- I direct your attention to inventory no. 16232, a giant wooden Kruzifixus, accused of Judeo-Bolshevism, from the atelier of one L.G. by way of a Museum in Stettin.- O. I am beginning with… Read More
Marcel Breuer became known for his furniture and architectural designs. From the start, he didn’t shy away from experimenting with interesting shapes and materials. As a result… Read More
Source UrlTitleArtistCredit LineAcc NumProvenancehttps://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483489Crouching Woman with CrabAristide Maillol | Crouching Woman with Crab | French | The Me… Read More
That's the subthesis of "Picasso's War," reviewed below.Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America by Hugh EakinMy rating: 5 of 5 starsSimply fascinating book. The title is a pun, c… Read More
Idyllic Art and Architecture with an Imperfect Past
Weimar, Germany, is the birthplace of the Bauhaus, an influential school of art, architecture, and design that introduced the world… Read More
THE PUNISHER 2004 DUAL AUDIO HINDI ENGLISH ORG 480P BLURAY BY THEMONSTERK9Coordinated by Jonathan Hensleigh Created by Avi Arad, Gale Anne Hurd Imdb Ratings 6… Read More
Henri MatisseThe Blue WindowIssy-les-Moulineaux, summer 1913at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, CreditAbby Aldrich Rockefeller FundObject number273.1939 https://web.archive.org/web… Read More
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The wood that grows dusky and turns into a primeval forest means entry into the unconscious. The round pool with the jelly-fish in it represents a three-dim… Read More
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Visions Seminar
14 March 1934 Visions Seminar LECTURE VIII
We have further contributions to the diamond symbolism today.
We said last time that the diamond… Read More
Does great art necessarily challenge the power symbols of its time? Or is it sometimes enough, for artistic accomplishment, to depict wealth and majesty with the right level of elegance? Thr… Read More
Post-War Reports :Activity of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg in France: C.I.R. No.1 15 August 1945 (a transcribed fully searchable text of the Report)OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES ART… Read More
Advisory Commissionon the return of cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution, especially Jewish propertyOffice: Seydelstr. 18, 10117 BerlinRecommendation of the Advisor… Read More
This article titled “Works hoarded by son of Nazi art dealer to go on public display” was written by Kate Connolly in Berlin, for theguardian.com on Friday 27th October 2017 18… Read More
Film | Cult Films
Pink Flamingos: The most outrageous film ever made?
Pink Flamingos was so shocking that it was only widely distributed a decade after it was made. Nicholas B… Read More
Dataset name: Enhanced MoMA PRPDescription: This enhanced Provenance dataset has been constructed from information available on the public internet site of the Museum of Mode… Read More
As frightening goblins, phantoms, clowns and zombies roam the streets this Halloween, a group of Puerto Ricans in Chicago are hosting a haunted house with a far more scarier theme: colonial… Read More
"The V&A holds the only known copy of a complete inventory of 'Entartete Kunst' confiscated by the Nazi regime from public institutions in Germany, mostly during 1937 and 1938. The list… Read More
Warning: if you’re going to join me in this venture, you’ll sleep a little and walk a lot. It’s difficult to capture the soul of the city in two days, and I surely have bar… Read More
I turned 55 on my last birthday. Birthdays generally are not a big deal for me, at least in the sense that I don’t get anxious or depressed about growing a year older. Beli… Read More
Michael Butterworth in the Savoy office, 1998 (photo by Ben Blackall).
Interview by Mike Holliday.
This is the first of a proposed 3-interview series. Parts 2 and 3, featuring David B… Read More