…the 35-minute work is in many ways a sociological and anthropological study of the traditions of music, costuming, parading, blackface and “second-lining” found in New Orleans and Cape Town culture. Continue reading Troupe’s Pittsburgh debut explores minstrel parades from different cultures
Curator Timothy Standring was conducting a routine inventory at the Denver Museum when he stumbled upon a discolored canvas coated in grime. The work, “The Molo from the Bacino di San Marco, Venice” was attributed to the studio of Italian painter Giovanni Antonio Canal, a.k.a. Canaletto. The piece was assumed to be the work of a student in the studio and was left to collect dust in the museum basement, … Continue reading Denver Art Museum Discovers 18th Century Masterpiece Hidden In Storage
