WILKES-BARRE, PA (AP).- Upstairs in Ken Marquis’s art gallery and framing shop, you’ll find a strange, cloistered world populated by a toothy dog chomping on a Frisbee, an enigmatic mermaid reclining in a pool of oil, and some guy named Barack Obama, s…
Hubcaps as Canvas: Ken Marquis Persuades Artists to Turn Junk into Jewels
WILKES-BARRE, PA (AP).- Upstairs in Ken Marquis’s art gallery and framing shop, you’ll find a strange, cloistered world populated by a toothy dog chomping on a Frisbee, an enigmatic mermaid reclining in a pool of oil, and some guy named Barack Obama, s…
Fotomuseum Winterthur Presents Alexander Rodchenko: Revolution in Photography
WINTERTHUR.- Fotomuseum Winterthur presents Alexander Rodchenko: Revolution in Photography, on view from May 28th until 14 August 2011. Modernism made photography what it is. It gave it self-confidence and made it trust itself. Self-confident because p…
Victims’ Concerns put London 9/11 Sculpture on Hold
LONDON (REUTERS).- Plans to erect a sculpture in a London park using girders salvaged from New York’s World Trade Center, which was destroyed in attacks on September 11, 2001, have been put on hold after victims’ families complained. The memorial, desi…
Saint Louis Art Museum Presents Breathtaking Exhibition "Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea"
SAINT LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum presents Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, a breathtaking exhibition that showcases more than 90 works of Maya art, many shown for the first time in the United States. The works on view are from Mexi…
Historic Landmarks in the United Kingdom to Host Olympic Parties in 2012
LONDON (AP).- More than a year before their athletes duel on the track, in the pool and on the playing fields, Olympic committees from around the world are engaged in a fierce competition in the host city of the 2012 Games. It has nothing to do with r…
Historic Landmarks in the United Kingdom to Host Olympic Parties in 2012
LONDON (AP).- More than a year before their athletes duel on the track, in the pool and on the playing fields, Olympic committees from around the world are engaged in a fierce competition in the host city of the 2012 Games. It has nothing to do with r…
La Salle University Art Museum Awarded Conservation Project Support Grant from the IMLS
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The La Salle University Art Museum has been awarded a Conservation Projects Support Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). This grant will aid the Museum’s ongoing commitment to conservation, one of its core …
Ellen Lesperance Named 2010 Betty Bowen Award Winner
SEATTLE, WA.- The Betty Bowen Committee, chaired by Gary Glant, has announced Ellen Lesperance as winner of the 32nd annual Betty Bowen Award, which comes with an unrestricted cash prize of $15,000. A selection of Lesperance’s work will be on view…
Ellen Lesperance Named 2010 Betty Bowen Award Winner
SEATTLE, WA.- The Betty Bowen Committee, chaired by Gary Glant, has announced Ellen Lesperance as winner of the 32nd annual Betty Bowen Award, which comes with an unrestricted cash prize of $15,000. A selection of Lesperance’s work will be on view…