Click Here to Read: ‘From your luscious fruit’. . .  Lucian Freud’s amazing love letters to poet Stephen Spender are revealed for the first time after 70 years by Gordie Grieg in the Daily Mail on June 6, 2015.

‘Frankly sexual’: One of Lucian Freud’s letters to the 1930s poet Stephen Spender

Click Here to Read: Painter Kehinde Wiley at the Brooklyn Museum: Trappings of empire and power By Clare Hurley on The World Socialist Web Site June 6, 2015.

Napoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps (2005)

Click Here to Read: 1933 Article on Frida Kahlo: “Wife of the Master Mural Painter Gleefully Dabbles in Works of Art” on the Open Culture Website on March 16th, 2015.

Click Here to Read: Emma Sulkowicz’s “Ceci N’est Pas Un Viol”: An Explainer by Rebecca Vipond Brink on the Frisky website on June 5, 2015/

Click Here to Read: The National Gallery is erasing women from the history of art on The Conversation website on June 3, 2015.

Mary Cassatt, Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, 1878, National Gallery of Art.

Click Here to Read: Reunion with looted painting is ‘second victory against the Nazis’: David Toren remembers staring at Max Liebermann’s Two Riders on a Beach as his great-uncle signed over his estate to a Nazi general. Now his family has it back on the Guardian Website on May 27, 2015.

Two Riders on a Beach, 1901, by the German painter Max Liebermann, is to be sold by Sotheby’s on 24 June

Click Here to Read: The Venice of the Sands in Peril by G.W. Bowersock in The New York Review of Books on May 25, 2015.

Funerary relief of a laden camel and two traders, from the Valley of the Tombs, Palmyra, 2nd-3rd century AD. Gianni Dagli Orti/DEA/Getty Images

Click Here to Read: Jewish artifacts in ISIS’s hands after capture of ancient city By Julia Marsh in The New York Post on May 26, 2015.

The ancient Syrian city of Palmyra Photo: Getty Images