TAOS, N.M. – The PASEO Project will host its fourth annual PASEO outdoor art festival this year on Saturday, September 23 in Historic Downtown Taos. The festival will incorporate installation, performance and projection art from local artists and youths, as well as New York based artists, Motomichi Nakamura and The Illuminator, and fire artist, Jamie Vaida. This event is free and open to the public.
NEW YORK – The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that it has acquired an ancient Egyptian gilded cartonnage coffin from the first century B.C. The highly ornamented lid of the coffin is displayed prominently in the Museum’s Lila Acheson Wallace Galleries for Egyptian Art (gallery 138), where it will be seen and enjoyed by millions of visitors.
CINCINNATI – Despite years of reports to the contrary, the paper collectible market proved itself to be alive and well in Cowan’s Eric C. Caren – How History Unfolds on Paper Auction. The September 8, 2017 sale, with Internet live bidding through LiveAuctioneers, featured some exceptional pieces of American History from the Eric C. Caren Archive, the single-most significant private collection of historic documents in the United States.
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) – A guitar factory in Kalamazoo is teaming up with Rolling Stone in an effort to turn the historic site into a national music destination.
LUXOR, Egypt (AP) – Egypt on Saturday announced the discovery in the southern city of Luxor of a pharaonic tomb belonging to a royal goldsmith who lived more than 3,500 years ago and whose work was dedicated to the ancient Egyptian god Amun.
PRAGUE – Through October 27, Jaroslav Fragner Gallery and the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague are hosting the third Experimental Architecture Biennial. The Czech Republic’s only platform for experimental architecture, Biennial includes an exhibition by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), workshops, site-specific pavilion and film screenings.