by Leandra Velez | Jul 18, 2016 | 2016, archive
The New Museum in New York has curated an exhibition this summer that asks the question: Why do we keep things? “The Keeper” contains thousands of objects and examines the ways we collect and own items. From a July 17 New York Times article about the show,...
by Leandra Velez | Jul 5, 2016 | 2016, archive
AMSTERDAM — Before roughly 26,000 visitors were admitted into the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam this past weekend to view two Rembrandt portraits heralded as new national treasures, their former owner, Éric de Rothschild, had a moment alone with his two old friends, the...
by Leandra Velez | Jun 15, 2016 | 2016, archive
“Norman Rockwell and His Contemporaries” is currently on exhibit at the National Museum of American Illustration. As part of the museum’s benefit silent auction on July 21. 2016, Don Trachte Jr. will speak about his father’s copied version of Norman...
by Leandra Velez | May 17, 2016 | 2016, archive
The following NPR piece from May 16, 2016, discusses the efforts of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to add interactive technology to their art experience. They are trying to appeal to ever wider and younger audiences, though they hope the Tech doesn’t get in...
by Leandra Velez | Apr 13, 2016 | 2016, archive
As controversies go in the art world, you won’t get much more divisive and impassioned than the Italian 16 century artist Caravaggio. We have less than 60 paintings from his tumultuous life, and Caravaggio historians know the story of each and every one. So if a...
