PORTLAND, OR.- This summer it is hoods up and tops down at the Portland Art Museum. The Allure of the Automobile brings 16 of the world’s most luxurious, rare, and brilliantly conceived automobiles to the galleries of the Museum. From the avant-ga…
Sixteen of the World’s Most Luxurious and Rare Automobiles at the Portland Art Museum
PORTLAND, OR.- This summer it is hoods up and tops down at the Portland Art Museum. The Allure of the Automobile brings 16 of the world’s most luxurious, rare, and brilliantly conceived automobiles to the galleries of the Museum. From the avant-ga…
Stunning Line-Up of English Automobiles Go Under the Hammer at RM Auctions
LONDON.- RM Auctions, the world’s largest collector car auction house for quality automobiles, is now on the countdown to its inaugural sale at London’s Salon Privé luxury car show and Concours d’Elegance on 23rd June, 2011. The sale, w…
The Jaguar E-Type ~ The World’s Most Beautiful Car Celebrates it’s 50th Birthday
London.- The Jaguar E-Type (UK) or Jaguar XK-E (US) celebrates it’s fiftieth birthday this year. Launched on the American market in March 1961, British buyers had to wait until July, before it was made available in right-hand drive for the domestic…
100 Years of Archaeological Research at Xochicalco Commemorated in Exhibition
MEXICO CITY.- Three life-sized Prehispanic sculptures found in fragments almost 20 years ago at Xochicalco Archaeological Zone, Morelos, are exhibited in public for the first time at Cuauhnahuac Regional Museum, after having been reassembled and restor…
RM Auctions Presents English Motor Cars at Inaugural Salon Privé Sale
LONDON.- RM Auctions, the world’s largest collector car auction house for quality automobiles, is delighted to announce a selection of notable highlights for its forthcoming ‘Quintessentially English’ sale, at the Salon Privé luxury car show a…
Candid Cameras Give a Chance to See Wildlife as a Scientist Does
WASHINGTON, DC.- Researching animals in the wild can be challenging, especially if it involves a rare or elusive species like the giant panda or the clouded leopard. To remedy this, scientists rely heavily on camera traps—automated cameras with mo…
Jackie O’s Pearl Necklace Makes Over the Odds at Bonhams
LONDON.- A triple strand simulated pearl necklace once owned by America’s First Lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis has sold for £30,000, as one of the highlights of Bonhams new and innovative Pioneers of Popular Culture sale at the inaugural Vintage at Goodw…
Tate Britain Presents Duveens Commission 2010 by Fiona Banner
LONDON.- Tate Britain today unveils its new Duveens Commission, Harrier and Jaguar, by Fiona Banner. Banner’s largest work to date, Harrier and Jaguar brings the highly-charged physicality of two real fighter jets, both previously in active milita…
Tate Britain Presents Duveens Commission 2010 by Fiona Banner
LONDON.- Tate Britain today unveils its new Duveens
Commission, Harrier and Jaguar, by Fiona Banner. Banner’s largest work
to date,
Harrier and Jaguar brings the highly-charged physicality of two real
fighter
jets, both previously in a…