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The Real-Life Downton Abbey's Earl Funded The Discovery Of King Tut's Tomb

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The Real-Life Downton Abbey's Earl Funded The Discovery Of King Tut's Tomb

Newbury, England — July 18, 2018. Tourists are lining up outside Highclere Castle, where Downton Abbey is filmed, for a tour.

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Highclere Castle in Hampshire, England, is now famous as the shooting location for Downton Abbey, but one of the estate’s real-life lords funded the search for Tutankhamen’s tomb. George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earrl of Carnarvon, was born on June 26, 1866 and inherited the title and the estate in 1890.

Like the fictional 7th Lord Grantham (and a lot of English peers in the 1880s and 1890s), the 5th Lord Carnarvon married rich to bail himself and the estate out of financial ruin. Shortly after his 1895 wedding to heiress Almina Victoria Maria Alexandra Wombwell, her father, the millionaire banker Alfred de Rothschild, paid off Carnarvon’s standing debts and bestowed a modest £500,000 (equivalent to about $81 million in 2019) settlement on his new son-in-law. Lady Carnarvon’s fortune is, in part, how the Carnarvons funded archaeologist Howard Carter’s excavations in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings — although he also spent a fair chunk of it on racehorses and fast cars, which makes it pretty easy to figure out how he got into so much debt in the first place. Arguably, several years of archaeology were a better investment than an ill-fated Canadian railroad venture.

Along with fast horses and faster cars, Lord Carnarvon loved ancient Egypt. He and Lady Carnarvon often spent winters in Cairo, buying antiquities for their collection back home (trading in what we would now call looted antiquities was perfectly legal in the early 1900s). Downton Abbey‘s writers gave a nod to Lord Carnarvon’s passion for Egyptology in Season 6, when Lord Grantham names his new puppy Tiaa; when Lady Edith points out that the Downton dogs always have Egyptian names, he replies, “Tiaa was a wife of Amenhotep II and the mother of Thutmose IV. Don’t you know anything?”

In 1907, Carnarvon hired a young archaeologist named Howard Carter to excavate the tombs of ancient Egyptian nobles at Deir el-Bahri, near the New Kingdom capital of Thebes, where the Egyptian government had just issued Carnarvon an excavation permit. Seven years later, in 1914, Carnarvon hired Carter again to search an unopened royal tomb in the Valley of the Kings — but a few months into the work, World War I broke out, putting everything on hold until 1917. Back in England, Highclere Castle really did serve as a hospital during the war (like Downton and many other real-life estates), and Lady Carnarvon worked as both a nurse and an administrator.

Lord Carnarvon stands with his daughter Lady Evelyn Herbert and Howard Carter at the top of the steps leading to the tomb of Tutankhamun.

By Harry Burton (Photographer) – The Griffith Institute Archive.Harry Burton��s photos of Tutankhamun’s Tomb taken in 1922 are on the Griffith Institute Archive with the note:“This material is published with full and free access, providing a comprehensive online resource for all audiences.” See: http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/discoveringTut/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63219055

By 1922, Carnarvon had decided to give up — but a telegram from Howard Carter on November 4 changed everything, for Carnarvon and for generations of Egyptologists. With Carnarvon’s financial backing, Carter had at last located the tomb of King Tutankhamun. The rest is history, but it’s history that Carnarvon wasn’t around to witness. On April 5, 1923, a few months after witnessing the opening of the 3,200-year-old tomb, the 5th Earl of Carnarvon died in a Cairo hotel (which sounds terribly depressing, but to be fair, it was a very luxurious Cairo hotel).

Despite nearly a century of eager speculation (and the fact that it makes a really good story), it wasn’t King Tut’s curse that killed Lord Carnarvon — just a weak immune system and terrible luck. Thanks to his injuries in a 1903 car crash, Carnarvon had suffered from poor health for 20 years, and doctors later concluded that he was more vulnerable to infection than a healthy person would have been. In fact, he was so vulnerable that an infected mosquito bite dealt the final blow, after two weeks of fever, pain, and pneumonia.

The Dowager Countess Carnarvon kept pouring money into the excavation for two more years after her husband’s death, when the Egyptian government essentially bought back the tomb’s contents from the Herbert family for about £35,000 (equivalent to roughly $2.5 million today). But the family maintained a large collection of Egyptian artifacts. The basement of Highclere Castle doesn’t contain Mr. Carson’s pantry, Mrs. Hughes’ sitting room, or the kitchens and servants’ hall of Downton Abbey: it’s an exhibit of ancient Egyptian artifacts brought to England by the 5th Earl and Countess, open to the public along with other sections of the house. No word on what Mr. Carson would make of that, but all those below-stairs scenes from the TV show actually took place on a London filming set.

