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Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani shakes hands at the blessing ceremony for The World Trade Center Cross, made of intersecting steel beams found in the rubble of buildings destroyed in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, in New York, July 23, 2011. The 9/11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center site will house the cross and will open on the 10 year anniversary of the attacks on September 11, 2011. REUTERS/Chip East.
By: Colleen Long, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- A cross-shaped steel beam found amid the wreckage in the days following the Sept. 11 terrorist attack was a symbol of hope for many working on rescue and recovery there, so much so that the construction worker who discovered it believes he stumbled on to a miracle. "I saw Calvary in the midst of all the wreckage, the disaster," Frank Silecchia recalled Saturday. "It was a sign ... that God didn't desert us." The 2-ton, 20-foot-high T-beam has now become a religious relic. It was taken from its temporary post near a church Saturday and lowered 70 feet down into the bowels of where the twin towers once stood to become part of the exhibit at the National September 11th Memorial and Museum. But for all the religious fervor surrounding the cross, it will become part of the museum because of its history at ground zero, not because of its Christian symbolism, museum officials said. "It's powerful because it provided comfort to so many people — it is a part of the h ... More |
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The Royal Wedding Dress at the Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace
Queen Elizabeth II (L) and Catherine Duchess of Cambridge view the wedding cake handmade for the Duchess' April marriage to Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge at Buckingham Palace in London. EPA/JOHN STILLWELL.
LONDON.- The Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding dress, designed by Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen, is on display at Buckingham Palace as part of the annual Summer Opening (23 July – 3 October 2011). The Duchess chose British brand Alexander McQueen for the beauty of its craftsmanship and its respect for traditional workmanship and the technical construction of clothing. Her Royal Highness worked closely with Sarah Burton in formulating the design of her dress. The dress is made from ivory and white satin-gazar (stiffened organza). The shape of the skirt, with arches and pleats, echoes an opening flower, and the ivory satin bodice, which is narrowed at the waist and padded at the hips, draws on the Victorian tradition of corsetry; a hallmark of Alexander McQueen’s designs. The back of the dress is finished with 58 gazar- and organza-covered buttons fastened by Rouleau loops. The underskirt is made of silk tul ... More | | Another Alleged Marilyn Monroe Sex Film Surfaces; Spanish Collector to Auction It
Pictures allegedly taken from a newly discovered 8-mm version of a film, purportedly showing Marilyn Monroe. AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko.
By: Michael Warren, Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES (AP).- A Spanish collector plans to auction what he claims is a newly discovered 8-mm version of a film purportedly showing Marilyn Monroe having sex when she was still an underage actress known as Norma Jean Baker. A Marilyn Monroe expert, however, says the actress in the film is someone else, considerably heavier and less feminine than the legendary film star. "That's not Marilyn. The chin is not the same, the lips are not the same, the teeth are not the same," said Scott Fortner, who has a sizeable collection of Monroe memorabilia, including a belt he said proves how much more petite she was. "Marilyn was a tiny little thing. And I know that for a fact. I own her clothing." Collector Mikel Barsa said in an interview Wednesday that he wants at least $500,000 for the sexually explicit 6½-minute, grainy black-and-white film, which he says was made before 1947, when Monroe was not yet 21. He said it's an exact copy of a 16-mm film discovered more than a decade ago. ... More | | Major Collection of Frederick Kiesler Drawings and Sculptures Donated to Philadelphia Museum
Galaxy H, 1960, by Frederick Kiesler (American, born Austria-Hungary, 1890–1965). Charcoal and pastel on five separate sheets of cream wove paper; wood, 93 5/8 x 86 x 3 inches (237.8 x 218.4 x 7.6 cm). Philadelphia Museum of Art: Gift of Ronnie L. and John E. Shore, 2010-221-28. © Estate of Frederick Kiesler, New York.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- A major collection of 31 drawings and two sculptures by the architect, artist, designer, poet, and philosopher Frederick Kiesler (American, born Austria-Prussia 1890–1965) has been donated to the Museum by Ronnie L. and John E. Shore, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Shore were inspired to make this gift by the close connection of Kiesler to Marcel Duchamp (American, born France, 1887-1968), whose work is so well represented in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Ranging in date from the early 1930s to the 1960s, the drawings in the Shore gift include sketches for many of the artist’s most important projects, including the Endless House: Conceptual Drawing (1947), his concept for the creation of a spatially fluid form of architecture that was responsive to the social needs of its users; scenic and costume designs for theatrical performances; and ten sketches for ... More |
