Tag: Backdrop

Italian Artist Marco Dablosco Presents Acclaimed Performance Piece Scala 1:18

LONDON.- Italian artist Marco Dalbosco presents his acclaimed performance piece Scala 1:18 today, 14 December, at London Metropolitan University. The piece was first presented as a parallel event at Manifesta 7 (Rovereto, Italy 2008) and is now being b…

18 Cross-Generational Artists will Be Featured in MoMA PS 1’s Presentation of The Talent Show

NEW YORK, NY.- MoMA PS1 presents The Talent Show, featuring works by 18 artists in the First Floor Main Galleries beginning on December 12, 2010. The exhibition is curated by MoMA PS1 Curator Peter Eleey. In recent years, television’s reality sh…

Show at Victoria & Albert Museum Puts Diaghilev Among Greats of Modern Art

LONDON (REUTERS)- Russian dance impresario Sergei Diaghilev once sat down to dinner with Pablo Picasso, James Joyce, Marcel Proust and Igor Stravinsky. For many, his name is the least familiar amid the roll-call of early 20th century artistic greats, b…

Show at Victoria & Albert Museum Puts Diaghilev Among Greats of Modern Art

LONDON (REUTERS)- Russian dance impresario Sergei Diaghilev once sat down to dinner with Pablo Picasso, James Joyce, Marcel Proust and Igor Stravinsky. For many, his name is the least familiar amid the roll-call of early 20th century artistic greats, b…

Neuberger Museum of Art Presents 40-Year Survey of Pat Steir’s Exploration of Drawing

PURCHASE, NY.- Pat Steir, a major figure in American art since the 1970s, has created some of the most ambitious and challenging drawings of the late 20th century. This fall, the Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase College, presents Pat Steir: Drawing…

Exhibition and Karl Ströher Prize for French Artist Cyprien Gaillard

FRANKFURT.- Large demolition bulldozers, huge piles of rubble and the constant noise of the pneumatic drills at present set the tone in the vicinity of the MMK Zollamt. What was once the Technical City Hall is giving way to reconstructed buildings that…

Exhibition and Karl Ströher Prize for French Artist Cyprien Gaillard

FRANKFURT.- Large demolition bulldozers, huge piles of rubble and the constant noise of the pneumatic drills at present set the tone in the vicinity of the MMK Zollamt. What was once the Technical City Hall is giving way to reconstructed buildings that…

Photographer Returns to Trace Liverpool Families

LIVERPOOL.- A photographer who captured life in inner-city Liverpool is set to return Merseyside in a bid to track down the people who starred in his pictures. Paul Trevor came to the city in 1975 initially as part of a project called “Survival Pr…

Money Fair in Boston Showcases $100,000 Bills, Rare Coins

BOSTON (AP).- In an economic downturn, it might be tough to get your head around this: rare sheets of $100,000 bills, fabulous gold treasures dating back to the California Gold Rush era, rare coins including those tied to the first stirrings for Americ…

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