Jan 22, 2021 | Art, News & Trending
Kolam, sometimes known as Muggu, is a traditional form of geometric art from Sri Lanka and other parts of Southern Asia. Normally drawn in flour, sand, or powdered pigment on the ground in front of a home by the female family members, it is meant to welcome all into a...
Jan 15, 2021 | Art, Gallery, New York, News & Trending
While the Metropolitan Museum of Art was able to reopen after several months of prudent closure during the spring and summer of 2020, they’ve done so with reduced capacity, limited hours, and reservation requirements that mean that not everyone who wishes to...
Dec 9, 2020 | Art, News & Trending
For almost sixty years, the almost candid painting of the Holy Family has hung in a town hall in Brussels, in their urban-planning office. They knew the painting, in its gloomy colors and familial setting, was the work of Flemish Baroque master Jacques Jordaens, but...
Dec 8, 2020 | Art, News & Trending
It must have been a bit of a shock – the helicopter pilot and his handful of passengers were out somewhere in the Utah desert counting sheep (yes, it sounds like a joke, but it’s science). Poking into a red rock canyon to look for more of the bighorns, they...
Nov 20, 2020 | Art, New York, News & Trending
The business that’s like no other is a much bigger business than you’d probably guess. Broadway itself, the 41 large theatres clustered around Lincoln Center in New York City and the businesses that depend on them, employ nearly 100,000 people full-time,...
Nov 13, 2020 | Art, News & Trending
There is nothing new about inept art restoration. But in the past decade or so and particularly since the 2012 destruction of the Ecce Homo in Borja by a well-meaning parishioner, it has become a popular kind of public spectacle. The latest, which was posted to...
