Art

Adam Busiakiewicz A post on X spotted randomly by an art historian has led to a portrait of King Henry VIII – hanging in a West Midland council hall – to be identified as a famous missing artwork. Adam Busiakiewicz, who works as a consultant for famous auction house Sotheby’s, said that when he saw

When Kamala Harris was confirmed as the new Democratic party nominee, a host of celebrities rushed to endorse her – but one has had significantly more attention than the others. Singer Charli XCX endorsed Harris in her signature minimalist way by posting “kamala IS brat” on X. The post went viral almost instantly, with millions

Show Caption Hide Caption 50 boats parade on Seine river in Paris Olympics test run A fleet of 50 boats paraded down the Seine river in a test run for the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. As the world’s attention turns to France for the 2024 Paris Olympics, performers for the opening ceremony called

If you’re planning to tune in to the Paris Olympics, you probably aren’t just looking forward to the feats of sporting excellence – you’ll be hoping to catch the cultural spectacle of the opening ceremony, too. These flashy events, which kick off each games, aim to tell fresh stories about the host city and country,

The US Justice Department has reached an agreement with Jasmine Loo Ai Swan, the former general counsel of Malaysia’s sovereign investment development fund (1MDB), to recover a $1.27 million drawing by Pablo Picasso that had sold in May 2014 at Christie’s. The original forfeiture complaint filed by federal prosecutors last August alleged that Loo purchased

Many galleries in Paris’s Saint Germain des Près area, one of the city’s major art hubs, were unexpectedly forced to close on Thursday, due to security measures put in place for the upcoming Olympic Games’s opening ceremony taking place next week. Interviewed by ARTnews, dealers said that clients had no way of getting to these

Consider it the orchestral equivalent of someone who’s ready to give up on romance suddenly finding the perfect partner. After claiming for several seasons that it is transitioning toward becoming a conductor-less orchestra, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra has named its newest artistic partner, and he’s a conductor. Hungary’s Gábor Takács-Nagy has forged a thrilling

Why conservatives killed America’s federally funded theater The Federal Theatre’s adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here was seen by nearly 400,000 Americans. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, WPA Poster Collection Between 1935 and 1939, the Federal Theatre Project staged more than a thousand productions in twenty-nine states. Established by the Works

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2 days ago By Andrew Rogers, BBC Newsbeat Getty Images How do you stage a music festival for 25,000 people when you’re under threat from a potential Russian missile attack? That’s a question Vlad Yaremchuk has been trying to answer for the past few months. He’s the programme director of Atlas United, Ukraine’s biggest music festival. The

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Readers of books from the New York publisher Knopf will be familiar with the leaping dog that appears on their spines. In 1915, when Alfred Knopf started the firm, his wife Blanche was ‘crazy about borzois’, and she suggested the animal as the publisher’s colophon. Though the logo lingers more than a century on, Blanche’s

View image in fullscreen ‘All art is worthy of preserving’: what should artists do to protect what they leave behind? With a dip in the art market and only one in five artists exhibiting their work in a museum, those on the outskirts are grappling with how to preserve their legacy The painter Renzo Ortega

Boston native and former music executive Jim Lucchese was named the fifth president of Berklee College of Music. Lucchese will start his tenure at Berklee after around 20 years working in the music industry. He most recently worked as CEO for the music event startup Sofar Sounds. He also led Spotify for Artists, a program

Do Art History Majors Really Face the Worst Job Prospects of Any Profession? 18 July 2024 Art World Art History majors face an unemployment rate of 8 percent, a new study has found. Fine Arts 1 building on the Campus of California State University Long Beach in Long Beach, CA, 2022. Photo: Gary Coronado /

Snakes on the sidewalk. No, it’s not a new Samuel L. Jackson movie. The snakes are real, and are just one of the seemingly endless challenges facing summer theatre companies and festivals as they struggle toward recovery after 2020. Snakes—and skunks and bears, oh my—are showing up in theatre communities as their habitats shrink, giving

Picture: Shutterstock/mundissima Several media publishers in Australia have revealed how “potentially catastrophic” it would be for their businesses if Meta removes all news from Facebook and Instagram in the country. Broadsheet Media, which publishes the culture and community news website Broadsheet and has 65 full-time employees, said it estimated it would lose up to 52%

In the beginning, it was just for boys. Originating in the late nineteenth century as a popular, morally instructive piece of entertainment for preteen males, the sports novel has had a long, slow climb to respectability. Ever since it began to encroach on more elevated terrain in the middle of the twentieth century, the genre

Käthe Kollwitz. Woman with Dead Child (Frau mit totem Kind). 1903. Courtesy of courtesy Käthe Kollwitz Museum Cologne By Allan M. Jalon July 15, 2024 When Martha Kearns wrote the first English-language biography of the German artist Kaethe Kollwitz, she felt like she was alone. “So many people I talked to didn’t know who she

The New Yorker Interview How Lonnie G. Bunch III Is Renovating the “Nation’s Attic” The Smithsonian’s dynamic leader is dredging up slave ships, fending off culture warriors in Congress, and building two new museums on the National Mall. By Julian Lucas July 9, 2024 Photographs by Nate Langston Palmer for The New Yorker Save this