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.â
Rijksmuseum acquires controversial early botanic book on Suriname
Maria Sibylla Merianâs 1705 Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium is considered a âhigh pointâ 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
Described as âone of Europe's largest cultural infrastructure projectsâ, 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
âMy First Bookâ 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 âreality is what we make it.â âMood Swings,â by Barnet, features animal uprisings and venture capitalists investing in time travel.
From âSoho scammerâ to television dancer: Anna Sorokin will compete on Dancing with the Stars
Sorokin has parlayed her notoriety into various ventures beyond the Netflix seriesâfor 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
The remarkable rise of Elon Muskâs SpaceX, and Russiaâs 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?
Then, one evening after dinner, my six-year-old son and I biked to the marina to use his remote-control boatâa green plastic vessel about a foot long, with a tiny black propeller, which heâd got for his birthday.
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 Walpoleâs Collection of Pictures, where it is described as: ââWatteauâA dream of Watteauâs, Himself asleep by a rock; Several Dancers & Grotesque figures in the Cloudsâ.â
Van Goghâs fruitful final two years are the focus of show at the National Gallery in London
The showâs 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 Catlettâthe artist who was seen as a threat to the USâgets her due with touring show
In addition to giving a wider and more nuanced view of the overlapping political forces that informed Catlettâs life and careerâfrom the civil rights movement in the US to the nascent sense of Black Mexican identity taking root in her adoptive countryâthe 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?
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
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 âconnoisseurly expertise to analyze works.