The British Museum apologizes after using a translator’s work in an exhibition in China without payment or acknowledgment.When the British Museum launched its “China’s hidden century” exhibition last month, writer and translator Yilin Wang began getting confusing messages from her peers. The show, which featured 19th century Chinese works including […]
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0 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 A pair of unknown and “exceptionally rare” portraits by Rembrandt have been discovered in a private collection in the UK. The intimate paintings of relatives of the Dutch master are now expected to sell for between £5 million and £8 million ($6.25 million-$10 million) at auction. Signed and dated 1635, […]
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0 Famed artist duo Gilbert & George, who describe themselves as two men who are together one artist, have unveiled a new gallery in London dedicated to their work. The pair — Gilbert Prousch and George Passmore — have been working together for six decades, creating absurdist performance art and image-based […]
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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 In his latest comic “Cyberpunk: Peach John,” manga author Rootport imagines the Japanese folklore hero Momotaro — who is said to have been born from a giant peach — living in a dystopian future. But while the writer created the storyline and dialogue, his sci-fi-inspired imagery was produced entirely by […]
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0 Art Dubai (until 5 March) is always a momentous occasion in the local glitterati calendar, and this year is no exception. Returning to the luxury Madinat Jumeirah hotel with an even bigger edition than last year—130 exhibitors compared to 100—there was an upbeat vibe within the swelling crowds. But were […]
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0 A theatre in Mykolaiv is celebrating its 100th anniversary with empty halls and a cramped cellar as guests are being ushered underground because of Russian air strikes. “We can’t run the events on our big stage under the roof. It is very dangerous. There are many missiles that hit the […]
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0 London’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) has made a most unexpected acquisition: a ticket kiosk on a small traffic island just outside its new entrance. But it is the hidden space below street level that is important: a former underground Victorian public lavatory, which closed in the 1970s. This unusual site […]
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0 A class action filed Thursday alleges that Madonna, Jimmy Fallon, and Paris Hilton, among other celebrities who promoted Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, were compensated for those promotions and did not disclose such deals. In the complaint, filed to the federal Central District Court of California, plaintiffs Adonis Real and […]
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