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Andrew Berg, 12, of Souderton, Pa., views photographs of Muhammad Ali by Neil Leifer, right, and an anonymous photographer, left, at the James A. Michener Museum in Doylestown, Pa. Two American superstars have crossed paths in suburban Philadelphia at the museum, where a pair of photography exhibits called American Icons offers a peek into the lives of Elvis Presley and Muhammad Ali. AP Photo/Matt Rourke.
By: Kathy Matheson, Associated Press
DOYLESTOWN, PA (AP).- In a culture saturated with celebrity magazines, paparazzi and red carpets, it's hard to imagine capturing an image of a young Elvis Presley alone on the sidewalk in New York. Or a picture of Muhammad Ali at play with neighborhood kids in a parking lot. No screaming fans, no camera flashes, no entourages. These unguarded moments are among dozens featured in "Ali and Elvis: American Icons," a pair of photography exhibits sharing gallery space through May 15 at the James A. Michener Museum in Doylestown, Pa., about 25 miles north of Philadelphia. This is the first time the exhibits have been displayed together. The Smithsonian-curated "Elvis at 21" show offers a glimpse into Presley's life just as his star begins to rise. Needing publicity photos, Presley's record company hired photographer Alfred Wertheimer in 1956 to shadow the rock-n-roll prince who would become The King. ... More |
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Snap Galleries Exhibition Reveals Unidentified Characters in Beatles Abbey Road Session
An outtake from Scottish photographer Iain MacMillan's session with the Beatles.
LONDON.- There is Paul Cole. An American tourist who happened to be on vacation in London in August 1969. You might find him familiar somehow. As he walked around the streets of St John’s Wood waiting for his wife that day, he stumbled across four guys being photographed on a zebra crossing. He watched for a while as they went there and back again. And again. And again. That’s how he was captured for posterity on one of the most famous photographs of all time - the the cover of the Beatles’ Abbey Road LP, standing to the left of John Lennon’s head on the album sleeve. But, as a new exhibition reveals, he might so easily not have been on the cover. ‘Beatles and Bystanders: the unknowns at Abbey Road’ on show at Snap Galleries’ Piccadilly space in central London, uncovers, for the first time, at least a dozen other characters who might equally have featured on the cover of one of the most ... More | | International Team of Surveyors Map World War I Battlefield of the Gallipoli Campaign in Turkey
A subsided tunnel in the Johnston's Jolly area in Gallipoli, western Turkey. AP Photo/ Courtesy of the Australian War Memorial.
By: Christopher Torchia, Associated Press
ISTANBUL (AP).- The World War I battlefield of the Gallipoli campaign, where throngs gather each April to remember the fallen, is a place of lore, an echo of ancient warfare that took place on the same soil. Now researchers are mapping dugouts, trenches and tunnels in the most extensive archaeological survey of a site whose slaughter helped forge the identity of young nations. Armed with old maps and GPS technology, the experts from Turkey, Australia and New Zealand have so far discovered rusted food cans, unused bullets and their shell casings, and fragments of shrapnel, Ottoman-era bricks with Greek lettering, ceramic rum flagons of Allied soldiers and glass shards of beer bottles on the Turkish side. They announced early findings ahead of annual commemo- ... More | | Eight Pace Gallery Artists to Present Major Projects at 54th Venice Biennale in June
File photo of Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. EPA/SIGI TISCHLER.
NEW YORK, NY.- Eight artists from The Pace Gallery will present major projects during the 54th Venice Biennale opening in June. Works by Loris Gréaud, Lee Ufan, Song Dong, Hiroshi Sugimoto, James Turrell, Corban Walker, Zhang Huan, and Zhang Xiaogang will be featured at venues including the main exhibition at the Arsenale and Giardini, Palazzo Grassi, Museo Fortuny, Fondazione Claudio Buziol, and the Irish Pavilion. Corban Walker (b. 1967, Ireland), the official Irish representative at the 54th Venice Biennale, will present three new, site-specific sculptural installations at the Irish Pavilion, located at the Istituto Santa Maria della Pietà. The installations respond to rule-based, mathematical principles that derive from Walker’s own height of four feet and correlate to the experience of navigating a world that has been designed for others. The ... More |
 | Russia's Venerable Bolshoi Theater to Reopen in October After Years of Reconstruction
Workers walk inside the building of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow on Monday, April 25, 2011. Russia's iconic theater has been closed for reconstruction since 2005, spawning accusations of embezzlement and fraud. AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko.
