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Meet the modern-day Mitfords! Scions of the headline-grabbing sisters are every bit as intriguing and glamorous - from models and fashion muses to a data analyst who helped track down Osama Bin Laden Mitford sisters were glamorous, talented, scandalous, and headline-grabbing so it's of little wonder that their scions are continuing the tradition of success  Sisters back in spotlight due to BBC series of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love, which was inspired by her family's tumultuous love lives Great-granddaughter of Diana Mosley, pregnant Lady Mary Charteris has forged career as a model,...

Painting found at Glasgow home of Dr Helen Cargill Thompson could fetch six figure sum at auction PREMIUM Painting discovered in the Glasgow home of late arts patron Dr Helen Cargill Thompson could fetch six figure sum at auction SHE was the last of a wealthy Scottish merchants’ family whose contribution to the Glasgow art world and generations of new artists cannot be underestimated. Dr Helen Cargill Thompson died in October 2020 leaving a treasure trove of contemporary art, books and silver in her family home in the West End of Glasgow. The arts patron left her house and its furnitu...

Toggle Sidebar Present Tense: Five Centuries of Colonialism in Latin American and Caribbean Art n a sign that COVID-19 is lessening its grip, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) announced today that it is reopening Sunday, May 2, 13 months after it shut its doors. The museum will be open three days a week — Friday, Saturday and Sunday — and will reduce its ticket prices from $14 to $10, implement a timed-ticket system, require face masks, and limit occupancy to 25% capacity, among other safety measures. “As BAMPFA begins the process of safely reopening this spring,...

Five centuries of German and Austrian graphics on view at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts View of the exhibition GRAFIK! Five Centuries of German and Austrian Graphics. Photo MMFA, Denis Farley. MONTREAL .- For the first time, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is focusing an exhibition on the sweep of stylistic and cultural developments articulated in printmaking in Germany and Austria from the early history of the medium in the mid-15th century to modern times. GRAFIK! Five Centuries of German and Austrian Graphics presents about 90 works, including several remarkable works on paper, that e...

21 March 2019: Emblazoned on the wall of Spain’s National Drama Centre is Boa Mistura’s painting of an Eduardo Galeano quote from The Open Veins of Latin America: “We are what we do to change what we are.” (Photograph by David Silverman/ Getty Images) Considered a literary giant of Latin America’s Left, Eduardo Galeano was a novelist and journalist who wrote extensively about oppression and resistance in Latin America. In 1973, after a coup in Uruguay, Galeano was imprisoned and later went into exile in Argentina. When that country fell to a coup, his name was added to the death squ...