OSLO (REUTERS).- A cold snap in Greenland in the 12th century may help explain why Viking settlers vanished from the island, scientists said. The report, reconstructing temperatures by examining lake sediment cores in west Greenland dating back 5,600 y…
Tavares Strachan’s Notions of Absence and Presence, Visibility and Invisibility at Rossi & Rossi
LONDON.- Rossi & Rossi present Sometimes Lies are Prettier, the first solo exhibition in the UK by Tavares Strachan. Sometimes Lies are Prettier centres upon a historical happening in 1995 – the disappearance of the XIth Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi N…
Tate Announces Tacita Dean to Undertake Next Commission in The Unilever Series
LONDON.- Tate and Unilever today announced that Tacita Dean will undertake the twelfth commission in The Unilever Series for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. The work will be unveiled on 11 October 2011. Tacita Dean is one of the most respected artists…
Nepalese-Inspired Tibetan Painting Style the Subject of Exhibition
NEW YORK, NY.- For centuries Tibetans looked to their Buddhist heartland, India, for spiritual inspiration. During the second spread of Buddhism to Tibet, they also faithfully reproduced the sacred art of the Pala kingdom in northeastern India. But whe…
Jeffrey Sauger’s Where Furrows Run Deep at Jack Hanley Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- The existence of yet another population of our nation’s landscape has begun to fade. Institutional racism, foreclosures, and bankruptcy have shattered American black farmers’ rights to the land they have occupied for generation…
New Works: A Series of Monotypes by Francoise Gilot at BLT Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Françoise Gilot is one of the premiere high modernists still working today, and with the recent death of Louise Bourgeois, we are endlessly confronted with the reality of the disappearance of artists whom obtain a truly historical aware…
BLT Gallery Features "A Series of Monotypes" by Françoise Gilot
New York, New York
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Françoise Gilot is one of the premiere high modernists
still working today, and with the recent death of Louise Bourgeois, we
are
endlessly confronted with the reality of the disappearance of artists
whom
obtain…