August 24, 2024
European Art

The Art of Restitution at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – American Alliance of Museums

Victoria Reed, Sadler Senior Curator for Provenance, and Rhona MacBeth, Director of Conservation and Scientific Research and the Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo Conservator of Paintings, examine a painting for historical marks and labels after it is unpacked at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Netherlandish Art, May 12, 2023; photograph © Museum of Fine

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European Artists

The Californian coast: inspiring musicians and artists since 1906

After an earthquake hit San Francisco in 1906, artists were called to populate the Californian coast, transforming it into an artistic mecca for those who like to surf. ADVERTISEMENT Just two hours drive south of San Francisco Carmel-by-the-Sea is one the country’s most stunning small Cities. Famed for its music, arts and distinct character.  And with

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European Art

I’ve been visiting Berlin for more than 30 years

By John Kampfner For The Mail On Sunday 10:51 01 Nov 2023, updated 10:51 01 Nov 2023 Berlin has been a trading post, military barracks, centre of learning, industrial powerhouse, hotbed of debauchery and control centre for the worst experiment in horror known to man. No other city has had so many faces, so many

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European Art

The Indigenous artist and activist Glicéria Tupinambá will represent Brazil at 2024 Venice Biennale

The Brazilian Indigenous artist and activist Glicéria Tupinambá will take over the Brazilian pavilion in the 2024 edition of the Venice Biennale. Three Brazilian Indigenous artists will curate the pavilion: Arissana Pataxó, Denilson Baniwa and Gustavo Caboco Wapichana. Tupinambá (also known as Célia Tupinambá) was born in 1982 in the Serra do Padeiro, one of

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Art Investment

Charlie Munger Raves About Warren Buffett’s Rare Japanese Investment Opportunity Of A Century — ‘It Was Like Having God Just Opening A Chest And Just Pouring Money Into It’ — High Rewards For A Low Risk

Nic Wins Buying Options 83% of the Time How does he do this? It’s called the “MoneyLine.” It’s how you can spot quick moves in a stock that you close in as little as one day. And we’re not talking about peanuts here. He’s won up to 411% using his MoneyLine approach to options. Here’s how

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Visual artists

Visual Arts & Sound Art MFA applications and open studios

Visual Arts & Sound Art MFA applications and open studios Sound Art information session: November 12, 10am ET Visual Arts information session: November 12, 2023, 11am ET Class of 2024 open studios: November 12, 2–5pm ET Columbia University School of the Arts Dodge Hall 2960 Broadway New York, New York 10027United States arts@columbia.edu Applications are

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Visual artists

United Visual Artists: Chromatic

Inside one of the Synchronicity exhibition’s most striking new audiovisual works. Showing as part of Synchronicity, United Visual Artists’ largest exhibition to date, Chromatic is an immersive audiovisual work commissioned by 180 Studios that explores the relationship between frequencies of sound and colour. Inspired by chromeosthesis, a type of synesthesia where sound evokes impressions of

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European Artists

Henri Matisse: The secular artist whose masterpiece was a chapel

Henri Matisse picked up the telephone and dialled the number of the nursing agency. He knew it by heart. It was the late summer of 1941 and the 72-year-old had been effectively bedridden for six months after enduring a major operation to treat duodenal cancer. It was not a happy period. The painful aftermath of

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Art Investment

November: Unprecedented £225m investment to create UK’s most powerful supercomputer | News and features

Details of a £225m investment from the Government to create the UK’s fastest supercomputer at the University of Bristol have been announced today [1 November 2023]. The funding injection, part of a £300m package to create a new national Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (AIRR) for the country announced at the government’s AI Safety Summit at

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European Art

GW Students Given an Inside Look at Organizing Art Museum Exhibitions | GW Today

A deep dive into exhibition planning and project management was presented by Steve Mann, head of exhibitions for the National Gallery of Art, to nearly two dozen students at GW’s Corcoran School of the Arts and Design. The workshop was one of a series taught by experts from the National Gallery as part of a

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