Oct 24, 2022 | Culture, Exhibitions, New York, News & Trending
The Hamptons has a long list of art offerings for a nice weekend away from New York City. On the far eastern end of Long Island, New York, the Hamptons has been an artistic and privileged retreat since before the Civil War. These days, it is wide open to tourists,...
Sep 26, 2022 | Art, Music, New York, News & Trending
The Met Opera season opens for 2022, with a lushly dark staging of a play written over 200 years ago. “Medea” by Luigi Cherubini and François-Benoît Hoffman premiered in Paris in 1797, and turned heads then. It’s based on a much older play, written in the 400s...
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...
Jul 25, 2022 | Art, Museums, New York, News & Trending
Looted artifacts are on their way back to Italy, as New York investigators hand over 142 objects they’ve seized in the past year. A third of the stolen assortment came from the collection of Mr. Steinhardt, a billionaire antiquities collector who was made to...
May 23, 2022 | Art, Auctions, New York, News & Trending
The Macklowe collection, the artwork at the center of a high-profile divorce case, has sold at auction for just shy of $1 billion. Harry and Linda Macklowe married in 1959, and for nearly 60 years lived an extremely affluent lifestyle together. They had a $72 million...
Apr 18, 2022 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery, New York, News & Trending
An art trove found in an abandoned barn by a mechanic may be worth millions of dollars. Jared Whipple heard from a friend of his that there was something odd in a dumpster in an abandoned barn in Watertown, Connecticut. Curious, he went out and found hundreds of...
