Manchester, NH

MANCHESTER, NH.- The Currier Museum of Art announces Everything Is Construction and Color, a showcase of distinctive works by Olga de Amaral (b. 1932, Bogotá) opening in the museum’s Welcome Gallery on Thursday, August 29. De Amaral merges the fields of textiles, craft, and design, making her work a natural addition to the museum’s ongoing series of installations exploring the relationship between crafts and the visual arts.

A selection of works by Olga de Amaral highlights the dynamic appeal of fiber art

MELBOURNE.- Tolarno Galleries will present Peter Atkins’ new exhibition of paintings, collages and one sculpture, Built Form. On display in Gallery 2, the works are derived from the Melbourne-based artist’s everyday perambulations through a variety of urban, suburban and industrial environments. Observing a storefront, factory facade, roofline or...

Tolarno Galleries presents "Peter Atkins: Built Form"

LONDON.- The National Gallery is celebrating one million people in the UK visiting a National Gallery touring exhibition over the last decade. This comes as its flagship touring series the The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour turns 10 years old and the Gallery announces its open call for partners for its 2025–27 iteration.

National Gallery UK touring exhibitions set to reach 1 million visitors

Margret Eicher's multi-layered work is characterized by the tension between the courtly medium of the tapestry and the digitally generated collages of motifs from set pieces of the iconography of contemporary gaming and digital culture. © Courtesy Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024. KARLSRUHE.- The...

Solo exhibition includes 15 large format tapestries by the Berlin artist Margret Eicher

LONDON.- Pace announced the first solo exhibition in the UK—and largest to date—of works by Cuban artist Alejandro Piñeiro Bello. Titled Entre El Día Y La Noche (Between Day and Night), Piñeiro Bello’s exhibition will feature new paintings and works on paper that symbolically and formally explore cyclical journeys through time, and within the self. Alejandro Piñeiro Bello paints the sociocultural mystic splendor of Caribbean culture with a focus on Cuba and the surrounding island nations’ identities and histories. Using traditional materials, such as oil on raw linen or burlap, he creates striking dialogues between the deep beige of the canvas and an iridescent palette of jade greens, oranges, purples, and teals. Chromatic interplay in Piñeiro Bello’s work fortifies essential compositional structures, which often appear to revolve around an unseen center point. In these images, his fluidly handled paint forms endless landscapes that travel from dreamlike figuration to pure abstraction. Drawing inspiration from dreams and memories, Piñeiro Bello’s paintings describe fleeting, timeless feeling.

Pace announces the first solo exhibition in the UK of works by Cuban artist Alejandro Piñeiro Bello

New York City, NY

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces the 2024–25 cohort of the MoMA Scholars in Residence program, supported by the Ford Foundation: Nathalie Joachim, Saloni Mathur, and Joseph M. Pierce. The program invites three acclaimed, inspiring thinkers to join the Museum for a one-year term to pursue projects and research initiatives that contribute to new understandings of modern and contemporary art. This is the third class of MoMA Scholars, following the 2023–24 cohort, which included C. Ondine Chavoya, Anne Anlin Cheng, and Sherrilyn Ifill. Along with work on independent projects, Chavoya, Cheng, and Ifill have hosted conversations, collaborated on displays, and incubated new projects and publications while at the Museum.

Nathalie Joachim, Saloni Mathur, and Joseph M. Pierce join MoMA for a one-year residency

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As an actor, Merritt Butrick was cast in one of the most coveted roles in the history of science fiction media. He played David Marcus, the son of the iconic Captain James T. Kirk, portrayed by William Shatner in the 1982 theatrical movie, Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn. Sadly, Butrick died of AIDS in 1989. He was only 29 years old. This is his story.

In Memory of 'Star Trek' Actor Merrit Butrick: 35 Years After His Tragic Death

Los Angeles, CA

NEW YORK, NY.- Howie Cohen, an advertising copywriter, often said he was congenitally familiar with indigestion. So perhaps it was only natural that in the 1970s, he, along with an ad agency colleague, would conjure up a catchy slogan that would not only sell more Alka-Seltzer but also become an American pop culture punchline: “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.”

Howie Cohen, whose Alka-Seltzer ads spawned catchphrases, dies at 81

Scientists have developed a novel way to recycle toxic waste — extracting gold from old electronics using a byproduct of a staple cuisine in many cultures. Researchers at Switzerland's ETH Zurich announced in a press release that they used "denatured" whey proteins (the watery portion of cheese that separates from curds) to create a sponge to recover gold ions from e-waste.

