The Technological Arts: Ancient Seafaring Featured by Smithsonian and Singapore

Smithsonian and Singapore Organize World Tour of Shipwreck Treasure | Art Knowledge News

Written by Sylvester Hanson Sunday, 26 September 2010 05:07

WASHINGTON, DC.- The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the Singapore Tourism Board and the National Heritage Board of Singapore today announced a partnership to organize the first exhibition and international tour of one of the oldest and most important marine archaeological finds of the late 20th century. The exhibition will focus on the 1998 discovery of a ninth-century shipwreck and its astonishing cargo of about 60,000 objects from Tang dynasty China, ranging from mass-produced ceramics to rare and extraordinary items of finely worked gold. The cargo had laid undisturbed on the ocean floor for more than 1,100 years until sea-cucumber divers discovered it off the coast of Indonesia's Belitung Island. The ship, an Arab dhow, and its contents confirm the existence of a direct maritime trade route (alluded to in ancient Chinese and Arabic texts) from China to the Persian Gulf and beyond-well before the Portuguese set sail in the 15th century.

Chroma Passage from the Petosky Arch by Janice Arnold

See the "Chroma Passage from the Petosky Arch" at

Janice Arnold - ArtPrize Artist Profile - A radically open art contest, Grand Rapids Michigan

Hat tip to the Big Swede.

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The Makropulos Case at the English National Opera is brilliantly reviewed by Igor Toronyi-Lalic at The Arts Desk.

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"Art and science, and sometimes art and politics, mirror each other in times of rapid change."

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Europeana - About us:

"Europeana.eu ... links you to 6 million digital items.

* Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects
* Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers
* Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts
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art and art handling

"Art handling is all about balance, understanding the physical presence of the object/ Art and recognizing how to touch it."

The Guggenheim: Kandinsky Retrospective Helps Set New Attendance Record for 2009

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"Record-breaking attendance at the museum has been recorded for 2009, the fiftieth-anniversary year of the landmark building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Over 1.3 million visitors came to the museum this past year, enjoying groundbreaking exhibitions such as The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989; Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward; The Sweeney Decade: Acquisitions at the 1959 Inaugural; and Kandinsky....

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"An unofficial Google Maps blog tracking the websites, mashups and tools being influenced by Google Maps.

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Art as Economics : Germany turns to Culture to Combat Foreign Competition

Germany combats foreign competition with culture - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
by Mike Wereschagin of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

hat tip to German-American Relations group at LinkedIn