NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.-Currently on view at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University are exhibitions by two major artists who worked in the Soviet Union in the decades before the fall of Communism, Vladimir Nemukhin and Boris Sveshnikov. The exhibiti…
Vladimir Nemukhin and Boris Sveshinkov Featured in Exhibitions at the Zimmerli Art Museum
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.-Currently on view at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University are exhibitions by two major artists who worked in the Soviet Union in the decades before the fall of Communism, Vladimir Nemukhin and Boris Sveshnikov. The exhibiti…
Heritage Announces "The Savannah Collection" of More than 40,000 Comics Valued at $1 Million to be Auctioned
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions has announced that a newly discovered collection of more than 40,000 comic books, “The Savannah Collection,” spanning from 1958 to the present and valued in total at more than $1 million, will be sold by the fir…
Picasso Auction from the Collection of His Longtime Chauffeur Canceled Amid Mystery
PARIS (AP).- A Paris auctioneer called off the scheduled sale Thursday of a trove of drawings Picasso gave his longtime chauffeur, after a separate cache of previously unknown Picassos turned up in an electrician’s garage — a revelation that stun…
Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange "Man of the Year" in Naples Nativity Creches
NAPLES (REUTERS).- Wikileaks founder Julian Assange may be alone in jail in London, but in the traditional Neapolitan Christmas creches he is in good company — with Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Assange, who is depicted holding his trusty lap top, was creat…
Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange "Man of the Year" in Naples Nativity Creches
NAPLES (REUTERS).- Wikileaks founder Julian Assange may be alone in jail in London, but in the traditional Neapolitan Christmas creches he is in good company — with Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Assange, who is depicted holding his trusty lap top, was creat…
First International Retrospective of Jean Paul Gaultier to Premiere in Montreal
MONTREAL.- From June 17 to October 2, 2011, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) will present The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, the first retrospective devoted to the celebrated French couturier who launched …
"Landscapes without Memory" by Joan Fontcuberta at Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM.- For the project Landscapes without Memory Catalan artist Joan Fontcuberta (b. 1955, Barcelona) used software developed by the US Air Force. It translates two-dimensional cartographic data into a simulated three-dimensional image. Instead of…
Many Scientists Believe Hunters May Have Delivered Fatal Blow to Mammoths
CHERSKY, RUSSIA (AP).- During the last Ice Age, shaggy mammoths, woolly rhinos and bison lumbered across northern Siberia. Then, about 10,000 years ago — in the span of a geological heartbeat, or a few hundred years — the last of them disapp…
Official Palestinian Report Claims Jerusalem’s Western Wall Has No Religious Significance to Jews
JERUSALEM (AP).- An official Palestinian report claiming that a key Jewish holy site — Jerusalem’s Western Wall — has no religious significance to Jews evoked an angry response from Israelis Wednesday, threatening to further inflame tensions …