Lord Carnarvon’s final resting place is a tribute to both his love of archaeology and the early 20th century’s reckless and often selfish definition of it. He’s buried within the ditch-and-embankment boundaries of a 2,000-year-old Iron Age hillfort near the estate (and since modern archaeologists have never formally surveyed or excavated the hillfort, there’s no way to know what he may have disturbed in order to achieve that). The grave lies among the buried ruins of huts, marking the site of what was once a bustling community of 2,000 or 3,000 farmers, who terraced the north slope of the hill for their crops.

The hillfort and the late Lord Carnarvon’s grave overlook Highclere Castle and its grounds in the distance, where his great-grandson, George Reginald Oliver Molyneux Herbert, the 8th Earl of Carnarvon, now runs the family estate. The current countess is a former fashion designer turned historian, who has written a biography of her predecessor, Almina.

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vconfess · 14 years

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` 49. drowning in you…

Blurring and stirring the truth and the lies So I don't know what's real and what's not

--- going under by evanescence

tiaa, hahaa. wróciłam. jak wiecie już, 25 dyskoteka. w sobotę idę z mejbel na paper bags (zakupy). ale nie mam zbyt dużo kasy ;p nie wiem co ja kupię. jak widać, moja skromna farma się rozwija, kurczak od cegły zniósł jaja, które mi przyniosły 8 monet ;p i codzienne pytanie do cegły:

– jak roślinki?

na które zawsze odpowiada:

– rosną.

ja to mam bekę XD niedługo 50. nota, a z tej okazji przekieruję was do pewnego linka na deviantarcie ;d a, właśnie. muszę zerknąć co tam się dzieje. chwilę… oo, tylko jedna odpowiedź na komentarz. bzduuryyy. o, terapia działa. ani razu jeszcze nie wspomniałam o lenny’m. terapia. hahahahhaa. dobre XD chodziło mi o coś w stylu ‚odwyku’ XD norman dziś cały dzień rysował ciekawe postacie. i nieźle mu wyszły ;p z tego co pamiętam, to byli… długowłosy wojownicy ;d tak trzymać, brachu ;p nie, no witam, po prostu. dobre to było, żebyście nie pomyśleli, że mam jakieś problemy z nałogiem, tak? ;p uoo, moja laleczka upadła ;[ ooo, poprawię. już dobrze.

shh. “but she wont know…" ale żałocha. mam na jutro plany szkolne. a o planach szkolnych nikt nie chce słuchać. a czytać tym bardziej ;p ahaa. byłam wczoraj na ‚avatarze’ w 3d. genialny film. a jak w 3d, to już w ogóle! xd same zawalidrogi na gg ;p nikogo ciekawego. w ogóle zaczęłam z agąą gadać przez skajpa. skojarzenia i różne rzeczy ;d faajnie jest XD hmm. no i fotoszop się skończył. przykro mi to mówić, ale cieszę się, że krupnika nie ma. nikt mi nie psuje przyjemności z bycia w szkole, która i tak jest mała. a gdy ją widzę, spada do minusa...

a tak, czy inaczej, już rozmawiałam z mejbel o 23. w sobotę ;d powiedziała, że jest wolna ;d to dobrze XD spędzimy razem prawie cały dzień. to było coś takiego:

– możesz przyjść o której chcesz i na ile chcesz.

taka swoboda mi się podoba xd no i, jak już mówiłam, powoli żegnam się z ‚uczuciem’ do lenny’ego. jest coraz mniejsze, chodź w ogóle nie wiem co to było. to był odpał, który zaczął się 4 grudnia ;/ a nabrał barw, prawie miesiąc później. haa. super.

hmm. ja już będę kończyć. nie dzieje się w moim życiu nic szczególnego, o czym bym mogła napisać, pochwalić się. żadnych szczytów, sukcesów… raczej dołki i porażki ;[

byeeeeeeeeeee – jakby powiedział mr. popo XD hahah, norman mnie nim zaraził XD

w oczekiwaniu na najgorsze:

- Marshal

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Downton Abbey - References to Historical Figures + References to Other Fictional Characters and Works

The following are two lists; one are real people who where mentioned on Downton Abbey, and the other is fictional characters and works that were also mentioned in the show. I complied these two lists together (because sometimes I had to research what was indeed being referenced!). As I didn’t know if I’d ever been sharing these lists, I don’t have the episode numbers listed out, but they do go in order by mention.

