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The sun and the moon are often called Lorenzo and Catalina in Spain - but do YOU know why?

Here Are the 10 Most Expensive Lots Sold at Auction in February 2024

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James Quandt on Pasolini's Mamma Roma (1962) and the musca depicta

AN ODDITY IN THE OPENING CREDITS for Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Mamma Roma (1962) has gone largely unremarked, probably because it is so cursory. A minute or so into the credit sequence, which is accompanied by the stately largo from Vivaldi’s Concerto for Viola d’Amore and Lute in D Minor, a fly suddenly enters at the lower right-hand side of the frame, meanders a bit before pausing on the name of an actor (Giulio de Stephanis) as if to inspect it, and then skitters off as quickly as it had emerged, its time on-screen totaling three seconds. Was the intrusion of the insect an accident most likely or, given Pasolini’s radical ways, an intentional aberration? I conferred with the Pasolini archives in Bologna, Italy, which found no reference regarding this strange anomaly, so one must assume that the fly’s brief invasion of the image either went unnoticed by the director or that, once detected, the insect was permitted its guest appearance, for reasons other than the merely pragmati

Alopecia in art history: The many ways women's hair loss has been interpreted

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Raqib Shaw's XL paintings flirt with kitsch at the Gardner Museum

An artist’s tortured past yields glittering traumas in high relief