LONDON.- Sotheby’s London announced the sale on 14 July 2011 of the earliest rules of club football, being sold as part of the historic archive of the world’s oldest football club, Sheffield FC (established 1857), which is estimated at £800,000 …
Archaeologist Believes Evolution Of Human ‘Super-Brain’ Tied to Development Of Bipedalism, Tool-Making
BOULDER, CO.- Scientists seeking to understand the origin of the human mind may want to look to honeybees – not ancestral apes – for at least some of the answers, according to a University of Colorado Boulder archaeologist. CU-Boulder Research Associa…
Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí Presents Early-Period Work Study for "Honey is Sweeter than Blood"
FIGUERES.- At eleven o’clock this morning in the Loggias Room at the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí presented its latest acquisition of work by the artist, an oil-on-wood painting entitled Study for “Honey…
Vancouver Art Gallery Looks Anew at New Media by Three Remarkable Artists
VANCOUVER, BC.- Although living in different places and moments in time, three remarkable artists — Jim Campbell, Chris Marker and Eadweard Muybridge – are joined by their passion for exploring complex ideas through the new media of their eras. Openin…
Michelangelo Pistoletto to Orchestrate Bordeaux’s Urban and Artistic Rendezvous
BORDEAUX.- Evento 2011 will be held in Bordeaux from 6 to 16 October 2011. This year’s version of the city’s urban and artistic rendezvous is being orchestrated by Michelangelo Pistoletto, an emblematic figure in contemporary art. The twofold…
Spies, Traitors and Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America at the Constitution Center
PHILADELPHIA (AP).- It was one of the worst acts of terrorism in U.S. history, a deadly deed that filled the New York City sky with smoke and debris, thrust the nation into war, prompted restrictive new laws and intensified hostility toward foreigners….
Spies, Traitors and Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America at the Constitution Center
PHILADELPHIA (AP).- It was one of the worst acts of terrorism in U.S. history, a deadly deed that filled the New York City sky with smoke and debris, thrust the nation into war, prompted restrictive new laws and intensified hostility toward foreigners….
Museu da Electricidade in Lisbon Opens Exhibition of Manuel Baptista’s Work
By: João Pinharanda
LISBON.- The present exhibition is a rare historical opportunity: it reveals to us unknown parts of the artist’s work (projects created from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, but never built until now). A concentration on paint…
Kunsthaus Zürich Shows ‘The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today
ZURICH.- From 25 February to 15 May 2011, the Kunsthaus Zürich is hosting ‘The Original Copy’, which assembles more than 300 photographs from the dawn of modernism to the present. By over 100 leading photographers and path breaking sculptors…
Kunsthaus Zürich Shows ‘The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today
ZURICH.- From 25 February to 15 May 2011, the Kunsthaus Zürich is hosting ‘The Original Copy’, which assembles more than 300 photographs from the dawn of modernism to the present. By over 100 leading photographers and path breaking sculptors…