Real Historical Figures Mentioned in Downton

* means that the person was not contemporary of the characters and there for famous or well-known to them. Others without it may not be known personally by them, but are their contemporaries. Some of these have made it to the character list, if for sure they did indeed know the Crawleys, or other any other major character.

- Lucy Rothes (Titanic survivor, friend of the Crawleys) - John Jacob "JJ" Astor (business man who died on Titanic, friend of the Crawleys) - Madeleine Astor (not mentioned by name, but as JJ's wife, Titanic survivor, Cora did not like her) - Sir Christopher Wren* (architect, designed the Dower House) - David Lloyd George (politician and Prime Minister starting in 1916) - William the Conqueror* - Mark Twain* (author) - Queen Mary (wife of King George V) [mentioned in S1, appears in S4CS] - Queen Catherine of Aragon* - Oliver Cromwell* - Bishop Richard de Warren* - Anthony Trollope* (author; he would have been somewhat contemporary, died in 1882) - Piero della Francesca* (painter) - Franz Anton Mesmer* (scientist) - Thomas Jefferson* (politician, inventor, third president of the United States) - Léon Bakst (Russian painter and scene- and costume designer) - Sergei Diaghilev (another Russian artist) - Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry (sounds like the Crawleys did attend her parties from time to time) - Emily Davison (suffragist) - Herbert Henry "H.H." Asquith (politician and Prime Minister until 1916) - Kaiser Wilheim (ruler of Germany; Sir Anthony personally visited him a few times) - Vincenzo Bellini* (composer) - Gioachino Rossini* (composer) - Giacomo Puccini* (composer) - Karl Marx* (philosopher) - John Ruskin* (social thinker and artist; he would have been somewhat contemporary, died in 1900) - John Stuart Mill* (philosopher) - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria - Guy Fawkes* - Gavrilo Princip (member of the Black Hand and Franz Ferdinand's assassin) - H.G. Wells (author) - Major General B. Burton - Heinrich Schliemann* (German businessman archaeologist, died in 1890; deleted scene mention) - General Douglas Haig (later a field marshal) - Belshazzar* (King of Babylon) - Mabel Normand (actress) - Plantagenets* - Eugene Suter (hair stylist) - Alexander Kerensky (Russian political leader) - Vladimir Lenin (Russian communist revolutionary) - Florence Nightingale* (nurse; died 1910) - Czar Nicholas II and the Romanov family (ruler of Russia) - Jack Robinson (footballer; he stopped playing in 1912) - Frederick Marryat* (author) - George Alfred "G.A." Henty* (author; he would have been somewhat contemporary, died in 1902) - Maximilien Robespierre* (French revolutionary) - Marie Antoinette* (French queen) - Erich Lundendorff (German commander) - Sylvia Pankhurst (suffragist) - Jack Johnson (boxer) - Commander Harold Lowe (Fifth Officer of the Titanic; if P. Gordon was really Patrick, he would have known him personally) - Theda Bara (actress) - Robert Burns* (poet, read by Bates; name is not uttered on screen, but it is clear on book cover) - Jules Verne* (author; he would have been somewhat contemporary, died in 1905) - Marion Harris (singer of "Look for the Silver Lining"; name is not uttered on screen) - Edward Shortt (Home Secretary from 1919-1922) - Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of York (one of the first actual historical figures in the show; married Matthew and Mary, visited Downton Abbey for dinner) - King George V (king of England) [mentioned in S3E1, appears in S4CS] - Charles Melville Hays (president of the Grand Trunk Railway that Robert invested in; died on the Titanic) - Robert Baden-Powell (founder of the Boy Scouts) - Lady Maureen Dufferin (socialite, friend of the Crawleys) - Georges Auguste Escoffier (famous chef and restaurateur) - Marie-Antoine Carême* (famous chef) - Queen of Sheba* - Napoleon Bonaparte* - The Bourbons* - The Buffs* (famous army regiment; "steady the Buffs" popularized by Kipling) - Croesus* (king of ancient Lydia; mention several times starting in S3 and through S4) - Thomas Edwin "Tom" Mix (Wild West picture star) - Dr. Samuel Johnson* (English writer; quote paraphrased by Carson) - Jean Patou (dress designer; maker