This fall, over one hundred works from the collection of art patron Emily Fisher Landau will come to auction at Sotheby’s where they are estimated to bring in over $400 million.
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While photo restrictions have been lifted on Pablo Picasso's famed Guernica at the Reina Sofia Museum, this permission may stifle quiet contemplation.
Hauser & Wirth's newest gallery in New York is solely dedicated to prints and editions along with its publishing arm, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, an eclectic bar, and a small amphitheater for panels and lectures.
When the Armory Show kicks off on September 8, there will be a show curated by Eva Respini in the Platform section featuring 12 large-scale installations under the theme of 'Rewriting Histories.'
When the exhibition Manet/Degas opens this fall at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, all eyes will be on Olympia, Edouard Manet's celebrated painting, which will be making its debut in the United States.
Featuring more than 120 galleries from 30 countries worldwide, Frieze Seoul (September 6-9, 2023) returns to the dynamic Convention and Exhibition Center (COEX) in the city’s acclaimed Gangnam district for its second edition, which will be Frieze Seoul’s first fair in the post-pandemic world.
The British Museum has announced that Mark Jones, a former director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London, would be its interim director. The announcement, which was made via news release over the weekend, comes on the heels of the recent crisis in August when the museum revealed that over 1,500 artifacts had been stolen from its storerooms.
Of the famous ‘Big Seven’ ancient wonders, the Pyramids of Giza are the only monuments that remain extant. The others, such as the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, now only exist as foundations and scattered columns or, like the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, are lost completely.
In ‘Vita Dulcis: Fear and Desire in the Roman Empire,' an exhibition at Palazzo Esposizioni in Rome, curated by artist Francesco Vezzoli and archaeologist Stéphane Verger, contemporary art and ancient objects collide to surprising effect.
Rome's city government has reported that it is working to solve a new rodent problem discovered by tourists at the Colosseum, brought on by a startling amount of photos and videos of the rats posted on social media.
