Two Halves of a Medieval Manuscript Page Are Reunited After More Than a Century
In 2003, when the Getty Museum acquired three images from the 15th-century manuscript Hours of Louis XII, its curators had a hunch that one of the pictures was incomplete. Their suspicions made sense: the panel portrays the titular king, kneeling while surrounded by four saints, their gazes fixed on something at the left, which was frustratingly […]
Artist Camilla Engström Wanted to Be the Next Georgia O’Keeffe. Now She’s Found Her Own Story
“For a long time, I was obsessed with Georgia O’Keeffe,” said artist Camilla Engström during a call from her California home. “I love her art and I love the way she dressed, the way she lived. I wanted to be her I think.” Engström, who was born and raised in Sweden, paints metaphysical and sensual […]
A New Show Celebrates Beloved Hobbies From Cosplay to Origami
Earlier this year, a call went out across the U.K. for hobbyists to share their passions—whether crafty, techy, nerdy, or otherwise—via a dedicated website. The goal? To build the Hobby Cave, the largest exhibition of hobbies in the nation’s history. Those who clicked through met British-Gujarati artist and filmmaker Hetain Patel, who, in a homespun […]
Mosaics by Jesuit Artist Facing Abuse Allegations Remain at French Church Despite Outcry
Mosaics by the ex-communicated Jesuit priest and artist Marko Rupnik, who has been accused of sex abuse by at least 30 women, will remain at the Lourdes shrine in France—at least for now—amid calls for their removal. The abuse allegations against the well-known religious artist have previously underscored the limits of the Vatican’s in-house legal […]
Stegosaurus Skeleton Sells for a Whopping $44 Million, a Dinosaur Auction Record
A newly excavated stegosaurus skeleton, christened “Apex,” sold for a mammoth $44.6 million at Sotheby’s New York. The result set a new dinosaur auction record as the most expensive fossil ever to hit the block. The sale smashed expectations, with a 643.3 percent increase from the top end of the $4 million to $6 million […]
Archaeologists Find a Cache of Ancient Murano Glass Off Bulgarian Coast
Underwater archaeologists in Burgas, Bulgaria have discovered over 100 glass objects dating back to the days of the Ottoman empire in the nation’s Chengene Skele bay. Previous dives in the area in the years 2020 and 2021 resulted in the recovery of over 300 more glass objects from the seabed. According to a statement by […]
New York’s Hispanic Society Is Now Home to a New Goya Research Center
Looking ahead to the bicentennial of the death of Francisco Goya (1746–1828), New York’s Hispanic Society Museum and Library is opening a new Goya Research Center dedicated to the Spanish artist in its library’s reading room. The new initiative is led by the society’s director, Guillaume Kientz, an expert on the artist who previously spent […]
MAH Geneva Invited Art Historian Pascal Rousseau to ‘Rediscover’ the Museum’s Collection
The next edition of the beloved Musée dArt et d’Histoire of Geneva (MAH) XL exhibition series, will see art historian and author Pascal Rousseau invited to investigate the relationship between viewer and object, and objects’ power to transfix our gaze and attention in a new summer show. On view from July 19–October 27, 2024, “Archaeology […]
Art Bites: The Polarizing Art Theory Named After David Hockney
In 1999, David Hockney was surveying the drawings of French Neoclassicist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres at London’s National Gallery when an uncanny feeling crept over him. The graphite works were too perfect, their lines too swift and executed without preparatory markings. The body proportions, however, were noticeably askew. How could this be? To Hockney, such mastery recalled […]
Artcore: The Movement That Transformed Rhythm Into Color
Like many art movements—among them Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism—Orphism wasn’t named by the artists creating the work, but rather by a critic. The poet Guillaume Apollinaire first saw Robert Delaunay’s canvases in 1912 and likened them to the ancient Greek hero Orpheus, who was known for his poetry and music, which was so beautiful it […]