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Visitors to the American Museum of Natural history inspect a detailed model of a 60-foot-long Mamenchisaurus on display during the media preview of "The World’s Largest Dinosaurs'" exhibit, in New York. The exhibition on view at the American Museum of Natural History from April 16, 2011, through January 2, 2012, explores the biology of a group of uniquely super-sized dinosaurs: the long-necked and long-tailed sauropods. AP Photo/Mary Altaffer.
NEW YORK, NY.- The huge dinosaurs called sauropods astound us. So massive! So tall! Such long necks and tiny heads! But more astounding is this: these strange giants rank among Earth’s great success stories, roaming the planet for 140 million years. Today, scientists from many fields have joined in an effort to figure out how they did it. Paleontologists, biologists, botanists, animal nutritionists and engineers all agree: the world’s largest dinosaurs were extraordinary creatures. The challenge is to discover what made them tick. The exciting exhibition features cutting-edge research on super-sized sauropods—including the giant Mamenchisaurus, one of the largest animals to ever walk the Earth—and offers new insights into how their colossal bodies functioned. Visitors will have a chance to examine life-sized bones, muscles, internal organs, and more to discover the amazing anatomy of The World's Largest Dinosaurs. ... More |
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Ethel Carrick & E Phillips Fox's Artistic Marriage Celebrated at the Queensland Art Gallery
E Phillips Fox, Venetian boats 1906–7. Oil on wood panel, 33 x 23.1cm. Bequest of Alan R Henderson, 1956. Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
BRISBANE.- The story of one of Australian art’s most significant marriages is told for the first time in a new exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery. The personal artistic union of Ethel Carrick & E Phillips Fox, two of Australia’s most significant late impressionist painters, are celebrated in a major exhibition from April 16 to August 7, 2011. Queensland Art Gallery Director Tony Ellwood said ‘Art, Love and Life: Ethel Carrick and E Phillips Fox’ would includes more than 100 paintings, and give a fresh view of both artists’ careers, telling their stories jointly for the first time in a major institution. ‘Ethel Carrick and E Phillips Fox were painters of modern life at the turn of last century and this exhibition provides an insight into their active artistic careers and extensive travels together around Europe, North Africa and Australia,’ he said. ‘Audiences will ... More | | The Pace Gallery Presents an Exhibition of Sculptures from 1982 to 2008 by John Chamberlain
John Chamberlain, Holy Gouache, 1994, painted, stainless and chromium-plated steel, 8' 7-1/4" x 5' 6-1/4" x 4' 9-5/8" (262.3 x 168.3 x 146.4 cm) © John Chamberlain / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Peter Foe / Courtesy The Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Pace Gallery presents an exhibition of sculptures by John Chamberlain from 1982 to 2008, on view from April 15 through June 11, 2011. Chamberlain has been the subject of thirteen solo exhibitions at The Pace Gallery since 1963, as well as the seminal exhibition De Kooning and Chamberlain: Influence and Transformation, which explored the affinities between the muscular and gestural styles of the two Abstract Expressionists working across generations and mediums. Critics, curators, and artists including Donald Judd, Irving Sandler, Klaus Kertess, Henry Geldhalzer, Bernice Rose, Brian O’Doherty, and Julie Sylvester have contributed essays and interviews with Chamberlain for exhibition catalogues published by the gallery, excerpts of ... More | | Sotheby's London to Sell Important Scottish Skating Scene on Duddingston Loch
Skaters, A Scene on Duddingston Loch near Edinburgh by Charles Lees (est. £100,000‐200,000 (detail). Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby's London is to offer Skaters, A Scene on Duddingston Loch near Edinburgh by Scottish artist Charles Lees (1800‐1880) in its sale of Victorian and Edwardian Art on Tuesday, 17 May 2011. Estimated at £100,000‐200,000, the painting will make its first known appearance at auction since it was painted in 1853, and comes to the market from a Private Scottish Collection. The subject of skaters would come to define Lee’s career and the present work is distinguished as the artist’s first ‐ and principle ‐ treatment of figures enjoying the winter activity. When the painting was exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1854, it was rapturously received by public and critics alike. The Art Journal extolled it as a work “of the highest character in almost every desirable quality of Art”. The picture’s success can be ... More |
 | Wartime German Bunker Discovered by Workers in Warsaw Laying a New Tram Line
Road workers looking at a German World War II bunker that was recently uncovered. AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski.
