European Fine art

Records of the first Fauves exhibitions describe an all-male affair, with Matisse heading a roster of now-celebrated names including André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Kees van Dongen and Georges Braque, an artist best remembered for his role in the development of Cubism. Kunstmuseum Basel’s current exhibition, Matisse, Derain, and Their Friends: The Paris Avantgarde 1904-1908,

An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. government has indicted alleged members of a criminal group that uses insiders at Walmart and other techniques to commit ‘refund fraud’ on a massive scale, according to recently unsealed court records. In short, the scam involves someone ordering an item from, say, Amazon — which in this case says

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan is redefining the Great Game as an opportunistic obstacle course, testing his own survival skills to future-proof his country against joining Ukraine as a victim of Russia’s irredentist urges. As leader of the biggest and richest of the independent states in Russia’s Central Asian orbit, Tokayev has elevated pragmatic neutrality

Courtesy of Midtown Houston In our Must Do Things Around Greater Houston series, we take a look at Houston’s vast array of communities, neighborhoods and destinations to bring you five fun, tasty, surprising and enticing reasons you should give each one a visit. While you may think of Midtown as a place where rowdy young

On 5 November, a Russian missile and drone strike against Odesa, the historic Unesco-listed port city on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast, rocked the Odesa National Fine Arts Museum as it was preparing to mark its 124th birthday. The museum said in a statement that all events scheduled for the anniversary were cancelled and the “consequences

DANCE Il-Ħajja Concept of Movement, the dance act that became well known locally after their successful participation in Malta’s Got Talent 2020, is presenting their first original show at the Valletta Campus Theatre VCT (ex-MITP), Merchants Street, Valletta, on November 11 and 12. The one-hour performance, produced in collaboration with singer-songwriter Claire Tonna and poet

Frederick Carl Frieseke’s elegant “Lady Trying on a Hat,” a masterpiece of American Impressionism, led the day, selling for $450,000, well above its predicted high of $350,000. The work carried provenance extending all the way back to the artist. In 1906, Frieseke spent the summer in Giverny and the influence of French Impressionism is apparent

Bucharest exhibitions: Roman Franc’s Collectives to open at Romanian Peasant Museum The photography exhibition Collectives of Czech artist Roman Franc will open at the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant on November 16. The exhibition covers a selection of group photos taken by Franc in various countries and cultures starting in 2015, including portraits of the communities

Amaza Lee Meredith’s Azurest South, her self-designed home for herself and her lover, reveals an avant garde representative of the Black American middle class Azurest South, Petersburg, Virginia, 1939, designed by Amaza Lee Meredith. Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources ‘As a designed object, the building was neither monumental nor exquisitely beautiful, but it had