New Book Includes William Klein Never-Before-Seen Fashion Pictures

NEW YORK, NY.- In 1956, William Klein, who had recently published his now classic Life Is Good & Good for You in New York, arrived in Rome to assist Federico Fellini on his film Nights of Cabiria (1957). Since the start of filming was delayed, Klein instead strolled about the city with Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alberto Moravia, and other avant-garde Italian writers and artists serving as his guides. It was on these walks that Rome, (Aperture, October 2009), a [...]

New Hampshire’s ‘Old Man’ Memorial Plans Fall on Hard Times

CONCORD, NH.- A planned memorial to New Hampshire’s state symbol, the Old Man of the Mountain, has fallen on hard times — much as the profile rocks of the Old Man fell off his mountain cliff in Franconia Notch State Park and crumbled to bits in May 2003. The famed rock outcropping, which appeared to be the profile of a man, hung 1,200 feet above Profile Lake before it disintegrated. The profile has been memorialized on New Hampshire driver’s licenses [...]

NYS Museum Exhibition Focuses on the Great Depression

ALBANY, NY.- A traveling exhibition opened at the New York State Museum showcasing the works of a legendary group of photographers who documented the lives and struggles of Americans enduring the Great Depression. This Great Nation Will Endure, open through March 14, 2010, features more than 150 images of America taken between 1935 and 1942 by the legendary photographic unit of the Farm Security Administration (FSA). This remains the largest documentary photography project ever undertaken. The photographs include some of [...]

National Gallery of Modern Art Presents “Bhutan: An Eye to History”

NEW DELHI.- The National Gallery of Modern Art and the India-Bhutan Foundation presents ‘Bhutan: An Eye to History’; an exhibition of more than 80 photographs in color and black and white from December 23, 2009 to January 31, 2010 at National Gallery of Modern Art, Jaipur House, India Gate, New Delhi. Says Prof Rajeev Lochan, Director, NGMA: “The photography exhibition, divided into three parts includes the early photographic records of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, close ties of friendship and [...]

AIPAD Photography Show to be Held March 18-21 in New York

NEW YORK, NY.- One of the most important international photography events, The AIPAD Photography Show New York, will be presented by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) from March 18 through 21, 2010. More than 70 of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries will present a wide range of museum-quality work including contemporary, modern and 19th century photographs, as well as photo-based art, video and new media, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. The [...]

Important Americana to be Sold at Sotheby’s in New York

NEW YORK, NY.- On 22 and 23 January, Sotheby’s will begin the sale season with Important Americana, including furniture, folk art, silver, prints, decorative arts and carpets and will be led by The Important Ranlett-Rust Family, Chippendale Figured Mahogany Bombé Slant-Front Desk, Probably by Francis Cook, Marblehead, Massachusetts, circa 1770, An Important American Silver Punch Bowl, Cornelius Kierstede, New York, 1700-1710, and a Fine and Rare Molded Copper Figure of an Indian with Bow and Arrow, Probably Harris & Co., [...]

Museum of Macedonia Displays 9,800 Artifacts Excavated at Archaeological Sites in 2009

SKOPJE.- The Macedonian Information Agency reported that Elizabeta Kanceska-Milevska, Minster of Culture, opened Sunday the annual exhibition of artifacts excavated at archaeological sites throughout Macedonia in 2009. Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski, also attended the opening of the exhibition which took place at the Museum of Macedonia. A total of 9,800 artifacts excavated at 18 archaeological sites throughout Macedonia are displayed in the Museum of Macedonia, in the framework of the third archaeology exhibition. The display includes items from Ohrid’s Gorna [...]

Photograph by Fashion Photographer Robert Voltaire Fetched $22,000.00Photograph by Fashion Photographer Robert Voltaire Fetched $22,000.00

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Los Angeles fashion photographer, Robert Voltaire, earned a pretty penny this week. A fine art nude photograph taken by the artist fetched $22,000.00 in a Beverly Hills auction. The black and white photograph, “Il Delphino” (The Dolphin) depicts Anna Grigorienko, a fashion model, thrusting upward from the depths of the Mediterranean Sea creating a large splash around her. The image was taken by Robert Voltaire in Gaeta, Italy as an outtake during a shoot for famed fashion [...]

