DENVER (AP).- What is believed to be the only surviving authenticated portrait of Billy the Kid went up for auction in Denver on Saturday and sold for $2.3 million. The tintype on Saturday evening went to private collector William Koch at Brian Lebel’s…
Clothes Make the Medieval Man and Woman in Getty Center Manuscript Exhibition
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Personal style reveals a lot about a person, even as far back as the Middle Ages. Just as today, a haute couture gown demonstrates the social status of the person wearing it and a doctor’s white coat discloses an individual’s occupati…
Clothes Make the Medieval Man and Woman in Getty Center Manuscript Exhibition
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Personal style reveals a lot about a person, even as far back as the Middle Ages. Just as today, a haute couture gown demonstrates the social status of the person wearing it and a doctor’s white coat discloses an individual’s occupati…
Cheim & Read Presents an Exhibition of Works in Fabric by Louise Bourgeois
NEW YORK, NY.- Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of works in fabric by Louise Bourgeois. Dating from 2002 – 2010, Bourgeois’s fabric “drawings” – assembled from discarded clothes, sheets, towels and similar material from her perso…
Cheim & Read Presents Works of ‘Fabric Drawings’ by Louise Bourgeois
NEW YORK, NY.- Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of works in fabric by Louise Bourgeois. Dating from 2002 – 2010, Bourgeois’s fabric “drawings” – assembled from discarded clothes, sheets, towels and similar material from her personal c…
Valencian Institute for Modern Art Presents Over Sixty Works of Art by Liliane Tomasko
VALENCIA.- The Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM) presents ‘Bright Matter’ by Liliane Tomasko, on view from April 27 through June 26, 2011. This exhibition gathers over sixty works of art, made between 1999 and 2011, in which the sketchy image of d…
Photographer Mario Testino Exhibits His Works at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
MADRID.- From 21 September the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting for the first time in Spain the work of the Peruvian photographer Mario Testino. The exhibition Todo o Nada brings together 54 photographs that reveal the two opposing concepts to be…
Historic Sites Go Beyond Glorifying Great Men
By: Zinie Chen Sampson, Associated Press Writer
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (AP).- Thomas Jefferson’s clothes and linens didn’t get pressed on their own, and the meals for his lavish parties didn’t cook themselves. Now, Jefferson’s estate, Monticello, is expan…
Thyssen-Bornemisza Announces Exhibition of Photographs by Mario Testino
MADRID.- For the first time in Spain, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting the work of the Peruvian photographer Mario Testino. The exhibition Todo o Nada brings together 54 photographs that reveal the two opposing concepts to be found in his wor…
Photojournalist Steve McCurry Featured New Exhibition at Birmingham Museum in UK
BIRMINGHAM, UK – Birmingham Museum and Art
Gallery
presents the first and only UK exhibition of critically acclaimed
photojournalist Steve McCurry, in association with Magnum Photos. The
exhibition
includes over eighty striking images th…