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The legendary art collector, patron and impresario, Sylvio Perlstein, died on Wednesday. Hauser & Wirth confirmed the news with a post on Instagram, calling Perlstein “a visionary collector who shaped one of the most important art collections of the past century”. In 2018, Hauser & Wirth’s locations in Chelsea and Hong Kong exhibited 380 pieces from the Perlstein collection for ‘A Luta Continua. The Sylvio Perlstein Collection‘, highlighting his “bold, intuitive approach to collecting and his close ties with artists”.Related ArticlesHisachika Takahashi, Assistant to Robert Rauschenberg and Artist's Artist, Dies at 85Robert Wilson, Theater Director with a Fervent Art World Following, Dies at 83 The exhibition was the subject of a feature in the New York Times, which noted its expansive inclusion of “Dada and Surrealism (Max Ernst, Man Ray, Dora Maar, René Magritte, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle); American minimalism and post-minimalism (Donald Judd, Ad Reinhardt, Brice Marden, Fred Sandback); and land art (Richard Long, Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer, Gordon Matta-Clark)”. Perlstein first met Man Ray at a gallery in Vence, in the south of France, in 1969, that was exhibiting

El incendio en la Mezquita-Catedral ha puesto a toda Córdoba en alerta. A las 21.15 horas el servicio de emergencias 112 ha recibido las primeras llamadas avisando de humo en el entorno del monumento. El obispo emérito de Córdoba, Demetrio Fernández, informaba poco antes de las 23.00 horas de que "el incendio está controlado y sectorizado. No está extinguido, pero no queda llama viva". Fernández ha explicado que el origen habría estado en una barredora eléctrica dentro del templo, que estaba entre dos capillas, por lo que el fuego ha ascendido rápidamente al encontrarse rodeado de madera. También el alcalde de Córdoba, José María Bellido, que se ha desplazado al lugar del suceso, ha confirmado pasadas las 23.00 horas que el incendio está controlado y que se circunscribe a una capilla concreta, en la nave de Almanzor. Tanto el obispo como el alcalde han señalado que inmediatamente se puso en marcha el plan de autoprotección del monumento. "Es terrible, hay daño y ha habido daño y habrá que evaluar los daños cuando ya se extinga el fuego con más detalle a la luz del día y una vez que se pueda acceder a toda la zona -ha señalado el alcalde de Córdoba-, pero no va a ser una catástrofe.

How do you like your philosophers on art? Suspicious? (See Plato’s condemnation of the painter as mere “creator of appearances,” little better than the poets he has banished from his ideal city.) Solemn and evaluative? (There’s Kant for that, on the universal grounds for aesthetic judgments.) Deliciously specific? (Enjoy Hegel’s praise of oils over tempera for the effect their prolonged drying time has on the translucency of layers.) Almost parodically high-minded? (Go read Heidegger on van Gogh’s shoes; Derrida called the tone “ridiculous and lamentable.”) Provocative? (Baudrillard on the “end of art” will get you there.) Regardless, one must keep in mind Schlegel’s 1797 warning:“One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art.” Gilles Deleuze had very particular views of both, and no better introduction to them could be found than his seminars on painting, delivered in 1981 at the Experimental University of Vincennes, edited and published in French in 2023 as Sur la peinture, and newly translated into English by Charles J. Stivale for the University of Minnesota Press. The eight lectures turn on a central question—though not the e

Project Esther takes its name from the Old Testament queen who saved the Jews from being massacred by her husband, a Persian king. It is one of many efforts complementing the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, the 922-page blueprint for the Trump administration’s efforts to take complete control of the US government and destroy the parts billionaires don’t want. Project Esther is designed to take over US higher education and target progressive organizations that might support Palestinians and oppose extreme Christian nationalism; it is being run by the art historian Victoria Coates. Though not involving almost any actual Jews, Project Esther’s main tactic is accusing institutions, faculty, and students of anti-Semitism, and has described a broad range of critics of Israel as “effectively a terrorist support network.” Here, the biblical Esther doubles as an end-times role model for ruling class conservatives whom God has saved “for a time such as this”—the Second Coming of Donald Trump—when they’re supposed to seize power and cleanse the country of evil, so to speak. Coates rose to be Deputy National Security Advisor for Middle East and North African Affairs in Trump’s first Nation

But surely the most eccentric and irascible figure among these expats was James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), an artist whose considerable self-regard and outsize personality made him a magnet for controversy. He was a brilliant innovator, a central figure in the Aesthetic movement, which espoused “art for art’s sake”—a philosophy he underscored by envisioning his paintings as “musical” compositions of colors, titled accordingly. Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (1871) is a classic example. Otherwise known as Whistler’s Mother, it’s as iconic a masterpiece as any in the history of art, a suite of obdurately formal elements that seems to depict its stern subject as the embodiment of New England stoicism. In fact, Anna McNeill Whistler was a North Carolina native, a background the artist played up to enhance his persona as a shabby-genteel Southern aristocrat. Nothing, of course, could be farther from the truth.Related ArticlesPicasso Gets Reassessed by Artists, Whistler's Mother Returns to Philadelphia, and More: Morning Links from April 7, 2023Whistler: The Original Art Star Whistler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the son of a civil engineer from Indiana. In 1842 his

NUMBER CRUNCHING. For a new report released via Puck Wednesday evening, art data firm ARTDAI analyzed auction data for the first half of 2025 to generate the Top 50 selling artists by total auction volume, number of lots sold, overall hammer ratio, and the top price achieved for the artist. The results, downloadable here,  suggest that buyers are “seriously pursuing works made by historically significant artists—some living, many dead [and] it appears that we’re just at the beginning of the cycle.” According to Puck‘s Marion Manneker,  buyers are also chasing lower-value works “at a fairly robust clip, and they’re not afraid to bid for the works they want—though we may not be seeing as many high-value purchases as we have in the past.” The biggest deals, it seems, are happening privately—but there’s no way to confirm them. “Nevertheless, the idea that buyers have lost interest in art doesn’t really make sense when you see this data,” he writes. “They’ve just turned their focus to undervalued works, and that longer-term project seems to be building momentum.”Related ArticlesQatar's Soft Power, National Gallery to Launch New Citizen Advisory Panel: Morning Links for August 5, 2025Ex-

Previous finds in Laodicea include intricately frescoed travertine blocks, a nearly ten-foot statue of Roman Emperor Trajan, the Trajan Fountain, a statue of a priest’s head, and a group sculptures of the monster from Homer’s The Odyssey the Scylla.