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Iconic Moon landing image rockets past previous records in September auction
DALLAS, TX.- In the summer of 1969, NASA's Apollo 11 lunar landing mission famously resulted in "one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Now, more than 50 years later, an iconic photograph from the groundbreaking mission has experienced a giant leap of its own. On Sept. 24, during Heritage Auctions' Images of Apollo: The J.L. Pickering Collection Signature Auction, the legendary image known simply as "Visor" landed a winning bid of $125,000 a record-breaking price for a vintage print of the history-making photograph and possibly a record for any 8x10 NASA photo. "The bidding for this photo was unforeseen," says Brad Palmer, consignment director/cataloger for Heritage's Space Exploration department. "We can't find anything close to it. These prints are becoming more and more coveted among collectors." Part of space historian ... More

Norman Rockwell's 1945 masterwork Home for Thanksgiving makes its auction debut
DALLAS, TX.- For years, the painting hung in the hallway of a Massachusetts American Legion Post alone, unattended, on a wall near the front door. "Where anyone could have walked out with it," Ken LaBrack says with a small laugh. For years, no one cared too much about the fate of the painting, because they thought it was nothing more than a reproduction of Norman Rockwell's Home for Thanksgiving, which first appeared on the cover of the Nov. 24, 1945, issue of The Saturday Evening Post. LaBrack, a past commander at the Eugene M. Connor Post 193 of Winchendon, Mass., says it wasn't until someone walked in and offered $500 for the work that the post's officers began reconsidering their position: Maybe this was far more than just a beautiful fake. So one day in the early 1970s, the painting was pulled from the wall and driven to the Norman ... More

The small Rolls-Royce design that princes covetted in the 1930s for sale with H&H Classics at Buxton
LONDON.- One of just 22 Rolls-Royce 20/25 chassis to be fitted with the highly desirable Owen Sedanca coachwork, this graceful car attracted commissions from the likes of King George Vs three sons and Prince Ali Khan, the husband of film star Rita Hayworth. Damian Jones of H&H Classics says: This is a rare opportunity to acquire one of the most sought-after pre-WW2 small Rolls-Royces ever made. It is offered for sale with V5 Registration Document, copy RREC build records and lots of invoices for servicing and some repair work. The London coachbuilder J. Gurney Nutting & Co Ltds luring of designer A.F. McNeil away from the shipbuilder Cunard was instrumental in it being appointed Motor Body Builders to His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales during 1931. Possessed of a fabulous sense of proportion and a real eye for detail, McNeil ... More

New traveling exhibition celebrates Indigenous art through skateboard, snowboard, and surf culture in Canada
VANCOUVER.- The Museum of Vancouver opened its newest feature exhibition, Boarder X. Originally exhibited at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 2016, the traveling exhibition reveals skateboarding, snowboarding, and surfing as vehicles that challenge conformity and status quo. Boarder X features work by contemporary artists from Indigenous nations across Canada including Amanda Strong, Bracken Hanuse Corlett, Jordan Bennett, Meagan Musseau, Roger Crait, Steven Davies, Mark Igloliorte, Mason Mashon, Meghann OBrien, Michael Langan and Les Ramsay. Included from the MOV collections are works by contemporary Indigenous artists K.C. Hall, Olivia George, Skokaylem Zac George, and Takeover Skateboarding as well as older ... More

Summers Place Auctions to sell historically important Winnie-the-Pooh bridge
LONDON.- The iconic bridge, forever associated with A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh books and E.H. Shepard's illustrations, was built around 1907 in Ashdown Forest. A replacement was built in 1999, but the original bridge is now fully restored and coming up for auction on Tuesday, 5th October with an estimate of Â£40,000 - 60,000. It provides a unique opportunity to buy a piece of literary history in the year Pooh Bear is celebrating his 100th Birthday - he was given to Christopher Robin Milne on his first birthday in 1921. Constructed as a sturdy river crossing for horses and carts as well as pedestrians in the forest and originally known as Posingford Bridge, it rose to fame when the famous children's author A.A. Milne got his inspiration when his son Christopher Robin played on it as a child in the 1920's and they invented the game of Poohsticks. This ... More

Artist Janet Zweig asks "What Do We Have in Common?" in new public art installation in Boston
BOSTON, MASS.- In celebration of the Friends of the Public Gardens 50th anniversary in Boston, famed public artist Janet Zweig unveiled a large, participatory public sculpture a hand-crafted, double-sided, wooden cabinet with removable illuminated markers that invite discussion about ownership for an installation called What Do We Have In Common? on historic Boston Common until Oct. 22. The Boston Common is a powerful backdrop for this experience. Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the land that became the Common was occupied by the Massachusett tribe that considered all land to be held in common. As Americas first public park, it has 387 years of history. It has witnessed executions, sermons, protests, and celebrations. It has hosted famous visitors and everyday gatherings of friends and family. The earliest townspeople ... More

