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This fall, The Frick Collection will present Veronese in Murano: Two Venetian Renaissance Masterpieces Restored, a focused exhibition on two recently conserved and rarely seen paintings by the…
Join us in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the award of The Temple of Dendur to The Met in a day filled with special offerings and activities. One of the Museum's most iconic and best-loved works…
LOS ANGELES – The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the voluntary return of a marble statuette representing the god Zeus which dates to about 100 B.C. The Museum acquired the sculpture in 1992.…
Christie’s France is pleased to announce that it will offer “Stripped Bare: Photographs from the Thomas Koerfer Collection,” comprising 74 lots and led by the emblematic Man Ray masterpiece, …
This fall, the Morgan Library will be exhibiting some of its most bejeweled medieval books in the show Magnificent Gems: Medieval Treasure Bindings. The exhibition, which is running…
The Charles Dickens Museum in London reported that it discovered an original portrait of Catherine Dickens, wife of Charles Dickens. In a curious twist, the painting was discovered by X-ray…
Over the holiday week, I took a trip to Corning, New York, home of the Corning Museum of Glass. My primary intention was to see the collection of antique microscopes on exhibit (and featured in our…
Earlier this week, the Concord Museum in Massachusetts received a daguerreotype of Sophia Thoreau (1819-1876), younger sister of American essayist and naturalist Henry David Thoreau (1817-…
"The power and energy of water have long been an alluring subject for artists. The museum’s collection is featured in this conceptual collage set to the introductory chapter of Herman Melville’s Moby…
Discussion on old master drawings.
Discussion on old master drawings.
Credit: Minneapolis Institute of Art
"From his London studio, artist Ori Gersht describes his practices in analogue and digital photography, filmmaking, and editing, and the environment in which he produces work. He highlights some of…
"Artist Nadia Kaabi-Linke talks about her work in relation to themes of layering, history, migration, and the state of being in between cultures. While in Venice for the city’s 2010 Biennale, migrant…
"June Yap, Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator, South and Southeast Asia, introduces the exhibition "No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia," and participating artists Sheela Gowda,…
"Artist Marta Minujín describes how seeing the Obelisk of Buenos Aires on her return to Argentina from New York many years ago prompted a series of large-scale works that demystify popular monuments…
