Czech Cities Battle Over Mucha’s Art Nouveau Masterpiece

The Slav Epic, which took [Alphonse] Mucha more than a decade to complete, comprises 20 paintings up to 20ft high and 26ft wide that display haunting and evocative moments of Slav history.” In 1963, after spending the postwar years buried under heaps of coal, the work went on display in a small Moravian town hall. Now Prague wants it back.

Miami Art Museum Gets New Leader With Big Plans

“If all goes as planned, MAM, now a two-story building with a $5.5 million to $6 million operating budget, a 632-piece permanent collection and 33,000 square feet of space — a little less than half carved out for exhibitions — will move into a snazzy 200,000-square-foot facility with 120,000 square feet of programmable space where, museum leaders hope, its holdings will multiply.”

The Mystery Of The Led Zeppelin Art

“It was one of the more unusual art finds: four sketches by Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais tucked inside covers of Led Zeppelin LPs. What brought the worlds of rock and fine art even closer was the fact the albums belonged to Rick Hobbs, chauffeur and aide of Jimmy Page, one of the band’s founders and a passionate collector of Victorian art.”