Times Square Arts presents Allison Janae Hamilton s Wacissa for April Midnight Moment
Wacissa by Allison Janae Hamilton.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Times Square Arts, the largest public platform for contemporary performance and visual arts, is presenting Wacissa by Allison Janae Hamilton for the month of April as part of the organizations signature Midnight Moment series in partnership with Marianne Boesky Gallery. Midnight Moment is the worlds largest, longest-running digital art exhibition, synchronized on electronic billboards throughout Times Square nightly from 11:57pm to midnight.
In Wacissa (2019), Hamilton transports viewers through a series of rivers in her home region of North Florida. The rivers she navigates are all linked through the areas Slave Canal, so-called as it was built via slave labor in the 1850s to aid the transport of cotton through the Florida panhandle. Filming from her kayak, Hamilton placed the camera into the water, plunging viewers directly into the r
394-pound meteorite will be auctioned online, April 6th, by Gallery 63
The meteorite up for bid in Gallery 63s April 6th online auction has a pre-sale estimate of $100,000-$200,000. Meteorites of this size and importance are rarely offered at auction.
ATLANTA, GA
.- A museum-quality, 394-pound meteorite by far the largest specimen of its kind for sale in the world will come up for bid in an online-only Premier Spring Estate Auction planned for Tuesday, April 6th, at 11 am Eastern time by Gallery 63 in Atlanta. Online bidding is via the Gallery 63 website, plus LiveaAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com.
Meteorites of this size and importance do not come up for public sale very often, said Paul Brown, who serves as a consultant for Gallery 63, having passed along ownership to his son, Elijah. It wouldnt be out of place in any of the worlds museums. The meteorite, which comes with a custom-built iron stand measuring 74 inches tall, has an estimate of $100,000-$20
Kunstmuseum Luzern opens first comprehensive solo exhibition dedicated to Rinus Van de Velde s work
Installation view of Rinus Van de Velde. Id rather stay at home, , Kunstmuseum Luzern, 2021. Photo: Marc Latzel.
LUCERNE
.- Rinus Van de Velde ( 1983) tells fictional autobiographical stories by means of large format charcoal drawings, three-dimensional cardboard worlds, films, photographs, coloured-pencil drawings and ceramics. Hovering between reality and fiction, imperfect heroes inhabit his works, high-minded researchers and lanky tennis players in long hotel corridors.
With Id rather stay at home, the Kunstmuseum Luzern is devoting a first comprehensive solo exhibition to the Belgian artist Rinus Van de Velde. At the heart of the presentation are the videos The Villagers (20192020) and La Ruta Natural (20192021). The Villagers tells the stories of various protagonists linked by a mountain village and rainy weather: one adventurer roasts his suckling pig in the w
The Globe and Mail Letters
April 2: ‘End blind bidding.’ Readers debate real estate practices and soaring Canadian home prices, plus other letters to the editor Contributed to The Globe and Mail Published April 2, 2021
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Re Variant-driven Third Wave Hits Middle-aged Adults Hard (March 30): I am 80 and getting my vaccine this week. I have two sons in their 50s. What kind of sentimental nonsense was it to give my cohort priority?
Why aren’t parents a priority? I have no responsibilities, can stay home and have already lived a long life. Did anyone seriously think that grandparents would be fine with their children and grandchildren being at risk while they are safe?
New book features ancient Egyptian treasures from the Worcester Art Museum
Brooch featuring an ancient scarab on a winged mount. New Kingdom, ca. 15391077 BCE (scarab); late 19thearly 20th century (mount). Gold and glazed steatite, 2.6 × 3.6 × 1.5 cm (1 × 1 7/16 × 9/16 in.) Mrs. Kingsmill Marrs Collection, 1926.86.
LEWES
.- Jewels of the Nile celebrates the extensive range of Egyptian jewelry held by the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, a remarkable collection assembled by Laura and Kingsmill Marrs during the early 20th century. The Boston couple were advised by Howard Carter, the archaeologist who would later achieve worldwide recognition for his discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922; Carter guided their acquisition of an outstanding selection of scarabs, amulets, jewelry and cosmetic articles, including rare, blue-toned stone vessels as well as several of Carters own watercolor renditions of important Egyptian sites and royal figures. This book features b