DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum (DAM) takes a closer look at the medium of clay in its summer exhibition Marvelous Mud: Clay Around the World. Celebrating the prolific and diverse material, Marvelous Mud reveals how clay has shaped culture, creativi…
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Displays War Rugs from Afghanistan
PHILADELPHIA, PA (AP).- From afar, the ornate rug looks like a blur of color and nondescript geometric patterns. But a closer look reveals the unmistakable shapes of helicopters, tanks and weapons. The Oriental carpet from war-torn Afghanistan exemplif…
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Displays War Rugs from Afghanistan
PHILADELPHIA, PA (AP).- From afar, the ornate rug looks like a blur of color and nondescript geometric patterns. But a closer look reveals the unmistakable shapes of helicopters, tanks and weapons. The Oriental carpet from war-torn Afghanistan exemplif…
Exhibition of Books of the Republic of Venice at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
BOSTON, MA.- From May 3 to June 19, visitors to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum are invited to take a closer look at seven Venetian manuscripts from the museum’s extensive rare books collection in a unique, compact exhibition entitled Illumina…
Illuminating the Serenissima: Books of the Republic of Venice at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
BOSTON, MA.- From May 3 to June 19, visitors to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum are invited to take a closer look at seven Venetian manuscripts from the museum’s extensive rare books collection in a unique, compact exhibition entitled Illumina…
Sotheby’s Launches App for iPhone and iPad
NEW YORK, NY.- 1744 meets 2010 as Sotheby’s, the oldest Company on the New York Stock Exchange (BID), launches its new application for the iPhone and iPad. Now available for free download in the iTunes App Store©, Sotheby’s app allows users …
Sotheby’s Launches App for iPhone and iPad
NEW YORK, NY.- 1744 meets 2010 as Sotheby’s, the oldest Company on the New York Stock Exchange (BID), launches its new application for the iPhone and iPad. Now available for free download in the iTunes App Store©, Sotheby’s app allows users …
Rainer Fetting’s "Manscapes", Painted between 1974 and 2010, on View at Kunsthalle Tubingen
TUBINGEN.- The German word “Landschaft” – a precursor of “landscape” – originally denoted the totality of people that populated a country. It was not until later that it took on the geographic meaning that led, primarily t…
Rainer Fetting’s "Manscapes", Painted between 1974 and 2010, on View at Kunsthalle Tubingen
TUBINGEN.- The German word “Landschaft” – a precursor of “landscape” – originally denoted the totality of people that populated a country. It was not until later that it took on the geographic meaning that led, primarily t…
dOCUMENTA (13) Begins Its Activities by Planting a Tree in the Park
KASSEK.- On June 21st, 2010, Giuseppe Penone’s Idee di Pietra (Ideas of Stone) was inaugurated in the Karlsaue park in Kassel as the first artwork on the way to dOCUMENTA (13). At first sight a small cloud seems to be caught in the branches of a tree, …