Scientists develop novel method to extract gold from old electronics using cheese — here's how it works

A decade ago, archaeologists might have recorded a dark stain in the soil beneath a ball court dating to the turn of the first millennium a.d. in the ancient Maya city of Yaxnohcah, but it would have yielded little information about Maya ways of life. Now, thanks to the development of environmental DNA—or eDNA—techniques that involve studying traces of plant DNA in soil, a team led by archaeobotanist David Lentz of the University of Cincinnati was able to analyze samples of the stain. The results have revealed that the stain is what remains of an object that must have once held great importance to the Maya. The team discovered that it contains DNA from four plant species the Maya are thought to have employed during rituals. These include jool, a tree whose bark the Maya used for ceremonial wrappings, suggesting the stain consists of the remnants of a medicine bundle. Also present is xtabentún, a plant in the morning glory family that has hallucinogenic properties. “That was very interesting,” says Lentz. “There’s no direct evidence that xtabentún was used by the ancient Maya, even though it is used in southern Mexico today to brew an alcoholic beverage.” The Maya were certainly familiar with the plant, however, as its vines are depicted in illustrations of two gods in the Dresden Codex, a Maya book that was created between 1300 and 1521. The other plants detected in the stain are chili pepper, which has a variety of medical and ritual uses, and chilcahuite, or the lancewood tree, which the Maya used to make spears. Lentz says that could mean the bundle once contained a miniature spear. While the bundle could have played a role in a healing ritual, he believes it’s more likely that Maya priests buried it during a ceremony held some 2,000 years ago to “ensoul” or dedicate the ball court.

Maya Power Plants

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A new material can withstand 'billions' of electrical cycles without wearing out — and scientists say it could transform electronics within 10 to 20 years.

Unique transistor 'could change the world of electronics' thanks to nanosecond-scale switching speeds and refusal to wear out

LONDON.- ‘I must tell you that I love the collection of the National Gallery’. (David Hockney in a letter dated 5 March 1979 to the then Director of the National Gallery, Michael Levey) Two masterpieces by David Hockney (born 1937) that feature reproductions of Piero della Francesca’s The...

'Hockney and Piero: A Longer Look' on view at The National Gallery

Santa Monica, CA

SANTA MONICA, CA.- ROSEGALLERY will present The Alchemy in Materiality, an exhibition of works by John Chiara as part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide. The Alchemy in Materiality offers an enthralling journey through John Chiara’s innovative career. It presents a comprehensive retrospective of his work, inviting viewers to contemplate the elusive essence of the present moment, seamlessly bridging the realms of art and science with a captivating, visceral aesthetic.

ROSEGALLERY to open an exhibition of works by John Chiara

Are you ready for a future where robots can dance, high-five, and even hug humans? Well, that future might be closer than you think. Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a humanoid robot that can perform a variety of expressive movements while maintaining its balance on different terrains.

Why engineers are teaching humanoid robots to move and groove

SYDNEY.- New Zealand philanthropist Michael Horton and his late wife, Dame Rosie Horton have donated their significant private collection of Australian Aboriginal art to the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The gift comprises the largest number of artworks ever donated to the Art Gallery’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art collection.

Collection of Aboriginal art gifted to the Art Gallery of New South Wales

TOKYO.- Pace will present an exhibition of new, never-before-exhibited paintings by American artist Maysha Mohamedi to mark the grand opening of its Tokyo gallery in the city’s Azabudai Hills. On view from September 6 to October 16, the show, titled Maysha Mohamedi: yesterday I was a tiny tube of...

Pace announces an exhibition of new, never-before-exhibited paintings by Maysha Mohamedi

Denver, PA

Lateral view of one of the original eight Heddon ‘factory board’ frog lures hand-carved circa 1898 by Heddon Company founder James Heddon. To be auctioned Dec. 10 at Morphy’s Denver, Pa., gallery with a $30,000-$60,000 estimate. Image courtesy of Morphy Auctions. DENVER, PA.- Dan Morphy, president of...

Morphy's chosen to auction the celebrated Wayne Edens fishing lure collection

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"They accidentally gave us 2 washers and a dryer when we only ordered 1 of each". Last month, Lowe’s experienced a glitch that lowered the price of its $2,300 Midea jumbo capacity refrigerator to just $169.

‘Lowe’s messed up’: Shopper says they got $2,300 fridge at Lowe’s for just $169

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Colleton County, SC

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Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

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Park Ridge, IL

Tucked away in the charming suburb of Park Ridge, Illinois, lies a store that is nothing short of a wonderland for the curious and the creative: American Science & Surplus. This isn’t your typical store where you grab a loaf of bread or a gallon of milk. No, this...

The Fascinatingly Odd Surplus Store In Illinois Where You’ll Find Robot Parts And Strange Science Kits

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Simian presents \"Nina Canell: Future Mechanism Rag Plus Two Grams\"

Future Mechanism Rag Plus Two Grams presents a group of sculptures, shown together for the first time, and a new collaborative video. COPENHAGEN.- Nina Canell’s work...

Simian presents "Nina Canell: Future Mechanism Rag Plus Two Grams"

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