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NEW YORK – Antique frame THE GUARDIAN UK – Almost a third of stately homes owned
dealer Eli Wilner & Company by the National Trust have links to slavery or colonialism, a report is
announced the acquisition of a expected to announce in September 2020, as the heritage charity
carved and gilded frame announced plans to keep most controversial objects on its sites to
designed by Stanford White in avoid “shutting down
1890 and now being offered for debate.” It is unclear which
$1.4 million. An essay by Jacob pieces of art displaying
Simon and John Singer Sargent racist undertones are to be
on the framing of his pictures, removed from National
and Richard Ormond & Elaine Trust properties following
Kilmurray’s John Singer Sargent: the report into its collection’s
Figures and Landscapes, 1914- imperial past, but Dyrham
1925: The complete paintings, Vol. Park in Bristol is to place a
IX, features an in-depth look at critical poem in front of a
the frame on Sargent’s Portrait pair of 17th-century sculptures of African men kneeling in chains. A
of Henry Cabot Lodge in the statue of a black man at Dunham Massey in Greater Manchester
collection of the National Portrait (shown), has been removed, but the trust has said it would return once
Gallery in Washington, D.C. The close similarity between the two it has been decided how to display it in the appropriate context.
frames suggests that the frame in Wilner’s collection would be very
suitable for a Sargent painting.
ILLINOIS RE – If you are looking for exposure for a house you are
selling, make sure it has a vintage theme. This house has over 50,000
AMSTERDAM – Eye Filmmuseum and the British Film Institute (BFI) likes on the Instagram page CheapOldHouses, and for good reason.
are presenting a compilation of one-minute films by the Mutoscope The account posts photos and information about, yes, cheap old houses
and Biograph Company. The fifty 68mm films – unrivalled in terms of that are for sale, but it only features houses with outstanding designs
depth of field and clarity – have been digitally restored (8K resolution). still intact.
The oldest moving images of such cities as London, Paris, Amsterdam and This house on
Berlin will soon go on display at the film museum. Concert pianist Daan the market in
van den Hurk will provide live musical accompaniment. Centralia, IL
Mutoscope has about twice
and Biograph the “likes” as
made films of any others post-
approximately ed recently
one minute each because the tile
to be shown at work inside is
fairs, dance halls just so cool.
and cabaret Behind that
music halls. The rounded front
images were door is a vintage pink and mint green kitchen that is just jaw-
screened at such dropping. The same style is repeated in the bathroom where the pink
venues as the tile walls take a backseat to the massive square tub. The green tub even
looks to be the exact same shade as retro jade glass. For more information
Wintergarten in on this $64,000 property, visit the listing page.
Berlin and the
Folies Bergères in Paris. Eye worked with Haghefilm Digitaal in
Amsterdam and the aboratory of Cineric Inc. in New York on NYT NEWS SERVICE – In May 2019,
the high-quality digital restoration (8K resolution), making use of writer Nicole Tersigni logged onto
the latest techniques to approximate the original experience of 68mm Twitter at the end of a long day and, “I
nitrate film. see a dude explaining to a woman her
own joke back to her — something that
has happened to me.” This sparked
FLORENCE AFP – As 16th-century something in her. She Googled “woman
Florentines dropped like flies to the surrounded by men” (and stumbled upon
plague, survivors drowned their fears a 17th-century oil painting by Jobst
in wine, passed to them through small Harrich of a woman baring one breast in
windows that are now enjoying a renais- the middle of a scrum of bald men. She
sance moment in this age of coronavirus. added the caption: “Maybe if I take my
The small “wine windows” can be seen tit out they will stop explaining my own
dotted around the Tuscan capital next to joke back to me.” In another post,
the grand entrances of sumptuous noble Tersigni placed an 18th-century
palaces, where wealthy families used to sell painting titled Conversation in a Park
alcohol directly to thirsty customers, passing by Thomas Gainsborough next to
flasks through to eager hands. Over time, the the caption, “you would be so much
apertures, just 12 inches high and 20 wide, fell into disuse. prettier if you smiled.” “It just snow-
The windows pre-date the plague. They were created by the balled from there.” Within days, an
Medici family, after it returned to power in 1532 following the fall of agent got in touch, suggesting she
the Florentine Republic, according to scholar Massimo Casprini. turn her tweets into a book. Two
To date, some 267 of the wine windows have been rediscovered weeks later, she was meeting with
in Tuscany, with 149 of them in the centre of Florence. editors, Tersigni said, and struck a
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