The Ghent altarpiece: An unlikely fruit meaning original sin
BBC - Van Eyck's Ghent altarpiece features a surprising candidate for the forbidden fruit. Kelly Grovier explores how it gives spiritual coherence to the 15th-Century work. - read more ...
A Roman Emperor and His Finger, Separated for 500 Years, Finally Reunited
hyperallergic - In 2018, Aurélia Azéma, a doctoral student in Paris, observed something peculiar about a massive bronze toe held in the collection of the Louvre Museum: namely, that it was not a toe but an inde...
A Rare, Looted Statue of Greek Goddess Has Been Returned to Libya
hyperallergic - A 2,000-year-old statue of a Greek goddess looted in 2011 from Libya has finally been repatriated. Experts believe the sculpture is a likeness of Persephone, goddess queen of the underworld and...
Frieze New York, First Live Art Fair in a Year, Kicks Off at the Shed
NY Times - The colossal white tent on Randalls Island — the one that occasionally threatened to uplift and blow away — is gone, along with the frenetic ferry rides up and down the East River. But Frieze is back...
Sotheby’s record design auction totals $45m
domus - Philanthropist Michelle Smith design collection totaled an outstanding $45 million at a Sotheby’s auction, well above its highest estimate of $16 million. - read more...
Spotlight: Marta Promińska
"Everything starts in my dreams…”
Paul Zimmerman in conversation with Marta Promińska
Paul Zimmerman: How did you develop interest in art?
Marta Prominska: I didn’t. Art has developed an interes...
Tristes Tropiques, photographing Brazil’s environmental exploitation
domus - “Counter mapping”, a form of resistance mapmaking intended to reveal endangered landscapes, is how photographer Richard Mosse's last project Tristes Tropiques has been described as. - read more ...
What should museums do with the bones of the enslaved?
Art Daily - In an undated image provided via National Library of Medicine, a page from from Morton’s “Crania Americana,” one of a series of works outlining a supposed hierarchy of intelligence based on skull s...
Asian-American Artists, Now Activists, Push Back Against Hate
NY Times - Newly spurred to action to combat bias, they generate subway posters, leverage social media, stage Zoom webinars. “Our community couldn’t take being invisible any longer,” one artist says. - read mor...
An artist-designed supermarket pops up in London
Domus - For five days, the Design Museum shop in London will turn into a small supermarket selling essential products designed by emerging artists. - read more ...