By: Monika Scislowska, Associated Press
WARSAW (AP).- Workers in Warsaw laying a new tram line have uncovered a German bunker dating back to World War II, officials said Thursday. The bunker was discovered in recent days at Plac Zbawiciela, or Savior's Square, a major traffic hub in the Polish capital where tram tracks and the street are undergoing thorough renovation. City archaeologist Barbara Piotrowska said it was a surprise that such a massive concrete and metal structure had remained hidden from view for many decades in the city center. She said it will require specialized equipment and the shutting down of the tram power line for the bunker to be moved. It will then go to a museum. Wojciech Krajewski, a curator at the Museum of the Polish Army, said it is one of 80 bunkers built by the occupying Nazi German forces in late 1944 as part of their defense against the advancing Soviet army. Some 30 of them are preserved in various parts of Warsaw. He said the newly discovered 10-foot (3-meter) deep bunker is valuab ... More | | Boston Science Museum Buys Fleet of 30 Segways and Offers One-Hour Tours
Museum of Science two-wheel, gyroscopic, personal transporter tour guide Nick Rosato, of Boston, right, escorts Waldo Holtzhausen, center, and Lauren Jacobs. AP Photo/Steven Senne.
By: Mark Pratt, Associated Press
BOSTON (AP).- Boston's Museum of Science has exhibits on natural history, dinosaurs, space travel and electricity, all enclosed within four walls. Paul Fontaine, vice president of education, has for years wanted to expand beyond the bricks and mortar. He got his wish Friday with the launch of the Museum of Science Segway Experience, an outdoor tour of the area around the museum using the gyroscopic, two-wheel transporters, themselves a marvel of science. "We have all this science and technology of the human world packed within a few miles of the museum," Fontaine said. "This was just a natural extension of what we already do." The parks and shoreline around the building are full of native flora and fauna, and the museum is right down the street from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, the birthplace of some of the nation's greatest scientific achievements, Fontaine said. "There are surprising number of different birds who make their habitat ... More | | Boston's ICA Opens The Record, First Museum Show to Explore Influence of Vinyl on Visual Art
Sean Duffy, Burn Out Sun, 2003. 20 LP records, glue, metal tripod, 42 x 33 x 33 inches. Collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl, Miami Beach. Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. Photo by Gene Ogami.
BOSTON, MA.- This spring, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston opens The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, the first museum exhibition to explore the culture of vinyl records within the history of contemporary art. Bringing together artists from around the world who have worked with records as their subject or medium, this groundbreaking exhibition examines the record's transformative power from the 1960s to the present. Through sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, photography, sound work, video and performance, The Record combines contemporary art with outsider art, audio with visual, and fine art with popular culture. On view at the ICA from April 15 through Sept. 5, the exhibition features 99 works by 33 artists, including Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha, Laurie Anderson, Christian Marclay and Carrie Mae Weems. The Record was organized by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and is accompanied by a 240-page co ... More |
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Copy of 14th-Century Hebrew Manuscript Acquired by Nelson-Atkins Museum
The original Barcelona Haggadah manuscript dates from 14th century in Spain, and is named for one of the illustrations showing the coats of arms of Barcelona. Photo: Shirley Harryman.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- A rare copy of the Barcelona Haggadah edition, which was printed in 1992 in London through a special project with the British Museum and is the only copy in a four-state region, has been acquired by the Spencer Art Reference Library of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. The funding to acquire the work was given by longtime Museum supporters Sybil and Norman Kahn in memory of Thomas W. Levitt, a former two-term chairman of the Nelson-Atkins Society of Fellows. “The gift of the Haggadah to the Nelson-Atkins library is very appropriate, because Passover was Tom’s favorite family holiday,” said Molly Levitt, widow of Tom Levitt, who died as a result of a rare neurological disease in 2009. “Our family is ... More | | Addicted to Highs and Lows Curated by Richard Aldrich on View at Bortolami Gallery
Erik Lindman, Cross, 2010. Wood. 111.8 x 76.2 cm. Signed and dated on verso in pencil. Courtesy of the artist and Bortolami Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bortolami Gallery presents Addicted to Highs and Lows curated by Richard Aldrich. A writer (theorist) or a curator is a kind of artist. They know (unconsciously) what they are looking for. They are drawn to things, and need only to take what they have seen and contextualize it in their own way, use it their own way to make sense and begin to articulate their own feelings. Thus two readers, after finishing the same book, have two separate ideas of the book. And this is the best thing: these same two readers could meet again in ten years and reread the same book and have two new ideas. Marriage is the desire to have a mirror to gauge oneself everyday: “what did you think of that?” you could say to your spouse. Or often you don’t even need to say anything. This is why art is so ... More | | Art Gallery of New South Wales Announces Ben Quilty's Portrait Wins Archibald Prize 2011
Portrait of Margaret Olley by Ben Quilty.
