Albert Sack

04/27/2025

Can electricity conjure spirits from beyond? Maybe not, but in the Victorian period, conjurers like Émile Voisin used electricity to produce illusions which passed for ghostly messages to their captivated audiences. This contraption is Voisin’s “Spirit Bell,” which employed a magic trick to ring in response to audience members’ questions.

Émile Voisin, Spirit bell, Brass, glass, ivory, metal, wood, and plastic, c. 1870, Collection of John Gaughan, Los Angeles,

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09/16/2018

Here’s a link to the podcast regarding the Gardner heist.

09/16/2018

For Van Gogh lovers.

Boston Globe will be featuring a podcast on the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist.

Drama- documentary with Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role as Van Gogh. The film won a Rockie for Best Arts Documentary at the Banff World Media Festival in…

07/21/2018

Some Monet Joy

06/27/2018

Masterful, opulent and at times playful—“Casanova’s Europe: Art, Pleasure, and Power in the 18th Century” combines more than 250 paintings, sculptures, works on paper, decorative arts, furniture, costumes and musical instruments in an immersive display of visual riches.

Members see it first, starting June 29! http://bit.ly/2ywoZFy

Pictured: "The Charlatan" (1756), Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona.

05/27/2018

Film of Monet painting.

05/18/2018

Christie's and Sotheby's auction houses in New York have been holding their spring auctions and such well-known names as Monet have set records. There have also been surprises.

04/10/2018

Landmark case in New York for N**i-looted artworks.

Art experts view the case as a key test of a US law designed to ease the recovery of such stolen works.

03/15/2018

Albert would’ve loved this...

02/19/2018

02/09/2018

What do you think of this ruling?

A US judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit seeking the return by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan of...