Bonhams Announces Sale of One of the World's Finest Collections of Victorian Books
Charles Dickens, Edited by "Boz", The Personal History of David Copperfield. Bradbury & Hall, London, 1849-50.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams announced the October 18th sale of The Robert H. and Donna L. Jackson Collection, one of the world’s finest collections of Victorian Literature as published in original parts and serial publications of the 18th and 19th centuries. The collection will be open for public view a week prior to the sale. The sale of over 270 lots, expected to fetch up to $1.5 million, includes the first editions of the greatest novelists of the mid-19th century. There is an almost complete collection of Dickens’s published novels in parts; a very rare complete collection of all Trollope novels published in parts (perhaps the only such collection in the world); the Surtees ‘Jorrocks‘ series; an extensive collection of books and correspondence relating to Ainsworth’s novel ‘The Tower of London’; 16 novels by the Irish writer Charles Lever, most published in parts in London and Dublin; 12 works ... More | | World's Largest Photograph on View at University of California, Riverside's Sweeney Art Gallery
The photo’'s mammoth scale of 32 x 111 feet earned it a place in Guinness World Records, and made it a photo history landmark.
RIVERSIDE, CA.- UCR Sweeney Art Gallery & Culver Center of the Arts present The Great Picture: The World’s Largest Photograph & The Legacy Project, an exhibition in three parts that tells the tale of the successful campaign to make the world’s largest camera and photograph. The photo’s mammoth scale of 32 x 111 feet earned it a place in Guinness World Records, and made it a photo history landmark. “It is also an exploration of the 172-year-old conflict between painting and photography, and the more recent waning of traditional, analog, darkroom photography in the wake of digital dominance,” says Tyler Stallings, artistic director of the Culver Center of the Arts and director of the Sweeney Art Gallery. The two-story atrium at the Culver Center of the Arts provides a rare opportunity to present such a gargantuan photograph. The Great ... More | | Princeton University Art Museum Presents The Life and Death of Buildings
Laura Gilpin, American, 1891–1979. Stairway, Temple of Kukulcán, Chichén Itzá, Yucatán, 1932, printed later. Gelatin silver print, 34 x 27.1 cm. Princeton University Art Museum, gift of Mr. W. Howard Adams (x1971-23). © 1979, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas / photo: Bruce M. White.
PRINCETON, NJ.- The Life and Death of Buildings, opening July 23, 2011 and on view through November 6, 2011, explores the unique relationship uniting architecture, photography and time. Architecture inhabits and embodies time; whether months or centuries in duration, a building’s life cycle of construction, transformation and afterlife gives tangible form to history and turns public space into an index of the past. A photographic image is literally made of time, showing viewers the projection of an instant in history. When engaging with a photograph of a built environment as it once looked, we find ourselves immersed in an historical experience that was without ... More |
Concrete Section of 'Hitler's Wall' Sent to National World War II Museum in New Orleans
Three sections of Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall are offloaded at the Port of New Orleans. AP Photo/Gerald Herbert.
By: Mary Foster, Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP).- The gray, concrete, heavily scarred slabs that arrived at the National World War II Museum this week are more than just chunks of an old wall to historians. The slabs are part of Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall, a string of defenses ordered by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler in 1940. The defenses, also known as "Hitler's wall," stretched 3,200 miles from France to Norway and were designed to stop, or at least slow, the Allies from advancing inland during an invasion. Allan Millette, a history professor and director of the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans, said the relic is a portal to studying what happened in 1944 and 1945, when Allied forces penetrated the wall and the tide began to turn against Germany. "The concept was to build coastal defense, ... More | | Peter Fischli and David Weiss Arrange Sculpture Exhibition at Gallery Eva Presenhuber
Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Untitled, 2000 - 2004. Polyurethane; 16 parts. Unique. Installation dimension approx. 295 x 260 x 324 cm / 116 1/8 x 102 3/8 x 127 1/2 inches. Courtesy the artists and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich. © the artists. Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich.
