Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum unveiled Wednesday the first ever exhibition of all of its Rembrandts, marking the 350th anniversary of the death of the prolific painter it dubs the “first Instagrammer”. The landmark exhibition featuring nearly 400 paintings, drawings and sketches aims to show how the Golden Age master’s compulsive self-portraits and renderings of the world around him prefigure our modern world. “Rembrandt was the first artist in history — the first ‘Instagrammer’ one could even say — to really capture the world around him,” Rijksmuseum director Taco Dibbits told AFP. “No artist made as many self-portraits as Rembrandt. He painted his family, he drew his friends, he went out into the streets, the countryside, and he even let us enter his own bedroom to where his sick wife was stretched out.”

A “significant” number of artifacts has been recovered from Brazil’s National Museum which was gutted by fire five months ago, devastating one of Latin America’s most important natural history collections, according to the team of experts picking through the debris. While the exact quantity saved “is difficult to establish” at this point, the team was encouraged by the finds, its leader, archeologist Claudia Carvalho, told reporters on Tuesday. The museum’s director, Alexander Kellner, said 2,000 items had been recovered and registered, but explained many were fragments of one item. “Thanks to this success, we have an agreable problem: we need a lot more containers because we don’t have a lot of space” to store the finds, Kellner said. He added that the museum, located in a park in northern Rio de Janeiro, soon planned

Organized by the McNay Art Museum, American Dreams: Classic Cars and Postwar Paintings will open to the public on February 14, 2019. Inspired by a 2016 Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) single collection gallery installation with a focus on 1961, this major exhibition will boldly pair magnificent examples of American fine art and design from the Golden Age. From the end of World War II through the mid-70s, Americans experienced the explosion of Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, and Op art; the mass production of automobiles; and an expanded market for luxury items. This exhibition captures this innovative moment in U.S. history by presenting 10 classic cars as modern sculpture paired with paintings from the McNay’s collection and select loans. Rather than present a historical survey, postwar paintings and sculpture-on-wheels will be in dialogue with one another based on color, composition, dynamics, and design. The exhibition will be