A well-meaning mechanic was left red-faced after he mistakenly threw away what he thought was trash but turned out to be a valuable piece of modern art. The incident occurred at the LAM Museum in Lisse, the Netherlands, when the mechanic discarded two beer cans, unaware they were part of an art installation by French … Read more
The opening of Biennial exhibit “Even better than the real thing” at The Whitney Museum of American Art on March 12, 2024, in New York City. Sean Zanni | Patrick Mcmullan | Getty Images New York City’s art museums are among the most popular in the world — the Metropolitan Museum of Art (known as … Read more
On my only trip to Berlin, in 2019, I saw a lot of Käthe Kollwitz. I walked through Kollwitzstrasse and Kollwitzplatz, near the site of her home, in Prenzlauer Berg. At the Staatliche Museen and at the museum that bears her name, I studied her etchings, with their threadlike details of landscapes of combat, and … Read more
