Sep 5, 2022 | Art, Culture, Museums, News & Trending
The Guelph Treasure art dispute between a German museum and the heirs of Jewish art dealers has been dismissed by a U.S. court for a second time, over jurisdictional issues. The Welfenschatz, or Guelph Treasure, is a 200 million euro hoard of silver and gold church...
Aug 15, 2022 | Art, Culture, Exhibitions, Gallery, News & Trending
Zimbabwe gets back an iconic art collection, after over 70 years. In the 1940s, the Cyrene Mission School was the first school in Rhodesia to teach art for Black students. Their paintings were bold and vivid in line and color, showing the students’ own lives....
Aug 8, 2022 | Art, Culture, Exhibitions, New York, News & Trending
The Hall des Lumieres will open this fall in New York City, and bring immersive digital art to a whole new scale. The Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank was built in 1909, a Beaux-Arts icon designed by Raymond F. Almirall. When it was completed in 1912, it was the...
Aug 1, 2022 | Art, Culture, Exhibitions, Museums, Music, News & Trending
Raphael tapestries are being shown for the first time in the United States, at the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio. Raffaello Sanzio, better known to the world as Raphael, was one of the trinity of masters of the High Renaissance. The rivalry, real or exaggerated,...
Jul 11, 2022 | Art, Culture, News & Trending
The Dutch government is reviewing its own state-held art collection to look for works stolen by Nazis that can be returned. The Restitutions Committee, a government-backed program created to organize the return of stolen artwork to its proper heirs in the Netherlands,...
Jul 4, 2022 | Art, Culture, Museums, News & Trending
The Lod Mosaic has come home to Israel at last, after a decade-long world tour. In 1996, construction workers in the Israeli town of Lod were widening a street when they discovered tile. The Israel Antiquities Authority was brought in, and the find was carefully...
