And One More Special Photo

  On the shore of the Salton Sea, California

Machu Picchu revisited Summer 2012

In previous issues of the Newsletter we have discussed Hiram Bingham's discovery of Machu Picchu and the return of the Inca artifacts ta...

Photo Summer 2012

  Photograph by NANCIE BATTAGLIA for National Geographic On September 24, 2011, over 2,200 paddlers showed up on the shores of the central A...

More African Art

Waist Pendant Benin Edo Ht. 6 3/4 " Nigeria , West Africa Jay Last Collection, Beverly Hills Waist Pendant with Oba and Two Attendant...

Pre-Columbian Art Summer 2012

Snuff Scoop    Atacama, Chile   Ht. 5 1/4" Bone   Snuff inhaled through tubes from small trays or tablets was common in the southern A...

African Art Summer 2012

          Kuba mask This mask, which is called pwoom itok, is danced ceremonially at funerals, initiations and entertainment festivals. Lite...

Changes At The Top Summer 2012

"Kimerly Rorschach, director of Duke University’s Nasher Museum of Art since 2004, has been named the new director of Seattle Art Museu...

My Word Summer 2012

This summer went by in about five minutes. A good bit of it was spent driving and in fact one 3500 mile trip took me from Dallas to Rapid Ci...

Auctions Summer 2012

1. LOS ANGELES (AP).- July 31, 2012 A watch worn by Steve McQueen in "Le Mans" sold for nearly $800,000 at an auction of film mem...

Art Donations - More Orphans Now and in the Future

This New York Times article points out a serious problem in the art world that has been created as a result of the new AAM (American Associa...

The Art Market July 2012

1. "The top end of the art market appears to keep climbing, despite fresh crises in the currency and banking markets and ongoing turmoi...

Chicago Art Institute Raises the Standard for Everyone

Unfortunately, on this last trip around the country I visited The Art Institute before I made the trip to Bloomington and the Indiana Univer...

I initially saw this exhibition in Los Angeles at the Fowler Museum. It is a superb and important show. If you are in the San Francisco area...

Indiana University Art Museum

For those of you that have been following this blog over the years, you will recall that I have been critical of Indiana University's ha...