of Edith's S3 wedding dress in-show) - Lucy Christiana, Lady Duff-Gordon (dress designer of "Lucille"; a survivor of the Titanic) - The Marlboroughs (famous family; mentioned like the Crawleys knew them personally, Sir Anthony did) - The Hapburgs* (rulers of the Holy Roman Empire) - Maud Gonne (English-born Irish revolutionary) - Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (Irish revolutionary) - Constance Georgine Markievicz, Countess Markievicz (Irish revolutionary and politician) - Lady Sarah Wilson (née Churchill) (female war correspondent) - Gwendolen Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (real person and friend of Violet's) - Pope Benedict XV - Lillian Gish (actress) - Ivy Close (actress) - Alfred the Great* (9th century ruler of England) - Oscar Wilde* (author; he would have been somewhat contemporary, died in 1900) - Nathaniel Hawthorne* (author) - Charles Ponzi - Walter Scott* (author) - Charles Dickens* (author) - Virgina Woolf (author, one of the first actual historical figures in the show, was not actually mentioned though, just a background guest at Gregson's party) - Roger Fry (artist, one of the first actual historical figures in the show, was not actually mentioned though, just a background guest at Gregson's party) - Sir Garnet Wolseley* - Phyllis Dare (singer and actress) - Zena Dare (singer and actress, sister to Phyllis) - Maurice Vyner Baliol Brett (the second son of the 2nd Viscount Esher, Zena Dare's husband) - King Canute* (Cnut the Great, norse king) - Nellie Melba (opera singer, one of the few actual historical figures in the show) - Al Jolson (singer) - Christina Rossetti* (poet) - Marie Stopes (feminist doctor and author of Married Love) - George III* (ruler of England) - Lord Byron* - Arsène Avignon (chef at Ritz in London, actual historical figure in the show) - Louis Diat (chef at Ritz in New York) - Jules Gouffé* (famous chef) - King of Sweden (whoever it was when Violet's husband was alive) - Rudolph Valentino (actor) - Agnes Ayres (actress) - Lord Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington* (Lord Chancellor and abolitionist) - Albert B. Fall (US senator and Secretary of the Interior) - King Ludwig* (I’m assuming of Bavaria) - John Ward MP (liberal politician, actual historical figure in the show) - Admiral John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (Royal Navy, Blake and Tony served under him) - Benjamin Baruch Ambrose (bandleader at the Embassy Club, his band appears on-screen but it's not pointed out who he is) - The Prince of Wales (David, who became Edward VIII when King) - Freda Dudley Ward (socialite and mistress of the above) - The Queen of Naples* - Wat Tyler* (leader of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt in England) - Edmond Hoyle* (writer of card rules) - Ramsay MacDonald (Prime Minister Jan-Nov 1924) - Archimedes* - Boudicca* (Queen of the British Iceni tribe) - Rosa Luxemburg (Revolutionary) - Charles I* - Douglas Fairbanks (movie star) - Jack Hylton (English band leader) - Edward Molyneux (fashion designer; Cora has a fitting with him in S5E3) - The Brontë Sisters* (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, all authors. Anne's work The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was the charade answer in S2CS.) - Leo Tolstoy* (author) - Nikolai Gogol* (author) - Elinor Glyn (author of romantic fiction) - Czar Alexander II - Prince Alfred (son of Queen Victoria) - Grand Duchess Maria (wife of Alfred, daughter of the czar) - Peter Carl Fabergé (Russian jeweller) - Ralph Kerr (officer in the Royal Navy; Mabel mentions a man by this name as a friend) - Keir Hardie (Scottish socialist, died in 1915) - The Moonella Group (formed a nudist colony in 1924 in Wickford, Essex) - John Singer Sargent (American painter, died in 1925) - Rudyard Kipling (author and poet - often quoted starting in S1, but first mentioned by name in S5) - Mary Augusta Ward (Mrs. Humphrey Ward - author; I'm not adding her to the character list, died in 1920) - Adolf Hitler - Pola Negri (film star) - John Barrymore (actor [Drew Barrymore's grandfather]) - King Richard the III (of England)* - Hannah Rothschild and Lord Rosebery (British socialites Violet knew; Hannah died in 