NEW HOPE, PA.- Prior to Noel Barrett’s richly varied May 21, 2011 “Something for Everyone” sale, some collectors speculated that the whimsical clockwork veggie man on the catalog cover might take the blue ribbon on auction day. While the…
Pablo Picasso Work Loaned to West Bank Goes on Display at Palestinian Art Academy
RAMALLAH (AP).- A Palestinian art academy on Monday put on display a $7 million Pablo Picasso masterpiece, the first of its kind in the West Bank. Picasso’s 1943 “Buste de Femme” is on loan from the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Holland. Organizers sai…
Imaginary Visions of the Land on the Nile from the Biedermeier Era at the Liechtenstein Museum
VIENNA, AUSTRIA.- In the early part of the nineteenth century, Norbert Bittner (1786–1851) executed 57 views of a journey to Egypt – without ever having set foot in the country himself. Using French and German volumes of engravings, he made i…
Images from Final Roll of Kodachrome Donated to George Eastman House
ROCHESTER, NY.- When Kodak announced in 2009 it would no longer produce Kodachrome film, company officials announced two ways the famed film would be celebrated: 1) National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry would be given the last roll off the Kod…
Jakub Julian Ziolkowski Solos at The Parasol unit Foundation
London – On June 8, Parasol unit foundation will preview a solo exhibition dedicated to the Polish artist Jakub Julian Ziolkowski. Ziolkowski’s paintings are a wild hallucinatory journey into his strange and often frightening universe. Skeletons b…
Study: Female Ancestors Wandered, Males Stayed Put
By: Seth Borenstein, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON.- In modern times, men explored the New World. But 2 million years earlier, the men among our pre-human forerunners stayed put and it was the women who traveled to start new families, a study of fossil …
Reinterpretation of the Ancient Three Graces Myths by Artist Francesca Lowe at Riflemaker
LONDON.- A modern reinterpretation of the ancient Three Graces myth is the subject of the exhibition by artist Francesca Lowe at Riflemaker, from 23 May 2011 through July 2, 2011. Headland: Woman in a Landscape consists of five large-scale heads, five …
Ancient Three Graces Myths by Artist Francesca Lowe at Riflemaker
LONDON.- A modern reinterpretation of the ancient Three Graces myth is the subject of the exhibition by artist Francesca Lowe at Riflemaker, from 23rd May through July 2nd. Headland: Woman in a Landscape consists of five large-scale heads, fiv…
Reinterpretation of the Ancient Three Graces Myths by Artist Francesca Lowe at Riflemaker
LONDON.- A modern reinterpretation of the ancient Three Graces myth is the subject of the exhibition by artist Francesca Lowe at Riflemaker, from 23 May 2011 through July 2, 2011. Headland: Woman in a Landscape consists of five large-scale heads, five …
Bob Marley Exhibit at Los Angeles’ Grammy Museum Opens on Anniversary of Death
LOS ANGELES (REUTERS).- Bob Marley’s battle with cancer ended in a Miami hospital 30 years ago on Wednesday, bringing to a premature close the life of reggae music’s most important standard-bearer. His son, David “Ziggy” Marley, who was 12 at the time …