“The patient, rhythmic tapping of hammer on metal permeates this alley of coppersmiths. Shelves are filled with gleaming pots, bowls and pitchers. In a corner of each shop, a single worker, usually an older man, patiently toils away on his latest creation — never quite identical to the ones that preceded it.”
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These Art Donors Are Tired Of London Getting Everything
“In America, pretty much every major city – Detroit, St Louis, Chicago, Dallas, Forth Worth, Houston, LA, San Francisco, Seattle – they all have museums which could virtually be national museums in terms of their scope and their quality. This situation just doesn’t happen in England, and there are very few museums that have got the ambition to emulate that sort of level of excellence.”
The British Art Elite Unites With Students In Outrage About Proposed Move Of Cass Design School
“The issue is not just about changing address and revisiting the menu, it is about a failure to respect the integrity of hands-on creative education or understand the real skills involved that make it attractive to students and their employers and enable it to thrive. Homogenisation is not the way forward.”
Thieves Break In To Verona Museum, Steal Art
“Four men forced their way into the museum, the Castelvecchio, just as it was closing for the evening on Thursday but before alarms had been activated.”
Design Team Named For Performing Arts Center At World Trade Center Site
“The Brooklyn-based architecture firm, REX has been selected to reconceive the Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center, which was originally designed by Frank Gehry.
When Helga Fooled Us All: Robert Hughes On The Media Frenzy Around Andrew Wyeth’s ‘Secret’ Paintings
“The lanes and back roads, diners and gas stations and Kmarts of rural Pennsylvania were crawling with intrepid reporters, festooned in tape recorders and videocams, looking for Helga. Whether Wyeth was obsessed with her or not, the media certainly were. The quest for Helga began to take on the epic proportions of the search for Patty Hearst, or even the Lindbergh baby.”
The Case Of The Savvy Billionaire Who Got Bilked Of Millions On High-End Art
The question echoing around the art world is how one of the world’s richest, toughest investors could make himself so vulnerable.
Iran’s Amazing Modern Art Treasures
As Iran lurches toward reengaging with the world after the end of years of sanctions, a crown jewel waits in history’s shadow.
How To Steal A Monastery: When American Robber Barons Brought Medieval Landmarks Over From Europe, Stone By Stone
“American robber barons snuck ancient stones out of the war-torn countryside in the dead of night, Europeans fretted over how their familiar landmarks were rapidly disappearing, and U.S. cities spent decades of the 20th century fighting over what to do with tens of thousands of displaced medieval remnants.”
The Uffizi Museum’s First Non-Italian Director Has Big Plans
Eike Schmidt is one of seven non-Italians appointed to direct the country’s state museums as part of a sweeping reform that seeks to bring the institutions in line with their more business-minded peers in the US and the UK.