Directed by Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons, The Queen) and based on the novels of Colette, Chéri tells the story of an aging courtesan (Michelle Pfeiffer) who falls for the playboy son (Rupert Friend) of a rival courtesan (Kathy Bates). It’s a boudoir dramedy set mainly in Paris, and it goes without saying that the Belle Epoque interiors speak volumes. I …
The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced today the election, by the board’s unanimous vote, of Timothy Rub as the George D. Widener Director and Chief Executive Officer, replacing the late Anne d’Harnoncourt. The director and CEO of the Cleveland Museum of Art since 2006, Rub received a bachelor’s degree in art history from Middlebury College, a master’s degree in art …
* On June 23 the pop culture sale at Christie’s New York totaled $650,863 with 193 of 268 lots sold. The top lot was an autographed Sgt. Pepper Beatles Fan Club of Great Britain poster that sold for $52,500 (estimate $30,000-40,000). Another top sale was a bass guitar from Sears, model number 20180, used by Kurt Cobain for early demo …
We were delighted to learn that the Frick Collection recently appointed Charlotte Vignon to its first curatorship dedicated to the museum’s distinguished decorative art holdings. Vignon, who will complete her PhD dissertation at the Sorbonne this fall, previously held fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art, and is currently the Andrew W. Mellon curatorial …
Like many visitors who enjoy unfamiliar cities I like to make my own discoveries. Guides cannot take me where I want to go because their job is to spoil the surprise of a chance encounter. Getting lost in Milwaukee, for instance, once brought me to a Greek Orthodox church by Frank Lloyd Wright on the city’s edge. Vienna on foot …
July 2009 | A cross between a world’s fair, a historical pageant, and a land and water carnival, the landmark Hudson-Fulton Celebration held in New York over two weeks in late September and early October 1909 was organized to commemorate two separate but related events: the three-hundredth anniversary of Henry Hudson’s exploration of the river that came to bear his …
AmsterdamHermitage Amsterdam On June 19 Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and President Dimitri Medevev of Russia are scheduled to preside over the opening ceremonies for the ambitiously expanded Hermitage Amsterdam. The museum, housed in the Amstelhof, built between 1681 and 1683 as a charitable home for the elderly, will reopen to the public on June 20. A satellite of the …
More than a century ago, in 1884, S. Kent Costikyan left his native Turkey for the United States. In Constantinople (now Istanbul) his father had developed a rapport with the missionaries stationed there and he decided to send his son to Colgate Academy (now Colgate University) in Hamilton, New York, to pursue theological studies. The Costikyan family was in the …
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