More than four decades after Jean-Michel Basquiat and his gallerists cancelled a contentious exhibition in Italy featuring eight newly commissioned paintings, a new exhibition is reuniting all of the works for the first time. “Basquiat: The Modena Paintings,” which will open next month at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland, […]
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0 Pharrell Williams was spotted at this year’s Art Basel Hong Kong. Artist Rashid Johnson posed with fans, as did Beeple and Takashi Murakami. Qatar Museums chair Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani was out on the event circuit. Not to mention a number of top collectors from around the […]
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0 Nearly four decades after Queen Elizabeth II opened Scotland’s Burrell Collection, King Charles III marked the institution’s reopening with a visit Thursday. The event marked his first official engagement in Glasgow as monarch. The gallery and museum, which closed in October 2016, reopened to the public earlier this year in […]
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0 A “popular” art exhibition is returning after being canceled for two years due to the coronavirus pandemic. The 23rd Open Art Exhibition at Beverley Art Gallery features submissions from public members. After an enforced break since 2019, organizers said they were looking forward to showcasing “the amazing talent we have […]
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0 Five days before Russia invaded Ukraine, a towering image of a Ukrainian warrior appeared on the exterior of a building in Oakland, California. The artwork, a striking assemblage of bold, geometric shapes arranged to convey a striding soldier with a shield in one hand and a weapon in the other, […]
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0 The event still plans to run this week and hopes for a less distracted local Russian collector base, starved of international art travels The eighth Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair (11 to 13 September) will be the “first classic ‘Messe’ model fair to be taking place in the fall season” […]
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0 Amid a climate of continued global uncertainty around matters of health, the economy, and the basic ability to travel, Art Basel has canceled the upcoming edition of its flagship art fair in Basel. The premier international art fair had initially been postponed from its usual June slot to mid-September. The […]
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0 The Contemporary Istanbul fair has named a new director: Melih İsmail İnan, who has worked with Contemporary Istanbul for nearly a decade. The fair also dated its 2020 edition, which is set to run from September 24 to 27 in the Turkish capital, and will also launch a digital iteration this year, making […]
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