WASHINGTON, D.C (AP).- Jazz musician John Coltrane’s home on Long Island, N.Y., a cloverleaf-shaped Chicago hospital building and a Pillsbury plant in Minneapolis that once was the world’s most advanced flour mill are among America’s 11 Most Endangered…
Heart Gallery Photos Have Inspired Adoptions for 10 Years
By: Zelie Pollon
SANTA FE (REUTERS).- When Diane Granito was hired to recruit foster and adoptive parents in New Mexico, she was told to review the photos of children available for adoption. The shots were “uniformly bad,” Granito said. She knew they…
Ceramics Produce Fireworks During Garth’s March Americana Auction
DELAWARE, OH.- The firing of objects made from earthenware, porcelain, and stoneware comprise the larger category known as ceramics and during Garth’s March 11-12, 2011 Americana auction, the ceramics definitely provided continual fireworks as bid…
Strong Prices for Swann Gallerys’ March 24 Auction of Fine Photographs
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Swann Galleries’ March 24 auction of Fine Photographs saw active bidding from dealers and collectors alike, resulting in a successful sale of material from the 19th through 21st centuries. Daile Kaplan, Vice President and Director …
Why the Switch from Foraging to Farming?
By: Randolph E. Schmid, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP).- Thousands of years ago, our ancestors gave up foraging for food and took up farming, one of the most important and debated decisions in history. Was farming more efficient than foraging? Did …
Select Offering of Fine Photographs at Auction this Month at Swann Galleries in N.Y.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- On Thursday, March 24, Swann Galleries will conduct an auction of Fine Photographs that features early photographic images and photobooks, classic modern images and examples of contemporary art. A selection of 19th-century albums kicks …
The Udo and Anette Brandhorst Foundation Acquires Three Works by Francesco Clemente
MUNICH.- Francesco Clemente’s works “Sound and Shadow, I–III”, the Udo and Anette Brandhorst Foundation’s most recent acquisitions, were painted in 2002 in New Mexico and depict a desert landscape in vastly changing moods –…
Mexican Archaeologists Report New Findings at Nevado de Toluca
MEXICO CITY.- Diverse Prehispanic objects, mainly ceramic fragments and greenstone beads, 1,300 years old, were found in the crater of Nevado de Toluca Volcano, Estado de Mexico, by researchers from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (I…
New Museum Brings Lessons of Genocide to New Generations of Mexicans
MEXICO CITY (AP).- A new museum is bringing the lessons of the Holocaust and its grim cousins to new generations of Mexicans — and reminding them that the intolerance that feeds genocide can even grow close to home. The five-story glass and concre…
Archaeologists Find Aztec Remains During Drilling of New Subway Line in Mexico City
MEXICO CITY (REUTERS).- Archeologists have uncovered more than 500-year-old remains of about 50 Aztec children, some of them stuffed into ceramic jars for burial, during excavations for a new subway line in Mexico City. The team from Mexico’s National …