As lockdown measures ease in some countries, art institutions are starting to announce their plans for reopening. Now, following temporary closures that lasted over two months, museums in one of the countries that has weathered the worst of the pandemic are beginning to open their doors once again. Among the […]
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0 Google has announced a new ‘Art Transfer’ feature in its Google Arts & Culture app which uses Google AI to let you apply characteristics of popular paintings to your own images, its official blog notes. For instance, you can add the swirling movement of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings or the […]
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0 There are now nearly 4.5 million objects in its digital archive, and 1.9 million photographs. With much of world on lockdown, now’s a good time to get around to tasks you’ve long putting off. For London’s British Museum, that includes adding objects and images to its online collections database. To […]
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0 The beauty of all the mail art initiatives that have sprung up in the past few months is that anyone and everyone can partake. With studios and galleries shuttered around the world, artists these days are being forced to find new ways to make and share their work—and many are […]
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0 Germano Celant, the widely influential Italian art historian, critic, and curator who coined the term Arte Povera to describe the radically economical art of Jannis Kounellis, Mario and Marisa Merz, and Giuseppe Penone, among others, died on April 29 at age 80 in Milan due to complications from the coronavirus.
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0 May 02, 1519. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and […]
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0 Abstract artist and key member of the British constructivists group in the late 1950s and 60s Visitors to Cinema 1 at the Barbican Centre in London arrive via a stairwell clad in metal panels spray-painted in vivid geometric forms. These are an artwork: The Alice Walls, created for the centre’s opening in […]
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0 The Director of Finland’s Ateneum Art Museum on How Institutions Can Inspire the Public, Even While Closed Unlike many European countries, Finland did not implement a full lockdown in the wake of the spread of the novel coronavirus. The country was recently dubbed by the New York Times as “the prepper nation of […]
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0 The activist and artist Ai Weiwei has taken to sharing screenshots of his FaceTime conversations, including one with his mom. This series of photos on the artist’s Instagram account captures the daily ritual of video calling that many around the world are continuing to practice. But that’s not the artist’s only […]
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0 The elusive street artist Banksy took to Instagram to share images of a bathroom decorated with the artist’s signature rat stencils. The photos posted, which are accompanied by the caption “my wife hates it when I work from home,” show rats getting up to all kinds of trouble. One appears to run […]
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