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  • Two publications show how in Caspar David Friedrich’s world mankind is puny against nature’s power and glory

    Two publications show how in Caspar David Friedrich’s world mankind is puny against nature’s power and glory

    While field, meadow and trees seem to descend towards the viewer, that left-to-right diagonal is powerfully offset, in the painting’s upper half, by the sheer weight of the evening sky, a mass of lavender-tinged clouds parting to reveal horizontal bands of yellowish-orange produced by the setting sun, a fading glimpse of a world beyond.


    Long-planned Las Vegas art museum given plot of land downtown

    Long-planned Las Vegas art museum given plot of land downtown

    The idea for a standalone fine art museum in Las Vegas has been in the making for several decades, but previous schemes never fully materialised.


    “Shrek” v. Perry the Donkey

    “Shrek” v. Perry the Donkey

    Several minutes later, after a detour through the diamond district to pick up some stamps, she was back inside the lobby, standing before a gold letter box affixed to the wall.


    An art-world wish list for the next US president

    An art-world wish list for the next US president

    Generally private enterprise supports art by buying paintings, putting murals in lobbies and commercial projects involving artists.”


    Rijksmuseum acquires controversial early botanic book on Suriname

    Rijksmuseum acquires controversial early botanic book on Suriname

    Maria Sibylla Merian’s 1705 Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium is considered a “high point” of early printing, portraying exotic insects at a time when Western Europeans were keen to explore, name and understand the world.


    New London Museum gets ÂŁ50m cash boost in face of rising costs

    New London Museum gets ÂŁ50m cash boost in face of rising costs

    Described as “one of Europe's largest cultural infrastructure projects”, the new complex is designed by Stanton Williams and Asif Khan in partnership with the conservation architects Julian Harrap.


    The Temporary License of Literary Bratdom

    The Temporary License of Literary Bratdom

    “My First Book” is a rainbow grenade of based waifus and raw-milk-chugging looksmaxxers, of parables about cancellation, of seemingly unedited reflections on status, social media, and how “reality is what we make it.” “Mood Swings,” by Barnet, features animal uprisings and venture capitalists investing in time travel.


    From ‘Soho scammer’ to television dancer: Anna Sorokin will compete on Dancing with the Stars

    From ‘Soho scammer’ to television dancer: Anna Sorokin will compete on Dancing with the Stars

    Sorokin has parlayed her notoriety into various ventures beyond the Netflix series—for which she was paid $320,000, though she was not allowed to keep the money due to a law in New York preventing criminals from cashing in on their infamy.


    Out of the Sky

    Out of the Sky

    The remarkable rise of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, and Russia’s increasing isolation on the world stage, is likely to alter this arrangement soon, but a U.S. astronaut, Tracy Caldwell Dyson, launched off from Baikonur as recently as this past March.


    How Natural Are We?

    How Natural Are We?

    Then, one evening after dinner, my six-year-old son and I biked to the marina to use his remote-control boat—a green plastic vessel about a foot long, with a tiny black propeller, which he’d got for his birthday.


    Surreal Watteau painting owned by Britain’s first prime minister gets export bar

    Surreal Watteau painting owned by Britain’s first prime minister gets export bar

    The work features in A Catalogue of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole’s Collection of Pictures, where it is described as: “‘Watteau—A dream of Watteau’s, Himself asleep by a rock; Several Dancers & Grotesque figures in the Clouds’.”


    Van Gogh’s fruitful final two years are the focus of show at the National Gallery in London

    Van Gogh’s fruitful final two years are the focus of show at the National Gallery in London

    The show’s focus will be on the 27 months in 1888-90 that Van Gogh spent in Provence, initially working in the town of Arles, partly at the Yellow House, and, after mutilating his ear, in the asylum just outside Saint-RĂ©my-de-Provence.


    Elizabeth Catlett—the artist who was seen as a threat to the US—gets her due with touring show

    Elizabeth Catlett—the artist who was seen as a threat to the US—gets her due with touring show

    In addition to giving a wider and more nuanced view of the overlapping political forces that informed Catlett’s life and career—from the civil rights movement in the US to the nascent sense of Black Mexican identity taking root in her adoptive country—the curators hope to recast a dichotomy that has been used to structure exhibitions and texts about her work: the contrast between her decades-long printmaking practice and her commissions for public monuments in the 1980s.


    What Can We Learn from Menstrual Blood?

    What Can We Learn from Menstrual Blood?

    One of them, NextGen Jane, imagined a future where, ahead of your gynecology appointment, you could simply mail a sealed tampon to a lab for analysis; the results might indicate that you had an eighty-per-cent chance of endometriosis, making it worthwhile to undergo surgery and find out for sure.


    AI Is Trying to Take Over Art Authentication, but Longtime Experts Are Skeptical

    AI Is Trying to Take Over Art Authentication, but Longtime Experts Are Skeptical

    Hephaestus Analytical is a London-based tech company that integrates AI analysis and machine learning trained from sampled data sets, alongside scientific tests, provenance research, and “connoisseurly expertise to analyze works.


    Does A.I. Really Encourage Cheating in Schools?

    Does A.I. Really Encourage Cheating in Schools?

    A study by the Center for Democracy and Technology found that “a majority of teachers still report that generative AI has made them more distrustful of whether their students’ work is actually theirs.” Such suspicions have been paired with real questions about the efficacy of A.I.-detection tools, including one concerning finding that showed A.I.


    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.