PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA (AP).- A South African photographer is being honored for helping expose apartheid’s brutality to the world with a picture that ended his career. On Wednesday, celebrated as Freedom Day in South Africa because it is the anniversar…
South Africa Photographer Sam Nzima Honored for Soweto Photo by President Jacob Zuma
PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA (AP).- A South African photographer is being honored for helping expose apartheid’s brutality to the world with a picture that ended his career. On Wednesday, celebrated as Freedom Day in South Africa because it is the anniversar…
New United States Postal Service First-Class Stamp Shows Wrong Statue of Liberty
WASHINGTON (AP).- Just as the post office was hoping to promote going green, it finds itself red-faced. It turns out that a first-class stamp featuring the Statue of Liberty is based on a photo of a Las Vegas replica of the statue. Postal Service spoke…
Art Gallery of New South Wales Announces Ben Quilty’s Portrait Wins Archibald Prize 2011
SIDNEY.- This year, the 90th year of Archibald, there were 798 entries for Archibald, 810 for the Wynne and 633 entries for the Sulman. The Archibald and Wynne prizes are judged by the Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. JF Archibald had n…
Art Gallery of New South Wales Announces Ben Quilty’s Portrait Wins Archibald Prize 2011
SIDNEY.- This year, the 90th year of Archibald, there were 798 entries for Archibald, 810 for the Wynne and 633 entries for the Sulman. The Archibald and Wynne prizes are judged by the Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. JF Archibald had n…
Intimate Images of Picasso by His Friend, Andre Villers, to Sell at Bonhams
LONDON.- Four images of the celebrated Spanish painter, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), are to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its Photographs Sale on 19 May 2011. Three of the pictures – Picasso in front of ‘La Chute d’Icare’…
Gagosian Gallery in London Present Photographs from Vera Lutter’s Egypt Series
LONDON.- Gagosian Gallery presents photographs from Vera Lutter’s Egypt series, on view from April 12 through May 21, 2011. In Lutter’s conceptual approach to the camera obscura, the apparatus records the outside world in a direct and immedia…
Intimate Images of Picasso by His Friend, Andre Villers, to Sell at Bonhams
LONDON.- Four images of the celebrated Spanish painter, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), are to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its Photographs Sale on 19 May 2011. Three of the pictures – Picasso in front of ‘La Chute d’Icare’…
Gagosian Gallery Present Photographs From Vera Lutter’s Egypt Series
LONDON.- Gagosian Gallery presents photographs from Vera Lutter’s Egypt series, on view from April 12 through May 21, 2011. In Lutter’s conceptual approach to the camera obscura, the apparatus records the outside world in a direct and immedia…
Intimate Images of Picasso by His Friend, Andre Villers, to Sell at Bonhams
LONDON.- Four images of the celebrated Spanish painter, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), are to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its Photographs Sale on 19 May 2011. Three of the pictures – Picasso in front of ‘La Chute d’Icare’…