11/16/2019. Distinguished by the fast pace of scientific discoveries and technical developments, radical breaks in society and politics and the convulsions of two world wars, and seemingly reconciled by the reunification of the divided country, the twentieth cen...

11/16/2019. The renowned Field for the British Isles, by Antony Gormley has come to Firstsite. Field for The British Isles, which consists of 40,000 tiny individual terracotta figures, is the largest single ...

11/16/2019. “Crazy like machines, forms larger and bolder”—this was how Eva Hesse (* 1936 in Hamburg; † 1970 in New York) described a recently completed group of drawings in a letter to her artist friend Sol LeWitt in 1965. She was referring ...

11/16/2019. Numismatic auction powerhouse Stack’s Bowers Galleries just sold an ultra-rare 1879 400 cent piece known as the $4 Gold Stella at the Whitman Baltimore Winter Expo at the Baltimore Conven...

11/16/2019. Madhvi Parekh’s art embodies an intuition of significance that is wholly relevant to a world in the grip of a global ecological crisis. She is an artist for our times. Susanne Langer, whose path-breaking work on aesthetics is again enjoying ...

11/16/2019. If French Israeli telecommunications entrepreneur Patrick Drahi, who bought Sotheby’s in June in a deal worth $3.7 billion, needed proof that auctions are unlike any other business, he got a clear introduction to that reality during this week
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11/17/2019. When many people think of couture they think of the most traditional, time-intensive kind of fashion; of seamstresses and tailors in white coats bent over intricate swathes of material painstakingly sewing by hand the way they have since the days of ...

11/17/2019. The city of Lyon, France, is hoping to cement its reputation as the cradle of French gastronomy with the opening of a new cultural gastronomy center that is being described as the first of its kind in France, and the largest of its kind in the world....

11/17/2019. If you want a car that is really special and different there is just one man to go to the in the UK, Andy Saunders, who produced this extraordinary vehicle based on a Citroen chassis, now for sale with <a href="https://www.handh.co.uk/" target="_blan...

11/17/2019. A golden ring once given as a present by the famed Irish writer Oscar Wilde has been recovered by a Dutch "art detective" nearly 20 years after it was stolen from Britain's Oxford University. The friendship ring, a joint gift from Wilde to a fello...

11/17/2019. The Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod, presents for the first time an exhibition on Chaļm Soutine (1893-1943) and Israeli art, opening a new chapter in the d...

11/17/2019. Coinciding with the Morgan Library & Museum’s expansive retrospective The Illusions of the Photographer: Duane Michals at the Morgan (through February 2, 2020), Duane Michals: Mischievous Eye highlights the artist’s wide-ranging curiosity a...

11/17/2019. Numismatic auction powerhouse Stack’s Bowers Galleries just sold a famous and ultra-rare 1838-O Capped Bust Half Dollar at the Whitman Baltimore Winter Expo at the Baltimore Convention C...

11/17/2019. UPSTONE Soho launched on 14 November 2019 with an exhibition of new works by the acclaimed British artist Keith Coventry. The venture, a collaboration between Robert Upstone, formerly the ...

11/17/2019. I’ve never known whether to collaborate with someone on a text, have them write something for me that won’t stand in or hold up the work, but gets near it without blowing the surprise or the slower arrival. Patience and sensitivity. How...