TOKYO (AP).- For decades, the faded photograph of a baby Japanese girl and a child’s colorful drawing hung on a wall in the home of Franklin Hobbs III in America. As a 21-year-old U.S. soldier fighting on Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest battles of World…
Kunsthaus Zürich Embarks on Ambitious Restoration Project on the Work of Alberto Giacometti
ZURICH.- In 2006, after decades languishing in external warehouses, the vast majority of Alberto Giacometti’s plasters were relocated to Zurich. Technical and art-historical evaluation of the fragile works can now begin, an expensive and labour-in…
Kunsthaus Zürich Embarks on the Most Ambitious Evaluation and Restoration Project ever Attempted on the Oeuvre of Albert
ZURICH.- In 2006, after decades languishing in external warehouses, the vast majority of Alberto Giacometti’s plasters were relocated to Zurich. Technical and art-historical evaluation of the fragile works can now begin, an expensive and labour-inten…
Iwo Jima Mementos, a Faded Photograph and Child’s Drawing, Bring Closure to Japanese Family
TOKYO (AP).- For decades, the faded photograph of a baby Japanese girl and a child’s colorful drawing hung on a wall in the home of Franklin Hobbs III in America. As a 21-year-old U.S. soldier fighting on Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest battles of World…
Iwo Jima Mementos Bring Closure to Japanese Family
TOKYO (AP).- For decades, the faded photograph of a baby Japanese girl and a child’s colorful drawing hung on a wall in the home of Franklin Hobbs III in America. As a 21-year-old U.S. soldier fighting on Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest battles of World…
On the Anniversary of the Birth of Pablo Picasso, Museo Picasso Málaga Presents New Acquisitions
MALAGA.- MPM’s permanent collection provides visitors with an overview of eight decades of Pablo Picasso’s work, conveying the painstaking creative capacity of an artist who is essential to understanding Western art history, and thereby embod…
Hugh Tracey’s African Music Recordings Now on Display in Johannesburg
JOHANNESBURG (AP).- Hugh Tracey came to southern Africa in the 1920s to become a tobacco farmer but ended up compiling the largest known archive of traditional African music, recording performers from Congo to Zimbabwe over nearly five decades. Now hun…
Hugh Tracey’s African Music Recordings Now on Display in Johannesburg
JOHANNESBURG (AP).- Hugh Tracey came to southern Africa in the 1920s to become a tobacco farmer but ended up compiling the largest known archive of traditional African music, recording performers from Congo to Zimbabwe over nearly five decades. Now hun…
For the First Time in France, the Saatchi Gallery Present More than 60 Works from Its Contemporary Art Collection
LILLE.- In the autumn of 2010 and for the first time in France, the London based Saatchi Gallery will present more than 60 works from its famous contemporary art collection, assembled for the exhibition entitled “La Route de la Soie” (The Silk Road). T…
Stuart Shave/Modern Art Presents the First Solo Exhibition of Nasreen Mohamedi’s Work in London
LONDON.- Stuart Shave/Modern Art presents an exhibition of works by Nasreen Mohamedi. This is the first solo exhibition of Mohamedi’s work in London. Nasreen Mohamedi was born in Karachi (then India) in 1937 and raised in Bombay (now Mumbai), pass…