BOSTON (REUTERS).- As high-tech mapping services such as Garmin, Google and MapQuest make finding directions easier than ever, a new movement has revived interest in maps made by hand, as a route toward personal expression. Ingrid Burrington plotted en…
MCA Names James Goggin Director of Design, Print, and Digital Media
CHICAGO, IL.- Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, announced today that James Goggin has been named the MCA’s new Director of Design, Print, and Digital Media, effective August 23, 2010. Goggin’s rol…
MCA Names James Goggin Director of Design, Print, and Digital Media
CHICAGO, IL.- Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, announced today that James Goggin has been named the MCA’s new Director of Design, Print, and Digital Media, effective August 23, 2010. Goggin’s rol…
Clare Twomey’s First Solo Exhibition in the United States Will Be at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
KANSAS CITY, MO.- A specially commissioned installation, Forever, by the acclaimed British artist Clare Twomey will focus on ceramics as an ephemeral and temporary medium. The exhibition at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will feature 1,345 vessels, au…
United States Decision to Attend Hiroshima Memorial Hailed
HIROSHIMA (AP).- The site of the world’s first atomic attack swarmed with tens of thousands of people Thursday as Hiroshima prepared for a memorial that will for the first time have representatives from the United States and other major nuclear powers….
Luxuries from China’s Forbidden City to Travel to the United States
BEIJING (AP).- Deep in a long-forgotten corner of the Forbidden City and up a twisting stairway are four sets of twin doors, shut for more than eight decades. They reveal rare sweeping views to the north, south, east and west above the golden-tiled ro…
Luxuries from China’s Forbidden City to Travel to the United States
BEIJING (AP).- Deep in a long-forgotten corner of the Forbidden City and up a twisting stairway are four sets of twin doors, shut for more than eight decades. They reveal rare sweeping views to the north, south, east and west above the golden-tiled ro…
The Statue of Liberty Evacuated over Faulty Sensor
NEW YORK, NY (REUTERS).- Several hundred people were briefly evacuated from the Statue of Liberty on Wednesday after a faulty sensor detected smoke. The landmark tourist attraction was reopened an hour later. “There was no smoke or heat observed,” said…
First U.S. Exhibition for Cuban Painter Raúl Martínez at Magnan Metz Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Magnan Metz Gallery presents for the first time in the United States an exhibition of personal work by Cuban painter Raúl Martínez (Ciego de Avila, 1927- Havana, 1995), considered one of the most influential artists in Cuba’s hist…
National Anthropological Archives Receives Grant from President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Anthropological Archives has received a $323,000 “Save America’s Treasures” grant from the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. The grant will ensure long-term preser…