NEW YORK (AP).- Huguette Clark, the Montana copper mining heiress who died in New York last month at 104, has left most of her $400 million fortune to the arts. According to her will, obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday, Clark gave a prized…
Smithsonian Scientists Find that First Rainforests Arose When Plants Solved Plumbing Problem
WASHINGTON, D.C.- A team of scientists, including several from the Smithsonian Institution, discovered that leaves of flowering plants in the world’s first rainforests had more veins per unit area than leaves ever had before. They suggest that thi…
Getty Museum Displays Stories to Watch: Narrative in Medieval Manuscripts
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The illuminators of medieval manuscripts found creative ways to tell stories through pictures. A sequence of illustrations was often linked on a page, or several parts of a tale were incorporated in a single image. On view at the J. P…
Sotheby’s Reveals Full Depth and Range of Works to Be Featured in "Hurouf: The Art of the World"
LONDON.- Following Sotheby’s June announcement of ‘Hurouf: The Art of the Word’, its landmark calligraphic auction which will take place at the Ritz-Carlton hotel, Doha on the 16 December, 2010, Sotheby’s is delighted to reveal furt…
Sotheby’s Reveals Full Depth and Range of Works to Be Featured in "Hurouf: The Art of the World"
LONDON.- Following Sotheby’s June announcement of ‘Hurouf: The Art of the Word’, its landmark calligraphic auction which will take place at the Ritz-Carlton hotel, Doha on the 16 December, 2010, Sotheby’s is delighted to reveal furt…
Mystery Giver Leaves $10,000 in World Trade Center Donation Box
NEW YORK (AP).- An anonymous benefactor in New York City stuffed $10,000 in cash into a 9/11 donation box at the World Trade Center. Joe Daniels, president of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, tells the New York Post that officials found 99…
Jane Hammond: Fallen and Jae Ko: Paper Open at the Taubman Museum of Art
ROANOKE, VA.- The Taubman Museum of Art announced that its new fall exhibitions, Jane Hammond: Fallen and Jae Ko: Paper, open to the public yesterday. Fallen is a large scale contemporary war memorial that recognizes the American troops killed in the…
Jane Hammond: Fallen and Jae Ko: Paper Open at the Taubman Museum of Art
ROANOKE, VA.- The Taubman Museum of Art announced that its new fall exhibitions, Jane Hammond: Fallen and Jae Ko: Paper, open to the public yesterday. Fallen is a large scale contemporary war memorial that recognizes the American troops killed in the…
New York’s Frick Museum Director, Anne L. Poulet, to Retire Next Year
NEW YORK, NY.- Margot Bogert, Chairman of The The Frick Collection, announces that Director Anne L. Poulet will retire in the fall of 2011, following a remarkable tenure. “The Board of Trustees is deeply indebted to Anne Poulet for her leadership …
Latin American Masters on View at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City
MEXICO CITY.- The term cannibalism, just like Oswaldo Andrade
interprets it in 1928, becomes very useful when discussing Modern Art in Latin
America. Inspire on the digestive system, Andrade proposed that local culture
should devour and tran…