ZURICH.- Gallery Eva Presenhuber is showing the group exhibition «Sculpture Now» presenting new works of 27 artists of the gallery. The art works in the exhibition have been arranged by the artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss. Doug Aitken’s «NOW» offers a fascinating combination of image and text. The word’s meaning is illustrated by the image of the three letters thrown back at the viewer by their mirrored surfaces. This interplay of word and image evokes a reflection in the true sense of the term, understood both as an image returned by a mirror and as thought, scrutiny and insight. This piece is part of Doug Aitken’s series of works using light-boxes that combine writing with photography, celebrating a disconcert- ... More | | Photographs of Musicians by Laura Levine in Her First Exhibition at Steven Kasher Gallery
Chrissie Hynde and Iggy Pop in New York City, 1987.
NEW YORK, NY.- Steven Kasher Gallery presents Laura Levine: Musicians, an insider’s look at the artists at the forefront of rock, punk, indie rock, post-punk, hip-hop, New Wave, and No Wave. This is the first one-person gallery exhibition featuring Levine’s photography, including her vintage gelatin silver prints - many one of a kind. The show features over 35 vintage and modern prints. Laura Levine: Musicians is being presented at Steven Kasher Gallery in conjunction with the exhibition Rude and Reckless: Punk/Post-Punk Graphics, 1976-82, the first New York exhibition surveying the extraordinary diversity of punk and post-punk graphic design. Levine is highly esteemed as a photographer and documentarian of the downtown NYC, London and Los Angeles music scene in the 1980s and early 90s. Her portraits of such seminal figures as Bjork, R.E.M., the Clash, Afrika Bambaataa, Tina Weymouth, DNA, the Ramones, Beastie B ... More |
Ten Ways to Look at the Past at the National Gallery of Victoria's Ian Potter Centre
David Noonan, Untitled 2009. Screenprint on jute and linen on plywood, steel (a-e) 364.0 x 601.5 x 1088.0 cm (installation) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2011.
MELBOURNE.- On 23 July the National Gallery of Victoria opened 10 ways to look at the past, a contemporary exhibition exploring artists’ fascination with the passing of time. This exhibition features works by 10 Australian artists, including new acquisitions by David Noonan, Tom Nicholson and Richard Lewer, which is on display at the NGV for the first time. Drawn entirely from the NGV Collection, 10 ways to look at the past explore how the concepts of history and memory have been observed, challenged and reinvented through a diverse range of works. Jane Devery, Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art, NGV, said the concept of the past is being used to introduce different ideas relating to the passing of time, both real and imagined, that connect the works in this exhibition “Some artists draw on personal histories, while others explore the past through collective or cultural memories. Some test notions of truth and ... More | | Museum Acquires Major Private Collection of Works by Self-Taught Artists
House with Two Men, Dog, and Bird, c. 1940, by Bill Traylor (American, c. 1853 - 1949). Graphite on thin cardboard, 22 x 14 1/2 inches. Partial and promised gift of Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz, 2002-50-1. Photograph by Will Brown.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Approximately 190 works by self-taught artists have become promised gifts to the Philadelphia Museum of Art from Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz, who have assembled over the past three decades one of the finest collections of outsider art in private hands in the United States. Their donation, which the Museum will celebrate with an exhibition and catalogue in spring of 2013, will increase the Museum’s holdings of outsider art by more than sixty percent. Sheldon Bonovitz is a member of the Museum’s Board of Trustees. “Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz have been pathfinders in this field,” said Timothy Rub, the Museum’s George D. Widener Director and CEO. “Their dedication to the work of self-taught artists and the exceptional vision they have brought to the development of their collection will now benefit the public and enable others to understand and appreciate this important, but little ... More | | National Park Service's Chief Historian Says Three Possible Japanese Airmen for Skull
A Navy launch pulls up to the blazing USS West Virginia to rescue a sailor during the attack on Pearl Harbor. AP Photo/U.S. Navy.
