Tag: Museum
Museum Director Is Found Dead
An American director of a museum at Bangkok University, who was recently charged with wire fraud, has been found dead in Seattle. "The 62-year-old American director of a museum in Thailand who was indicted in a federal investigation into looted antiquities was found dead in a...
Art Plus Wealthy Egotists Equaled Chaos - artmark...
Art Plus Wealthy Egotists Equaled Chaos - artmarketblog.com
The last post I wrote dealt with the reasons for the beginning art
market crash in 1991 in which I said that I would continue with this
topic for a few...
The Next Star Artist ? - artmarketblog.com
The Next Star Artist ? - artmarketblog.com
With entries for the Next Star Artist competition (http://www.nextstarartist.com)
closing on the 23rd of May I thought that I would showcase some of the
entrants who have...
Kinetic Race a Big Success in Baltimore - Race Re...
Wilma and the Wombats, Fifi and Platypus were crowd favorites at the 10th annual Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race, hosted by the American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM). The annual race started under overcast...
Wax Museum Cuts Ticket Prices, Blames Melting Eco...
Well this is a sure-fire sign that the American economy is tanking: admission to Madame Tussauds famous Washington wax museum has been reduced by a whopping $3. Just think of the savings! With current gas prices, you...
Superheroes Invade Met's Costume Institute
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is about to be filled with a superheroic, couturiered assortment of capes, spandex, and transformative suits, as its new Costume Institute exhibit, "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy"...
The Art Auction Roller Coaster - artmarketblog.com
The Art Auction Roller Coaster - artmarketblog.com Here in Australia there have been some rather interesting developments in the art market the most important of which is the closure of two long established auction...
Artists catch head lice for show
"Seven German artists are living with lice in their hair in an Israeli museum for three weeks in the name of art. The Berliners aim to stretch boundaries of what is art, saying they are toying with ideas about hosts and guests in line with a theme set by the museum."The idea...
Only Gandhi and Shah Rukh Khan did it in Paris!
"He will be unveiled in the presence of Albert Einstein, Charles De Gaulle, Mahatma Gandhi, Michael Jackson, John Paul II, Elvis Presley and Alfred Hitchcock at France's Grevin Museum in Paris, Monday, April 28,...
'Disneyland' Comes To Baghdad
"Llewellyn Werner admits he is facing obstacles most amusement park developers never have to deal with – insurgent attacks and looting.When you are building an amusement park in downtown Baghdad, those risks come...
Changes to Next Star Artist Competition - artmark...
Changes to Next Star Artist Competition - artmarketblog.com As the Next Star Artist competition (http://www.nextstarartist.com) is an entirely new concept there were bound to be some areas that needed tweaking. The...
New Year's card sent by Anne Frank found
Certainly a New Years Card with "Good Luck for a New Year" from a 8 year old, in which 5 years later, a young child could never envision things to come, spending Two New Years hiding for her life in an family friends...
Artist Gregor Schneider plans to put dying person...
German artist Gregor Schneider, is again starting controversy with his latest art exhibit, in which he plans to showcase a dying person."The artist, whose previous works have included a disturbing recreation of...
Exciting Online Art Auction News - artmarketblog.com
Exciting Online Art Auction News - artmarketblog.com Amongst the plethora of emails that I received in my inbox this week were some rather interesting press releases announcing various developments in the cut throat...
The geography of power - how communication has be...
A fascinating article appeared in a recent edition of Newsweek called Emotional Connections. The article describes an installation at the New York Museum of Modern Art called New York Talk Exchange. Here, MIT...
