"‘BASTION OF THE SUPER-RICH’: INSIDE A NEW YORK BILLIONAIRE’S PRIVATE MUSEUM" by Francesca Carington.
"It was Fleet Week in New York City, and something unusual was taking place on Billionaires’ Row. At 9 West 57th Street, an elegant black sloping skyscraper towering over the Plaza hotel and the half-dozen sailors congregated outside, 20 people were ushered into a small, glass-fronted gallery on the ground floor. A ferocious crimson Basquiat greeted them, along with a monochrome Kline and a serene Henry Moore – works collected by the building’s late owner, the real estate mogul Sheldon Solow.
There are plenty of examples of art foundations that work well as private museums, such as Glenstone in Washington DC, the Broad in LA and the Rubell museums in Miami and DC."
#OnThisDay, July 11, in 1924, Scottish Olympian Eric Liddell won the gold medal in the 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favored distance, on a Sunday due to his religion (depicted in Chariots of Fire, 1981)
This Thursday, I have the great honour of presenting my book “The Power of Persuasion. Becoming a Merchant in the 18th Century” based on a forgotten merchant archive found in the Prize Papers (The National Archives, UK) as part of the Global History Lecture Series at Kyoto Sangyo University. 楽しみにしているよ。!
Please feel free to reach out to Professor Toshiaki Tamaki if you wish to attend.
Frieling, Kirsten O., Sehen und gesehen werden: Kleidung an Fürstenhöfen an der Schwelle vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit (ca. 1450-1530) (Mittelalter-Forschungen 41), Ostfildern 2013.
On this day in 1640, William Best of Co. Kilkenny died. His funeral entry details his two wives and father-in-law. See more 17th-century funeral entries in the Journals: https://bit.ly/best1640
Costume design for the allegorical figure of music, one of many figures from the 1585 Winter tournaments for the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II.
(Pen, blue wash on white paper, Galleria degli Uffizi)
By Giuseppe Arcimboldo who died #onthisday in 1593.
Endlich online: 65 historische Konzertprogramme von musica femina münchen samt Logbuch der mfm-Anfangsjahre & 120 aus dem Nachlass unserer Mitgründerin Elke Mascha Blankenburg (1943–2013) – in Koop mit der @SLUBDresden, dem Digitalen Deutschen Frauenarchiv (DDF), der @bsbmuenchen & der @musiconn nach einer Idee & Vermittlung unserer Vorstandsfrau Mary Ellen Kitchens – zur Sichtbarmachung & Recherchierbarkeit von #Komponistinnen!
@archivfraumusik@SLUBDresden@bsbmuenchen@musiconn@womencomposers@womeninmusic@histodons Von mir gibts dann noch in Bälde einen Online-Artikel auf der Webseite des DDF obendrein mit besonderem Fokus auf das wirklich zauberhafte mfm-Logbuch der allerersten mfm-Konzerte. Unglaublich, über die Begeisterung & den Stolz der Frauen & ihre Aufbruchstimmung zu lesen 😍
This magnificent helmet depicts winged youths grasping intertwined snakes. Other animals include panthers and lions. The helmet bears two inscriptions: a reference to Neopolis and “Synenitos, the son of Euklotas, took this object”.