Last month, Black Lives Matter demonstrators in Bristol, UK, made headlines around the world when they toppled a statue of 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston and dumped it into the River Avon. Now, the city has an entirely new figure being celebrated on the once-empty plinth: a protester. British artist Marc […]
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0 A central gallery within the New York art scene will reportedly close for good. Marlborough Gallery, which operates spaces in New York and London, is shuttering its Manhattan flagship amid a debacle involving an alleged disagreement between the family that operates the space and the gallery’s board members. The gallery […]
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0 Hans Hofmann, routinely receives more credit as a teacher than as an artist in studies of his era, his most enduring work came only at the end of his long career, and his paintings regularly straddle the line between various schools (elements of Cubism, Fauvism, and more cohabit), all of […]
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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 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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