The Dayton Art Institute’s Centennial Focus Exhibition, Monet and Impressionism, is on view through August 25. The DAI is proud to present this exhibition, featuring a special Monet on loan from the Denver Art Museum. Monet and Impressionism provides a spotlight of 13 paintings highlighting Impressionism in France, including works by Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Frederick Frieseke and Henri Matisse. This exhibition explores Claude Monet’s remarkable influence on art. The centerpiece of the Focus Exhibition are three works by Monet: the DAI’s own Waterlilies (1903), the 1903 oil painting Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect (effect de soleil), on loan from the Denver Art Museum, and the pastel Sainte-Adresse, View Across the Estuary (about 1865–1870), on loan from a private collection. Monet and Impressionism also offers a rare opportunity to see the DAI’s d

A new exhibition by Dale Chihuly at Schantz Galleries in Stockbridge runs through September 22, 2019. The gallery will host an opening reception on Friday, August 9 from 3-5pm. Chihuly is an American artist noted for revolutionizing the studio glass movement and elevating perceptions of the glass medium. His ambitious architectural installations have been placed in notable cities, museums, and gardens around the world, and his work is in the permanent collections of more than 200 museums. Schantz Galleries provides visitors with a more intimate setting in which to experience Chihuly’s work. Chihuly has mastered the alluring, translucent, and transparent qualities of glass, ice, water, Polyvitro, and neon, to create works of art that transform spaces to create new viewer experiences. With a background in interior design and architecture of the gallery, he and his team have desig

The remains of the house, whose adaptations are of indigenous construction, may have been occupied by Spaniards during the early viceroyalty period between 1521 and 1620 A.D. INAH’s Urban Archaeology Program also found Prehispanic traces of a platform and floor made of basalt slabs on an open plaza. Three years after cleaning and restoring Mexico’s overthrown ‘Tenochtitlan’ as much as possible, the hosts of Hernán Cortés eventually returned to prepare and adapt areas for their reuse. Almost 500 years after the conquest of the capital of the Mexican empire, archaeologists of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have discovered the ruins of a house erected shortly after the fall – readapting the sacred enclosure of ‘Tenochca’. Amidst the cold walls of the 19th century building, located on 17 Justo Sierra Street in the historic center of Mexico City, a team of specialists from the Urban Archaeology Program (PAU) of

Bavarian State Minister of the Arts Bernd Sibler returns together with the Bavarian State Painting Collections, the Bavarian National Museum and the State Collections of Prints and Drawings, Munich, works of art, which were confiscated by the Gestapo, to the community of heirs from Europe, Asia and Africa: “Ethical duty, to deal with the provenance of museum inventories thoroughly, profoundly and conscientiously” Bavarian State Minister of the Arts Bernd Sibler returned together with Prof. Dr. Bernhard Maaz, General Director of the Bavarian State Painting Collections, Prof. Dr. Frank Matthias Kammel, General Director of the Bavarian National Museum, and Dr. Kurt Zeitler, Deputy Director of the State Collection of Prints and Drawings, Munich, nine works of art, which belonged to the Davidsohns, to Hardy Langer, representative of the community of heirs. Due to extensive research, the three museums were able to reconstruct the provenance of five paintings, three color-prints and a wood pa

Egypt displayed on Sunday the gilded coffin of Tutankhamun, under restoration for the first time since the boy king’s tomb was discovered in 1922. The restoration process began in mid-July after the three-tiered coffin was transferred to the new Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo from the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, southern Egypt. “We are showing you a unique historical artefact, not just for Egypt but for the world,” Antiquities Minister Khaled el-Enany told a press conference at the new museum, which overlooks the famed Giza Pyramids. The golden coffin of the boy king will be displayed along with other Tutankhamun artefacts towards the end of next year when Egypt’s new mega-museum is opened to the public. The restoration is expected to take around eight months. The outer gilded wood coffin stands at 2.23 metres (7.3 feet) and is decorated with a depiction of the boy king holding the pharaonic sym