In Brief
The Getty Buys Trove Valued at Over $100M, Includes a Michelangelo and a Watteau
A new acquisition by The Getty augments their already significant collection of European Old Master works.
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Art
The Many Shades of Glenn Ligon’s Blue Black
In a new exhibition, Glenn Ligon explores the idea of "blue black" as it manifests not only in black identity but also in American culture.
Art
Degas and His Fascination with 19th-Century Hat Culture
The exhibit at the Legion of Honor Museum includes paintings by Impressionists, along with period hats and bonnets embellished with silk flowers, ribbons, plumes, and feathers.
News
Three Louvre Paintings Lost After Lightning Sets Fire to Museum on French Island
Three works on loan from the Louvre were among the works destroyed in the fire on the island of Tatihou in the Channel.
Art
A Smog-Eating Bike May Soon Cruise Beijing’s Streets
Studio Roosegaarde is teaming with the Chinese bike-sharing program Ofo to bring bicycles that inhale smog to Beijing.
Art
Fernand Léger and the Rise of the Man-Machine
A major retrospective of the French artist's work at the Centre Pompidou-Metz highlights how he anticipated the accelerating mechanization of human life.
In Brief
British Museum Uploads 3D Model of the Rosetta Stone
Now you can examine the 196 BCE stone stela in all its textural glory.
Art
Required Reading
This week, we're image-heavy as we explore the first modernist house in New York City, Google Streetview goes inside the International Space Station, fish farms from the sky, a Beyoncé wax figure that looks like Lindsay Lohan, and more.
Art
Weekend Words: Eight
"When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business."
Books
Object Permanence: The Role of Curators and Cultural Institutions
Voorhies’s book is partly a series of case studies on watershed shows of the last fifty years — shows that, in his view, “relie[d] upon and utilize[d] the exhibition form and art’s critical potential within that form.”
Books
Mary Ruefle’s Sage Advice on How to Keep Your Eyes Open While Sleeping
This is a book you want to read slowly, to savor both for what it says and how Ruefle says it.
Art
Hair and Mushrooms, Gnarly Paint and Smooth Pours
Two artist couples that are good friends have an exhibition and show together for the first time. That seems to me as good a reason as any to have a show.