Key to Napoleon s prison bedroom found in a trunk in Scotland sells at auction for £81,900
The historic item fetched more than 16 times its pre-sale estimate after it was found in a trunk in a stately home just outside of Edinburgh.
The key, along with the envelope and notes it was found with. (Image: Sotheby s)
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An original painting by Tintin creator Herge sold for a record 3.2 million euros ($3.9 million) at an online auction on Thursday, auction house Artcurial announced.
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery to remain closed throughout 2021 to allow for essential work
The reopening will be launched with a transformation of BMAGs iconic Round Room.
BIRMINGHAM
.-Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery will remain closed throughout 2021 while essential electrical upgrade work of Birminghams Council House complex takes place. While the building is closed Birmingham Museums Trust will continue to share items and stories from Birminghams collections with audiences in a variety of exciting and engaging ways both online and in the community.
BMAG is currently closed due to the Coronavirus pandemic but plans for reopening in time for the 2022 Commonwealth Games are already underway. Next year also marks the 160th anniversary of the birth of Birminghams collection and in celebration of this key moment, when the eyes of the world will be on the city, Birmingham Museums will use this opportunity to re-invigorate its collection re-interpreting it for the 2
A Listening Eye: The Films of Mike Dibb on view online at Whitechapel Gallery
John Berger filming Pig Earth, 1979. Courtesy Mike Dibb.
LONDON
.-Whitechapel Gallery announced the launch of A Listening Eye: The Films of Mike Dibb, a series of online film screenings and events celebrating the work of multi-award-winning documentary filmmaker, Mike Dibb (b. 1940, UK). Launched online, the series features over 50 of Dibbs films and provides a rare opportunity to explore the work of a maker for whom culture and society, art and life are indivisible
Dibb is perhaps best known for Ways of Seeing (1972), his pioneering and vastly influential television essay on art and society made with John Berger, but he has directed dozens of important films in a career spanning six decades. These include portrait films featuring figures as diverse as Salvador Dali, Miles Davis, Stuart Hall, David Hockney, Keith Jarrett, CLR. James, Elmore Leonard, Federico García Lorca, Edward Said and Barb
Ki Smith Gallery opens a three-part exhibition featuring Caslon Bevington, Dylan Reitz, and Sei Smith
Caslon Bevington.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Ki Smith Gallery is presenting First Draft, a three-part exhibition featuring Caslon Bevington, Dylan Reitz, and Sei Smith as both artists and curators.
Initially assembled for the gallerys would-be presentation at Art Toronto, Bevington, Reitz and Smith have been in conversation about the similarities and differences between their practices since February of 2020. The coronavirus arrived in March, rendering art fairs, galleries and exhibition spaces temporarily obsolete. Rather than abandon the deepening conversation around their work, the artists dug deeper, experimenting with the meaning of solitary creation for the benefit of a collaborative showcase. The result is a dream-like, textured body of work that communicates with sidelong glances, not direct stares.