The Met’s galleries devoted to British art and design reopen to the public on March 2, 2020
At Yale, an Enlightenment Lode
The Yale Center for British Art’s new show William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum asks us to abandon borders. Not borders between countries and people, but the walls in the mind built by group-think and obsessive, constipating specialization.
This Week’s Top Lots: July 6 – 10
* On July 7 the sale of Western manuscripts and miniatures at Sotheby’s London totaled £4.5 million. The top lot was a 15th-century manuscript, “The Life and Times of Emperor Sigismund” that sold for £1.1 million (estimate £1-1.5 million). Next was the 16th-century German manuscript, “The Management of the Army,” for Albrecht of Brandenburg that sold for £289,250 (estimate £70,000-100,000), …