1890) - General Reginald Dyer - Lytton Strachey (supposedly was at Gregson's party) - Niccolo Machiavelli* - Adrienne Bolland (aviatrix) - The Fife Princesses (as listed by Sir Michael Reresby) - Duke of Arygll (as listed by Sir Michael Reresby) - The Queen of Spain (as listed by Sir Michael Reresby) - Lady Eltham (Dorothy Isabel Westenra Hastings) - King John* - Neville Chamberlain (Minister of Health in 1925, later Prime Minister; appears on-screen in S6E5) - Anne de Vere Cole (Neville Chamberlain's wife. Fictitiously, she is Robert's father's goddaughter. Her father is mentioned has having served in the Crimean War with Robert's) - Horace de Vere Cole (Anne de Vere Cole's brother) - Joshua Reynolds* (painter) - George Romney* (painter) - Franz Xaver Winterhalter* (painter) - Sir Charles Barry* (real architect of Highclere, cited here as one as Downton Abbey) - Tsar Nicholas I* - Teo (or Tiaa)* - Amenhotep II* - Tuthmosis IV* - King Charles* - Clara Bow (actress) [To my knowledge, the Ripon election candidates in S1E6 were not real people, as were not always the case for military personnel Robert referred to.] Fictional Characters and Works Mentioned in Downton - Long John Silver (referenced by Thomas) - Andromeda, Perseus, Cepheus (Greek mythology) (referenced by Mary) - Sydney Carton (A Tale of Two Cities) (referenced by Robert) - Princess Aurora, and later Sleeping Beauty (the ballet I presume) (referenced by Robert) - Horatio (Hamlet; Thomas quotes a line in a deleted scene) - "Gunga Din" (poem by Kipling; quoted by Bates and later quoted by Isobel) - Little Women (referenced by Cora) - The Lost World - Elizabeth and her German Garden (book given to Anna by Molesley) - Wind in the Willows (referenced by Violet) - "If You Were the Only Girl in the World" (sung by Mary, Matthew and cast) - "The Cat That Walked By Itself" (short story by Kipling; quoted by Matthew) - Iphigenia (Greek mythology, may be referenced in The Iliad but I cannot confirm) - Uncle Tom Cobley ("Widecombe Fair") (referenced by Sybil) - Alice and the Looking Glass - "The Rose of Picardy" (only a few strains played, possibly the John McCormack version which was out in 1919) - Zip Goes a Million and "Look for the Silver Lining" (song played by Matthew) - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (title used in The Game) - Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Angel Clare (referenced by Mary) - Lochinvar (from Sir Walter Scott) (referenced by Martha) - "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" (played at Mary and Matthew's wedding) - "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" (sung by Martha and cast) - "Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron" (English folk song sung by Carson) - Way Down East (film) - The Worldings (film) - "Molly Malone" (Irish song) - The Scarlet Letter (referenced by Isobel) - Lady of the Rose (musical) - The Lady of Shalott (ballad) - The Puccini pieces from S4E3 - The jazz pieces from S4E4 sung by Jack Ross ("A Rose By Any Other Name") - The Sheik (film) - The jazz pieces from S4E6 sung by Jack Ross ("Wild About Harry") - "The Second Mrs Tanqueray" (play and films) (referenced by Edith) - "The Sword of Damocles" (Greek myth) - Dr. Fu Manchu - Mrs. Bennett (Pride and Prejudice) - A vague allusion to Wuthering Heights (talking about the Brontë sisters and moors) (referenced by Rose) - Vanity Fair and Becky Sharp (Molesley reads this with Daisy) - "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" (sung by Denker) - "The Fall of the House of Usher" (short story by Edgar Allen Poe) - Madame Defarge (A Tale of Two Cities) - Ariadne (Greek mythology) - "Cockles and Mussels" (Spratt sings a few bars in S6E5; this is also called "Molly Malone") - Elizabeth Bennett and Pemberley (Pride and Prejudice) (referenced by Violet) - Mr Squeers (Nicholas Nickleby) (referenced by Bertie) - The Prisoner of Zenda (adventure novel by Anthony Hope) (referenced by Tom) - "The course of true love never did run smooth" (quote from A Midsummer Night's Dream) Not included are proverbs or sayings (which Anna says a lot of), nor Biblical references. Do note that there's a lot of scenes with the characters reading, but we don't know exactly what.

