PYO sunflowers at Swansea farm
SWANSEA The 100 Acre Farm in Swansea will host its first-ever sunflower picking event this weekend.
For $1 a flower, you can pick your own at the family owned and operated farm located at 253 Cummings Road. The family-friendly event will take place Saturday and Sunday, July 31 and Aug 1, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tie-Dye Night at Fall River library
FALL RIVER The Fall River Public Library is hosting an evening of creative fun that s to dye for.
Join the library for Tie-Dye Night on Monday, Aug. 16, from 6 to 8 p.m. on the Elm Street lawn. Shirts and colors are provided -no need to bring your own.
The National Gallery of Australia will remove 14 works from its Asian art collection and return them to the Indian government.
Worth a combined $3 million, 13 of the objects were purchased between 2002 and 2010 from Art of the Past, the now-infamous New York gallery run by disgraced antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor. And one came from the late New York art dealer William Wolff in 1989.
They comprise six stone or bronze sculptures, most dating back to the 11th or 12th century, as well as a brass processional standard, or alam , from Hyderabad dated 1851. There is a painted invitation scroll, or vijnaptipatra, from Rajasthan dated approximately 1835, and six photographs.
The NGA director, Nick Mitzevich, confirmed the gallery had in-principle agreement from the Indian government through the Indian high commission that they welcomed and would receive the works.
“The physical handover will be negotiated over the next couple of months, giving consideration to Covid and the ability to travel, as to whether it’s realistic to have it in India or Canberra,” he said.
“It’s unfortunate, and the institution is sorry for this development. We are doing all we can to avoid any future missteps of this kind,” Mitzevich said in the Australian. “It’s a historic issue … The NGA was part of an international fraud campaign that affected more than a dozen of the world’s leading institutions.”
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Chicago-based artist to paint Naumkeag portrait for Salem City Hall
Work on public art piece will commence in the fall
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“It’s the most the city has ever received for submissions, so that was really exciting,” Julie Barry, the city’s senior planner for arts and culture, told the Salem Gazette on Monday. “Fifty-nine were deemed eligible, and we landed on four finalists whom we then interviewed.”
On Monday, the city announced it had found its awardee for the Naumkeag Portrait Project: Chris Padden, a Chicago-based artist of Kanza, Osage and Lakota descent. Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Pappan studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts.