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The Studio View
The world through an artist's careful eye
A retired fine arts instructor staying sharp on the facts that shape the bigger picture
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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
Today on The Studio View: Gulf capitals are now the ones holding Washington's coat on Iran, a single Christie's evening reset the ceilings for Pollock, Brâncuși, and Rothko, and Tate Britain reopens t…
Today on The Studio View: escalation deferred. Trump says he was an hour from striking Iran before Gulf capitals talked him down, Putin lands in Beijing, and the Louvre names the architects for its bi…
Today on The Studio View: a Supreme Court remand quietly reshapes who can sue under the Voting Rights Act, an Israeli flotilla interception tests the Gaza ceasefire's edges, and the Cheech in Riversid…
Today on The Studio View: ceasefires that don't quite hold, a WHO emergency declaration in central Africa, and a busy week for painters and curators — including a New York studio show that doubles as …
Today on The Studio View: a Lebanon ceasefire extension that buys time without solving anything, the Met-Neue Galerie merger filed in formal terms, and a study quantifying what arts educators have lon…
Today on The Studio View: the May auction week prices confidence into a wartime market while Lebanon-Israel talks run down their May 18 clock, with a structural ALS finding and a Tehran museum reopeni…
Today on The Studio View: the Trump–Xi summit lands in Beijing with a Taiwan warning and a Hormuz agreement, the Met announces its first-ever Orientalism exhibition, and a UCL study puts weekly arts e…
Today on The Studio View: ceasefires fraying on three fronts, a Southern redistricting cascade testing what's left of the Voting Rights Act, and the closure of a 36-year Paris gallery that read the ma…
Today on The Studio View: fragility is the through-line — a Mideast ceasefire described as 'on life support,' the Voting Rights Act ruling moving from theory into Alabama's primary ballot, and a $1.8 …
Today on The Studio View: a peace proposal rejected in the Gulf, a mass artist walkout in Venice, and a decade-long trial that quietly undoes one of the world's most common knee surgeries. A day for c…