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Hyperallergic: Art Movements

Rendering of one piece in the multi-part Public Art Fund project “Ai Weiwei: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors” (courtesy Ai Weiwei Studio)

Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world.

Ai Weiwei will install over 100 fences around New York City in October as part of a project commissioned by the Public Art Fund. In a press release, the Public Art Fund described the project as a response to “the international migration crisis and [the] tense sociopolitical battles surrounding the issue in the United States and worldwide.” The project is entitled, “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors,” a reference to Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall.”

Multiple artists were injured during clashes with Chinese security officials in Beijing’s Songzhuang district. Around 100 artists attempted to prevent the demolition of the home and studio of artists Shen Jingdong and Cao Zhiwen. Government officials cited illegal construction as grounds to demolish the property.

Mikhail Novikov, the deputy director of construction projects at Saint Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum, was placed under house arrest on charges of suspected fraud by Moscow’s Lefortovsky District Court.

Tehran’s Ag Galerie withdrew from AIPAD’s Photography Show due to President Trump’s travel ban on six predominantly Muslim countries. A notice explaining the gallery’s absence is on display in its vacant booth.

Christie’s cancelled its June postwar and contemporary art auctions in London. The announcement follows the auction house’s recent decision to close its showroom in South Kensington and scale back its operations in Amsterdam.

Thomas Krens, the former director of the Guggenheim Foundation, criticized the Foundation’s plans to open a museum in Abu Dhabi, despite having brokered the 2006 deal to open the satellite museum there. In an interview with the In Other Words podcast, Krens suggested that the museum should be postponed or downsized. “The world financial crisis of 2008 and the Arab Spring has changed the equation radically […] It may not be such a good idea these days to have an American museum, essentially with a Jewish name, in a country [that doesn’t recognize Israel] in such a prominent location, at such a big scale.” The construction of the museum on Saadiyat Island has been mired in controversy, with groups such as Gulf Labor and Human Rights Watch calling attention to the widespread abuse of laborers working on the island’s cultural construction projects.

Leonardo da Vinci, “Adoration of the Magi” (1481), oil on wood, 243 x 246 cm (via Wikipedia)

The Uffizi Gallery unveiled Leonardo da Vinci’s “Adoration of the Magi” following a six-year restoration.

Workmen for the Chicago company Methods and Materials Inc. began to dismantle Alexander Calder’s monumental mobile, “Universe,” from the lobby of Willis Tower. The work is currently the subject of a legal dispute regarding its ownership.

The Turner Prize lifted its rule that eligible artists must be under 50 years old.

Thomas Gainsborough’s “Mr. and Mrs. William Hallett” (1785) went back on display at the National Gallery in London, just over a week after it was slashed with a screwdriver by a 63-year-old man.

A report by the BBC describes how Syrian archaeologists are using a clear traceable liquid, which is made visible under UV light, to mark valuable artifacts. The technique is currently being used to identify stolen antiquities.

One hundred and fifty works of antisemitic propaganda went on display at the Caen-Normandy Memorial Museum as part of an exhibition entitled Heinous Cartoons 1886-1945: The Antisemitic Corrosion in Europe. The works are from the private collection of Holocaust survivor Arthur Langerman.

Eleven people were detained after staging a naked protest at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. According to the BBC, Polish media speculated that the action was a protest against the war in Ukraine.

The Spectator awarded its second annual What’s That Thing? — an award for the worst piece of public art — to “Origin,” a sculpture created by Solas Creative.

(courtesy Brooklyn Public Library)

The Brooklyn Public Library unveiled a limited edition library card featuring artwork from Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are (1963).

Kristen Visbal’s bronze sculpture “Fearless Girl” will remain on view in Manhattan’s Financial District through February 2018 according to New York City mayor Bill de Blasio. “Fearless Girl has fueled powerful conversations about women in leadership and inspired so many,” de Blasio stated. “Now, she’ll be asserting herself and affirming her strength even after her temporary permit expires — a fitting path for a girl who refuses to quit.” Hyperallergic’s Jillian Steinhauer described the sculpture as a work of “fake corporate feminism.”

The neon sign for Pearl Paint, the beloved NYC art supply store that closed in 2014, has been incorporated into the lobby of the luxury apartments built in the store’s former building. According to Curbed, the four units range from $16,000 to $18,000 per month.

A 100-kilo, 24-carat gold coin worth $4 million was stolen from the Bode Museum in Berlin. The coin, which bears the image of Queen Elizabeth II, was minted by the Royal Canadian Mint in 2007. It is thought that the thieves executed the theft with the use of a rope, a foldout ladder, and a wheelbarrow.

