NEW YORK, NY.- Andy Warhol’s last great Self-Portrait, 1986, will headline the Post-War and Contemporary Auction season in New York at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening sale on May 11, 2011. An art-historical landmark, the mon…
Titanic and Liverpool: New 2012 Exhibition to Mark Centenary of Sinking
LIVERPOOL.- The only known surviving Titanic First Class ticket and other rarely-seen items linked to the disaster will be displayed in Liverpool in 2012 to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking. The ticket belonged to Reverend Stuart Holden, vicar…
Titanic and Liverpool: New 2012 Exhibition to Mark Centenary of Sinking
LIVERPOOL.- The only known surviving Titanic First Class ticket and other rarely-seen items linked to the disaster will be displayed in Liverpool in 2012 to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking. The ticket belonged to Reverend Stuart Holden, vicar…
Voice from History Exposed by New Zealand Quake
CHRISTCHURCH (AP).- The New Zealand earthquake has exposed potentially historic documents hidden inside a 19th century statue that toppled in the disaster. Christchurch Major Bob Parker said Tuesday that a handwritten parchment in a bottle and a seal…
Smithsonian and MIT Partner to Turn Kids into Scientific Investigators
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian Institution and MIT announced the April 4 launch of VANISHED, an 8-week online/offline environmental disaster mystery game for middle-school children, meant to inspire engagement and problem solving through science. Dev…
Paul Kasmin Gallery Opens New Space in Istanbul with Exhibition by David La Chapelle
ISTANBUL.- One of New York’s leading art galleries, “Paul Kasmin Gallery is now in Istanbul after New York. David LaChapelle will be hosted as the first guest with an exhibition as assertive as the gallery itself. “Documents of Desire & …
Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-66 on View at the Menil Collection in Houston
HOUSTON, TX.- Throughout much of her career, Vija Celmins has been known for her captivating paintings and drawings of starry night skies, fragile spider webs, and barren desert floors – quiet, expansive worlds meticulously executed in gradations …
Newseum in Washington Retells Katrina Story 5 Years Later
WASHINGTON (AP).- Jarring headlines from the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina said it all: “Catastrophic,” ”Hitting Bottom,” ”Help Us, Please.” Five years later, the Newseum on Friday will open a special, one-year exhibit, “Covering Katrina,” that…
Newseum in Washington Retells Katrina Story 5 Years Later
WASHINGTON (AP).- Jarring headlines from the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina said it all: “Catastrophic,” ”Hitting Bottom,” ”Help Us, Please.” Five years later, the Newseum on Friday will open a special, one-year exhibit, “Covering Katrina,” that…
Louisiana State Museum’s Riveting New Exhibit to Document Tragedy and Rebirth After Katrina
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Hurricane Katrina’s deluge was Biblical. When it hit Louisiana and Mississippi the morning of August 29, 2005, the storm caused fearsome destruction. Then the disaster grew worse. The levees – the man-made walls built to pro…