Art News

“Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection,” opening Nov. 17, celebrates the recent gift from the renowned collector to Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. On view through May 28, 2018, the exhibition, co-curated by Ursula Ilse-Neuman and Cooper Hewitt, features 150 brooches, necklaces, bracelets and rings, and traces radical developments in jewelry from the mid-20th century to the present.

“When you look at this piece, what you see is a sort of void of blackness. But within that I see, more than a void, I see possibility. I’ve been really interested in this idea of black joy that comes from Malcolm X, he talked about it 35 years ago. This is a direct allusion to the work of Malcolm X . . . ."–Erika Dalya Massaquoi - Seattle Art Museum   

"Senior Research Curator Susanna Avery-Quash explores the history of taste in the National Gallery's collection. Learn about one of the earliest paintings in the Gallery's collection, Margarito d'Arezzo's 'The Virgin and Child Enthroned, with Narrative Scenes', and how it sparked a revolution in taste and why it was acquired for the nation's collection by our first Director, Sir Charles Eastlake."  

"Restorer Jill Dunkerton tells about the raising of Wtewael's masterpiece from the Wycombe Museum." - The National Gallery 

"Senior Research Curator Susanna Avery-Quash explores the history of taste in the National Gallery's collection. Discover how Degas's 'Beach Scene' came to be one of the first French Impressionist paintings to enter the Gallery's collection, the important role of changing tastes and the bequest of collector, Hugh Lane." - The National Gallery 

"A fundamental role of a museum is to care for its collection and preserve it for future generations. European drawings from the 1300s to the late 1800s, or old master drawings, are particularly vulnerable--they are on paper and hundreds of years old. A paper conservator must find the balance between maintaining the historical integrity of the drawing while preserving the appearance intended by the artist." - The Getty Museum

"The entrance of our Chinese Furniture Gallery is framed with calligraphy by Wango Weng, a renowned historian of Chinese art. The poem reminds the reader that refraining from worries about materials gains and losses will allow a greater appreciation of virtue, beauty and all that nature can teach."

"Euphronios, Sarpedon Krater, (signed by Euxitheos as potter and Euphronios as painter), c. 515 B.C.E., red-figure terracotta, 55.1 cm diameter (National Museum Cerite, Cerveteri, Italy)"

Coinciding with this fall’s fortieth Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair on October 28–30 is an ambitious, multi-venue exhibition of illuminated manuscripts and early printed books, providing a tantalizing glimpse of medieval book production as well as a thorough examination of manuscript collecting in Boston at the turn of the nineteenth century.

Christie’s is pleased to announce the sale of Carlo Scarpa: Visions in Glass 1926-1962. A Private European Collection, taking place on May 4, 2017 at Christie’s New York. The sale features the only single-owner collection of works by the Venetian architect and designer Carlo Scarpa ever to be sold at auction to this day.