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Michael Katzev, an archaeologist, in 1974 with jars that had been recovered from the Kyrenia shipwreck. Much of the ships cargo also survived its sinking, possibly at the hand of pirates. (Steven V. Roberts/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In the 1960s, Susan Womer Katzev, a marine illustrator, and her husband, archaeologist Michael L. Katzev, spent two summers diving with a team beneath the lapping waves of the Mediterranean off Cyprus. Their quarry was an ancient shipwreck on the sandy ocean floor discovered just years earlier by a man foraging for sponge. It would become a startling find. Before it sank in the third century B.C., the Kyrenia had traded food, iron and millstones out of its home port, thought to be the island of Rhodes. After more than 2,000 years underwater, much of its hull and cargo old plates, coins, amphoras that once held wine and others that still held almonds were remarkably intact. Susan Katzevs drawings and photographs helped document a discovery that revealed not only ancient trading behaviors but a wealth of information about how the Greeks built ships. For decades, her and her husbands efforts have been heralded for their central role in establishing nautical archa ... More |
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| Piecing together an ancient epic was slow work. Until AI got involved. | | A Nazi villa so tainted Berlin can't give it away | | 'Hockney and Piero: A Longer Look' on view at The National Gallery |
A figure, displayed by the Louvre Museum in Paris, that has sometimes been identified with Gilgamesh. (Thierry Ollivier/Musée du Louvre via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1872, in a quiet second-floor room at the British Museum, George Smith, a museum employee, was studying a grime-encrusted clay tablet when he came across words that would change his life. In the ancient cuneiform script, he recognized references to a stranded ship and a bird sent in search of land. After he had the tablet cleaned, Smith was certain hed found ... More | |
Visitors at the main entrance of Joseph Goebbels' former villa near Wandlitz, Germany, May 23, 2024. (Lena Mucha/The New York Times)
BRANDENBURG.- Behind thickets of beech trees, overgrown with nettles and beside a blue lake an hour north of Berlin, a villa that once belonged to a Nazi mastermind quietly rots. No one knows what to do with the estate beside the Bogensee lake in Brandenburg. It was built for Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, by his grateful country just before the start of World War II. Owned by the state of Berlin today, it has sat moldering expensively on the publics tab, along with ... More | |
David Hockney (born 1937), Looking at Pictures on a Screen, 1977 Oil on canvas, 188 x 188 cm. Private collection © David Hockney.
LONDON.- I must tell you that I love the collection of the National Gallery. (David Hockney in a letter dated 5 March 1979 to the then Director of the National Gallery, Michael Levey) Two masterpieces by David Hockney (born 1937) that feature reproductions of Piero della Francescas The Baptism of Christ (probably about 143745) are on display at the National Gallery alongside the original Renaissance painting from 8 August until 27 October 2024. ... More |
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| Unusual origin found for asteroid that killed the dinosaurs | | For Stonehenge's Altar Stone, an improbably long ancient journey | | The most wanted 'girl' in fashion |
The 66-million-year-old Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary layer at the Stevns Klint geological site in Denmark. (Philippe Claeys via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Scientists have discovered new evidence that the rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, abruptly ending the age of dinosaurs, was a bit of an oddball. The nature of this apocalyptic object, known as the Chicxulub impactor, has inspired intense debates, including a long-running dispute over whether it was a comet or an asteroid. But evidence has been mounting in recent years that the roughly 6-mile-wide ... More | |
Richard Bevins examining Bluestone Stone 46, a rhyolite most probably from north Pembrokeshire, on Waless southwest coast. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Near the center of the roughly 5,000-year-old circular monument known as Stonehenge is a 6-ton, rectangular chunk of red sandstone. In Arthurian legend, the so-called Altar Stone was part of the ring of giant rocks that the wizard Merlin magically transported from Mount Killaurus, in Ireland, to Salisbury Plain, a chalk plateau in southern England a journey chronicled ... More | |
Jake Weber, a lawyer who began wearing Miu Miu this year, in New York on July 5, 2024. A lot can be learned about a clothing brand by who wears it. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Every season, many lovely dresses are shown in many lovely cities. Runways are a montage of opulence exquisite suits in Paris, sumptuous bags in Milan. It can be beautiful. It can be skull-crushingly boring. Miu Miu, the prickly little sister brand to Prada, has ... More |
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| Can this woman save the United States? | | The National Gallery of Art acquires a painting by Karin Bergöö Larsson | | New construction blocking the view? 'If you can't beat them, join them. |
Susan Gibbs by the historic ocean liner named the United States, docked on the Delaware River in Philadelphia, July 11, 2024. (Shuran Huang/The New York Times)
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Susan Gibbs needs to find a new parking spot, fast. And not just any parking spot will do. It needs to be big enough for an ocean liner. Its for a ship bigger than the Titanic, one that is nearly as long as the Chrysler Building is tall. A ship so luxurious that it was the first choice of presidents ... More | |
Karin Bergöö Larsson, Pierre Louis Alexandre, 18791880. Oil on canvas, mounted on board. Overall: 36 5/16 x 28 15/16 in. National Gallery of Art. Gift of Funds from Laura and John Arnold, Virginia Cretella Mars, and Maria Elena Weissman 2024.6.1 Ben Elwes Fine Art, London © Per Myrehed.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art has recently acquired Pierre Louis Alexandre, a painting from 18791880 by Swedish artist and designer Karin Bergöö Larsson (18591928). The acquisition broadens the art-historical narratives of our 19th-century European ... More | |
Katie and Sam Benrubi, owners of an oceanfront home on Fire Island, in New York on Aug. 2, 2024, who worried that their prized ocean view was in jeopardy. (David Benthal/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- What do you do when the neighbors construction threatens your view? Thats the situation Katie and Sam Benrubi found themselves in when the owners of the small beachfront house in front of them on Fire Island began working on plans to knock it down and build a taller structure in its place. The Benrubis house in Ocean ... More |
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| An artist's take on capitalism turns a Venetian palace into a pawnshop | | Whimsical parade of Banksy animals sends fans on a giddy hunt | | Hurricane cleanup effort reaps 'treasure': A 1945 letter in a bottle |
An 18th-century map of Ukraine hangs next to some assault rifles in Monte di Pietà , a sprawling, multilayered project by the Swiss-born artist Christoph Büchel, at The Prada Foundation in Venice, Italy, Aug. 7, 2024.