By: Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Associated Press
HONOLULU (AP).- The skull found in Pearl Harbor believed to be from a Japanese pilot in the Dec. 7, 1941 attack could belong to one of three airmen who were aboard a torpedo plane that was shot down where the surprising discovery was recently made. Daniel Martinez, the National Park Service's chief historian for Pearl Harbor, said Friday he and historian Mike Wenger planned to spend the weekend researching the names of the three Japanese men on a Nakajima B5N2 bomber that went down in the area where the skull was discovered during dredging in April. Forensic scientists with the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command on Oahu are conducting tests to confirm that the skull belongs to one of 55 Japanese airmen killed in the attack. Martinez said the Nakajima B5N2, also known as a Kate bomber, was shot down in the southeast loch of the harbor. That's where an excavation crew in April found the skull during overnight dredging in water ... More |
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 Masterpieces of Chinese Lacquer from the Mike Healy Collection at Heather James Fine ArtPALM DESERT, CA.- Heather James Fine Art announced on July 20, 2011 the exclusive offering of selections from Masterpieces of Chinese Lacquer from the Mike Healy Collection. The exquisite group of pieces represent the finest examples of carved red lacquerware from China’s Yuan and Ming dynasties. The techniques used in creating red carved lacquer motifs are exacting, cutting through several layers of lacquer that was dyed red with cinnabar. The skilled artisans fashioned elaborate designs of landscapes, flowers, and dragons among other popular and expressive themes. One of the many magnificent examples of lacquerware on offer is an ornate plate with chrysanthemum pattern (Ming dynasty, 14th-15th Century; possibly late Yuan dynasty 1260-1368). Five fully opened chrysanthemum blossoms are expertly displayed against a backdrop of densely packed carved leaves. The blossoms and leaves extend around ... More Camden Arts Centre Presents Mathilde Rosier: Necklace of Fake TeethLONDON.- This July, Camden Arts Centre presents the first solo exhibition in the UK by French artist Mathilde Rosier (b.1973). Rosier creates atmospheric environments which allow the viewer to lose any sense of space or time and offer a portal to other planes of being. Drawing on her interest in the physical and psychological experience of ancient rites and rituals, her new installation for Camden transforms one of the galleries into a series of rooms. Bringing together paintings, sculptural assemblages and film, this constructed environment evokes the journey between conscious and unconscious realms. Mathilde Rosier: Necklace of Fake Teeth runs until 25 September. Admission is free. Referencing Sigmund Freud, Howard Carter’s excavation of Tutankhamen’s tomb and Jean Rouch’s 1955 film Les Maîtres Fous, the focal point of the installation is a bed - a recurring motif in Rosier’s work - which can be ... More Time/Bank: A platform for the Cultural Sector through which Goods and Services can Be ExchangedMAASTRICHT.- Stroom den Haag and NAIM / Bureau Europa announced the opening of a new Time/Store in Maastricht, from July 17th though October 2, 2011. All across Europe, we are suddenly being told that we are too poor to afford culture, but we are not poor. Many of us are artists, writers, curators, teachers, filmmakers, designers, and architects, and we have knowledge and skills. We can self-organize. The dismantling of public funding for critical culture in the Netherlands in particular has made it urgent and necessary to develop new support structures if critical culture is to remain viable and vibrant. Alternative economies and other mutual aid systems may be one of the ways by which independent organizations and cultural producers may persevere. Last May, Stroom Den Haag opened the Dutch branch of the Time/Bank, a platform and community for the cultural sector through which goods and services can ... More Modern Masters: New Paintings by Sean Scully and John Walker at the Virginia Museum of Fine ArtsRICHMOND, VA.- This exhibition features monumental paintings by two of today’s most accomplished painters, Sean Scully and John Walker. Promised gifts from Pamela K. and William A. Royall Jr. on the occasion of VMFA’s 75th anniversary, these works affirm the unique capacity of paint to evoke the immateriality of light. Rounding out the exhibition are a suite of twelve photographs by Scully and four other recent paintings by Walker. Modern Masters: New Paintings by Sean Scully and John Walker is organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and curated by John B. Ravenal, Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. All works are either promised gifts or loans from Pamela K. and William A. Royall, Jr. Sean Scully, born in Ireland in 1945, and John Walker, born in England in 1939, are both longtime residents of the United States and are among today’s most accomplished painters. Whi ... More |
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