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July 19, 2018
Al Qassemi Settles Lawsuit with Sotheby’s and Waterhouse’s “The Siren” Sells for Nearly $5 million
A Sir Quentin Blake retrospective auction celebrates the author’s prolific career as an illustrator and a 19th Century European and Orientalist Art auction fetches over $3 million at Christie’s in London.
Memorializing the Accelerating Loss of Planetary Life
The crashes of an automatic gong become a dire melody and meditation on the horrors and loss defining the Anthropocene.
First Century Pope Found in London Trash
Pope Clement I has been dead for almost two thousand years, but that hasn’t stopped the Holy Roman saint form traveling on what must be the strangest Eurotrip yet.
A View from the Easel
This week, artist studios in Connecticut, Indiana, New Jersey, New York, and Ontario.
The Woman Who Dedicated Her Life to Uncovering the Female Artists of the Italian Renaissance
Jane Fortune once fell in love with the Renaissance artist Plautilla Nelli at a Florence book fair. She’s since devoted her life to uncovering and restoring the great works of hitherto unknown women painters of the last six centuries.
The Challenges of Being a Syrian Artist Today
Once artists leave Syria many find that international borders are closed to them as they try to build a professional and creative life in exile.
Intimate, Odd, and Eerie America as Captured by Alec Soth
Wandering through the various lives visited by Soth’s images, it is easy to understand the political and cultural schisms in our country.