A visit by the Queen Mother (Elizabeth II’s mother) to the opening of the Memorial Museum of the Battle of Normandy in 1981 might have smoothed the way to a loan of the Bayeux Tapestry to the British Museum almost 50 years ago, according to recently released files seen by HistoryExtra.
Researchers have discovered that Paulus Potter's Bull, one of the Mauritshuis's star works, originally had dramatically larger testicals until the artist shrunk the animal's anatomy
The poetics of Bu Shi inhabits an ambiguous threshold between maniacal control of form and visionary madness of content
Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
I entered the exhibition with trepidation, unsure if there was a premise beyond bringing four queer artists from Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA)—or if there would be ways to think through nuances beyond identity, sexuality and background.
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