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Bethesda Terrace and Fountain are two architectural features overlooking the southern shore of the Lake in New York City's Central Park. The fountain, with its Angel of the Waters statue, is located in the center of the terrace. Bethesda Terrace's two levels are united by two grand staircases and a lesser one that passes under Terrace Drive.
In the 2000 A.I.A. Guide to New York City the building was described as "an insipid box unrelated to any cultural values." [ 2 ] In 2006, Aby Rosen offered to restore the building to its original appearance, but made the offer contingent upon being able to construct a 30-story glass tower on top of the galleries.
In a recent paper, Jianping Mei and Michael Moses of JP Mei & MA Moses Art Market Consultancy found that the average return on art sold in the first of half 2024 was just 0.1%, the lowest yield ...
Christ Healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda (1667-1670) by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Christ Healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda is a 1667-1670 oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, now in the National Gallery, London, [1] to which it was presented by the Art Fund, which had bought it for £8,000 the body had been given by Graham Robertson's executors.
The opening bid started at $800,000 and within five minutes, the taped banana — which requires the fruit to be refreshed once or twice a week — sold for $5.2 million plus over $1 million in ...
The consortium sold several other paintings to other clients, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The sale remained secret until November 4, 1933, when it was reported in The New York Times that several Hermitage paintings, including the Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych by van Eyck, had been purchased by the Metropolitan ...
A controversial New York City socialite who once showed up to family court in a bulletproof vest for fear her billionaire ex-husband sent a Russian hitwoman to kill her, is suing a pair of art ...
In 1994, Casa Magazines was purchased by Mohammed Ahmed, who has been dubbed as "the last king of print" by The New York Times. [4] [5] He is assisted by Ali Wasim, who has been working with Casa since 1995. [6] A customer has described the shop to the New York Times as "It feels like a grown-up Sesame Street." [2]