At The Met Breuer this summer, the exhibition Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection presents a selection from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Scofield Thayer Collection of some 50 erotic and evocative watercolors, drawings, and prints by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Pablo Picasso, whose subjects, except for a handful, are nudes. The exhibition provides a focused look at this important collection and marks the first time this brilliant group of works are being shown together; it also marks the centenary of the death of Klimt and Schiele. An aesthete and scion of a wealthy family, Scofield Thayer (1889–1982) was co-publisher and editor of the literary magazine the Dial from 1919 to 1926. In this avant-garde journal he introduced Americans to the writings of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, Arthur Schnitzler, Thomas Mann, and Marcel Proust, among others. He frequently accomp

Following the publication of the book ‘Tussen figuratie en abstractie. De geschiedenis van Kunsthandel M.L. de Boer’ (Between the figurative and the abstract). The history of Art Dealership M.L. de Boer) by Caroline Roodenburg-Schadd, the Rijksmuseum presents a selection of various masterpieces from Art Dealership M.L. de Boer from 30 June through to 16 September 2018. The exhibition Eye-opener Art Dealership M.L. de Boer features 27 paintings and 9 sculptures by, among others, Jan Sluijters, Jan Toorop, Fernand Léger and Marino Marini. The Rijksmuseum has already held exhibitions about the art dealerships of E.J. Wisselingh (1993) and J.H. de Bois (1999). Eye-opener Art Dealership M.L. de Boer can be seen from 30 June through to 16 September 2018 at the Rijksmuseum. Just after the Second World War, Martien de Boer (1907-1991) established his Art Dealership M.L. de Boer on the Keizersgracht. Until 2006, the art dealersh

Despite a century of scientific scrutiny, the 5000-year old Neolithic monument in southern England known as Stonehenge has yielded few secrets about the people buried amidst its ring of towering rocks. Most of their remains were cremated, leaving only ashes, a few bone fragments, and an archeological dead-end. But a eureka moment discovery by Christophe Snoeck, a University of Oxford graduate student at the time, revealed that many probably came from as far afield as Wales in western Britain, source of the bluestone used to carve Stonehenge’s mysterious and entrancing monuments. Some of these pre-historic wayfarers — who may have helped transport the massive stones — were cremated before their ashes were laid to rest, Snoeck and colleagues reported in a study published Thursday in Scientific Reports. Others may have died on the job, or sett

The new installation presented was first envisaged in the Redesign of the Collections of the Museo del Prado Plan, known as the “2009-2012 Action Plan”. It has been implemented through the Museum’s subsequent four-year plans and aims at making full use of all the existing galleries in the Villanueva Building. Following the completion in 2007 of the extension to the Museo del Prado around the Jerónimos Cloister, which resulted in a considerable and extremely useful increase in surface area for both public and internal use, the Museum decided to focus on a new type of extension based on regaining pre-existing galleries in the Villanueva Building that were not being used as display space at the time. The result was to increase the amount of exhibition space, presenting more works of art on permanent display and using more architectural spaces of notable artistic importance, in addition to offering a new, more co