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 29, 2022 | Art, News & Trending
Michael Heizer has spent 50 years completing his massive art installation, “City”, and now he’s opening it to the public. Michael Heizer began building “City” in 1970, out in the desert of Nevada. It may be the largest contemporary artwork in the world, built on...
Aug 22, 2022 | Art, News & Trending
A closer look at Vermeer’s paintings, with new technology, has revealed that his perfectionism is in the finish, not the process. Johannes Vermeer, the Dutch painter behind “Girl with the Pearl Earring,” has long had a reputation of being an obsessive...
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,...
