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Necrophiliacs and dancing bears: meet the wild artists of the Society of Dilettanti A series of works on show at Sir John Soane’s Museum was funded by an 18th-century group who were truly mad, bad and dangerous to know 20 May 2021 • 5:00am In their cups: various members of the Society of Dilettanti (1778), as painted by Joshua Reynolds Credit: Alamy All the boisterous patrician privilege of the Bullingdon Club crossed with the artistic hunter-gatherer instincts of the Tate trustees: that wa...

(Photo: PA/ Unknown author, Wikimedia Commons) THE COUNTY OF WORCESTERSHIRE has a lot of links and ties to the tragedy of the Titanic. The anchor ship itself was made in Worcestershire and a lot of former Worcestershire residents also boarded the ship. One such passenger was Francis Millet who met his tragic demise on the ship when it sunk in 1912. While he was born and bred in America, he did spend some of his later years in Broadway in the Cotswolds living with his family. Early life ...

Eckel, Hart will remain with TCDA The Taylor County Commission has re-appointed Matt Eckel and John Hart to the Taylor County Development Authority (TCDA). Both of their terms were set to expire May 14, along with the term of John Singer. Subscribe to our e-Edition and read the rest of the story. Already a subscriber? Click here to sign in.

The work of Steve Chaszeyka and the other artists featured in “American Stripes” normally is found on wheels, not walls. For the next two months, though, it will be on display at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown “American Stripes” features pieces created by more than 30 artists who primarily are known for their customized paint jobs for vehicles. Chaszeyka, who owns an airbrushing and pinstriping shop in New Middletown and runs a graphics academy that teaches aspiring...

Openings and Closings: April 14 to April 20 Elizabeth Lanza James Robinson, Inc., New York, NY. The Philadelphia Show | Art, Antiques + Design Beginning next week, The Philadelphia Show art and antiques fair returns in an online format. From April 23–30, sixty outstanding antiques dealers and fine art galleries will offer some of the best in painting, furniture, ceramics, Americana, textiles, and more. Plus, be sure to take in the special exhibition of animals in art, curated by the irrepre...

This article is more than 5 years old. Isabella Stewart Gardner — the astute art collector and artist patron — is famous for stipulating that her trove of masterpieces remain exactly where she hung them in her historic Boston museum. But parts of her singular collection have been on the move recently for a first-of-its-kind exhibition titled "Off the Wall," which tells the origin story of the collection itself. A Painting Worth Following The museums professional art handlers gently remove ...

Christies announces highlights included in the Classic Week auctions A rare contemporary broadside edition of the Declaration of Independence: the Goodspeed-Sang-Streeter copy. Continental Congress, 1776. © Christies Images Ltd 2021. $700,000-900,000 NEW YORK, NY .-Christie’s announces that Classic Week, a marquee series of seven live and online auctions that feature pieces from antiquity to the 20th century. Sales will be held from 8-23 April and include Old Master paintings and sculpture, E...

In 2014 Gillian Wearing made a photographic work titled Me as an Artist in 1984. As so often, she appears in it herself, in a bespoke and somewhat unnerving mask: on this occasion, as the title suggests, replicating her own smooth features in early adulthood, her more experienced eyes looking out, her hair teased up in a period style. Beside her, meanwhile, is a painting, an anachronistic study in biomorphic Surrealism featuring a pair of distended figures, one with huge red lips, floating in ...

The Book of the Tree - how artists have been drawn to the calm and beauty of the arboreal Angus Hyland,Kendra Wilson and Nancy Durrant People who love trees assume that others share this understanding, yet most of us remain unenlightened. The term ‘tree-hugger’ is always derogative, when really we would all benefit from planting more trees to hug. In the 1957 film Funny Face, Audrey Hepburn’s naive and dreamy character is eccentric enough to care more about trees than abou...

John Singer Sargent completed 900 oil paintings and over 2,000 watercolors. He was the most important and verdsatile portraitist of his time.