Ted Loos

1 month ago | wsj.com | Ted Loos

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in late February, an increasingly familiar scene played out: A museum was restituting a work of art, giving back something from its collection to the place where it originated—in this case, Greece. The announcement, however, was more celebratory than sheepish. It was being done with the fanfare more often associated with acquiring a great object rather than returning one. That’s because, in this case, the Met itself launched the inquiry into the sculpture’s origin.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Ted Loos

Many major museum curators have Ph.D.s, and yet some are going back to school this month during an art fair in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Last year, the European Fine Art Foundation, the nonprofit organization that puts on the fair, held its first Curator Course. The coming second edition will have 10 participants from museums all over the world, including the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Hong Kong Palace Museum and the Frans Hals Museum, based in the nearby Dutch city of Haarlem.

2 months ago | 1stdibs.com | Ted Loos

For a project in her hometown of Charleston, known for its hot jazz festival, the designer Betsy Berry played it cool in more ways than one. Although the home, an 1803 neoclassical structure with Federal details, required a gut renovation, Berry showed great restraint, mixing mostly modern and contemporary pieces with carefully selected antiques while avoiding overstuffing the spaces.

2 months ago | furthermag.com | Ted Loos

Buenos Aires gallerist Leopol Mones Cazon. Photo: Santiago Ortí. Like Buenos Aires itself, Leopol Mones Cazon wears his charms lightly. The 41-year-old cofounder of Isla Flotante, one of the city’s hippest and most intellectual art galleries, calls the Argentinian capital, a metropolis of 13 million people, “a big, cosmopolitan city, but it feels like a friendly town.” That sensibility extends to B.A.’s contemporary art scene, which is welcoming but can be hard to nail down.

Jan 23, 2025 | galeriemagazine.com | Ted Loos

Artists Charlotte Verity and Christopher Le Brun at their former London home. Photo: Dan Glasser, Courtesy of Inigo The husband and wife talents will be featured in the show “Left Hand, Right Hand,” on view through April 25 January 23, 2025 When two artists have been a couple for 50 years, it is hard to imagine what “firsts” could be in store for them after so long.