SIDNEY.- This year, the 90th year of Archibald, there were 798 entries for Archibald, 810 for the Wynne and 633 entries for the Sulman. The Archibald and Wynne prizes are judged by the Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. JF Archibald had no desire to become famous and, during his lifetime, he shunned publicity and remained evasive and enigmatic. A portrait of him, commissioned by the trustees of the Art Gallery of NSW, was made after his death and remains as one of the pictorial records of a man who avoided having his photograph taken. Yet JF Archibald is the man behind one of Australia’s oldest and best known art prizes for portraiture. He was born in Victoria in 1856, christened with the name John Feltham. When he was 15, he started his career in journalism on a country newspaper in Warrnambool, Victoria. His passion for newspapers ... More |
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Galileo Honored by Vatican and American Academy in Rome, on Anniversary
A woman admires an Astrolabe (Cornelio Vincx, Naples -1616). AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia.
By: Nicole Winfield, Associated Press
LONDON.-Four hundred years after Galileo Galilei first demonstrated his telescope to scholars on a Roman hilltop, the astronomer condemned by the Catholic Church was celebrated on the same spot with a multimedia art exhibit that, oddly enough, included an installation from the Vatican. Heliographs, astrolabes and other antique astrological instruments that belong to the Vatican Observatory stood alongside contemporary art inspired by Galileo and his science: rows of intensely hot, blindingly bright floodlights simulating the sun; a performance by a Tibetan musician playing a telescope-like horn. The event took place Thursday night at the American Academy in Rome, a research center for the arts and humanities whose gardens lie on the exact spot where, on the night of April 14, 1611, Galileo showed off his telescope for the first time to the most important scholars of his ... More | | John Lennon's "Lucy in the Sky" Lyrics Up for Auction at Profiles in History Auction House
John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" from "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". REUTERS/Profiles in History.
LOS ANGELES (AP).- John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" are up for auction, in the latest episode for a storied Beatles classic. Auction house Profiles in History said on Wednesday that it expects the draft lyric sheet to sell for more than $200,000 at a sale next month in Beverly Hills. It has the opening lyrics for the song, and a rough sketch by of four people in a room with windows draped in curtains. When the psychedelic song was released on 1967 album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," listeners and the media speculated it was a thinly disguised paean to the drug LSD, based on the first letters of Lucy, sky and diamonds. But Lennon always disputed that notion, even though he was known to experiment with drugs. Lennon said he did not realize until later the title contained those letters in sequence. As Lennon and others have explained it, the inspiration came from his son, Julian, who was then a child and drew a picture of his ... More | | High Museum of Art Names Sarah Schleuning New Curator of Decorative Arts and Design
Most recently, Schleuning organized the exhibition “MetalCraft: Architectural Metalwork from The Wolfsonian” at the Wolfsonian-Florida International University (summer 2011).
