Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) “Seeing / Sounding / Sensing” September 26–27, 2014 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 arts@mit.edu arts.MIT.edu The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) is pleased to announce its first biennial symposium, “Seeing / Sounding / Sensing.” Bringing together artists, philosophers, neuroscientists, and scholars in […]
Street Cred: Graffiti Art from Concrete to Canvas at the Pasadena Museum of California Art
PASADENA, CA.- The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) is showing the first museum exhibition that joins the work created by Los Angeles graffiti artists for a fine art context with their graffiti art made in the streets. Internationally renowned …
Smithsonian Recounts Balloon Flights of Civil War
By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- The National Air and Space Museum will re-create a key moment in the nation’s first attempt at an air force during the Civil War 150 years ago — decades before the first airplane flight. In Jun…
Grand Summer Auctions at Geneva’s Hotel des Ventes Presents a Variety of Lots
GENEVA.- Hôtel des Ventes’ summer auctions will be held on Monday 20th to Thursday 23rd June with a global estimate of 2,000,000-3,000,000 Swiss francs. The books department will open the sale with a specialised session featuring the personal lib…
Unsealed Jackie Kennedy Interviews to Air on TV
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- A series of unsealed 1960s audio recordings of Jacqueline Kennedy talking about her life with husband and revered President John F. Kennedy will be broadcast on television, ABC News said on Wednesday. In 1964, the former first lady…
Spanish Paradise Exhibition at New York Botanical Garden
NEW YORK, NY.- The lush gardens and poetic vistas of the Alhambra—the legendary Islamic palace and fortress in Granada, Spain—are re-imagined in a large-scale, multipart exhibition at The New York Botanical Garden this summer. On view from Ma…
General Lee’s Sword Returning to Appomattox, Virginia
By: Steve Szkotak, Associated Press
RICHMOND, VA (AP).- It’s an enduring myth of the Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrendered his sword to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, and his Union counterpart refused the traditional gesture of surrender. “Lee never o…
Swann Galleries’ African Americana Auction was Best Sale of this Material to Date
NEW YORK, NY.- On March 10, Swann Galleries conducted their most successful sale of Printed & Manuscript African Americana to date. The auction totaled just under $1 million. Institutions and private collectors competed for the majority of the top lots…
United States Mint Introduces 2011 Native American $1 Coin at Bicultural Museum in Plymouth, Mass.
PLYMOUTH, MA.- B. B. Craig, United States Mint Associate Director of Sales and Marketing, and leaders of the Wampanoag Tribe introduced the 2011 Native American $1 Coin today during a ceremony at the Plimoth Plantation in Massachusetts. “The 2011 Nativ…
New Hampshire’s Plymouth State University Plans Museum of the White Mountains
PLYMOUTH, NH (AP).- A hydrologist and a historian may seem like odd choices to co-author an art exhibition catalog, but it makes perfect sense at Plymouth State University. Professors Mark Green and Marcia Schmidt Blaine researched and wrote the expla…