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Actor Brad Pitt has been tapped as an executive producer of a forthcoming film about the work of Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. Titled “From Inside Out,” the immersive 3D film is being directed by Wim Wenders, who has spent 14 years working on the project with the Pritzker Prize- More than a century after a rare painting, recently attributed to Gian Lorenzo Bernini, was bequeathed to the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien in 1920, the painting, Portrait of an Old Man, will go on display on December 2, per reports.
- The recent heat waves that have set France abroil—shuttering museums, sparking wildfires, and sending citizens plunging into the Seine—have taken their toll on the famed gardens of Claude Monet in Giverny in Normandy.
- The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, has announced a raft of new acquisitions, including works by artists entering the collection for the first time. Among these are Marie Bracquemond, T. C. Cannon, LaToya Hobbs, Stacey Kranitz, Lorraine O’Grady, and Christina Quarles.
