The Committee for the Preservation of the White House has acquired a painting by Cuban American artist Carmen Herrera, making her the first Latina artist to have her work included in the U.S. presidential residence’s permanent collection. The piece, titled Dia Feriado (2011), is now installed in the White House’s East Wing, which houses the Office of the First Lady. Dia Feriado, a round canvas painted with geometric shapes in emerald and tangerine, is typical of Herrara’s minimalist abstract style. Former first lady Jill Biden and White House curator Donna Hayashi Smith facilitated the acquisition of the work, along with…
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Today’s jewelry collection story comes from Sarah of @vintagegems_nh who you may know from the Instagram community. Sarah has weekly Instagram live shows alongside her husband Joe aka “Jeaux” where all sorts of hooligan stuff goes down. It is both equal parts funny, chaotic and super sparkly. When Sarah is not schlepping jewels, she is collecting them! I can’t wait to share her personal collection, as well as her story…take it away Sarah: “I’ve only been seriously collecting fine jewelry for the past decade or so, but my passion for treasures and trinkets started early on. I remember being four…
You never know what you will find when you are thrifting! This Christopher Radko Valentine Heart Garland sold for $349.95 in 2025. For those of us who adore hunting for treasures in secondhand stores, what’s not to love about thrifting? According to Canadian TikTok influencer Ashley Coull, whose MommyDoesntDoDishes account has more than 200,000 followers, there is a whole lot. “I have been wanting to ask this question for months,” Coull said in her video, which quickly went viral and created such a firestorm among the thrifting community that she took it down. “Who are you people that thrift? Can…
Artist Hamishi Farah said on Wednesday that a painting of Joe Chialo, Berlin’s controversial culture senator, never made it on view in Berlin because it was “deemed inappropriate” by the art festival that planned to show it. The untitled painting, which depicts Chialo wearing a royal blue coat and looking out at the viewer, was intended to appear at Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt as part of the Transmediale festival, which surveys “cultural transformation from a post-digital perspective,” according to its description. A description of Farah’s painting, which was commissioned for Transmediale by curator Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung, said…
William Edmondson’s “Lady with a Bustle,” a carved limestone sculpture, 13 3/8 in. tall by 5 in. wide, depicts a standing woman with well-defined, shoulder-length hair wearing a dress or apron with a bustle and short train in the back, visible shoes and a necklace or banded collar. She carries a small handbag in her right hand. The piece sold for $268,400 at Case Auctions.Case Auctions Case Auctions held the first day of its Winter Fine Arts & Antique auction on Jan. 25. Many lots came from estates and museum collections in Tennessee, with the results highlighting one of the…
Kovels Antique Trader February 2025 Cover Since its earliest known mention in 1066, the wonderfully diverse and always impressive cape has ebbed in and out of fashion more than any other garment we can think of. And today, it’s coming back around again, which is why the cape comeback highlights the February issue of Kovels Antique Trader. Cape Crusaders Capes have been worn throughout history by many noteworthy figures, including Julius Caesar, King Arthur, Napoleon Bonaparte, Jackie Kennedy, and even Princess Diana, to convey authority, power, and sophistication. They are also associated with fantasy settings and stories involving Dracula, pirates,…
ArtArtsy Editorial“Artists on Our Radar” is a monthly series focused on five artists who have our attention. Utilizing our art expertise and Artsy data, we’ve determined which artists made an impact this past month through new gallery representation, exhibitions, auctions, art fairs, or fresh works on Artsy.B. 1989, Kerman, Iran. Lives and works in London.In vivid, sculptural fiber works, Iranian artist Hiva Alizadeh deploys synthetic hair to create striking contemporary articulations of tradition. The artist’s choice of material is a nod to hair’s cross-cultural significance as a symbol of personality, temporality, and experience. Meanwhile, his weaving technique mirrors the intricacies…
When speaking about chamber pots, commodes, and careless mistakes, the “careless mistakes” are probably not what you might imagine. These “mistakes” are not something that needs to be cleaned up but corrected. Brooklyn Toilet set I’m writing about the latest antiques to be misidentified by online sellers and antique dealers. It seems like something hardly worth mentioning except that when antiques are misidentified by the “experts,” the incorrect information becomes credible and then becomes a general belief. This happens with many antiques, but this article will be limited to those old-time necessities known as a: chamber pot, commode, thunder mug,…
The Sundance Film Festival is at a crossroads. Within the next year, the organization may announce a new home, leaving behind the Park City vistas filmmakers have been flocking to for generations. Yet, in looking back at its storied history for this year’s From the Collection section, the festival selected one of its first distinguished alums, the film “El Norte,” to play the historic Egyptian Theater on snowy Main Street. The film, which received a pristine restoration in 2017 from the Academy Film Archive looked like a great American epic on the theater’s famous screen. The movie directed and co-written…
The title of Zeinabu irene Davis’s landmark independent film “Compensation” comes from Paul Laurence Dunbar’s 1906 poem of the same name. The film follows the parallel love stories of two lovers—a deaf woman (Michelle A. Banks) and a hearing man (John Earl Jelks)—in both turn-of-the-century and modern-day Chicago. As the film crosscuts between the story of Malindy and Arthur, who are living in the earlier twentieth century, and Malaika and Nico, living during its final decade, Davis skillfully weaves in a hundreds years of Black American history through the use of archival photography brought to life through sound, open captions,…
