Category: Arts
Jason Bruges reimagines the inside of a Tiffany diamond for 130,000 daily passers-by in London
In 1930 the London Group of artists staged an open-air sculpture show on the roof garden of Selfridges department store in the city’s Oxford Street, featuring the work of established
The Affordable Art Fair Is Hotter Than Ever
When I arrived at Chelsea’s Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan on Thursday, the opening day of the Affordable Art Fair (AAF), a long line spilled out of the venue’s entrance and
Activists Denounce Paris Museum After Tibetan Exhibits Renamed
On Saturday, Tibetan activists convened outside the Musée Guimet in Paris to protest the museum’s decision to replace exhibition materials that identify certain artifacts as Tibetan by replacing it with
Mermeiding again…
The below mixed media painting will be at The Bethesda Row Arts Festival, which is one of the DMV’s largest outdoor fine arts festival, and one of the best in the
A Look at the Biggest Stars of Fall
Portraits of the people who will be defining the season in the arts. Source link
Connecticut arts incubator Nxthvn marks its fifth anniversary by looking to the future
This year marks the fifth anniversary of Nxthvn, an artist residency, gallery space and community centre based in the heart of New Haven, Connecticut’s historically Black Dixwell neighbourhood. Once a
Second Man Buried Under Notre Dame Identified as French Poet
The second of two bodies buried in lead sarcophagi recovered from beneath the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has almost certainly been identified two years after its discovery. Discovered during
Safeya Binzagr, Artist Who Preserved Saudi Culture, Dies at 84
Safeya Binzagr, a pioneering artist who eternalized folk heritage in her native Saudi Arabia, died on September 12 at 86. The news was first reported by the Abu Dhabi–based publication
Today’s AJ Highlights | ArtsJournal
Good morning: Some weeks events push along swarms of stories that illuminate long term trends. This week it’s the collapsing of traditional TV. Long lucrative late-night talk shows are failing.
Daily Campello Art News: Trawick Prize winners
The Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards folks have announced the 2024 winners. From over 400 applicants, Pedro Ledesma III of Alexandria, VA was awarded the prestigious Best in Show
Refik Anadol’s AI tribute to Czech composer Antonín Dvořák takes the stage in Washington, DC
Installed in Prague last September, Refik Anadol’s “data painting” paying homage to Antonín Dvořák in his birthplace was installed near a sculpture of the Czech composer at the Rudolfinum music
MoMA Director Glenn Lowry Steps Down After 30 Years
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Director Glenn D. Lowry has announced that he will step down from his post in 2025, bookending three decades at the institution’s helm. The later
Professor Will Remove Name from Brauer Museum if School Sells Paintings
Richard Brauer, a nonagenarian art history professor who has opposed a controversial plan by Valparaiso University in Indiana to sell three key paintings from its collection, said he will request
A top US playwright has donated £1m to save Shakespeare’s daughter’s crumbling house
Best known for his ’80s comedy ‘Lend Me a Tenor’ and his ’90s musical ‘Crazy for You’, the US playwright Ken Ludwig has clearly invested prudently over the years. Upon
Where the US presidential candidates stand on the arts
With a full menu of front-burner issues to contend with—the economy, climate change, reproductive rights, wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, immigration on the southern border and gun violence,
Agnès Varda, Pragmatic Dreamer
Carrie Rickey cried when her professor, artist Manny Farber, played Agnès Varda’s film Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) for the class. It was 1971, and she had not known
Boy Scouts’ Art Collection Heads to Auction Amid Sex Abuse Bankruptcy
The Boy Scouts of America is auctioning off the entirety of its 321-piece art collection, which includes works by Norman Rockwell, Walt Disney, and J.C. Leyendecker, and is valued at
Ofra Bikel, Whose Documentaries Helped Exonerate The Wrongly Convicted, Is Dead At 94
“(Her) work for PBS’s ‘Frontline’ investigative series exposed frailties in the U.S. criminal justice system — the coercive use of plea bargains, the failure to consider DNA evidence, the reliance
Remembering David Anfam, curator, writer and Abstract Expressionism connoisseur
David Anfam, scholar, gentleman, wordsmith, epicurean, died last Wednesday (21 August) in London. So long-standing and wide-reaching have his achievements in the field of art history been that it is
This Summer, “TONO x PAMMTV Selects” Dives into Shapeshifting Video Art
From the cell to the pixel, TONO x PAMMTV Selects explores how bodies transform across natural, supernatural, and virtual spaces. The evocative streaming exhibition from Pérez Art Museum Miami is
A Painting Confiscated by the Nazis Returned to Jewish Owner’s Heirs
An artwork by the German landscape painter Carl Blechen that was confiscated by the Nazis in 1942 has been returned to the heirs of its rightful owners. Valley of Mills
