New research has revealed the fascinating life story of a once anonymous Black boy in a grand 18th-century English portrait by French painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo. Captured in the painting at a young age, recently uncovered documents show that he went on to enjoy a career as a musician in the royal household of George…
Often, it’s an inverse relationship, as anyone who has gone to too many readings can tell you. – LitHub Source link
Art is secondary to partying for more people than you might think at Frieze London—as at any major art fair. Anyone who is—or wants to be—a hot ticket rocks up on the VIP days to see art and to be seen seeing art, before hobnobbing at the evening’s gallery dinners, parties, and after-parties. The scene, like Art…
While wheat fields are a common sight in Montana, this past year a new type of wheat field took root in the city of Bozeman, one that was agricultural—and also an artwork. Though not wholly dissimilar from a standard crop, the stretches of Bobcat (a variety of hard red winter wheat) were part of a…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — On the eve of World War II, Nazis in Austria seized a pastel by renowned impressionist artist Claude Monet, selling it off and sparking a family’s decadeslong search that culminated Wednesday in New Orleans. At an FBI field office, agents lifted a blue veil covering the Monet pastel and presented Adalbert…