One of the sales of the century, the auction of the Ann & Gordon Getty Collection, takes place at Christie's, New York over the next few days. On offer are "nearly 1,500 superlative works of decorative and fine arts", with many 18th-century pieces among them....
Upcoming: a new lavish six-part series on Marie-Antoinette written by Deborah Davis, and staring Emilia Schüle and British actor Louis Cunningham.
The Town Hall in Orléans, Cap Cod, has put on display a newly restored painting of the Duke of Orléans, lately rescued from the basement.
The STARZ TV network has released a trailer for its new adaptation of Les Liaisons dangereuses, available in the UK from 7th November.
New Books Network hosts author-interview podcasts. Among September's offerings are a discussion with James Engell on the Encyclopédie, Elizabeth Andrews Bondt on reading and writing, David Avrom Bell on Rousseau and Charles Devellenes on Enlightenment Atheism.
Today we mourn the passing of Hilary Mantel, remembered by 18th-century enthusiasts above all as author of A Place of Greater Safety. In memory, let us find our copies, and revisit her wonderfully vivid portraits of Robespierre et al.!
Chevalier, a biopic of the Black musician Chevalier Saint-Georges directed by Stephen Williams, premiered at the Toronto film on 11th September.
The exhibition Füssli: The Realm of Dreams and the Fantastic will run at the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris, from 16th September 2022 to 23rd January 2023.
The website Vendéens & Chouans reports concern over the future of the "Maison Bonchamps", 61 Rue de la Basse Meilleraie, Varade, the house where the Vendéan general Bonchamps died of his wounds, on 18th October 1793.
Mark Ledbury, Professor of Art History at the University of Sydney, introduces one of his favourite paintings, Jacques-Louis David's 'The Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of his Dead Sons'. Published in The Conversation on 30th August.
Here is the latest evocative video from Youtube channel of Laetitia Mieral, paper artist and 18th-century stylist from St Etienne:
The J.Paul Getty Museums presents an exhibition of Eighteenth-Century Pastels. At the Getty Center in Los Angeles from 30th August 2022 to 26th February 2023.