WASHINGTON, DC.- The Association of International Photography Art Dealers has announced that AXA Art Insurance Corporation, the world’s leading art insurance specialist, has renewed its partnership with the association and will continue to be the …
FLAG Art Foundation presents two exhibitions: Art², a group exhibition and Jane Hammond: Fallen
NEW YORK, N.Y.- The FLAG Art Foundation is presenting two exhibitions: Art², a group exhibition on the 9th floor, and Jane Hammond: Fallen, a monumental ongoing installation consisting of over 4,000 unique handmade leaves each inscribed with the name …
Workers Cut Gettysburg Oak, Find Civil War Bullets
GETTYSBURG (AP).- Workers cutting up a fallen tree at Gettysburg National Military Park came across some Civil War artifacts when their chain saw struck bullets buried in the tree trunk. The bullets were discovered last week while a crew was cutting …
Crystal Bridges Acquires New Work by Walton Ford
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has acquired a major new work by Walton Ford, an artist winning international acclaim for his highly detailed, monumental watercolors of exotic birds, reptiles and mammals. In “The Island”, Ford presents a writhing pyramidal mass of Tasmanian wolves (thylacines) grappling with each other and a few doomed lambs. The violent extermination of the thylacines, which were hunted to extinction in the early 20th century, calls into question who is hunter and hunted in this savage tableau. “Thylacines were mysterious terrifying phantoms in the minds of Tasmanian settlers,” Walton Ford said via email. “I wanted to create a delirious image that suggested the thylacine’s doom. The painting could be interpreted as the hallucination of either the man or the beast.” Chris Crosman, chief curator for Crystal Bridges, describes the 8-feet-high by 11 ½-feet-long triptych as a “tour d