By: Mansur Mirovalev, Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP).- Russia's venerable Bolshoi Theater — which survived fires, a Nazi bombing and Lenin's request to have it blown up — is almost ready to reopen after years of reconstruction and will look just as it did during the czarist era. The theater will be finished in October in its original 19th-century design, with restored czarist insignia, embroidered silk tapestry and acoustics-improving fir and papier-mache panels, the subcontractor Summa Capital said Monday. The rectangular building — home of the world famous Bolshoi Ballet and Bolshoi Opera — also will have its original violin-shaped auditorium. The company said some 3,500 construction workers are still busy adding sophisticated electronic and hydraulic devices, redesigning the stage floor to ease ... More | | Recent Acquisitions: Prints and Photographs Opens at The New York Public Library
Stefan Kürten, Gate, 2003. Lithograph. Photograph by Achim Kukulies. Courtesy of Alexander and Bonin, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- In conjunction with its centennial, The New York Public Library is exhibiting print and photographic works acquired within the last decade in Recent Acquisitions: Prints and Photographs. On display in the Print and Stokes Galleries of the Stephen A. Schwarzman building at Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, the works included demonstrate that the Library’s Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Arts, Prints and Photographs – which boasts holdings of nearly one million objects -- is not a static collection but continues to grow through purchases and gifts. Similarly, all of the artists in the show are also still alive and working. Recent Acquisitions: Prints and Photographs is on exhibit through June 30, 2011. The Stokes Gallery presents six sequences of work by living artists: Dieter Appelt, Tom Burr, María Martínez-Cañas, Natasha and Valera Cherkashin, Michel Szulc Krzyzanowski, and Vera Lutter. The series, sele ... More | | Partial Copy of the 500-Year-Old Nuremberg Chronicle by Anton Koberger Surfaces in Utah
Utah book dealer Ken Sanders looks over a copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle published in 1493. AP Photo/Brian Skoloff.
By: Brian Skoloff,Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY, UT (AP).- Book dealer Ken Sanders has seen a lot of nothing in his decades appraising "rare" finds pulled from attics and basements, storage sheds and closets. Sanders, who occasionally appraises items for PBS's Antiques Roadshow, often employs "the fine art of letting people down gently." But on a recent Saturday while volunteering at a fundraiser for the small town museum in Sandy, Utah, just south of Salt Lake, Sanders got the surprise of a lifetime. "Late in the afternoon, a man sat down and started unwrapping a book from a big plastic sack, informing me he had a really, really old book and he thought it might be worth some money," he said. "I kinda start, oh boy, I've heard this before." Then he produced a tattered, partial copy of the 500-year-old Nuremberg Chronicle. The German language edition printed by Anton Koberger and published ... More |
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New Illustrated Book Celebrates the World's Most Iconic Beverage: Coca Cola
For 125 years, Coca-Cola has connected with more people in more places than any other product the world has ever known.
NEW YORK, NY- This illustrated book celebrates the world's most iconic beverage with the brand's photographs, advertisements, and designs as well as memories from film, social history, and pop culture. Decade by decade, Coca-Cola represents the zeitgeist with nostalgia and flair. For 125 years, Coca-Cola has connected with more people in more places than any other product the world has ever known. First sipped at an Atlanta soda fountain as a hot weather pick-me-up, Coca-Cola has triumphed by engaging people, one by one. The company’s long-time leader Robert Woodruff sought always to have it “within arm’s length of desire.” He succeeded so well that Coca-Cola has become a part of our landscape, part of our rituals, part of our lives. This illustrated book celebrates the world’s most iconic beverage with ... More | | Record Setting Chinese Rarities Top $9.6+ Million CICF Event in Rosemont, Illinois
1928 Auto Dollar front.
DALLAS, TX- A 1928 Chinese "Auto Dollar" Year 17 KM-Y428, L&M-609, AU58 PCGS brought $74,750 - a record price for the type - as one of the top lots in Heritage Auctions' $9.6+ million April 14-18 Rosemont, IL Signature(r) World & Ancient Coins Auction, held in conjunction with the Chicago International Coin Fair (CICF), an auction dominated by record prices on Chinese rarities. All prices include 15% Buyer's Premium. The total prices realized are nearly double the total realized at CICF 2010, and translate into an overall sell-through rate of 93% by value and 97% by lot totals. "These results point to the continuing overall strength of the world and ancient coin market," said Cristiano Bierrenbach, Vice President of International Numismatics at Heritage. "We worked closely with Gemini auctions on the very successful, $3.3 million dollar ancient coin session on Thursday, April 14, and the World Coin sessions on Friday and Saturday, ... More | | A Graphic Odyssey through Wim Crouwel's Career at the Design Museum in London
Wim Crouwel: A Graphic Odyssey at the Design Museum. Photo: Luke Hayes.
