SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Keith Richards photography exhibition, opens October 23rd; just three days before his much-anticipated autobiography is released. Some of the world’s greatest rock photographers’ work is coming together to form an intimat…
New York City’s Hotel Chelsea, Built in 1883 and a Bohemian Landmark, is Up for Sale
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- The New York hotel that inspired creative talent from Sir Arthur Clarke to Sid Vicious is up for sale. The Chelsea Hotel, controlled primarily by three families that have owned it for 65 years, will remain a haven for struggling ar…
Brian Griffin Returns to Birmingham for His First Major Retrospective in His Birth City
BIRMINGHAM.- Leading British photographer and film-maker Brian Griffin returns to Birmingham for Face to Face, his first major retrospective in his birth city. Face to Face takes place in two adjacent locations in Birmingham’s Colmore Business Dis…
Study: Audio Recordings of US History Fading Fast
WASHINGTON (AP).- New digital recordings of events in U.S. history and early radio shows are at risk of being lost much faster than older ones on tape and many are already gone, according to a study on sound released Wednesday. Even recent history …
Whitney Museum Extends John Jonas Gruen Exhibition
NEW YORK, NY.- Located in the Museum’s Lower Gallery, this exhibition of John Jonas Gruen’s portraits of notable artists, all of whom are represented in the Whitney’s collection, has been extended to September 5, 2010. The exhibition is …
Last Carnegie Hall Resident, Elizabeth Sargent, Forced Out of Towers
NEW YORK (AP).- All of her neighbors are gone, forced out. Now Elizabeth Sargent, the last holdout tenant of Carnegie Hall’s towers, is preparing to leave the affordable studios that for more than a century housed some of America’s most brilliant crea…
Musée Maillol Announces Exhibition of Treasures of the Medicis
PARIS.- Men of wealth and influence, the Medicis were not just Florentine pharmacists enriched by trade who turned into the bankers of Europe, before becoming its princes. Subtle politicians, these business men were above all fervent humanists. Their e…
Cincinnati Art Museum Announces Thomas Gainsborough Exhibition
CINCINNATI, OH.- The portraits of Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) made him perhaps the most famous British artist of the late eighteenth century. Nobles, statesmen, musicians and the range of men and women of the period’s merchant class all sat fo…
Cosima von Bonin’s The Fatigue Empire Opens at Kunsthaus Bregenz
BREGENZ.- Cosima von Bonin is one of the most well-known artists of her generation. Especially since her participation in the last documenta, at which a large number of the works was spread over the entire course of the show, she is no longer an inside…
"The Temple of Blooom": A Group Exhibition Opens at Cinders Gallery
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Temple of Blooom is an
installation that combines paintings, drawings, collages, murals and
sculpture
to create our own type of a sonic-visual sanctuary as envisioned by each
artist.
Exploring places of worship, rituals, s…