More than 300 lots of expertly curated antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Rome and the Near East will take the spotlight in Artemis Gallery’s Thursday, April 26 online auction. The start time is 10 a.m. Eastern. A truly spectacular offering, the blended contents showcase the very best holdings from two advanced collections. One of those collections has been kept in climate-controlled storage for more than 20 years. Remarkably, most of the items entered in the sale have never before appeared at auction. “This sale is tailor-made for any collector who appreciates the classics,” said Artemis Gallery Executive Director Teresa Dodge. “There’s a look of exceptional quality from the first lot to the last and many pieces are extremely rare and of a type seldom seen in the marketplace.” As is the case with every Artemis Gallery auction, all items convey with an unconditional guarantee that they have been lega

The Annenberg Space for Photography, a cultural destination dedicated to exhibiting both digital and print photography, announced its exhibition – Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America’s Library. The exhibition, running from April 21 through September 9, 2018, is a collection of nearly 500 images – discovered within a collection of more than 14 million pictures – permanently housed in the world’s largest library at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Put together by the distinguished photography curator Anne Wilkes Tucker, the exhibition features the image entitled “Not an Ostrich” and a large selection of rare and handpicked works from the vaults of the library, many never widely available to the public. Each picture documents a special moment in America’s culture and history. Tucker, named “America’s Best Curator” by TIME, was granted special access

For the first time, the Museo del Prado is presenting an exhibition (curated by Ana González Mozo, Senior Restorer in the Museum’s Restoration Department) devoted to Italian painting on stone with the aim of disseminating the result of the analyses undertaken on these works and focusing on little-studied issues to date. A carefully selected group of works from the Museum’s collection, together with others from Naples, reveal the new approach to artistic techniques that emerged in the early decades of the 16th century. These paintings also reflect aesthetic and philosophical concepts of the time: the reproduction of new pictorial effects involving the control of the fall of light on the painting’s surface; the perception of the natural world as codified in classical texts; the paragone with sculpture; and the desire to produce eternal creations.