DELFT (AP).- You don’t have to be in Delft long to see what inspired Johannes Vermeer. Meandering up and down countless bridges that stretch over canals, and past storefronts and slender houses, the quaint Dutch life sets in. It’s this life — wit…
Historians from Canadian Archivists’ Association Want Communist Files Protected
BUDAPEST (AP).- People spied on by Hungary’s communist-era secret police could decide the future of the surveillance reports under a government proposal historians say would damage the country’s ability to know about its past. The regime’s network of i…
Contemporary Arts Center App Explores Cincinnati through Shepard Fairey Murals
CINCINNATI, OH.- The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) announces the first official interactive mobile application for exploring Cincinnati through art! The CAC is the first museum in the U.S. to use the cutting-edge, Google-endorsed SCVNGR technology to …
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…
Jackson and Lee, August 1953: Photographs by Tony Vaccaro
EAST HAMPTON, NY.- In August 1953, on assignment for Look magazine, the photographer Tony Vaccaro visited Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner at their home in Springs. He photographed the two artists in the house and the barn studio, where the couple chatt…
Jackson and Lee, August 1953: Photographs by Tony Vaccaro
EAST HAMPTON, NY.- In August 1953, on assignment for Look magazine, the photographer Tony Vaccaro visited Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner at their home in Springs. He photographed the two artists in the house and the barn studio, where the couple chatt…
Vermont Scrap-Wood Dinosaur Posing Modern-Day Problem
POST MILLS, VT (AP).- Does a 25-foot-tall, 122-foot-long dinosaur need a permit to avoid extinction? That’s the unlikely dilemma posed by “Vermontasaurus,” a whimsical sculpture thrown together with scrap wood by a Vermont man. The oddity now faces opp…
DAVID ZWIRNER REPRESENTS THE ESTATE OF ALICE NEEL
New York City – David Zwirner is pleased to announce that the gallery now represents the Estate of Alice Neel. Alice Neel (1900-1984) is widely regarded as one of the most important American painters of the twentieth century. As the Americ…