BRONX, NY.- Nearly 1,000 visual artists from nearly all 50 states and United States’ territories are vying to be cultural ambassadors through the smARTpowerSM initiative, The Bronx Museum of the Arts and the U.S. Department of State announced toda…
New Photographs and Video by New York and Nepal Based Artist Stuart Hawkins at Zach Feuer Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Zach Feuer Gallery presents Broken Welcome, an exhibition of new photographs and video by New York and Nepal based artist Stuart Hawkins. South and West of the teaming urban center of Kolkata, India lies the former village of Rajarhat, …
Army Colonel’s Collection Led by Exceptional Chinese Jade Design of Cabbage and Crickets
AUSTIN, TX.- With Asian art currently dominating the headlines in nearly every antiques trade publication, the timing is 10 out of 10 for Austin Auction Gallery’s Nov. 21 sale featuring a superb 38-lot collection of early Chinese jade. Amassed pri…
The U.S. Department of State and the Bronx Museum of the Arts Announce International Community-Based Visual Arts Program
BRONX, NY.- The Bronx Museum of the Arts announced that it has been selected by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to launch smARTpowerSM, a new international exchange program in which 15 American visual artists…
Hitler’s Car Gift to Nepal King to Get a New Life
By: Gopal Sharma
KATHMANDU (REUTERS).- A car said to have been a gift from Adolf Hitler to a Nepali king will be repaired and used to drive visitors around the grounds of a palace museum, a government official said on Thursday. The 1939 Mercedes Benz w…
Hitler’s Car Gift to Nepal King to Get a New Life
By: Gopal Sharma
KATHMANDU (REUTERS).- A car said to have been a gift from Adolf Hitler to a Nepali king will be repaired and used to drive visitors around the grounds of a palace museum, a government official said on Thursday. The 1939 Mercedes Benz w…
Nepalese-Inspired Tibetan Painting Style the Subject of Exhibition
NEW YORK, NY.- For centuries Tibetans looked to their Buddhist heartland, India, for spiritual inspiration. During the second spread of Buddhism to Tibet, they also faithfully reproduced the sacred art of the Pala kingdom in northeastern India. But whe…
Luminous Images Explore Time, Place, Nature, and the Human Spirit
PROVIDENCE, RI.- As depicted by Linda Connor, even the humblest subjects are radiant. Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor, on view through October 31, 2010, at The RISD Museum, reveals this internationally renowned artist’s 30-year aesthetic …
Artists Design Sheep Wagon for the 21st Century
By: Ivan Moreno, Associated Press Writer
DENVER (AP).- Colorado artists want to give a futuristic makeover to the rustic sheep wagons used by immigrant workers across the West. Immigrants from Peru, Chile, Mexico and Nepal who come to the U.S. sometime…