GATINEAU, QC.- The Canadian Museum of Civilization has acquired at auction in Britain a dramatic watercolour by the nineteenth-century Arctic explorer and artist Admiral Sir George Back, whose drawings and paintings are recognized as an invaluable visu…
‘Sesame Street’ to Help Create New National Children’s Museum Near Washington
WASHINGTON (AP).- Elmo has no statue in Washington but he’s poised to strike his best museum pose: “Sesame Street” is teaming up to create exhibits that incorporate the popular TV characters into the future home of National Children’s Museum near the n…
Mayor Boris Johnson Announces Rocking Horse and Rooster Set for Trafalgar Square
LONDON (AP).- A giant blue rooster and a boy on a rocking horse will stand alongside a statue of military hero Adm. Horatio Nelson in London’s Trafalgar Square. Officials on Friday announced the next two artworks to fill the square’s empty “fourth plin…
Frye Art Museum/Arts Corps Collaboration Invited to White House
SEATTLE, WA.- Eight Arts Corps students and their two teaching artists – the creative force behind the Frye Art Museum’s new exhibition I Wish I Knew Who I Was Before I Was Me – have been invited to attend the White House historic concert and education event on February 10th entitled “A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement.” In October 2009 the Frye Art Museum met with Arts Corps to invite a group of students to curate a new exhibition drawing on the Frye’s permanent collection. The students began by working in the stacks of the Frye Art Museum and at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center with Arts Corps teaching artist Roberto Ascalon (poet) and Arts Corps and MusicianCorps teaching artist Amos Miller (musician/producer). Over the course of several months the students viewed and discussed hundreds of Frye Permanent Collection works of art, working closely with various members of the s