The German government has beefed up this year’s budget for art acquisitions for the federal collection, pledging to buy around 150 works worth €3m in total in a bid to help artists and galleries overcome the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. An independent commission will purchase art directly from […]
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0 Some of the iconic scenes of Hong Kong democracy protests will be preserved permanently through a monumental sculpture by the California-based Chinese artist Chen Weiming, who wants to pay tribute to the protesters and the city that has been supporting the democracy movement in mainland China for the past three […]
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0 A massive explosion in a warehouse at the port of Beirut on Tuesday evening, thought to be caused by some 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate that had been stored at the site for six years, has killed at time of writing at least 145 people and injured more than 5,000. The devastating blast has […]
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0 Louise Bourgeois’s art took many different forms, and it often explored topics such as memory, sex, and trauma. But the works that have come to define the late artist’s career are her sculptures of spiders, some of which tower 30 feet into the air and menacingly loom over viewers’ heads. […]
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0 Three new exhibitions will be on display when the museum’s Fifth Avenue location begins welcoming visitors again on Aug. 29. The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced on Wednesday that its landmark location on Fifth Avenue will welcome visitors five days a week, Thursday through Monday, when it reopens to the […]
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0 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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