ATLANTA, GA.- Michael E. Shapiro, the Nancy and Holcombe T. Green Jr. Director of the High Museum of Art, announces today the appointment of Sarah Schleuning as the Museum’s new curator of decorative arts and design. Schleuning currently serves as curator at the Wolfsonian Museum at Florida International University and will join the High on May 16, 2011. As curator of decorative arts and design, Schleuning will be responsible for the High’s growing collection of more than 2,250 works, with notable examples from the Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection of American Decorative Art and the Frances and Emory Cocke Collection of English Ceramics. “I am thrilled that Sarah will be joining our curatorial staff,” stated David Brenneman, the High’s Director of Collections and Exhibitions. “Sarah brings a terrific track record of thoughtful exhibitions and programs to our ... More |
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 Stanford Selects Diller Scofidio + Renfro to Design New Burton and Deedee McMurtry Building for the ArtsSTANFORD, CA.- Stanford University announced today that it has selected Diller Scofidio + Renfro to design a new home for the Department of Art and Art History. The 90,000-square-foot Burton and Deedee McMurtry Building will serve as an interdisciplinary hub for the arts at Stanford and further the ongoing development of an "Arts District" at the entrance to campus. The new facility, named in recognition of Deedee and Burt McMurtry (MS '59, PhD '62), who provided a $30 million gift toward its creation, will be a cornerstone in Stanford's initiative to enhance and expand the role the arts play throughout campus. The McMurtry Building will house the department's programs in art practice, design, art history, film and media studies, and documentary film, which currently occupy several different facilities on campus. Diller Scofidio + Renfro, selected for its experience and distinctive approach to architecture for the ... More Konrad Ng Named Director of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American ProgramWASHINGTON, D.C.- Konrad Ng, a scholar of Asian American cinema and digital media, has been named director of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program, effective May 22. Ng will report to the Smithsonian’s Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture Richard Kurin. The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program provides vision, leadership and support for Asian and Pacific Islander American initiatives at the Smithsonian. Ng has been an assistant professor in the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s Academy for Creative Media since 2007. His scholarship examines how minority and diaspora communities use cinema and digital media to engage in artistic and cultural representation and preservation, and community mobilization. “We are very pleased that Konrad will be leading the Asian Pacific American Program,” said Kurin. “With his fine record as a scholar, academic and curator, Konrad will bring an ... More The American Institute of Architects Select the 2011 COTE Top Ten Green ProjectsWASHINGTON, D.C.- The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) have selected the top ten examples of sustainable architecture and green design solutions that protect and enhance the environment. The projects will be honored at the AIA 2011 National Convention and Design Exposition in New Orleans. The COTE Top Ten Green Projects program, now in its 15th year, is the profession's best known recognition program for sustainable design excellence. The program celebrates projects that are the result of a thoroughly integrated approach to architecture, natural systems and technology. They make a positive contribution to their communities, improve comfort for building occupants and reduce environmental impacts through strategies such as reuse of existing structures, connection to transit systems, low-impact and regenerative site development, energy and water conservation, ... More Spanish Police Recover Stolen Masterpieces MADRID (AP).- Spanish investigators have recovered stolen masterpieces by two of the country's most revered artists: Goya and El Greco, a police statement said Friday. The oil on canvas works, Goya's 18th-century "The Apparition of the Virgin of Pilar" and el Greco's 16th-century "The Annunciation," were stolen 14 years ago after an exhibition tour. Works by these painters are highly valued and most are kept in museums such as Madrid's Prado. However, these two were privately owned when stolen. In October, police received tips that eventually led to a private house near the southeastern city of Alicante where the works were being kept, the statement said. It did not identify the exact address. Paintings by such old masters are hard to value because few go on sale, but in 2004 "The Baptism of Christ," an early oil-on-wood portable altarpiece by El Greco, was auctioned at Christie's in London for 789,250 pounds ($1,449,063). Goya's "Still life o ... MoreUnited States Capitol Virtual Tour Nominated for Webby AwardAUBURN, ME.- CampusTours Inc. and the Architect of the Capitol announced today that they have been nominated for a Webby Award for the new virtual tour of the United States Capitol – (Architect's Virtual Capitol). Hailed as the "Internet's highest honor" by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. The Architect's Virtual Capitol features a photorealistic interactive map of the entire Capitol campus, animated three-dimensional renderings of many important buildings, videos detailing the work of the Architect of the Capitol, hundreds of photographs and panoramic images, and a timeline cataloging important events in the Capitol's history. "Nominees like CampusTours Inc. are setting the standard for innovation and creativity on the Internet," said D ... More Puerto Rican Painter Augusto Marin Dies at 89SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO (AP).- Augusto Marin, one of Puerto Rico's best-known painters and muralists, has died. He was 89. Marin, whose work is found throughout Puerto Rico, from museums to the wall of a suburban shopping center, died Thursday at a hospital in San Juan of complications from a lung infection, said Ivelisse Marin, his daughter. He had been hospitalized since Sunday. Gov. Luis Fortuno ordered flags on the island lowered to half-staff for three days to mark the death of an artist considered among the leading Puerto Rican painters. Marin had a long artistic career but was best known for large paintings and murals in the modern style that blended Caribbean and religious elements, said Jose Alegria, director of San Juan's Obra gallery. "All the top collectors (in Puerto Rico) have a painting of his," Alegria said. His murals adorn public and private buildings around Puerto Rico, including a shopping center near the ... More |
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