NEW YORK – “A New Look at a Van Eyck Masterpiece,” a focus exhibition that presents findings of a recent study of Jan van Eyck’s Crucifixion and Last Judgment paintings (ca. 1440–41), will close at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on April 24.
DEARBORN, Mich. – Get ready for the British Invasion at Henry Ford Museum. Beginning April 30, 2016, “The Magical History Tour: A Beatles Memorabilia Exhibition” will take visitors on an unprecedented journey of the Fab Four’s groundbreaking career.
ROME (AFP) – Italian researchers said Thursday they have discovered living relatives of the Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci, despite the loss of his body centuries ago.
DETROIT – Visitors to the Detroit Institute of Arts will have the rare opportunity to see Samuel F. B. Morse’s masterwork painting Gallery of the Louvre (1829–31) from June 16 to Sept. 18.
BOULDER, Colo. – Fresh collections with impeccable provenance and an ironclad guarantee of authenticity and legality form the core of Artemis Gallery’s Wednesday, April 20, auction. The expertly curated 400-lot selection includes ancient weapons, Asian and ethnographic art, and other great rarities. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.com.
BOSTON (AP) – Ernest Hemingway penned 47 possible endings to A Farewell to Arms, eight of which are on display at a new exhibition on the famed American writer at the John F. Kennedy presidential library – along with the one that actually concluded the classic World War I novel.
DALLAS – The Dallas Museum of Art presents “Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty,” the first retrospective of Penn’s work in nearly 20 years, which will celebrate his legacy as a modern master and reveal the full expressive range of his work.
DETROIT – The Detroit Institute of Arts invites visitors to take a visual road trip through the exhibition “The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip,” on view June 17–Sept. 11.
CINCINNATI (AP) – Officials with the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum say a mural portraying a game from the 1950s will honor the baseball team’s former home.
Officials tell WLWT-TV that dozens of volunteers and artists from Keep Cincinnati Beautiful will paint a 17-foot-by-50-foot mural of Crosley field, at the intersection of Findlay Street and Western Avenue, where the Cincinnati Reds played from 1912 to 1970.
Work on the mural, which started Monday, is scheduled to be finished in early June.
Replicated foul poles and a replicated light pole have already been erected. The site of the stadium’s bases will also be marked. A new plaza will also commemorate the site.
Funding for the mural will come in part through the selling of personalized bricks.
A self-guided tour map will be available once the project is finished.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Federal investigators looking into the theft of artwork – including Andy Warhol prints of Campbell soup cans – at a southwest Missouri museum hope a $25,000 reward stirs up leads.