Ikon Gallery is looking for volunteers to participate in a staging of On Kawara’s “One Million Years (Reading)” at the Venice Biennale.

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Louis Draper, “Boy with lace curtain” (nd), gelatin silver print, 12 7/8 x 9 in, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment (© Louis H. Draper Preservation Trust)

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts a $173,833 grant to digitize its collection of materials by photographer Louis Draper.

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts acquired 30 works, including pieces by Jim Campbell, Bill Walton, Emily Sartain, and Debra Priestly.

The Museum of London acquired 100 items of clothing and accessories worn by Francis Golding, a former secretary of the Royal Fine Art Commission.

Patti Smith purchased the reconstructed home of Arthur Rimbaud for an undisclosed sum.

The Library of Congress acquired the archive of photographer Bob Adelman.

The Getty Research Institute acquired Frank Gehry’s archive from 1954 to 1988.

Frank Gehry, Winton Guest House Model (1982–87), Wayzata, Minnesota, Frank Gehry Papers at the Getty Research Institute

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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s director, Michael Govan, and Roger W. Ferguson, the chief executive of financial services company TIAA, have been asked by the Smithsonian to join its board of regents. Their nominations will need to be approved by President Trump and the House of Representatives.

Christine Poggi was appointed director of New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts.

Jeffrey Andersen announced his retirement as director of the Florence Griswold Museum.

Blake Shell was appointed executive director of the Disjecta Contemporary Art Center.

Emma Imbrie Chubb was appointed the first curator of contemporary art at the Smith College Museum of Art.

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, appointed Amanda Hunt as director of education and public programs, and Anna Katz as assistant curator.

Andrea Gyorody was appointed assistant curator of modern and contemporary art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum.

Don McMahon was appointed editorial director of the Museum of Modern Art’s publications department.

Phillips appointed Laurence Calmels as regional director for France.

Matt Packer was appointed director of EVA International.

Tate St. Ives reopened after an 18-month, £20-million (~$24.9 million) renovation.

The Musée Camille Claudel opened in the French town of Nogent-sur-Seine.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art broke ground on its $196-million expansion project.

Koenig & Clinton gallery will relocate from Chelsea to Bushwick in June.

Zurich’s Galerie Eva Presenhuber announced plans to open its third space in New York City.

Two London galleries, Vilma Gold and Ibid gallery, will close.

Accolades

Ethan Murrow, “Plethora” (detail) (2016), sharpie on wall, 40 x 30 ft, site-specific installation as part of the Project Atrium series at MOCA Jacksonville (courtesy MOCA Jacksonville and Doug Eng)

Ethan Murrow was awarded the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville’s 2017 Brooke and Hap Stein Emerging Artist Prize.

Oskar Hult, Jonas Silfversten Bergman, and Josefine Östberg Olsson were awarded the Fredrik Roos Art Prize.

Kriota Willberg was awarded the first-ever artist residency at the New York Academy of Medicine.

The Library of Congress awarded the 2016 Bobbitt National Prizes for Poetry to Claudia Rankine and Nathaniel Mackey.

The City of Houston announced the recipients of its 2017 artist grants.

Bob Dylan agreed to formally accept the Nobel Prize for Literature at a small ceremony scheduled this weekend — five months after the award was first announced.

Obituaries

Julian Stanczak, “Forming in Four Reds” (1993-1994) (via Flickr/Sharon Mollerus)

Arthur Blythe (1940–2017), saxophonist.

Frank Delaney (1942–2017), author and arts broadcaster.

Don Hunstein (1928–2017), photographer. Best known for his iconic image of Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo walking in Greenwich Village.

Peter Johns (1930–2017), photographer.

Ahmed Kathrada (1929–2017), anti-Apartheid activist and writer.

Molly Mahood (1919–2017), scholar. Best known for Shakespeare’s Wordplay (1957).

William McPherson (1933–2017), critic and novelist. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism in 1977.

Robin O’Hara (1954–2017), film producer.

Liana Paredes (unconfirmed–2017), chief curator and director of collections at Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens.

William Powell (1949-2017), author of The Anarchist Cookbook (1971).

Julian Stanczak (1928–2017), artist. Figurehead of the Op art movement.

David Storey (1933–2017), author and playwright.

Christina Vella (1942–2017), author.

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