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by Thomas Rogers
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.- For almost 20 years, Werner Kohl has followed the saga of the Humboldt Forum. Like many Germans, he has been watching and listening since 2002, when the government approved a plan for the huge new cultural attraction in Berlin. Thats nearly two decades of debate, protest, overspend and delay. So on Tuesday evening, when he finally stood in the buildings darkened exhibition spaces, he was thrilled, he said. Ive been looking forward to this day from the beginning, Kohl said. Im here to see if it delivers on what it proposed. Kohl, 63, was there to see Terrible Beauty, a temporary exhibition of ivory artifacts ranging across 40,000 years. It was one of six inaugural shows in the Forum, which brings together several museum collections in a reconstructed Baroque palace. Located on the site of the demolished East German Parliament and conceived as Germanys equivalent to the Louvre, the Hu
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BOULDER, Colo. â Every auction event conducted by Artemis Gallery is a trip back in time, with intriguing artifacts from scores of important cultures waiting to be discovered, however the companyâs Exceptional Series is a particular favorite with collectors. The finest consignments of investment-grade art and artifacts from Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Viking, Near Eastern, Far East/Asian, Pre-Columbian and tribal cultures are reserved exclusively for sales produced under the Exceptional Series banner. The next Exceptional Antiquities, Asian & Ethnographic Auction, slated for June 10, includes 400+ museum-worthy lots, with absentee and live-online bidding available through LiveAuctioneers.
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The auction will open with one of the sessionâs special highlights: an Ancient Egyptian late-18th-Dynasty Amarna faience lotus bottle with glyphs. This incredible, mold-formed vessel dates to circa 1353-1336 BCE and is covered in softened layers of turquoise-hued glaze. Overall, it
Abstract artistâs career has taken twists and turns
SURRY â An artistâs life can bend and twist in ways that often only make sense from a distance. For Jodi Edwards, now in her mid-50s and living an artistâs life in a rebuilt farmhouse, the journey was as important as where she landed in late middle age. And like many journeys of self-discovery, hers cannot easily be sorted into a beginning, middle and end.
âI started out as an artistâs model,â she said. âAnd I got really good at it.â
Raised in a home where the arts were heavily promoted â âMy parents were both frustrated artists,â Edwards said â she painted a mural on her bedroom wall as a middle-schooler. Fast forward 10 years or so, and with a bachelorâs degree in liberal arts behind her, she began modeling for New York City art colleges and transitioned to a professional art modeling career, which she continued into her late 30s.