Storrs, CT.- The Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut is currently showing “The Colored Woodcut in 19th-Century Japan: Edo and Osaka” until August 7th. The colored woodcut was ubiquitous in 19th-century Japan, and for Europeans a s…
Australia Police Determining Owner of Buried Coins
PERTH (AP).- Police are trying to determine who owns a treasure-trove of gold coins unearthed from a building site on Australia’s southwest coast.Western Australia state police spokesman Gerry Cassidy said workers found the 400 British sovereigns last…
Ancestors of the Lake: Art of Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay, New Guinea
HOUSTON, TX.- European navigators began traveling to coastal areas of New Guinea in the sixteenth century, but it was not until 1858 that the Dutch Etna Expedition reached Humboldt Bay and Lake Sentani (in the present-day Indonesian province of Papua, …
Newseum Website Crashes On News Of Osama bin Laden "Dead"
WASHINGTON (AP) — When big news breaks, newspapers are in demand despite the immediacy of online news. Newspaper across the country including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The News & Advance in Lynchburg, Va., printed extra …
INAH’s Exhibition "Teotihuacan City of Gods" has Been Visited by 350,000 Europeans
MEXICO CITY.- The greatest exhibition ever mounted regarding Teotihuacan continues being popular in Europe: more than 350,000 persons have admired it in museums of France, Switzerland, Germany and Italy, and in March 2011 it will continue visiting the …
INAH’s Exhibition "Teotihuacan City of Gods" has Been Visited by 350,000 Europeans
MEXICO CITY.- The greatest exhibition ever mounted regarding Teotihuacan continues being popular in Europe: more than 350,000 persons have admired it in museums of France, Switzerland, Germany and Italy, and in March 2011 it will continue visiting the …
A Cabinet of Curiosities by Fiona Pardington, Carlo Van de Roer, and David Boyce at Suite Fine Art Gallery
WELLINGTON.- Wunderkammer brings together works that represent a contemporary take on the Renaissance notion of a cabinet of curiosities; that displayed altogether objects from the worlds of art and antiquities, natural history, geology, archaeology as…
Views and Souvenirs from the Grand Tour Assembled in New Installation at Metropolitan Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- In the 18th century, privileged Europeans embarked on the Grand Tour, traveling principally to sites in Italy, where they visited cherished ruins of the ancient world and the splendid architecture of the Renaissance and Baroque eras. Th…
Old Photos found in an Old Diary Reveal Tale of Japan and Jews of World War II
TOKYO (AP).- The young man’s monochrome portrait is at least 70 years old, the whites all faded to yellow, but it is still clear he had style. His hair is slicked down, eye arched, suit perfect with matching tie and handkerchief. He also had the good …