Stay updated with breaking news from வெயிஸ் கேலரி. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
In Focus: The rediscovered Old Masters set to light up London Art Week 2021 countrylife.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from countrylife.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
30 Black Women Trailblazing Visual Representation and Racial Justice frieze.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from frieze.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Wandering Eye: Of Swindlers and Sealing Wax Editorial Staff Courtesy of the Weiss Gallery, London. CURIOUS OBJECTS Strongly influenced by William Morris and the arts and crafts movement, and best known for his vibrantly colored ceramic tiles, William De Morgan was a prolific artist whose work adorned many residences and public buildings throughout England. While tiles earned him steady commissions, his work in three dimensions is just as important. Here’s an introduction. ( Pardon our delay this week: we’ve been struggling to tear ourselves away from a fascinating article about phenakistoscopes. The 1832 invention derives its name from the ancient Greek word for deceit, and produces an optical illusion that makes static images appear to move. A similar concept is at work in spiral spinners and flip-books, but the patterns and whimsy of phenakistoscopes is nothing short of spectacular . . . if sometimes creepy. ( ....
Is this the art crime of the century? April 26, 2021 Giuliano Ruffini in Emilie-Romagne near Parma on February 05, 2020 . (Photo by Baptiste Giroudon/Paris Match via Getty Images) A version of this story first appeared in the spring 2021 Artnet Intelligence Report, which you can download in full for free here. “One name keeps cropping up in regard to people not to be trusted due to their links with forgeries that of Giuliano Ruffini.” So begins a 3,000-word anonymous letter sent to the Paris art crime squad in 2014 that set in motion a chain of events destined to throw the Old Master market into turmoil. ....