WASHINGTON (REUTERS).- When a hijacked aircraft smashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Lisa Lefler left behind her briefcase as she fled to safety from her office on the 103rd floor. Fifty-six minutes later, 175 o…
Coming to the United Kingdom: A Half-Mile Long Woman’s Body by Architect Charles Jencks
LONDON.- The world’s largest sculpture of a human body is being carved out of the British landscape using more than a million tonnes of rock and soil left behind by coal-mining. “Northumberlandia,” designed by American landscape architect Charles Jenck…
For the First Time Ever, Exhibition Presents 300 Polaroids by Photographer Helmut Newton
BERLIN.- Polaroid technology revolutionized photography. Those who have used a Polaroid camera can hardly forget the unique odor of its developing emulsion and the thrill of the instant image. With the Polaroid, every image is one of a kind. This also …
Malmo Konsthall Stages Exhibition of Painter, Sculptor and Filmmaker Poul Gernes
MALMO, SWEDEN.- The painter, sculptor and filmmaker Poul Gernes (1925-1996) is considered a modern classic and numbers among the most influential of Scandinavian artists. He constantly sought to link art to life by means of colour and design. In the 50…
Canvases and Letters Show how Pink Floyd Founder Syd Barrett Put Painting Before Pop Music
LONDON (REUTERS).- He helped create one of rock’s greatest bands, but the late Syd Barrett always considered himself a painter before a Pink Floyd founder. Speaking at an exhibition of the troubled musician’s canvases and letters, his sister Rosemary B…
Canvases and Letters Show how Pink Floyd Founder Syd Barrett Put Painting Before Pop Music
LONDON (REUTERS).- He helped create one of rock’s greatest bands, but the late Syd Barrett always considered himself a painter before a Pink Floyd founder. Speaking at an exhibition of the troubled musician’s canvases and letters, his sister Rosemary B…
Andy Warhol: Behind the Camera on Display at the University of Delaware Museums
NEWARK, DE.- When Andy Warhol died in February 1987, he left behind a trove of almost 60,000 photographs, the bulk of them unknown to all but his inner circle. They consisted mostly of two kinds: 3 x 4 inch Polaroid images and 8 x 10-inch black and wh…
Photographs of Rediscovered Ephemera from Mental Patients at Frank Pictures Gallery
SANTA MONICA, CA.- Frank Pictures Gallery presents Lisa Rinzler’s THE GRASS IS GREEN, an exhibition of photographs of the rediscovered ephemera of generations of mental patients from the abandoned Willard Psychiatric Center in the Finger Lakes reg…
Museum Kunst Palast Dedicates Major Solo Exhibition to the German Artist Klaus Mettig
DUSSELDORF.- Museum kunst palast dedicates a major solo exhibition to the artist Klaus Mettig (b. 1950 in Brandenburg), encompassing works from different creative periods. The show juxtaposes panorama photographs of the artist’s latest series Don&…
London’s National Portrait Gallery Finds Relics of English King Richard II in Its Basement
LONDON.- An archivist at the National Portrait Gallery has found relics from the tomb of King Richard II while cataloguing the papers of its first Director Sir George Scharf (1820-1895). Among the hundreds of diaries and notebooks left behind in boxes …