"The Israel Museum has acquired a fourth work by Anselm Kiefer for its permanent collection: the 17ft-tall sculpture Die Erdzeitalter (Ages of the World), donated by the Miami property developer and collector Martin Z. Margulies. The work, which consists of stacked canvases, dried sunflowers, rubble and lead books flanked by two paintings, evokes the apocalyptic aftermath of a disaster and is described as "part totem and part funeral pyre"."
"Excavated in South Dakota in 2024, this virtually complete skull of a Pachycephalosaurus was sold at Sotheby's last July for $1.7m (with fees) to the former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy. The couple donated the dinosaur skull to the National Museum of Natural History. These dome-headed bipedal herbivores lived around 67 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period. The skull will be CT-scanned to understand the shape and size of the dinosaur's brain."
The Israel Museum acquired a fourth Anselm Kiefer work, the 17ft-tall sculpture Die Erdzeitalter, donated by collector Martin Z. Margulies. The sculpture comprises stacked canvases, dried sunflowers, rubble and lead books flanked by two paintings, evoking an apocalyptic aftermath and described as part totem and part funeral pyre. The work was created for Kiefer's 2014 Royal Academy retrospective and was displayed at Margulies's Warehouse in Miami. The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History received a virtually complete Pachycephalosaurus skull excavated in South Dakota in 2024, donated by Eric and Wendy Schmidt after a Sotheby's purchase. The skull will be CT-scanned to study brain shape and size.
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