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 […]
Day: May 2, 2020
Mail Art, a Charming Trend
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 […]
Remember the Late Curator Germano Celant
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.
Remembering Master Leonardo Da Vinci
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 […]