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Thomas Cole, Arch of Nero (1846). The painting, owned by the Newark Museum of Art, will hit the auction block at Sothebys. When the Newark Museum of Art announced a plan to sell 17 objects in March, it provided few details as to which artworks might appear on the auction block. But a gradual release of the specifics has enraged some historians, including previous employees of the museum, who described the sale as a misguided attempt to monetize some of the collection’s best examples of Amer...

Email is invalid The Newark Museum of Art is sending Thomas Coles The Arch of Nero (1846) to auction at Sothebys, estimated at $500,000-$700,000. Facing $6 million in revenue loss during the pandemic, the temporarily closed Newark Museum of Art will deaccession a number of collection artworks. Critics are particularly decrying the planned sale of “Arch of Nero,” an 1846 painting by Thomas Cole scheduled for sale at Sothebys on May 19 and estimated to bring $500,000 to $700,000. The mu...

The Newark Museum is putting Thomas Coles The Arch of Nero (1846) on the auction block at Sothebys, carrying an estimate of $500,000-$700,000 An open letter signed by more than 50 art historians, curators and researchers was submitted today to the Newark Museum of Art protesting its plan to sell works from its collection, most prominently Thomas Cole’s 1846 painting The Arch of Nero, organisers say. The letter, addressed to Linda Harrison, director and chief executive of the mu...

St. Charles Borromeo Seminary to move to Gwynedd-Mercy University For almost 190 years, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary has educated thousands of Catholic priests for service in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and other dioceses.  On Monday, the archdiocese announced the seminary would be moving from its long-time home at City and Lancaster avenues in the Overbrook section of Lower Merion to 15 acres of land and two buildings that it would purchase from Gwynedd-Mercy University in Lower Gwyned...

I got the Peoples Vaccine, Montreal Laura Holzman has occasionally found herself at the intersection of art and medicine in her career as an academic and public scholar. In her book Contested Image, she highlighted the fight to keep the painting “The Gross Clinic” by Thomas Eakins — depicting 19th century surgeon Samuel Gross — in Philadelphia. Last year she created an exhibit, together with Meredith Brickell, that was part of Fix, Heartbreak and Hope inside our Opioid Cris...

Toledo Museum of Art adds works of art to its collection Timothy OSullivan ( American, born Ireland 1840-1882), Officers, 1864, unmounted Albumen print, 7 5/8 x 9 3/4 in. Photo credit: Chris Ridgway, Toledo Museum of Art. TOLEDO, OH .-The Toledo Museum of Art has added a 21st-century painting by contemporary artist Xiaoze Xie, a Venetian/Ottoman circa 17th-century footed bowl with gold mounts and leather case, and a group of 19th- and 20th-century American and European photographs to its storie...

This Art Exhibit Sends You To Spain On American Soil February 19, 2021 It seems somehow fitting, both as this publication’s resident art critic and as a half-Spaniard, that the first exhibition I’ve been able to visit and write about since COVID-19 lockdowns explores the phenomenon of Americans traveling to Spain: something I’ve been prevented from doing for nearly a year now. Whether you’re primarily interested in simply looking at beautiful works of art, or if you care to wade into th...

Farther Afield: Art the Old-Fashioned Way Brian Allen Photograph courtesy of the Florence Academy of Art. I’ve been intrigued by the Florence Academy of Art in Italy for years. It’s a small, prestigious art school that revived the kind of education Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, Abbott Handerson Thayer, and George de Forest Brush had, as well as hundreds of other Americans who studied in Paris in the late nineteenth century. It’s an atelier and draws on teaching principles once used...

New curator Karl Willers joined the museum in November, replacing Patrick Shaw Cable, who died in April.

A Chinese Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) carved cinnabar lidded box sold for $81,250, an oil on canvas equestrian painting by John Frederick Herring (Britis