Every time we are in Rome, K and I stop by the Ara Pacis, a museum built around a 2,000-year-old altar dedicated to the goddess of peace. The altar itself is a never-flagging source of pleasure. Enclosed, as…
On May 16, Sotheby’s wrapped up its sale of an art collection that was put together by Harry and Linda Macklowe over the course of their 60-year marriage. The total take: $922.2 million. That made it, in…
I’ve said in previous blog posts that I’m sure NFTs will be widely used in the art world over the next ten years. Not as art pieces themselves, but as digital ID tags that can be attached to each individual…
Here’s another example of why visual artists should not be allowed to use words. This is an installation on the façade of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC. It is by someone named…
A Dutch historian known as the “Indiana Jones of Art” recovered ancient Catholic relics when the pieces were left on his doorstep a few weeks ago. The relics were stolen in early June from the Fécamp Abbey…