WASHINGTON, DC.- Visitors to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History can learn more about two of the Smithsonian leaders who championed the museum’s creation when a case exhibit goes on display in December. Their life’s work also of…
Dramatic Increase in the Use of Carnegie Museums’ $1 Access EBT Card Admission Program
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History report a dramatic increase in usage of the ACCESS EBT card admission program since its inception three years ago. Carnegie Museums’ $1 ACCESS EBT card admission program allows individua…
Audubon’s "Birds of America" Fetches $10 Million Establishing a New World Record
LONDON (AP).- It’s quite a nest egg. John James Audubon’s “Birds of America,” a rare blend of art, natural history and craftsmanship, fetched more than $10 million at auction on Tuesday, making it the world’s most expensive published book. With its 43…
A Cabinet of Curiosities by Fiona Pardington, Carlo Van de Roer, and David Boyce at Suite Fine Art Gallery
WELLINGTON.- Wunderkammer brings together works that represent a contemporary take on the Renaissance notion of a cabinet of curiosities; that displayed altogether objects from the worlds of art and antiquities, natural history, geology, archaeology as…
Poppy Sebire Launches the Gallery’s New Permanent Home in Southwark with New Exhibition
LONDON.- The New Chapter brings together all of Poppy Sebire’s artists in one show for the first time to launch the gallery’s new permanent home in Southwark. It’s a celebration of four individuals who have forged the gallery’s identity to date, and a…
European Auction Record for an Allosauraus Dinosaur, the T-Rex of the Jurassic Period
PARIS.- The Galerie Charpentier was the setting for a landmark event this evening: Sotheby’s first Natural History sale in Paris. After a five-day viewing that pulled in 4000 visitors, enthusiasm for all the natural marvels, skeletons and fossils …
European Auction Record for an Allosauraus Dinosaur, the T-Rex of the Jurassic Period
PARIS.- The Galerie Charpentier was the setting for a landmark event this evening: Sotheby’s first Natural History sale in Paris. After a five-day viewing that pulled in 4000 visitors, enthusiasm for all the natural marvels, skeletons and fossils …
An Exceptional Allosaurus: First-Ever Specimen to Be Offered at Auction
PARIS.- On 5 October 2010 Sotheby’s will stage their first Paris sale devoted to Natural History, comprising 86 lots selected for their quality and rarity, consigned from private collections in Europe and the United States. Sotheby’s were one…
Thomas Bewick’s Anarchic World in Miniature at the Harris Museum & Art Gallery
LANCASHIRE.- Experience an anarchic world in miniature, revealed through the delicate, painstaking skill of Thomas Bewick (1753–1828). Tale-pieces is an exhibition devoted entirely to the vignettes of the extraordinary artist-engraver and naturali…