JERUSALEM (AP).- A rare Crusader-era fresco from Jerusalem’s Garden of Gethsemane has been unveiled to the public for the first time. The fresco depicts the Deisis, a famous Biblical scene featuring Jesus, Mary and John the Baptist praying. It was disc…
Berkeley Art Museum Explores the Logic of the Ghost in Exhibition
BERKELEY, CA.- Hauntology, essentially the logic of the ghost, is a concept as ephemeral and abstract as the term implies. Since it was first used by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida in a 1993 lecture delivered at UC Riverside concerning the stat…
LiveAuctioneers.com’s May 2010 Results Set Record for Post-eBay Period
NEW YORK, NY.- The month of May came in like a lion and stayed that way for LiveAuctioneers.com, with online purchases of art, antiques and quality collectibles at their auction house partners’ sales totaling a record-setting $7.9 million. “T…
Rare Photo of Slave Children Found in North Carolina Attic
RALEIGH,
NC (AP).- A haunting 150-year-old photo found in a
North Carolina attic shows a young black child named John, barefoot and
wearing
ragged clothes, perched on a barrel next to another unidentified young
boy. Art
historians beli…