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2024 August


The late Dakota artist Mary Sully in four key works at the Metropolitan Museum

The late Dakota artist Mary Sully in four key works at the Metropolitan Museum

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.


A Field Guide to Bros

A Field Guide to Bros

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.


The Little-Known Business of Traveling Exhibitions Is Booming

The Little-Known Business of Traveling Exhibitions Is Booming

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.


‘Once in a generation chance’: Hampton Court conservation grants visitors closer look at Chapel Royal

‘Once in a generation chance’: Hampton Court conservation grants visitors closer look at Chapel Royal

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.


Release of Olena Pekh highlights plight of other Ukrainian cultural workers languishing in Russian prisons

Release of Olena Pekh highlights plight of other Ukrainian cultural workers languishing in Russian prisons

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.


Remembering David Anfam, curator, writer and Abstract Expressionism connoisseur

Remembering David Anfam, curator, writer and Abstract Expressionism connoisseur

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.


Saatchi Collection sends major Ibrahim Mahama work to auction

Saatchi Collection sends major Ibrahim Mahama work to auction

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.


How Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Laid a Stable Ground for MoMA’s Success

How Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Laid a Stable Ground for MoMA’s Success

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.


Le Veau d’Or Makes a Thrillingly Old-Fashioned Comeback

Le Veau d’Or Makes a Thrillingly Old-Fashioned Comeback

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.


A New AI Project Involving 12 Major Institutions Aims to Transform Art Preservation with Color Reconstruction

A New AI Project Involving 12 Major Institutions Aims to Transform Art Preservation with Color Reconstruction

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.


Zagreb collective WHW named creative directors of Skulptur Projekte Münster

Zagreb collective WHW named creative directors of Skulptur Projekte Münster

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.


New York’s Department of Cultural Affairs awards institutions more than $200m for capital projects

New York’s Department of Cultural Affairs awards institutions more than $200m for capital projects

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.