LONDON.- The Design Museum celebrates the prolific career of the Dutch graphic designer Wim Crouwel in this his first UK retrospective. Regarded as one of the leading designers of the twentieth century, Crouwel embraced a new modernity to produce typographic designs that captured the essence of the emerging computer and space age of the early 1960s. This exhibition, spanning over 60 years, covers Crouwel’s rigorous design approach and key moments in his career including his work for design practice ‘Total Design’, the identity for the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, as well as his iconic poster, print, typography and lesser known exhibition design. The exhibition also highlights Crouwel’s rigorous design approach exploring his innovative use of grid-based layouts and typographic systems to produce consistently striking asymmetric visuals. Born in ... More |
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ARS 11 at KIASMA will Change Your Perceptions About Africa and Contemporary Art
Baaba Jakeh Chande, Dressing Trees (Civilization II) 2011. Installation: fabric and linden trees Photo: Finnish National Gallery. Central Art Archives. Petri Virtanen.
HELSINKI.- The ARS 11 exhibition in Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki investigates Africa in contemporary art. The exhibition features some 300 works by a total of 30 artists. The Kiasma Theatre also has a programme of ARS events and performances. In addition to artists living in Africa, the show also features others who live outside the continent, artists of African descent as well as Western artists who address African issues in their work. The themes of the exhibition, such as migration, environmental problems and urban life are global, issues that affect us all. Memory, recollection and the simultaneous presence of different histories and layers of time are some of the common starting points of the work of many artists featured in the exhibition. At best ARS 11 can produce new understanding and also provide background information on the ... More | | Music Stands Still: A Major Exhibition at S.M.A.K., Showing Work by Jorge Macchi
Jorge Macchi, Hotel 2007, Instalation at galeria Ruth Benzacar 2007.
GHENT.- ‘ Macchi refuses to let himself be pushed into any art history category. The quality of his work lies in an openness that is absolute and without complexes. He achieves maximum perception using a minimum of form: the viewer should not try to interpret the work, but simply to experience looking at it. His images (in the form of watercolours, sculptures, installations and videos) are often delicate and austere, but with the implication of a compressed and sometimes almost unruly emotionality. In Incidental Music, for example, this ‘unmannered’ theme is expressed in the sentences cut out of newspaper articles on murders and accidents, whose form inconspicuously transforms into musical staves. The work called 5 Notes also combines fragile elements with blind aggression, in the form of an empty score pierced by steel cables. The longest distance between two points was made especially for S.M.A.K. Several hundred ... More | | Performance Artist Magic Laser to Stage Classic Motion Picture Chase Scenes in Times Square
Rehearsal for Flight in Times Square at 47th Street, by Liz Magic Laser with performers Nic Grelli, Elizabeth Hodur, Liz Micek, Michael Wiener, Lia Woertendyke and Max Woertendyke.
NEW YORK, NY.- Times Square Alliance President Tim Tompkins announced that performance artist Liz Magic Laser has been selected to present her work at the Crossroads of the World this May as part of Time Square Arts, the Alliance’s ongoing commitment to bring the best of contemporary art to Times Square. Laser’s project Flight -- a sequence of live chase scenes from classic motion pictures -- will be staged at Duffy Square in Times Square, between 46th and 47th Street, on Tuesday, May 3 and Friday-Saturday, May 6-7. Flight, features actors Nic Grelli, Elizabeth Hodur, Liz Micek, Michael Wiener, Lia Woertendyke and Max Woertendyke, performing chase scenes from films such as Battleship Potemkin, M, Niagara, American Psycho and 28 Days Later. The performance presents a series of ... More |
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 Amigo! Archie Comics Plans Spanish Digital CopiesBy: Matt Moore, Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA.- Seizing upon Archie's popularity on the printed page, Archie Comics will now offer some of the titles in Spanish for download through its digital storefront. After 70 years, Archie Comics is the first major publisher to expand its language offerings. Jon Goldwater, co-chief executive of Archie Comics told The Associated Press the titles — Archie, Veronica & Betty and Jughead, among others — were made available online Monday as part of its digital offerings. "We have an incredible number of fans, not just domestically, who speak Spanish," he told AP, adding that the traditional print versions of the comic, in English and Spanish, have been strong sellers in central and south America, as well as in Spain, too. Archie Comics has typically offered up its print editions in a host ... More Derby Museum Showcases Jockey Great Bill Shoemaker By: Bruce Schreiner, Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, KY (AP).