Art and Society

NY Times - Museums in London and Paris are grappling with questions about how to get art back to Russia, and whether the works will ever be seen again in Europe. - read more   ...

DW - Weil der Stadt is a town of about 20,000 people in southwestern Germany, west of Stuttgart. At the Catholic church of St. Peter and Paul, pastor Anton Gruber has been welcoming his congregation as well as ...

NY TIMES  - It was past midnight when a crane descended on the imposing bronze statue of Theodore Roosevelt, lifting his upper body from the pedestal where it has presided at the American Museum of Natural Hist...

de zeen  - Located on an avocado field sloping down to a forest in a rural lake town about two hours from Mexico City, this sunken home is accessed via an exterior staircase. -read more ...

domus - The Institut Catholique of Paris wants to make Notre-Dame a religious space capable of welcoming visitors from outside the Christian culture, but the idea has not received universal praise. - read more ...

Durer - Thought to be a 20th-century reproduction, the drawing by German Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer was bought at a house clearance sale. - read more ...

Hyperallergic - While peeling away layers of plaster as part of routine preparations for a building repair project, a team of restorers in England made “the discovery of a lifetime.”  - read more...

NY Times - A Sotheby’s executive called the court-ordered sale on Monday night “the most valuable single-owner auction ever staged.” - read more ...

DW - The original Superman's son, Jon Kent, has revealed that he is bisexual in a new DC comic. Here are some other LGBTQ figures from the DC and Marvel fantasy worlds. - read more ...

Hyperallergic  - Twenty color photographs from Paz Errázuriz’s La Manzana de Adán (Adam’s Apple) (1982-87), a photographic series that tenderly documented a community of Chilean trans sex workers in Santiago an...