LONDON.- A new Artwork consisting of two large pyramids has appeared across from Tate Britain, displaying the names and projected life expectancies of the world’s richest billionaires. Produced by Robert Brown, MA Fine Art student at Chelsea Colle…
Archaeologists at Jamestown Unearth a Trove of 400-Year-Old Pipes Personalized for Patron
B>RICHMOND, VA. (AP).- Archeologists at Jamestown have unearthed a trove of tobacco pipes personalized for a who’s who of early 17th century colonial and British elites, underscoring the importance of tobacco to North America’s first permanent English …
Association of Art Museum Directors Issues Statement on David Wojnarowicz’s Film
NEW YORK, NY.- In response to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery’s removal of artist David Wojnarowicz’s film from the exhibition “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,” the Association …
Brian Griffin Returns to Birmingham for His First Major Retrospective in His Birth City
BIRMINGHAM.- Leading British photographer and film-maker Brian Griffin returns to Birmingham for Face to Face, his first major retrospective in his birth city. Face to Face takes place in two adjacent locations in Birmingham’s Colmore Business Dis…
Pulitzer-Winning Cartoonist Paul Conrad Dies at 86 in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (AP).- Paul Conrad, the political cartoonist who won three Pulitzer Prizes and used his pencil to poke at politicians for more than 50 years, died Saturday, his son said. He was 86. Conrad died before dawn at his home in the Los Angeles sub…
Musée Maillol Announces Exhibition of Treasures of the Medicis
PARIS.- Men of wealth and influence, the Medicis were not just Florentine pharmacists enriched by trade who turned into the bankers of Europe, before becoming its princes. Subtle politicians, these business men were above all fervent humanists. Their e…
Striking New Portraits Revealed In Road To 2012: Setting Out
LONDON.- A series of striking new photographic portraits of athletes, politicians and engineers is today revealed as part of the National Portrait Gallery/BT Road to 2012 Project. Part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, the exhibition Road to 2012: …
Iraq’s Artists Reflect Pain, Trauma of the War and Uncertainty
BAGHDAD (AP).-
Iraq’s artists are using their work to try to process the
turmoil
since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, and what they are producing
shows a
profound anger over their country’s traumas and uncertainty over
its
…
Iraq’s Artists Reflect Pain, Trauma of the War and Uncertainty
BAGHDAD (AP).- Iraq’s artists are using their work to try to process the turmoil since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, and what they are producing shows a profound anger over their country’s traumas and uncertainty over its future. They have a lot to deal …
A Real Van Gogh: How the Art World Struggles with Truth
AMSTERDAM.- Vincent van Gogh’s paintings and drawings are fabulously expensive. Millions of people admire his work, but are those masterpieces all genuine? To this day, the international art world struggles to separate the real Van Goghs from the …