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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 Sotheby's. 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 American art, including a painting by the landscape artist Thomas Cole. On Friday, opponents of the auc...

Email is invalid The Newark Museum of Art is sending Thomas Cole's The Arch of Nero (1846) to auction at Sotheby's, 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 Sotheby's on May 19 and estimated to bring $500,000 to $700,000. The museum is sending to auction a total of 17 pieces, including works by Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassat...

The Newark Museum is putting Thomas Cole's The Arch of Nero (1846) on the auction block at Sotheby's, 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 museum, denounces the sales, known as deaccessioning, as a “senseless monetisation” of the art....

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 Gwynedd.   The archdiocese will pay the university $10 million, plus the university will receive a $3 mi...

I got the People's 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 Crisis at the Indiana State Museum.  This time around Holzman, an associate professor of art history...