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The Week

comics and cartooning, film, tv, video, hype & linkage, music, pictorial artsBy Matthias Wivel 13 May 2013

The week in review. Well, what do you know? The Dutch portrait head that surfaced at a small English auction sale in 2007 and was bought as a Rembrandt for Â£2 million has now been acquired by the Getty as the earliest known self-portrait by the master for an undisclosed sum. It now also carries…

The Week

architecture, comics and cartooning, commentary and criticism, culture, hype & linkage, music, pictorial artsBy Matthias Wivel 15 April 2012

The week in review Vacation and work have kept me away for a while, a will probably continue to do so for a little while yet. While in Boston, I checked back on one of the city’s premier cultural institutions. The new wing of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is emblematic of museum…