Page 72 - Old Master News Today

Lecture by Susanna Avery-Quash, Research Curator in the History of Collecting, at the National Gallery; delivered 7 December 2009

This week: Russian patrons’ long retreat, Mary Boone’s nonprofit penance, Yves Klein’s proto-NFT, and much more.

The luminous 18th-century still life by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin is the only known instance in which he painted strawberries.

The French expert has a knack for spotting masterpieces, and hopes his experience helps reignite a passion for the sleepy Old Masters field.

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco has acquired 'Psyche Bidding Her Family Farewell' (1791) by Marie-Guillemine Benoist.

They may no longer house robber barons but several of the Gilded Age era's important architectural gems have survived to this day.

Distributors have seized the opportunity to screen Valentyn Vasyanovych’s film of 2019, in which Ukraine emerges victorious | Culture

In the spring and summer of 2022, a href= http://www.frick.org target= _blank The Frick Collection /a will present a one-room installation by Ital

The First Art Newspaper on the Net., art daily,art news,artdaily, daily art, art, art newspaper, Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography, Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs, Anecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 360 Images, 3D Images, Last Week,, , , , ,

A new book argues that the artist must be free from “relevance” while also adhering to some kind of authority. The question is, Whose authority?