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Rembrandt and slavery: did the great painter have links to this abhorrent trade? Jonathan Jones © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Rijksmuseum/EPA The title of the show is simple and stark: Slavery. Due to open this spring at the mighty Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, this bold exhibition documents the importance of this abhorrent trade in the rise and wealth of the Netherlands, by juxtaposing shackles and slave inventories with works of art. There is a metal ring that has been...

Current and coming: Iberian inspiration at the Chrysler Sammy Dalati Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark. Everyone’s familiar with French, Italian, and British influence on American art; perhaps less with the influence of Spain. An upcoming exhibition at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820– 1920—the first stateside exhibition to explore this subject—takes visitors on a spi...

Our columnist looks at how major differences in US and international inoculation campaigns are threatening to keep the art world off its axis.

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Orsola Maddalena Caccia, Fruit and Flowers (c. 1630). Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, bequest of Errol M. Rudman. Thanks to an unexpected bequest, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art now boasts the largest collection of works by the Mannerist painter and nun Orsola Maddalena Caccia (1596–1676) outside the artist’s native Italy. Upon hedge-fund manager Errol M. Rudman’s death last year, he surprised the Met with a gift that included three works by Caccia, who...

Palmer Museum of Art in fall 2020 Image: Penn State Palmer Museum of Art will reopen its doors on Feb. 10 January 20, 2021 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — After an extended closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State will reopen its doors on Wednesday, Feb. 10. The free-admission museum has instituted a new timed-ticketing system and updated health protocols for the safety of all visitors.  “We are thrilled to finally reopen our doors to the public and to do so by p...

Freemans announces highlights included in the European Art & Old Masters sale This major, recently rediscovered painting by Carl Moll. Executed in 1905, Weißes Interieur (White Interior) (Lot 56, $300,000-500,000) has never appeared on the market before. PHILADELPHIA, PA .-Freemans will hold its latest European Art & Old Masters auction on February 23rd. The sale presents fine art from across the continent, celebrating a multitude of movements and their major artists. Two founders of the Vien...

Richard L. Feigen High Profile Art Dealer Dead From COVID Age 90 / / Richard L. Feigen (August 8, 1930-January 29, 2021) one of the world-leaders in Old Master painting as well as German Expressionism to Francis Bacon, Joseph Cornell, Joseph Beuys, and John Baldessari has died of a COVID related illness at age 90. His gallery announced, “It is with profound sadness that we inform you of the passing of our founder and chairman, Richard L. Feigen. Richard opened his first space in Chicago i...

The renowned art dealer Richard L. Feigen has died at the age of 90. Feigen set up his first gallery in Chicago in 1957, later opening in New York where he forged a reputation as one of the world’s leading dealers of Old Master paintings. During his lifetime, Feigen assembled an extraordinary private collection, with particular strengths in Italian paintings, British landscapes and 20th-century German art – holdings that he opened to Apollo in March 2014 when Susan Moore visited him at his ...

Richard Feigen Courtesy of Frances F.L. Beatty The influential New York-based dealer and connoisseur Richard Feigen, known especially for championing and leading the Old Masters market, has died, aged 90. According to a notice in the New York Times, he died in his sleep after a brief illness with Covid-19 pneumonia. Feigen opened his first gallery in Chicago in 1957, later expanding to New York. From 1965 to 1973, he showed works by artists such as Max Beckmann, Joseph Cor...