NOTTINGHAM.- The British Art Show is a major survey exhibition renowned for showcasing the best in British art now. Organized by Hayward Touring Exhibitions, the show takes place every five years and tours to four different cities across the UK. It ope…
Highly Anticipated Hayward Touring Show of Contemporary British Art Returns to London
NOTTINGHAM.- The British Art Show is a major survey exhibition renowned for showcasing the best in British art now. Organized by Hayward Touring Exhibitions, the show takes place every five years and tours to four different cities across the UK. It ope…
Trunk Tells of the Leaving of Liverpool; New Acquisition a Reminder of Child Migrant Story
LIVERPOOL.- It’s just a tiny trunk but for orphaned William Kelly, 15, it contained his whole world: some clothes, boots, handkerchiefs, needle, thread and a bible. In 1925 William was sent from Liverpool aboard SS Athenia to a new life in Canada….
Phillips Collection Names Klaus Ottmann Curator at Large
WASHINGTON, DC.- Dorothy Kosinski, director of The Phillips Collection, announces the appointment of Klaus Ottmann as the museum’s first Curator at Large, a newly created position supported by a major grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. H…
On their Own: Britain’s Child Migrants: Medallion tells of the leaving of Liverpool
LIVERPOOL.- Liverpool is linking up with Australia to tell the emotional story of child and youth migration. From 1860 until the 1960s migration schemes saw youngsters and teenagers separated from families and sent to the ends of the earth to begin ne…
Lester Johnson Admired Expressionist Artist Dies at 91
New
York, NY – Lester Johnson, an admired artist whose expressionist
brushwork lent
vigor and force to the human figure — isolated and embattled, or alive
with the
joy of movement in crowds — died on May 30. He was 91 and lived in
…