In a statement, the Rubin said it opposes the trafficking of stolen or looted cultural items, has not knowingly acquired looted objects and remains committed to conducting provenance research of its entire collection, which could result in repatriation. Qiuyuhong Lu, a former intern at the Rubin and part of the Himalayan diaspora, visited the museum…
Just a few years after Germany was reunified, Thomas Schütte began making his “United Enemies” sculptures (1993–94), each composed of two figures that are knotted together by string and encased in a glass bell jar. Their lumpy, gnarled faces appear to deform, as though they were made from mashed-together Play-Doh; their bodies are largely missing,…
Most people visit Peru for Machu Picchu, the ancient Inca citadel nestled between the mountaintops around Cusco. But the country has much more to offer than its most popular tourist destination. At Lake Titicaca, for example, travelers can explore the traditional dwellings of the Uros, an indigenous people that lives on floating islands made of…
Lore Segal, at 96, “still approaches everything in life and her writing in the same way: as something interesting, something to be dealt with as directly as one can manage.” – The New York Times Source link
Inigo Philbrick, the disgraced art dealer who committed the largest art fraud in American history, may have been released from prison but his crimes still resonate. On Tuesday, a US magistrate judge said that a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting that was used by Philbrick in his illegal scheme belongs to a collector he misled—and not the…