NEW YORK, NY.- Caroline Kerrigan Lerch was named Show Director for the Metropolitan Show, it was announced by Mark Lyman, President of the Art Fair Company. The inaugural fair, which debuts January 18-22, 2012, at the Metropolitan Pavilion, at 125 Wes…
South Dakota Repository’s Images Get Gallery Treatment
By: Dirk Lammers,Associated Press
GARRETSON, S.D. (AP).- The millions of satellite images collected at a federal repository north of Sioux Falls help document forest fires, droughts, hurricanes, tsunamis and other calamities. Scientists and engineers a…
Social Realist Artist Jack Levine Dies on Monday at New York City Home at Age 95
NEW YORK (AP).- The social realist artist Jack Levine, who skewered the rich and powerful in paintings that echoed Old Masters like Goya and El Greco stylistically, has died. He was 95. Levine’s son-in-law, Leonard Fisher, said the artist died Monday …
Exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York Delves into Life and Legend of Houdini
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Handcuffs, shackles, a torture chamber and straitjacket used by renowned escape artist Harry Houdini will be part of a major exhibit that delves into the life and legend of the world famous magician. “Houdini: Art and Magic,” which…
Co-Owner of Painting Missing in New York ID’d as a Thief
NEW YORK (AP).- First it was a curious tale of a $1.3 million painting a middleman said he drunkenly lost while trying to help a friend sell it. Now the story has gotten stranger still: A part owner of the canvas identified its co-owner as an admitted …