Category: visual

“Left high on a library wall for more than half a century, the portrait of a rheumy-eyed old man initially seemed no different from the misattributed old masters hanging beside it. But after more than half a century of being overlooked, it has been authenticated as a genuine and outstanding work by Rembrandt.”

“The Anschutz Collection, one of the country’s most-respected collections of Western paintings, will open its doors to the public full-time later this year, adding another attraction to Denver’s growing portfolio of small, quirky art museums.” The institution will be officially known as American Museum of Western Art.

Not just for Easter anymore, a Peeps show takes on Occupy.

“Though previous admission fees were only suggested – $5 for general admission, $3 for students and seniors – they did create a cost barrier in the low-income South Bronx, according to the museum’s executive director, Holly Block. ‘We know it matters because Friday is our free day, and that’s our busiest day,’ she said.”

“Venice has begun sinking again and is even tilting slightly eastward, new satellite measurements have revealed. Despite previous studies suggesting the subsidence had levelled off, new research indicates that the lagoon city continues to sink an average of one to two millimeters (0.04 to 0.08 inches) a year.”

“[The canvas] was smuggled into the Glenbow Museum in Calgary and put on display by an anonymous Calgarian who said it had always been their father’s wish to see his work displayed in a museum.”

The signs on Times Square grow larger and climb higher than ever as digital technology has transformed both the displays and the way people use this elongated bowtie intersection.
The area once was known for billboard artifice. There are still a few holdouts, such as a fabric banner promoting the Broadway show “Mary Poppins” that rises 26 stories.
Now much of the square is a “mediascape.”

“If a serious photographer shoots to fix and crop, will a sharp mind and specific artistic style that great photography requires fully develop? Post photographer Bill O’Leary argues that refocusing could become just another instrument in a photographer’s toolkit.”

“For nearly six decades a Cézanne watercolor depicting Paulin Paulet, a gardener on the artist’s family estate near Aix-en-Provence, was familiar to scholars only as a black-and-white photograph. No one knew if the actual work, a study for Cézanne’s celebrated Card Players paintings, still existed and, if it did, who owned it.”

“A New York City auction will feature a painting by art deco artist Tamara de Lempicka that vanished from public view after it was created in 1925. Sotheby’s says Reclining Nude I (one) is expected to sell for $3 million to $5 million on May 2.”