Ahead of a Sotheby's auction of Important Judaica on December 20, the Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased a rare illuminated Hebrew Bible. Sotheby's estimated the text's value between $3.5 and $5 million, but before bidders had a chance, the Met swept in, making a pre-auction private purchase for an undisclosed amount.
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Opening this month at the Denver Art Museum, Linking Asia: Art, Trade & Devotion explores the breadth and depth of the museum's Asian art collection.
The National Gallery of Victoria's Triennial open in Melbourne, Australia this weekend. A "celebration of contemporary art and design practice," the Triennial brings in over 100 artists from around the world. Installed across the museum's diverse galleries, the Triennial creates a dialogue between the new visiting works and the museum's collection.
Currents 114: Matt Saunders, the latest exhibition in the Saint Louis Art Museum’s popular series showcasing current and emerging artists, opened November 17th. Saunders' mixed-media work incorporates his own imagery with those from avant-garde film and found photography. Melding painting, photography, animation, and printmaking, Saunders’ exhibit creates an interactive experience of perception and transformation.
In the Tower: Anne Truitt
National Galley of Art, Washington, DC
Through April 1, 2018
Last week the Louvre Abu Dhabi surprised many with intriguing (and vague) tweets that they would be displaying Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi. Without offering an explanation as to when or how they would be showing the work, the circumstances surrounding its landmark museum debut remained a mystery.
As part of its 50th anniversary, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents Heaven and Earth: Alexander Calder and Jeff Koons, which explores the unexpected synergy of two contemporary art icons.
Experience the impressive creative output of 19th century female artists in Her Paris: Women Artists in the Age of Impressionism, this fall at the Denver Art Museum. The luminous pieces showcased here capture the play of light across a wheat field, the rich fall of drapery, the camaraderie of friends at a cafe, the love between mother and child. Often overshadowed by male Impressionists, Her Paris gives these female trailblazers their due.
The Remai Modern opened this month in Saskatoon, Canada. The museum marked the occasion with a civic ceremony, live performances, and a weekend of free admission. Funded largely by the Canadian government, the museum seeks to become a preeminent source for modern art in Canada.
Coinciding with this fall’s fortieth Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair on October 28–30 is an ambitious, multi-venue exhibition of illuminated manuscripts and early printed books, providing a tantalizing glimpse of medieval book production as well as a thorough examination of manuscript collecting in Boston at the turn of the nineteenth century.
