The Neon Museum announces new Executive Director
Berger most recently served as the executive director for five years at The Breman Museum in Atlanta.
LAS VEGAS, NEV
.-The Neon Museum announces that Aaron Berger has been selected as the museums executive director. Selected after a comprehensive and broad-based search spanning the U.S. and beyond, Berger brings to the museum extensive experience in museum leadership, nonprofit fundraising, and community engagement.
Berger, who recently relocated to Las Vegas from Atlanta, Ga., most recently served as the executive director for five years at The Breman Museum in Atlanta, raising annual attendance by 32 percent and garnering accolades such as Must See Destination by Trip Advisor and one of the Best Museums in Atlanta by USA Today 10 Best during his tenure.
Derek Eller Gallery opens solo exhibitions of works by William Downs and André Ethier
André Ethier, Untitled, 2021. Oil on canvas, 20.25 x 24 inches.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Derek Eller Gallery is presenting Pieces of a Man, a solo exhibition of monumental black ink and spray paint works on canvas and paper by William Downs. Utilizing his own well-developed visual language in which androgynous moving bodies fluidly interact within a Bosch-ian landscape, Downs composes scenes which evoke compassion, vulnerability, darkness, and light.
Downs applies India ink with brushes, sticks, and brooms, creating a lexicon of mark-making which denotes movement, weight, and depth. Rendered in a line which fluctuates from tight and calligraphic to watery and loose, Downs figures are hairless and barefoot. At times, facial features are blurred and repeated, indicating motion. Bodies are either naked or clad in cactus suits, a prickly protective layer which covers most everything but leaves the face
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Evolutionary experts recently identified how South African dinosaurs breathed using the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility ESRF s X-ray technology. The dinosaur, better known as the Heterodontosaurus tucki, had a breathing system that had been a puzzle for scientists up until today.
Heterodontosaurus Fossil Shows Unique Ventilatory Techniques of the Ornithischian Dinosaurs
(Photo : Daderot / WikiCommons)
Back in 2016, the University of Witwatersrand s Evolutionary Studies Institute experts collaborated with ESRF to scan the detailed skeleton structure of a specific dinosaur. Using the brightest and most powerful synchrotron light source, the fossil of the 200 million-year-old herbivore giant Heterodontosaurus tucki was observed for additional details regarding its previous body formation. Albany Museum s expert and co-author of the study William de Klerk was the first to encounter the fossil way back in 2019 in South Africa s Eastern Cape, reports Science Daily report
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