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Seven objects taken from the Asante Kingdom in West Africa by British forces throughout a Nineteenth-century battle had been returned to the Asante king in what’s now Ghana on Monday by officers of the Fowler Museum at U.C.L.A. The museum, which focuses on the cultures of Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the Indigenous Americas, had […] More

Last January, 14 members of the British public entered a wood-paneled room behind the British Museum for a secret presentation. They have been there to find out about an exhibition nonetheless in growth, which the museum needed saved underneath wraps. Onscreen in a prerecorded video, the museum’s curator of Roman and Iron Age cash, Richard […] More

The historical past of artwork by girls nonetheless has its secrets and techniques. Some latest revelations embrace the visionary summary painter Hilma af Klint of Sweden, the genius American quilter Rosie Lee Tompkins and Mary Delany, an 18th-century British polymath who created a few of Western artwork’s first collages. The newest shock, no less than […] More

Julia Lippman and Mathew Eapen love vintage properties, however they’re not typical old-house fans — or purists in relation to adorning. “I like outdated homes, the quirks and the tall ceilings,” Ms. Lippman, 37, stated. But “I didn’t need a home stuffed with actually large, darkish antiques.” The couple, who’re each attorneys, had been residing […] More

They are actually a collector’s trove — Paul McCartney’s personal pictures, shot 60 years in the past, when the Beatles took Europe and America by storm: pictures of screaming followers (one carrying a reside monkey); a lady in a yellow bikini; airport staff taking part in air guitar, and unguarded moments grabbed from trains, planes […] More

This is the story of two athletic individuals who shaped an attachment whereas biking and made a house collectively close to the coast of Maine. They constructed a small, energy-efficient home northwest of Camden that’s snug all year long: in frigid season, sopping season, insect season. It’s obtained it. This can also be the story […] More

Like a cosmological comedian, the artist’s new ‘graphic memoir’ entwines recalled expertise with legend and creativeness. More

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation goes to Yale for its subsequent chief. The basis plans to announce this week that it has picked Courtney J. Martin, the director of the Yale Center for British Art, as its subsequent govt director. She will start her new job this spring. “Courtney is a dynamic and examined chief within […] More

This week, Yinka Elujoba covers Hunter Amos’s work and Wawi Navarroza’s self-portraits in Chelsea, in addition to Nathaniel Oliver’s fantastical worlds within the East Village. Chelsea Hunter Amos Through Feb. 24. Anna Zorina Gallery, 532 West 24 Street, Manhattan; 212-243-2100, annazorinagallery.com. Perhaps it’s the colours — tones of a reddish brown nearly the shade of […] More

As to the work’s period and execution, the one instructions Chacon offers are that it ought to run “a minimum of 13 minutes” and be carried out by “any variety of musicians with any variety of non-musicians.” Indeed, certainly one of Chacon’s guiding ideas is that a lot of his work be accessible to beginner […] More