Last summer, Bowers Museum in Santa Ana debuted “Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence,” a show featuring the beaded artwork developed by a community of women living in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Now, one of the exhibit’s exquisite beaded pieces has been acquired for the museum’s own permanent collection. “Dressed for the Dance,”…
NEW YORK — What does “home” mean? Different things to all of us, of course. A place of love, for some. One fraught with trouble, for others. An elusive concept for too many. “Home isn’t always a place of comfort. Nor is it always a location, or a place. Home can be a state of…
A painting thatâs more than 100 years old and once hung in a Kimmswick restaurant before being stored in various buildings around the river town has found a home. The piece, called âEarly Days on the Mississippi River,â is now hanging in the Kimmswick Historical Society museum, 6000 Third Ave. It was painted in 1914…
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JERUSALEM, Nov 12 (Reuters) – The red paint was used by chance, but it has taken on a grim significance. It was what was on hand when Ziva Jelin painted “Curving Road” in 2010, a moody landscape of empty asphalt leading to Kibbutz Be’eri, in the southern Israeli countryside, her home. Just out of the…
CHICAGO — After a stopover in the U.S. that lasted the better part of a century, a baroque landscape painting that went missing during World War II was returned to Germany on Thursday. The FBI handed over the artwork by 18th century Austrian artist Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer to a German museum representative in a…
During World War II in Germany, an American soldier stole a baroque landscape painting created by 18th-century Austrian artist Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer. The family of the solider contacted Art Recovery International to return the stolen painting in what a German museum curator said was a rare moment. Nearly 80 years after the painting went…
