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Tavares Strachan approaches art the way he thinks about music—fluid, improvisational, and open to interpretation. “Because I grew up listening to so much music, I just love the idea that it…
In late January, the Smithsonian announced that it would return a Shiva Nataraja statue and two other Chola Dynasty bronzes to India from the National Museum of Asian Art under a “shared…
Last summer, a small American museum made history by becoming the first institution in the country to return one of the fabled Benin bronzes. Officials of the University of Iowa’s Stanley Museum of…
On August 16, 1972, at Riace Marina on the south coast of the Italian boot, amateur diver Stefano Mariottini reported to the local Carabinieri station the presence of archaeological finds which…
The artistic creations and advancements of Ancient Greece have undoubtedly had profound and lasting effects on the development of later art production, particularly within the western canon.
In the Rotunda of the United States Capitol, a bronze bust of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was dedicated to the nation by his wife, Coretta Scott King, on January 16, 1986— Dr. King’s 57th…
A cast of Camille Claudel’s masterpiece, The Age of Maturity (1894), has recently been found in a vacant Paris apartment and is suspected to fetch between $1.5 to $2 million at…
Art Encounter, a father-son art gallery based out of Las Vegas, Nevada, has been tasked with the sale of a bronze cast of Leonardo Di Vinci’s last known surviving beeswax sculpture. The 10-inch by 9-…
Founded in 1913 “for the benefit of all the people forever,” the Cleveland Museum of Art opened in 1916. With more than 600,000 people visiting each year, the CMA is one of the most visited art…
Stuart Handler’s immense success in commercial real estate and his subsequent philanthropy made such a colossal impact that the University of Illinois-Chicago named its real estate department after…
In a perfectly paired yin-yang juxtaposition of exhibitions, two artists—Ana María Hernando and Yoshitomo Saito—show works inspired by nature, yet rendered in extremely different media.…
The cloud’s chimeric quality is even more salient in Chinese visual and material arts. It has made a palpable mark on theories of painting and the visual arts of China, and by extension the visual…
2500 years ago, China was fractured into competing aristocratic states vying for supreme control. Warfare hastened cultural exchange and ultimately gave rise to a unique visual language across the…
On a Bank Holiday Sunday in August 2017 two metal detectorists, with a combined 40 years’ experience, stumbled across one of the most intriguing hoards of Roman artefacts to be discovered in Britain…
Go behind the scenes with Getty conservators, curators, and scientists as they work to preserve the Drunken Satyr, a rare ancient Roman bronze on temporary loan to the Getty Villa from the National…