The Huarte Center Holds the “Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity” Exhibition

HUARTE.- On the occasion of the Bicentennial of the War of Independence, the State Corporation for Cultural Commemorations (SECC), coordinated by the Ministry of Culture, and the Government of Navarra, has organized the exhibition “Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity” for which it has invited 15 Spanish, 14 French and 2 Portuguese artists to present works that address the state of development of these three ideals of coexistence of modern society born of the heat of the French Revolution of 1789. The [...]

Tate Modern’s Pop Life to Travel to Hamburger Kunsthalle in February

HAMBURG.- The exhibition Pop Life takes Andy Warhol’s famously provocative claim that “good business is the best art” as the starting point for a completely new interpretation of the legacy of Pop art and the influence of its chief protagonists. Pop Life shows the various ways in which artists since the 1980s have engaged with the mass media, often involving the deliberate creation and cultivation of an artistic persona as a ‘brand’. The exhibition features works by Andy Warhol alongside [...]

18th-Century Texas Mission Ranch Buried in Funding Limbo

FLORESVILLE, TX.- Ruins that archeologists call one of the last links to the original ranches and cowboys that shaped Texas have been kept behind a gate, literally buried, for more than two decades — awaiting the funding that would allow people to see them. The 18th-century Rancho de las Cabras complex, with its stone building remains, was a birthplace of the large commercial ranching operations that would help define the state. Preservationists have long hoped it could be fully excavated [...]

Stolen Painting by Leonardo Goes Back on View at the National Galleries in Scotland

EDINBURGH.- The National Gallery of Scotland announced that the painting, “The Madonna of the Yarnwinder” by Leonardo da Vinci went on display in the Gallery. In 2003 it was stolen from Drumlanrig Castle, the Dumfriesshire home of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry. The painting was recovered in 2007. “The Madonna of the Yarnwinder” is the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in Scotland and is on loan to the Gallery from the Duke and the Trustees of the Buccleuch [...]

Artium Presents Works by Winners of the 20th Edition of the Gure Artea Awards

VITORIA-GASTEIZ.- Artists Iratxe Jaio ( Markina, 1976 ) and Klaas Gorkum ( Delft, 1975 ), Asier Mendizabal ( Ordizia, 1973 ) and Xabier Salaberria go ( Donostia / San Sebastián, 1969 ) were winners, in 2008, at the Twentieth Edition of the Gure Artea Awards, an event which is celebrated biennially. The exposition Gure Artea XX displays the work done by these artists over the last year. Iratxe Jaio and Klaas van Gorkum work in documentary format, using processes that [...]

Laurent Delaye Presents Waseem Ahmed’s First Solo Exhibition in the UK

LONDON.- Laurent Delaye presents Waseem Ahmed’s first solo exhibition in the UK. This is the second of a series of exhibitions that show a wide spectrum of contemporary artists from Pakistan. A graduate of the National College of Arts in Lahore, Ahmed (born 1976) is well known for his witty miniature paintings. “It is perhaps a curious fact that the very tradition of miniature painting, particularly the Mughal style which is promoted as Pakistan’s cultural heritage, has become the inspiration [...]

Photographers Offer their Vision of the Urban Landscape at Foam

AMSTERDAM.- Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam presents “Concrete Dreams”, a Foam_3h exhibition by Dieuwertje Komen and Elian Somers in which the photographers offer their vision of the urban landscape. The pictures are exhibited in a variety of ways: Somers presents her work in an installation using light boxes and brief texts, while Komen combines her photos with a text essay written by architect Martino Tattara. Somers and Komen have the same perspective: architecture and urban infrastructure. Somers examines the ideologies that play a [...]