Rubens Painting, Lost for Centuries, Heads to the Auction Block
Hyperallergic - The work, whose whereabouts were unknown until a French family discovered it in their collection, could sell for up to $35 million. - read more ...
Brazilian Artists Celebrate Lula’s Comeback as President
“The last four years have been of orchestrated cultural destruction at the hands of the extreme right,” artist Laercio Cubas Jr. told Hyperallergic. - read more ...
Jacqueline Bachmann
Cenote Bacalar, 2022, oil on canvas, 41” x 30”
Sillons lac, 2007, oil on canvas, 29.5" x 29.5”
Temps Marbré, 2009, oil on canvas, 27.5” x 39”
Cenote et Mystère, 2021, oil on canvas, 39” x 27.5”
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The Earth is Flat at Carriage Trade
The Earth is Flat Carriage Trade
by Sara Blazej
Edited by Liam Davis
An Artery Exclusive
In a 2013 speech at Georgetown University in Washington D.C., former president Barack Obama addressed a rapt public o...
The Disappearing World of Wolfgang Tillmans
NY TIMES - His informal, generous pictures were some of the most moving art of the 1990s. Now, at MoMA, time catches up with the German photographer. - read more...
After Decades of Silence, Art About Abortion (Cautiously) Enters the Establishment
NY TIMES - An art taboo is falling, from the Whitney Museum to the Armory Show to blue-chip galleries. Yet artists acknowledge self-censorship on the topic. - read more ...
Eleven Burning Man 2022 installations that showcase deep-desert design
de zeen - A bulbous sculpture by architects Bjarke Ingels and Jakob Lange, an ornate temple and a walkway made of recycled ocean plastic were featured at the annual Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Deser...
The Allure of Self-Taught Art
Smithsonian Magazine - In the beginning, the weathervanes pointed the way. While scouring antique shops in the 1970s, Margaret Z. Robson purchased rustic, handmade barn toppers along with other handmade bits o...
“Unusually Large” Roman-Era Stone Phallus Impresses Archaeologists
Hyperallergic - We all know that size doesn’t matter, but archaeologists are nonetheless aflutter over a massive stone penis unearthed last month amidst excavation of Roman ruins in an Iberian archaeological si...
In “Largest Return” in Central American History, Netherlands Sends 300+ Artifacts Back to Panama
Hyperallergic - Dutch officials have agreed to repatriate hundreds of Indigenous artifacts to an archaeological museum in Panama. The announcement on August 29 claimed that the 343 pre-Hispanic ceramics held in...