The rare contemporary art collection of recently deceased author, Michael Crichton, was auctioned off last week at 20 Rockefeller Plaza by Christie’s Auction in New York. The collection included more than 90 works by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Pablo Picasso and Roy Lichtenstein.
Doctor and author Michael Crichton is best known for his fictional novels, many [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News on May 18th, 2010 @ 11:00 am
A quintessential image of the Blue Period of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto, 1903 (also known as The Absinthe Drinker) is a study of Picasso’s close friend and flat mate in a smoky bar holding a pipe over a glass of absinthe. The masterpiece is said to be one of the [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News on April 30th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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Launched in 1990, the Cinequest Film Festival prides itself on featuring little-known filmmakers and talent from around the world. Since its inception, Cinequest has turned out some of the most technically-advanced works ever and has continued to branch out, launching a production company and forming a group to help underprivileged teens who aspire to become [...]
Sundance Film Festival organizers stated this week that they’d failed in some respects over the last few years and were vowing to improve.
Festival founder Robert Redford took the stage at the festival’s opening news conference and offered his mea culpa. “I felt we were sliding. We were beginning to flat line and we needed a [...]
The Paul Getty Trust announced Monday that Michael Brand will step down as director of the Getty Museum at the end of this month.
During his tenure, Brand helped resolve repatriation claims made by Italy and Greece on objects in the Getty’s antiques collection, oversaw the opening of the Getty’s Center for Photographs, and, with the [...]
Filed under: News on January 14th, 2010 @ 8:00 am
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Like most performing art institutions, the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco had a lousy 2009. ACT had its budget cut by almost $1.5 million and eliminated three high-level positions, including its associate artistic director.
While it’s fair to say that things are not exactly rosy for the company, it looks like the New Year has [...]
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.
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