University of Michigan celebrates 25 years of prison art exhibitions with virtual gallery
Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17-31.
ANN ARBOR, MI
.- As the world marks a full year of the pandemic, the University of Michigan s Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners celebrates its silver jubilee with a digital gallery, a new format necessitated by the ongoing global health crisis.
The annual exhibition by U-M s Prison Creative Arts Project has become one of the largest shows by incarcerated artists in the world. It recognizes diversity of both artists and artistic choices with a curated exhibit that features a broad array of artistic media and subject matter.
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(Reuters) - A ‘Three Treasures’ sale of rare stamps and a gold coin from the personal collection of shoe designer Stuart Weitzman is set to fetch millions of dollars at an auction at Sotheby’s in New York City in June.
The 1933 Double Eagle Coin was originally cast as a $20 coin, but it was never issued for use. After U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt took the country off the gold standard, all of the Double Eagles were ordered destroyed. However, a handful were released and all but one of them deemed stolen.
Now, the only 1933 Double Eagle Coin ever allowed to be privately owned is up for sale at Sotheby’s, with the auction house estimating the coin will sell for between $10 million and $15 million.
Art Gallery of Ontario appoints Xiaoyu Weng as Carol and Morton Rapp Curator, Modern & Contemporary Art
In addition to her curatorial work, Weng is an active writer, editor and educator. Photo: Alexei Ponomarchuk.
TORONTO
.-The Art Gallery of Ontario today announces that Xiaoyu Weng has been appointed Carol and Morton Rapp Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art. Currently The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Associate Curator at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Weng assumes the role this summer pending approval of authorization to work in Canada.
Xiaoyus uniquely international experience and vision, and her longstanding engagement in expanding the art historical canon will help us further our goals of leading global conversations from Toronto. She will also help us put Canadian artists on the global stage and shape the presentation of our Collection in dynamic new ways, says Julian Cox, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, AGO. In her curatorial work and scholar