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Andover teen wins scholarship Yashvi Gosalia, a senior at Andover High School, received a prestigious scholarship only given to eight Massachusetts students a year in honor of 19th century naturalist and author, Henry David Thoreau. The Henry David Thoreau Scholarship is a $20,000, four-year scholarship awarded to eight students graduating from public or private high schools in Massachusetts. High school seniors awarded the scholarship can enroll in any college or university in the world while they major or minor in an environmentally related field. Thoreau Scholars are encouraged...

From masterpieces looted by the Nazis to maritime paintings and works by gay artists, a wide variety of art in a wide variety of media will be on display.

Georgia O'Keeffe's Green Oak Leaves (ca. 1923) was the star lot of the Newark Museum's sale. Courtesy of Sotheby's. The Newark Museum of Art today sold off a slate of works at Sotheby’s, despite considerable objections from experts and scholars, to bring in $5.9 million into the institution. Of the 11 works on offer at the auction of American art in New York, one was unsold, two sold for under estimate, and the remaining eight exceeded their presale expectations. The highest price paid was $1.2 million for Georgia O’Keeffe’s Green Oak Leaves (1923), which had an irrevocable bid an...

A handful of U.S. museums sent collection artworks to the auction block at a Sotheby's American art sale that totalled $15 million on Wednesday. Women artists in the sale including Mary Cassatt, Georgia O'Keeffe, Grandma Moses and Gertude Abercrombie brought big prices for some small-sized works overall.  Although some of the sales could be earmarked to fund new acquisitions, the sell-off from public institutions falls within a two-year period in which museum association guidelines ...

Sale of Museum Paintings Helps Conclude Strong Auction Season The deaccessioning of 15 works by museums, including an important Thomas Cole painting, helped raise Sotheby’s total art sales over the last week to more than $715 million. Thomas Cole’s “The Arch of Nero” (1846) was auctioned at Sotheby’s for the Newark Museum of Art on Wednesday. Historians had campaigned against the museum’s deaccessioning.Credit...via Sotheby's By Zachary Small May 19, 2021, 2:37 p.m. ET Fifteen objects from cultural institutions passed through Sotheby’s at auction on Wednesday, showing that the d...