Well, “boyfriend” may not exactly be the right word, as Jacob Mikanowski explains. But the evidence (a census and some 368-year-old gossip) indicates that young Francesco Buoneri lived and studied with Caravaggio for years, and his face appears in quite a few of the painter’s works.
Author: Matthew Westphal
I Directed The Nairobi Premiere Of ‘Grease’ At Age 15
Fast-rising Off-Broadway director Saheem Ali writes about how he saw his first show ever on a trip to London and came home to Nairobi obsessed – and came home to the Kenyan capital and cast, designed, directed, choreographed, and starred in his own “very makeshift, highly illegal, passion-fueled” production of it.
A New App Hopes To Get Readers Hooked On Serialized Fiction
Radish “calls its [business] model ‘episodic freemium,’ which is basically a fancy way for saying the first chapter is free, and bookworms pay a small fee for each additional installment or chapter they choose to read.” And the authors will actually get a decent cut of those fees.
Only Known Film Footage Of Marcel Proust Surfaces
A Canadian professor discovered the clip – 77 seconds from the wedding of two of the author’s friends – in France’s national film archives. (includes video)
How Matt Haimovitz Broke His Antique Cello’s Neck (And What Happened Next)
He says he’ll never think of the Poulenc Sonata in the same way again.
Guggenheim Lures Its Old Chief Curator Back With A New Title: Artistic Director
“Brooklyn taketh, but sometimes Brooklyn giveth back.” Last spring, Nancy Spector left the Guggenheim’s Manhattan flagship to become chief curator at the Brooklyn Museum. Now the Guggenheim’s director has created a new position just for her.
The Secret Hoard Of Looted Art From Cornelius Gurlitt’s Apartment Is Finally Going On View
Gurlitt, who died in 2014, was the son of one of the dealers Goebbels chose to sell confiscated “degenerate” artworks abroad. He left his entire collection – about 1,500 works inherited from his father (including Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Monet, Kokoschka, Courbet, Dürer, Canaletto, and others) worth an estimated billion dollars – to the Bern Art Museum, which is about to exhibit it in partnership with Bonn’s Bundeskunsthalle.
What Happens When You Turn The Guggenheim’s Rotunda Over To Michelle Dorrance? This.
“It came as something of a shock, one night in January, when people high on the corkscrew ramp of the Guggenheim Museum’s spiral rotunda started beating on the balustrade with sticks.” (includes video)
Now Open: The World’s Most Expensive Library
Is this in Saudi Arabia or Dubai? No, it’s in Russia – in a new Gothic-style building in St. Petersburg erected and operated by the publishing house Alfaret. A four-hour visit costs 7,000 rubles, just over $120.
Bankrupt Big Apple Circus To Return After Purchase By White Knight
A corporate restructuring firm paid $1.3 million for the company at a bankruptcy auction, and the show will go on this fall, celebrating Big Apple’s 40th anniversary.