LONDON.- On 27 May, the Saatchi Gallery opened The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture, an exhibition of 20 leading and emerging international artists working in sculpture today. This is the first time that the gallery space has been devoted entirel…
Filthy New Exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London Explores Importance of Dirt
LONDON (AP).- Dirt has a bad image. Muck, we think: yuck. But getting your hands dirty can also be irresistible, as every child knows. A major new museum exhibition in London asks visitors to think again about the filthy and the fetid, exploring the r…
Filthy New Exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London Explores Importance of Dirt
LONDON (AP).- Dirt has a bad image. Muck, we think: yuck. But getting your hands dirty can also be irresistible, as every child knows. A major new museum exhibition in London asks visitors to think again about the filthy and the fetid, exploring the r…
For the Past 20 Years London’s Society of Mudlarks Retrieve History from the Thames
LONDON (REUTERS).- It’s seven in the morning and we kneel in black mud on the freezing banks of London’s River Thames in the shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral, where a church has dominated the ancient city since the 7th century. As the tide ebbs exposing …
Taxter & Spengemann Opens Exhibition by Daniel Lefcourt "Prepared Ground"
NEW YORK, NY.- The intimate monochrome paintings in Daniel Lefcourt’s exhibition Prepared Ground return to the subject of painting itself, yet here painting is never fully itself. On the one hand, the works are positivistic, presenting only brute mate…
Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archeological Plunder and Obsession
NEW YORK, NY.- Beyond what most people think about archaeology–with its cleanly numbered dates, and discoveries–lies a vibrant and controversial realm of scientists, thieves, and contested land claims. Now, in Finders Keepers, Childs explores the fie…
Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archeological Plunder and Obsession
NEW YORK, NY.- Beyond what most people think about archaeology–with its cleanly numbered dates, and discoveries–lies a vibrant and controversial realm of scientists, thieves, and contested land claims. Now, in Finders Keepers, Childs explores the fie…
Jen Bekman Gallery Featuirng Exhibition by Twenty-Seven Artists
NEW YORK, NY.- Jen Bekman Gallery presents Land Use Survey, a group exhibition featuring photographs, paintings and works on paper by twenty-seven artists. Land Use Survey will be on view through Sunday, August 14, 2010 at Jen Bekman Gallery, located a…
Restored Leonardo Masterpiece on Display at the National Gallery in London
LONDON.- Leonardo da Vinci’s Virgin of the
Rocks went back on display in the National Gallery (afternoon of 14th July) after an 18-month
restoration project which started in November 2008. The decision to restore the painting…
Restored Leonardo Masterpiece on Display at the National Gallery in London
LONDON.- Leonardo da Vinci’s Virgin of the
Rocks went back on display in the National Gallery (afternoon of 14th July) after an 18-month
restoration project which started in November 2008. The decision to restore the painting…