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Christie's in New York is to offer Georgia O'Keeffe's 1930 landscape "Near Abiquiu, New Mexico I". For the past four decades the painting has lain wrapped up in a cupboard in a flat in New York's East Village, and until
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Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun, portrait of the artist's daughter, Julie, as a bather In 2027 this painting will be offered at auction at Christie's in New York
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On the road I read an essay about Jerry Gorovoy, the American who worked as Louise Bourgeois's assistant for almost thirty years. The author describes him as a man who protected the artist and tirelessly promoted her work. Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911, moved to
The Golden Age · Art · New York · People
The Nathalie Karg Gallery in New York is showing rare black-and-white paintings by Friedel Dzubas in the exhibition "Friedel Dzubas: From Darkness to Light". Dzubas became famous as a master of colour field painting. He was born in Berlin in 1915 to a Catholic mother and
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The Metropolitan Museum and the Louvre are jointly preparing the exhibition "Rembrandt and the Ancients". It will open in New York in November 2027 and travel to Paris in 2028. For the first time in more than twenty years, the Metropolitan will show so full a retrospective of
Faith · New York · Society · Mores · Nature
On 4 October, the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi, who is regarded as the patron of animals and of nature, animals are blessed in churches all over the world. Stories of his sermon to the birds and of the wolf of Gubbio are associated with the name of Francis,
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The blessing of the animals at the Episcopal Church of Saint John in New York on 4 October, the feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi, who is regarded as the patron saint of animals and nature. Francis is associated with the tale of his sermon to the birds and
The East · Society · Geography · Science · New York
In closed diplomatic talks, American officials are demanding explanations from China over alleged low-yield nuclear tests and the rapid expansion of its strategic infrastructure at no fewer than seven secret sites. The talks took place on the margins of multilateral meetings in Geneva, New York and Casablanca, against the
Archaeology · Museums · Heritage · New York
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has handed over to Greece ancient objects that until recently were held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Since 2017 the Manhattan prosecutor's office has had a special unit devoted to combating the illicit trade in antiquities, which
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On 9 June 1994 the British channel ITV broadcast a documentary by the journalist Jonathan Dimbleby in which Prince Charles, now King Charles III, admitted to adultery. By then Charles and Diana had already been living apart for a year and a half. That same evening Princess Diana arrived at
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Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama died on 14 August in a Tokyo hospital at the age of 97. Her studio and the David Zwirner gallery announced the news only on 26 August. Kusama was born in 1929 in Matsumoto and began to draw as a child, as a way of coping
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In Marcel Duchamp's last work, Étant donnés, made in secret between 1946 and 1966, a naked woman lies sprawled in a field. According to Francis Naumann, the leading Duchamp specialist, the figure was modelled on the Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins. In his book published in 2026, Impossible: The