- Just a short stroll from the famous track at Churchill Downs, where he rode to four victories in the Kentucky Derby, some of Bill Shoemaker's most treasured items are on display for racing fans making a pilgrimage to the famous racetrack. The special exhibit — titled "Shoemaker: Start to Finish" — opened Monday at the Kentucky Derby Museum and carries visitors down memory lane, spanning the 40-plus-year career of a pint-sized man who became a giant in thoroughbred racing history. Visitors stroll past glass cases filled with trophies, scrapbooks and riding gear worn by the late Shoemaker, who rode in more than 40,000 races and won 8,833 of them in a Hall of Fame career. Photos ringing the exhibit chronicle his achievements. One photo shows an exuberant ... More YouTube Play Nominated for Three Webby AwardsNEW YORK, NY.- On April 12, the Webby Awards announced that YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video has been nominated for awards in three categories: Best Web/Art, Best Web/Events, and Best Event/Live Webcast. Now in its fifteenth year, the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences present Webby Awards to honor excellence on the Internet. Each category has two winners: the Academy selects one and the public, who can vote during the People’s Voice voting period, select the other. Visit the Webby's website through April 28, 2011, to vote for YouTube Play in the Webby People’s Voice Awards. In October 2010, Guggenheim and YouTube, in collaboration with HP and Intel, presented YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video. From more than 23,000 YouTube video submissions from 91 countries across the globe, the Guggenheim’s curators selected shortlist of 125 videos, from which ... More 19th Annual High Museum Atlanta Wine Auction Nets $1.7 MillionATLANTA, GA.- In its 19th year, the 2011 High Museum Atlanta Wine Auction reached a Live Auction total of more than $1.125 million and a Silent Auction total $158,100. Silent auctions under the tents on Saturday, March 26, coupled with a Paddle Raise during the Live Auction and event ticket sales brought the net profit for the 2011 Wine Auction to $1.7 million. Proceeds from the auction are a vital part of the Museum’s exhibition and educational programming funds. The dates for the 20th annual High Museum Atlanta Wine Auction are March 28–31, 2012. The 2011 Wine Auction celebrated with the theme “The Ultimate Collection: A Sumptuous Blend of Wine, Art, Food and Friends.” Organized by volunteer co-chairs Louise Sams and Michelle Sullivan, the Live Auction events were held in Atlantic Station under festive big-top tents. More than 71 live and 169 silent auction lots offered exclusive opportunities to taste, tour ... More Emerging Artists of the Rutgers Photography Club Exhibit at Collaborative ArtsNEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.- Collaborative Arts presents Still Segues, a two-month exhibition that features the emerging artists of the Rutgers Photography Club, which is curated by Skyla Pojednic and Theresa Francisco. Mary Kate Riecks and Ceaphas Stubbs both use illusion in their work to create exaggerated or surreal scenes of movement. Mary Kate focuses on the concept of kinetic energy by physically spinning, shaking, and dropping the camera to impose a forced movement. In other instances, she reworks her photographs by dragging colors, blurring or layering images. While Riecks focuses on physical movement, Stubbs creates optical illusions using patterned fabric that plays with the eyes’ ability to focus. He employs vibrating boundaries to create a confused space, which makes an otherwise static image appear to move on the gallery wall. In contrast to Riecks and Stubbs, who both use the human figure as a supporting ... More South Dakota Repository's Images Get Gallery TreatmentBy: 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 at the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center often focus on the data found in images' varying spectral bands, but sometimes they enjoy stepping back and simply admiring an image for its beauty. The center north of Sioux Falls has selected 40 of these standouts for its latest "Earth As Art" exhibit, now in its third incarnation. Prints of the images arrived in Washington, D.C, recently to begin a one-year stint at the Library of Congress. Jon Christopherson, a contractor working at the EROS Data Center, said human eyes peering down on the Earth would miss out on the many spectral bands a satellite can capture. "In other parts of the spectrum, there's a lot of variation," Christo ... MorePrincess Diana Gown Exhibit Comes to New Hampshire PLYMOUTH (AP).- As people get ready to celebrate the royal wedding of Princess Diana's son William, a collection of her gowns, stories and videos about her life is going on display in New Hampshire. The exhibit "Diana — The People's Princess" is being featured at The Common Man's Flying Monkey Movie House and Performance Center in Plymouth starting Monday. It ends May 8. It showcases some of her most well-known gowns, which she auctioned for charity just weeks before her death in 1997. Among them is the ink blue silk velvet dress she wore to the White House State Dinner in 1985 when she took to the dance floor with John Travolta. The exhibit has been shown in Branson, Mo., last year, and in Orlando, Fla. ... More |
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