Composite Realities
In some of von Wulffen's paintings, a crackled varnish applied to the surface splits like dried skin; the works want to look old. Some motifs may be traced back to sources like a late…
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Rose Wylie
Beneath their beguiling picture-book appearance, British painter Rose Wylie's works reveal her earnest and long-standing engagement with the craft of painting and its history. On her mostly…
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Charles Goldstein, Counsel Who Helped Recover $160 M. in Stolen Art, Dies at 78
Charles Goldstein, known as one of the greatest legal minds working in New York real estate and, later, for the recovery of artwork looted from Holocaust victims, died on July 30 in Manhattan…
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Morning Links: Dark Matter Edition
Eric Veit, Dena Yago, and Jutta Zimmermann’s “Some Versions of Pastoral” at Tomorrow Gallery in New York. [Contemporary Art Daily] The Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art…
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Morning Links: Money Laundering Allegations Edition
The director of the Tate Britain, Penelope Curtis, is leaving to head the Calouste Gulbenkian museum in Lisbon. She had been director at the museum since 2010. [The Guardian] Royal Bank…
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Morning Links: David Wojnarowicz Edition
The British Museum’s exhibition on ancient Greek sculpture includes a bronze copy of the lost Greek original Doryphoros (spear-bearer) by Polykleitos, made in 1920 by the German sculptor…
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Bonhams Sends Early Computing Artifacts to Auction
The fine books and manuscripts auction at Bonhams New York on April 13 will feature a number of computing relics, the house announced today, including a recently discovered 56-page handwritten
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The Toledo Museum of Art will return a 450-year-old astrolabe to the German museum from where it was likely stolen. [ABC News] Rothschild heirs are donating 186 works of their…
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The German-Russian Stalemate
With diplomatic efforts unable to resolve the trophy-art dilemma, museum officials in both countries are looking for a way to break the deadlock.
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