BUENOS AIRES (AP).- The shipping label said the mailed package contained replicas of Peruvian ceramics. An X-ray machine used by customs agents discovered it really held three skulls and a mummy more than 2,000 years old. Authorities said Friday that t…
Titanic and Liverpool: New 2012 Exhibition to Mark Centenary of Sinking
LIVERPOOL.- The only known surviving Titanic First Class ticket and other rarely-seen items linked to the disaster will be displayed in Liverpool in 2012 to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking. The ticket belonged to Reverend Stuart Holden, vicar…
Titanic and Liverpool: New 2012 Exhibition to Mark Centenary of Sinking
LIVERPOOL.- The only known surviving Titanic First Class ticket and other rarely-seen items linked to the disaster will be displayed in Liverpool in 2012 to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking. The ticket belonged to Reverend Stuart Holden, vicar…
Illustrator and Writer Maurice Sendak’s Mural Painted in 1961 has New Home in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA, PA (AP).- Long before award-winning illustrator and writer Maurice Sendak’s world of wild things charmed millions of young readers and changed the notion of what children’s literature could look like, some of his now-classic characters fr…
Baltimore-Based DDG Awarded Planning and Design Architecture for China’s Largest Mall
BALTIMORE, MD.- Baltimore-based planning, architecture, graphics and design firm Development Design Group Inc. (DDG) has been awarded the position of planner and design architect for the retail centerpiece of the landmark Tianjin City Culture Center De…
Art Gallery of Hamilton Features Canadian Artist Andrew McPhail’s "All My Little Failures"
HAMILTON, ON.- McPhail is an established artist who moved to Hamilton from Toronto five years ago. Practicing in sculpture, drawing, painting and performance for more than twenty-five years, his works have explored a broad range of subject matter. As a…
Milwaukee Art Museum Opens New Exhibition on European Design Since 1985
MILWAUKEE, WI.- The Milwaukee Art Museum’s newest feature exhibition, European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century, opens this Saturday, October 9. It is the first encompassing, critical assessment of contemporary Western European design fr…
Preserved Feathers and Scales of a Giant Penguin Fossil Gives Evolutionary Clues
LIMA (REUTERS).- The preserved feathers and scales of a giant fossilized penguin discovered on Peru’s central coast provide a glimpse of Peru’s Eocene period, and how the species evolved to its modern state, paleontologists say. The ancient version of …
Preserved Feathers and Scales of a Giant Penguin Fossil Gives Evolutionary Clues
LIMA (REUTERS).- The preserved feathers and scales of a giant fossilized penguin discovered on Peru’s central coast provide a glimpse of Peru’s Eocene period, and how the species evolved to its modern state, paleontologists say. The ancient version of …
100 Posters Charting the History of the Olympic Games at Sutton’s Central Library
LONDON.- “A Century of Olympic Posters”, which features more than 100 posters charting the history of the Olympic Games, will be on show in the Europa Gallery in Sutton’s Central Library during September and October. Drawn mainly from the Victoria and …