The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition Mary Sully: Native Modern (until 12 January 2025) features a recently rediscovered trove of works by the self-taught Yankton Dakota artist.
The vests provide protection from over-air-conditioned offices and are used to lure other Finance Bros into bromances—unions formed for discussing arbitrage, golf, and small-batch bourbon.
However, according to Forlenza, AFA still faces many of the same challenges hitting other parts of the art industry, including spiking costs for utilities, raw materials, fuel, and insurance, as well as difficulties recruiting and retaining highly specialized staff.
They gaze up at the richly painted vaulted ceiling, with musician cherubs scrambling out of the pendants created for Henry VIII, and the extensive Baroque decoration carried out for Queen Anne.
Borys Petrunok, a researcher with Zmina, a human rights organisation in Kyiv that has identified culture workers as one of the groups of Ukrainian citizens most vulnerable to arbitrary detention by Russian forces, says it is incredibly difficult to compile a comprehensive list of the missing.
An alumnus of the Courtauld Institute (his PhD dissertation under John Golding was on the work of Still), he was very much an old-school scholar, rigorous and considered, with a love and respect for the written word that was always evident in his own extensive and varied production, as well as during has stint as a commissioning editor at Phaidon.
They are then often reused many times to carry feed, coal and charcoal around the country for domestic consumption, before being finally repurposed by Mahama at the end of their working life, illustrating the complex trade networks of the global economy and post-independence Ghana.
The arduous task of finding suitable real estate thus fell to Crowninshield and Goodyear, who searched several possibilities before settling on six rooms on the twelfth floor of the Heckscher Building, at 730 Fifth Avenue, a location that Sullivan, through a former student of hers, helped them root out.
The present-day bill of fare, too, is only lightly modernized: les escargot provençale (snails broiled under a blanket of butter, garlic, and tomato concasse), tete de veau ravigote (crispy cubes of veal headcheese), chilled lobster macédoine, a delightfully wobbly oeuf en gelée—a whole boiled egg suspended like a specimen in an amber aspic of consommé—that calls back to what the Times, in a scathing 1977 review, highlighted as one of the restaurant’s very few dishes worth recommending.
The hope is that the development of a package of tools will bolster the ability of conservators, curators, and others to study and digitally reconstruct the original colors of five key groups of art: statues, paintings and works on paper, textiles, photographs, and augmented reality artworks.
Bussmann and König founded Skulptur Projekte Münster to familiarise the city’s population with contemporary art after an outbreak of public indignation in response to George Rickey’s kinetic sculpture Three Rotating Squares.
The Arts Students League's building on 57th Street, which was constructed in 1892, was designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, the architect responsible for other New York gems like the Plaza Hotel and the Dakota Apartments.
“Like everyone working in Scotland’s culture and creative sector, we understand the extreme pressures on public finances," he said, "but want to see longer-term budget certainty from the Scottish government, including the additional £100m announced in October 2023, details of which have yet to emerge."
The two-part show reveals like never before how theft was used as a means of erasing Jewish identity, writes Ambassador (ret) Stuart E. Eizenstat, the chair of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, and the curator Julie-Marthe Cohen
At 7:30 in the morning on Wednesday (21 August), in a parking lot just a couple miles west of the 2024 Democratic National Convention’s (DNC) main venue in Chicago, the Los Angeles-based artist Autumn Breon was restocking her hot pink Care Machine (2023) with tampons and little packages of lubricant.
Especially in Texas, with its large Mexican American population, they faced pressure from political-machine bosses to support particular candidates, threats from their employers that they would lose their jobs if they joined supposedly insurgent political parties, and primaries in which only non-Latino white voters were allowed to participate, which were outlawed only in the nineteen-forties.
Arthur Jafa's work in film, sculpture and installation explores Black being with an unflinching eye for systemic and historic inequity and violence and an exuberant harnessing of disparate manifestations of Black—and particularly African American—culture.
The Brighton pavilion has been a conservation nightmare ever since the early 19th century, when the architect John Nash completed the transformation of a relatively modest classical mansion into a fantasy Oriental palace for the wildly extravagant Prince Regent, the future George IV.
We were excited about the chance to foster cross-cultural dialogue and deepen the understanding of art through the unique lens of African mythology, while appreciating the stories from paintings within the National Gallery that have inspired us—and continue to do so.
While working for him both there and in Avignon, she came up with a strikingly original idea for making promotional stills for productions: in an effort to capture the essence of the dramas, Varda, in lieu of shooting rehearsals, decided to “restage the scene so it played to the camera.” In the process, Rickey writes, she “developed and refined an array of skills.
