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“The art of living is the art of giving,” says San Francisco-based fashion executive and philanthropist Maria Manetti Shrem, who chose it as the title of a May 16 Sotheby’s …
Vatican restorers are working to bring a colossal Roman sculpture of Hercules back to its golden glory
A gilded bronze sculpture, Hercule Mastai Righetti, now housed in the Vatican Museums, is undergoing a $113,588 facelift to remove centuries of dirt from its gilded surface. The work represents …
Florence Peake Brings Dancing Canvases to a Spectacular Modern Church in South London
The austere, slender room of the Dilston Gallery in the former mission church of Clare College in Southwark Park is one of London’s most spectacular spaces. Built in 1911, it …
Tate Britain has re-hung its collection to better represent the UK’s past. Here are 5 must-see works that reflect change
It’s been ten years since Tate Britain last hung up its permanent collection, and in that time museums have had something of an accountability. Widespread public and critical opinion has …
How star architects can – and should – live up to their responsibility to integrate suicide prevention into museum design
Content Warning: This article is about suicide. A month ago, a friend of mine committed suicide in circumstances that still seem terribly unreal. This friend who was a talented poet, …
Extraordinary wristwatch belonging to China’s last emperor sold for $6.2 million, setting multiple auction records
After lots of fanfarePhillips made $6.6 million in its Imperial Patek Philippe direct sale in Hong Kong, tmost of which comes from the star lot, a historic Patek Philippe reference …
In 1988, at the age of forty-three, Mara Oláh (1945-2020), nicknamed Omara, began painting as a sort of healing process after the death of her mother. Her images are directly …
Over 300 community members turn out to clean up the vandalized Tschabalala Self sculpture at the De La Warr Pavilion in the UK
The community of Bexhill-on-Sea in the UK rallied around the artist Tschabalala Selfwith hundreds of volunteers showing up over the weekend to help restore his bronze sculpture to the De …
Artist Trevor Paglen sounds the alarm about our new era of ‘psy-ops capitalism’ in reality check show at Pace Gallery
Do you remember “the dress” from 2015? For a few weeks that year, a low res image of a random dress fomented a seemingly inescapable internet debate over whether his …