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 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...
Jul 18, 2022 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery, Museums, News & Trending
Hidden sketches have been discovered inside a painting by Jewish Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. Modigliani painted and sculpted in France in the 1910s, until his early death in 1920, at the age of 35. His art, mostly portraits and nudes in surreal, elongated...
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,...
