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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.


Scottish culture crisis deepens as major arts award pulled

Scottish culture crisis deepens as major arts award pulled

“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 greatest theft in history’: a new exhibition in Amsterdam offers an unprecedented account of Nazi looting

‘The greatest theft in history’: a new exhibition in Amsterdam offers an unprecedented account of Nazi looting

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


In Chicago for the Democratic National Convention, artist Autumn Breon’s neon-pink vending machine proffers free self-care

In Chicago for the Democratic National Convention, artist Autumn Breon’s neon-pink vending machine proffers free self-care

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.


Can Kamala Harris’s Campaign Solve the Latino Turnout Problem?

Can Kamala Harris’s Campaign Solve the Latino Turnout Problem?

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.


Podcast | A brush with… Arthur Jafa

Podcast | A brush with… Arthur Jafa

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.