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Emil Bührle acquired the painting «La Route montante» in March 1937 at an auction at the Moos Gallery in Geneva. Richard Semmel, a German-Jewish businessman and art collector had consigned the ...
UNESCO expresses its grave concern over the increasing threats affecting the World Heritage site ‘Kyiv: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra’, following the ...
One of America’s most renowned artists and a major figure in the history of sculpture in the 20th century, Shapiro—who also worked across drawing and printmaking—pushed the boundaries of sculptural ...
The sting, organized by the police’s Department for the Protection of Cultural Heritage and Antiquities, took place at a residence in Elliniko, where undercover officers posed as buyers. The suspects ...
The entrance fee to the Louvre will rise from 22 to 30 euros for non-EU visitors. It is one of the first French cultural institutions to apply the so-called “differential tariff,” a measure set to be ...
The new device, developed in collaboration between The University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums and the School of Physics and Astronomy, can quickly and cheaply detect the presence of toxic ...
One of Lebanon’s most celebrated contemporary artists, Nabil Nahas is known for his visionary practice that bridges abstraction and figuration through meditative compositions rooted in geometry, ...
The grant will support the four-year project, Afterlives: Engaging Objects of Religious Origin in Museum Collections, a collaboration between the Smart Museum of Art and the Divinity School’s Martin ...
Under his leadership, ROM has solidified its position as Canada’s most-visited museum and now ranks among the top 10 museums in North America. Mr. Basseches will remain Director & CEO until the end of ...
Mr. Lauder was born in 1933 in New York City, the oldest son of Estée and Joseph H. Lauder, the founders of The Estée Lauder Companies. He was a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, the ...
The rhinoceros has long captivated the artistic imagination. In creating the Rhinocrétaire, François-Xavier joined a storied lineage of artists who had explored the symbolic and visual potency of this ...
Reporting in the journal, NPJ Heritage Science, the researchers used a variety of raw materials and heating times to develop 12 recipes for the pigments, providing useful information for ...