VENICE.- Ascending the grand marble staircase in the center of the Venetian palazzo, you encounter a selection of fake Gucci, Hermes and other luxury handbags laid out on a blanket. A street hawker seems to have been disturbed, leaving their knockoff wares behind. Then, turning right on the mezzanine level, you climb another staircase into a control room. ... More | |
Each day for nine straight days, a new Banksy artwork appeared somewhere in London. For some, it became a citywide treasure hunt.
LONDON.- The first Banksy piece to show up was a mountain goat, spotted by passersby on a wall near the River Thames. The second work, a pair of elephants, appeared overnight on a house in southwest London. Then came some playful monkeys, a howling wolf, two hungry pelicans and a cat. For nine straight days, Banksy, the famed and elusive street artist, unveiled a menagerie of animal artworks around the city, a prolific ... More | |
An undated photo of a message in a bottle discovered by Suzanne Flament-Smith of Tampa, Fl., while gathering debris from Hurricane Debby. (Suzanne Flament-Smith via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- A letter written in 1945 from a naval base in Virginia wound up in a glass bottle more than 800 miles away in Florida, where it was found last week nearly eight decades later after Hurricane Debby swept a swath of the state. The letter was addressed to someone named Lee from someone named Chris. But it was Suzanne Flament-Smith, 46, of Tampa, Florida, who found it Wednesday. By then, ... More |
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| The Brooklyn Museum announces complete reinstallation of American Art galleries | | Hammer Online Collections offers 50,000 artworks | | Seth Bloom, 49, who brought laughter to the rubble of war, dies |
Laura Wheeler Waring. Woman with Bouquet, ca. 1940. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum Fund for African American Art in honor of Teresa A. Carbone, 2016.2. © Estate of Laura Wheeler Waring. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
BROOKLYN, NY.- On October 4, 2024, the Brooklyn Museum will debut Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art, a transformative reinstallation of its American Art galleries and a highlight of the institutions 200th anniversary programming this fall. This collection display will bring together over 400 extraordinary artworks spanning 2,000 yearsincluding more than 120 never-before-exhibited ... More | |
John Singer Sargent, Dr. Pozzi at Home, 1881. Oil on canvas. 79 3/8 x 40 1/4 in. (201.6 x 102.2 cm). The Armand Hammer Collection, Gift of the Armand Hammer Foundation. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum at UCLA announced today the launch of Hammer Online Collections, a premier platform for students, educators, and online visitors to discover and interact with 50,000 artworks in the museums collection, spanning from the Renaissance to the present. The digital portal includes works from the Hammer ... More | |
Seth Bloom, and his wife, Christine Gelsone, together known as the Acrobuffos, at their home in Manhattan. (Ruby Washington/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Seth Bloom, a blue-haired clown and physical comedy virtuoso who helped outreach organizations in Afghanistan and other remote places stage circuses that roused smiles from children while also teaching them important life skills, including how to avoid land mines, died Aug. 2 in Poughkeepsie, New York. He was 49. Bloom died by suicide, said his wife, Christina Gelsone, with whom he performed in two-person clown shows around the world, including at the ... More |
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Christie's negotiates the sale of a masterpiece by Alma-Tadema to the National GalleryLONDON.- The National Gallery has secured a masterpiece by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, After the Audience, from the noted Pre-Raphaelite collector, Isabel Goldsmith, in negotiations brokered by Christies Private Sales. This tour de force by Alma-Tadema impresses in its depiction of the pomp and majesty of Ancient Rome, and dazzles in its technical brilliance. Agrippa, son in law of the Emperor Augustus, mounts the stairs of his villa after receiving petitioners ... More Illuminating a trailblazing artist who died too youngNEW YORK, NY.- An exultant sense of discovery is the propelling through line of Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich Bin Ich / I Am Me, a glorious exhibition at the Neue Galerie in Manhattan that is, surprisingly, the German artists first at an American museum. (It will travel to the Art Institute of Chicago in October.) During a career cut short by her death in 1907, when she was only 31, little escaped Modersohn-Beckers ... More The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg announces new Executive Director and CEOST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg (MFA) Board of Trustees announced the appointment of Klaudio Rodriguez as the new Executive Director and CEO following a comprehensive national search. Mr. Rodriguez joins the MFA from The Bronx Museum of the Arts in The Bronx, New York, where he has successfully led the institution in embracing its core mission of inspiring people and connecting communities through the power of art and education. He will officially assume his role ... More |
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