LONDON.- An extraordinary journey into the heart of Fiji some 129 years ago by three British brothers, carrying with them all the heavy paraphernalia associated with early photography, returned in triumph with images that still fascinate today. This re…
Some of the Earliest Photographs of Fiji from 1881 to Make £20,000 at Bonhams
LONDON.- An extraordinary journey into the heart of Fiji some 129 years ago by three British brothers, carrying with them all the heavy paraphernalia associated with early photography, returned in triumph with images that still fascinate today. This re…
9/11 Museum Going Up in New York City Offers Raw Experience
NEW YORK (AP).- The Sept. 11 museum is taking shape 70 feet below ground, a cavernous space that provides an emotionally raw journey and ends at bedrock where huge surviving remnants and spacial voids reveal the scale of the devastation of what once wa…
New Acquisition for the Walker Art Gallery
LIVERPOOL.- A film artwork based in a Liverpool housing estate by the influential contemporary artist Marcus Coates goes on display for the first time in the city at the Walker Art Gallery from 1 August 2010 to early 2011. “Journey to the Lower World”,…
Alexander and Susan Maris’ The Pursuit of Fidelity Opens Edinburgh Arts Festival at Stills
EDINBURGH.- During the 2010 Edinburgh Art Festival Stills presents the first solo exhibition in Scotland of Glasgow based artists Alexander and Susan Maris. The Pursuit of Fidelity (a retrospective), curated by Lisa Le Feuvre, takes a journey through t…
Journey through the Black Atlantic Opens at Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA.- Paul Gilroy used the term ‘The Black Atlantic’ to describe the fusion of black cultures with other cultures from around the Atlantic. His book, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, had an enormous i…
Archaeology & History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Opens at the Louvre
PARIS.- This Louvre
exhibition
invites visitors on a journey into the heart of Arabia,
accompanied by a
photographic exploration of the region’s sumptuous landscapes. It
is
conceived as a series of waypoints along the r…
MOCA Opens First Comprehensive U.S. Museum Survey of Dennis Hopper
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of
Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles (MOCA), presents Dennis Hopper Double Standard, the first
comprehensive survey exhibition of Dennis Hopper’s artistic career to be
mounted
by a North American museum, July 11 th…
Poet Laureate Curates Collection Display at Tate Liverpool
LIVERPOOL.- Tate Liverpool continues its unique and highly popular series of Collection displays, DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture, by collaborating with the current Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. The poet worked with Tate Liverpool’s Head of …
British Museum Announces "Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead" Exhibition
LONDON.- The British Museum’s major Autumn exhibition, supported by BP, will present and explore ancient Egyptian beliefs about life after death. Journey through the afterlife: ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead will showcase the rich textual and v…