughts, hurricanes, tsunamis and other calamities. Scientists and engineers a…
Galileo Honored by Vatican and American Academy in Rome, on Anniversary
LONDON.-Four hundred years after Galileo Galilei first demonstrated his telescope to scholars on a Roman hilltop, the astronomer condemned by the Catholic Church was celebrated on the same spot with a multimedia art exhibit that, oddly enough, included…
Galileo Honored by Vatican and American Academy in Rome, on Anniversary
LONDON.-Four hundred years after Galileo Galilei first demonstrated his telescope to scholars on a Roman hilltop, the astronomer condemned by the Catholic Church was celebrated on the same spot with a multimedia art exhibit that, oddly enough, included…
From North Korea Propaganda to Art Exhibit in Seoul, Defector Song Byeok Shows His Work
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (AP) —.- The face in the painting is North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s, smiling beneath his trademark sunglasses and wall of black hair. But the body is Marilyn Monroe’s, pushing down her white dress in an updraft. This striking…
From North Korea Propaganda to Art Exhibit in Seoul, Defector Song Byeok Shows His Work
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (AP) —.- The face in the painting is North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s, smiling beneath his trademark sunglasses and wall of black hair. But the body is Marilyn Monroe’s, pushing down her white dress in an updraft. This striking…
Largest Juried Display of African Canadian Art Presented at the ROM
TORONTO.- The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) joins in the excitement of the Scotiabank Caribana Festival and presents From the Soul: Caribana Art Exhibit, July 23 to August 13, 2010, Canada’s largest ever single juried display of works of art by Afric…
Imagine Peace: Thai Exhibit on Political Crisis
BANGKOK (AP).- On one wall hangs a giant Thai flag torn in half but stitched up with a zipper. Nearby is a poster-sized news photograph of smoke mushrooming out of a Bangkok shopping mall, the gray cloud outlined by a skull. Out of Thailand’s bloody po…