Two Laughing Boys with Mug of Beer by Frans Hals was stolen from the Hofje van Mevrouw van Aerden Museum in Leerdam, a small museum in the Netherlands. As the coronavirus pandemic worsened within the spring, art turned something that all of us accessed digitally. For instance, people began recreating well-known work to fight lockdown boredom.
Explore the galleries of some .ART adopters and uncover the historical past behind the showcased artists. Nicholas Cullinan, director of the National Portrait Gallery, has won the Critics’ Circle Visual Arts Award for 2023 for providers to the visual arts in recognition of the…