Arts & Culture · North America · Museums Apr 18, 11:16 PM
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will present an unusual exhibition pairing Alberto Giacometti's sculptures with the ancient Egyptian Temple of Dendur, opening in June. The collaboration between the museum and the Giacometti Foundation brings together the Swiss sculptor's modernist works and the 2,000-year-old sandstone temple, which has been housed in the Met's Sackler Wing since 1978. The exhibition represents an unconventional curatorial choice, juxtaposing 20th-century figurative sculpture with one of the museum's most iconic architectural installations from antiquity.
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Arts & Culture · North America · Museums Apr 18, 11:16 PM
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has completed a major renovation and reopened to the public with a new look. The museum's makeover represents a significant transformation for one of the largest art museums in the western United States.
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Arts & Culture · North America · Restitution Apr 18, 11:13 PM
The Denver Art Museum has returned a 1,500-year-old marble head to Turkey, marking another successful restitution for the country in its ongoing efforts to recover looted antiquities. Turkey has achieved a series of successes in recent years in reclaiming cultural artifacts from collections worldwide. The marble sculpture, dating back approximately 1,500 years, was repatriated as part of Turkey's broader campaign to recover objects that were illegally removed from the country.
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Arts & Culture · Poetry Apr 18, 11:11 PM
Jeffrey Angles, a translator and poet, has shared insights into the creation of his poem "Memory of a Three-Year-Old" in a new feature from The Paris Review. In the piece, Angles reflects on the creative process behind the work, noting at one point that he "couldn't spend another second thinking about parasitic roundworms," suggesting a shift in focus or inspiration during composition.
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Arts & Culture · Europe · Television Apr 18, 11:11 PM
The Hôtel Martinez in Cannes, France, is set to appear in the upcoming fourth season of HBO's anthology series "The White Lotus," according to a travel writer who recently stayed at the property. The luxury hotel on the French Riviera will serve as a filming location for the show's next installment.
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Arts & Culture · Asia Pacific · Art History Apr 18, 11:07 PM
Winnie Wong has published a book exploring the work of Qing-era trade portraitists whose identities have been lost to history. The Canton trade system, which operated during China's Qing dynasty, produced numerous artworks for international commerce, but the individual artists behind these works remain largely unidentified. Wong's research examines how contemporary efforts to authenticate and attribute these historical artworks reveal modern assumptions about artistic identity and authenticity. The book highlights the tension between Western art historical practices that prioritize individual authorship and the historical reality of anonymous commercial art production in 18th and 19th century Canton, where artists worked within a trade system that did not preserve their names for posterity.
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Arts & Culture · Literature Apr 18, 11:07 PM
The Paris Review has published a conversation with Sara Wheeler discussing the life and work of Jan Morris, the acclaimed British travel writer and historian who died in 2020. Wheeler characterizes Morris as "a Forrest Gumpian figure," referring to Morris's presence at numerous significant historical moments throughout her long career. Morris, who transitioned in the 1970s and wrote candidly about her experience in the memoir "Conundrum," was known for her literary travel writing and for breaking the news of Edmund Hillary's successful Mount Everest ascent in 1953 as a correspondent for The Times. The conversation explores Morris's wide-ranging career and her unique position in twentieth-century letters and journalism.
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