Sep 9, 2020 | Culture, Exhibitions, News & Trending
In April 2019, Notre Dame burned. Its tower collapsed in and the 800-year-old oak beams blazed to charcoal while the world watched live. Many were shocked to learn that it was the cathedral’s first major fire in its long life. It survived both World Wars and two...
Aug 26, 2020 | Art, Exhibitions
The San Francisco Art Institute, the oldest art school west of the Mississippi, faced closure this spring after COVID-19 made it impossible to reopen for in-person classes this fall. But an April vote by the school board confirmed that the school would remain open,...
Aug 19, 2020 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery
In the early 1820s, English King George IV commissioned the architect John Nash to make some renovations to Buckingham Palace – most notably, to build the picture gallery, a home for George’s collection of fine paintings. Now, two centuries later, the gallery is...
Jul 29, 2020 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending
Before Lucy Liu hit television big time in 1997 on Ally McBeal, and big screen fame in Charlie’s Angels in 2000, she was showing her art in major galleries in New York and Los Angeles. She’s worked in collage, photography, mixed-media works, and sculpture...
Jun 17, 2020 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery, News & Trending
While Art Basel, the international fine arts fair founded in 1970 by Ernst Beyeler, Trudl Bruckner, and Balz Hilt has three major events a year, spaced around the globe, it is its eponymous event, Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland, that is the gem of the set. At Basel...
Apr 1, 2020 | Art, Donations, Exhibitions
The first object in Robert and Betsy Feinberg’s collection of Japanese art was not a fine silk painting or a hand-carved wood fan; it was a $2 poster print of a screen painting of an early Portuguese ship arriving in Japan in the 16th century. They found it in a...