First solo museum exhibition for Naudline Pierre now open at Dallas Museum of Art
DALLAS, TX.- The first solo museum exhibition for painter Naudline Pierre premieres at the Dallas Museum of Art this fall. Naudline Pierre: What Could Be Has Not Yet Appeared debuts five major new paintings alongside existing works by Pierre, including the DMA's recent acquisition Lest You Fall (2019). On view from September 26, 2021, through May 15, 2022, the exhibition is included in free general admission. It showcases Pierre's vivid style, recurring cast of otherworldly characters, and use of fantasy to imagine escape and possibility in the elsewhere. "Providing a platform for the work of rising artists is a critical element of the DMA's contemporary art exhibitions and programs, reflecting the global voices shaping creative practice today and connecting audiences with some of the most influential artists of our time," said Dr. AgustÃn Arteaga, ... More

Enescu, an underplayed composer, is still a star in Romania
BUCHAREST.- Romania has a long record of defying the catastrophes history has served up, so it certainly would not allow the pandemic to derail the George Enescu International Festival, devoted to its premier musical native son, which ended Sunday. At stake was not only the 25th edition of this countrys largest cultural event but also the renewal of a global artistic exchange that this still-marginalized part of Europe considers essential to its development. Stubbornly underappreciated elsewhere, Enescu (1881-1955), whose Oedipe runs at the Paris Opera through Oct. 14, remains a pervasive presence here, even beyond the musical realm. His face is on Romanias 5-lei note; Bucharests largest orchestra is the George Enescu Philharmonic. A sumptuous Beaux-Arts palace along the fabled Calea Victoriei that served briefly as his home ... More

Tommy Kirk, young star of 'Old Yeller,' is dead at 79
NEW YORK, NY.- Tommy Kirk, who was a busy star in the Disney universe as a child and young man, appearing in Old Yeller, The Shaggy Dog, Swiss Family Robinson and other movies in the late 1950s and early 60s, but whose career was derailed when his homosexuality became too widely known and when drugs and alcohol got the better of him, died Tuesday at his home in Las Vegas. He was 79. The Walt Disney Co. announced his death in a statement, which did not give a cause. Kirk got into show business by accident. An older brother was auditioning for a part in Eugene ONeills Ah, Wilderness! at the Pasadena Playhouse in California and took Tommy, then 12, along; the brother didnt get cast, but Tommy did (although not in the part his brother auditioned for). An agent came backstage and introduced himself and gave me his ... More

Review: The costume dramas of New York City Ballet
NEW YORK, NY.- It has been a long 18 months spent languishing in soft clothes, but, finally, fashion is making a comeback on the streets of New York City. It also returned to the stage of New York City Ballet. On Thursday, the company resurrected its Fall Fashion Gala at Lincoln Center with two new ballets dressed up in designer clothing from head or, in once instance, a headpiece veering into lampshade territory to pointe shoe. The question wasnt so much which dance wore its costumes better, but which one wore them brighter. (And sometimes bigger.) Apparently, coming out of a pandemic isnt the time to tone things down. And although I go all out for crazy clothes, the program, which began with Jerome Robbins Glass Pieces, didnt manage to push fashion or ballet in any innovative direction: The vibe was more Twilight ... More

Review: In 'Persuasion,' how to lose lovers and influence people
NEW YORK, NY.- Never entrust the fate of your love life to a nosy family friend. In a hokey stage adaptation of Jane Austens Persuasion by the Bedlam theater company, a Victorian woman learns the hard way that some decisions are best made on ones own. That woman, Anne Elliott (Arielle Yoder), is bright and accomplished but, at the ripe old age of 27, shamefully unmarried. Why the life of spinsterhood? When Anne was 19 and engaged to Frederick Wentworth (Rajesh Bose), her godmother and family convinced her that marrying him, a young naval officer with no connections to speak of, would be a mistake. Several years later, she is still being pushed around or, worse, totally disregarded by her narcissistic father, Sir Walter (Randolph Curtis Rand); her obnoxious sisters, Elizabeth (Nandita Shenoy) and Mary (Shaun Bennet Fauntleroy); ... More

The Philharmonic is out of its hall this year. It doesn't pack light.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Philharmonic had just finished a 90-minute concert, and backstage at Alice Tully Hall, Lawrence Tarlow, its principal librarian, went quickly to work, filing stacks of sheet music of works by Beethoven, Copland, Anna Clyne and George Walker into four trunks, each nearly as tall as Tarlow himself, ready to be loaded on a truck. Stagehands scurried around packing up cellos, basses, timpani, pianos and other equipment. With the Philharmonics home, David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, in the midst of a $550 million renovation, the orchestra is plunging into its new season as an orchestra without a hall of its own. With some good-natured grumbling Its like being on a tour for an entire concert season, said Tarlow, who is beginning his 37th season at the Philharmonic the orchestra cleared out of Alice Tully, at Lincoln ... More

A year in the life: Who gets a master's degree in the Beatles?
LIVERPOOL.- On Wednesday morning, as a new semester began, students eagerly headed into the University of Liverpools lecture theaters to begin courses in archaeology, languages and international relations. But in lecture room No. 5 of the universitys concrete Rendall Building, a less traditional program was getting underway: a masters degree devoted entirely to the Beatles. How does one start a Beatles M.A.? asked Holly Tessler, the American academic who founded the course, looking out at 11 eager students. One wore a Yoko Ono T-shirt; another had a yellow submarine tattooed on his arm. I thought the only way to do it, really, is with some music, she said. Tessler then played the class the music video for Penny Lane, the Beatles tribute to a real street in Liverpool, just a short drive from the classroom. The yearlong course The ... More