“Tibetan Artists Respond” is an exhibition featuring eight artists from India, Nepal and Tibet. The exhibit recently moved from the Rubin Museum in New York to Dartmouth’s Hood Museum, and will be on display there until March 13th. Juliette Bianco, associate director of the Hood, says that hosting the exhibit it a tremendous opportunity for…
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Pseudo-Summer in the City
At a time in New York when everything seems to be covered in white, and turning to various shades of slushy gray, there is one place where New Yorkers can escape to to get a bit of green into their systems; and that is the remarkable installation on Mulberry Street. Enter into the Openhouse Gallery…
Robert De Niro: Guardian and Advocate of His Late Father’s Work
Robert De Niro, Sr. was a successful artist, and when he died of prostate cancer in 1993, his estate was entrusted to art dealer Lawrence Salander. However, last year, Salander was imprisoned for fraud, prompting De Niro, Jr. to take more interst in his father’s art legacy. Prosecutors claimed that bosses at Salander- O’Reilly Galleries…
Roy Neuberger Dies at 107
Roy Neuberger, the US art patron and financier, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan at the age of 107. During his lifetime, Mr. Neuberger acquired hundreds of paintings by artists such as Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Edward Hopper and Georgia O’Keeffe. A large number of the paintings were kept at the Neuberger…
Olfactory Art Center Opens at New York’s MAD
Next fall New York’s Museum of Arts and Design will open a wing dedicated purely to the art of scent. It will become the first museum or foundation with such a wing. Holly Hotchner, the museum director, explained that the Scent Center will be laid out as sensory experience, where visitors will be able to…
‘Revelations’ Dancers Celebrate its 50th Anniversary
‘Revelations’ is a beautiful work which was created by Alvin Ailey in 1960, which leads us on a journey through African-American music and culture. The members of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater perform this dance privately every day, in tribute to the generations of the past and to African culture as a whole. The…
Crocheting Artist Olek’s New Showcase in New York
Knitting has been common for as long as we can remember. New York City- based artist Agata Oleksiak, or ‘Olek’, however, has taken the pastime to another level; she has used “hundreds of miles” of yarn while creating a showcase of her work. The exhibit featured a house, or a life, really, completely covered in…
Two Stolen Artifacts Returned to Italy
An Italian policeman noticed a possibly familiar marble torso on sale for $350,000 in display while walking down Madison Avenue during his vacation in New York City. He asked the gallery owner about the piece’s origin, and took a picture of it on his cellphone. The owner’s response made the Italian suspicious, and so, on…
The 18th Annual CANstruction Competition Entries on Display in New York
Twenty five sculptures are currently on display in New York’s World Financial Center for the city’s 18th Annual CANstruction Competition. Each of these sculptures is made of over 100,000 cans of food, and created by engineers and architects. New York is one of around 100 cities in the world who are participating in this international…
Traditional Ncebele Art Car Displayed in the Museum of Arts and Design
The Global African Project, a campaign which demonstrates the influence of African visual culture on modern art, craft and design, features a BMW 525i Art Car painted in the traditional painting method of the African Ndebele tribe. The car will be on display in the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City from…
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