BROWNSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Standing in a Tennessee museum, near exhibits of shimmering dresses worn by Tina Turner, Lisa Lyons wiped tears from her cheeks as she remembered the impact the singer and actor had on her life.
LONDON – Portrait of Melissa Thompson, a 2020 work by American artist Kehinde Wiley, is now on display in the V&A museum’s William Morris Room (room 125) in the British Galleries, alongside William Morris’s Wild Tulip designs that inspired it. The exhibition runs through October 26, 2023.
LONDON – The Dorchester, the famed luxury hotel in London, is undergoing its largest renovation project since 1989. In redesigning the hotel entrance, the Promenade, the guest rooms and suites and adding a new boutique, Pierre-Yves Rochon is creating a world where guests feel at home and is an institution in its own right, while Martin Brudnizki has revived the world-renowned bar with a touch of 1930s glamour. As the project approaches the phase that involves renovating the guest room areas, specialist hotel asset auctioneers Pro Auction have been appointed to conduct a sale of the Dorchester’s furniture and fittings. The auction will take place at the hotel during two days: Wednesday, June 5 and Thursday, June 6. The sale will commence on June 5 at 10:30 am, with more than 750 lots on offer, from desks and lamps to drapes and side tables.
NEW ORLEANS – The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) is now hosting Ring Redux: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, an exhibition presenting 100 innovative rings by designers who have reinvented this enduring jewelry form with a distinctly contemporary sense of experimental craft. It will remain on view through February 4, 2024, in the Elise M. Besthoff Charitable Foundation Gallery on NOMA’s second floor.
VILLEFRANCHE-SUR-MER, France – The Cote d’Azur estate where Princess Margaret of Denmark and her husband, Prince Rene of Bourbon-Parma, made their home has recently been listed for sale at a no-reserve auction on Tuesday, May 16. Overlooking the French Riviera, the one-of-a-kind residence is known as La Carriere. It dates back to the 1920s, and is a majestic manor house built into the stone walls of a fortress. The stunning villa melds rustic charm with modern luxury, while the walls provide the ultimate in privacy and security. The list price, prior to auction, was $12 million.
SEATTLE – On April 24, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument made by President Obama in January 2017. President Clinton designated the monument in 2000 under the Antiquities Act as a biological crossroads and ecological wonder known for its incredible diversity of wildlife and plant species. Cascade-Siskiyou, located in southwestern Oregon and northwestern California, is the only national monument in the United States specifically established to protect biodiversity. The court decision confirms protection of this special area of federal land and is a major victory for the monument and the plants, fish, and wildlife that depend on the monument’s ecological integrity.
NEW YORK (AP) – The American Museum of Natural History in New York is set to open its new building, a sweeping piece of architecture designed to connect visitors with their place in the natural world.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) – A museum to Polish pianist and composer Frederic Chopin reopens in Warsaw on April 29 after months of renovations to improve the presentation of the exhibits.
PARIS (AP) – The reconstruction of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is going fast enough to allow its reopening to visitors and faithful at the end of 2024, less than six years after a fire ravaged its roof, French officials say
CHICAGO (AP) – Michigan researchers have found the wreckage of two ships that disappeared into Lake Superior in 1914 and hope the discovery will lead them to a third that sank at the same time, killing nearly 30 people aboard the trio of lumber-shipping vessels. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society announced the discoveries in April after confirming details with other researchers. Ric Mixter, a board member of the society and a maritime historian, called witnessing the discoveries “a career highlight.”