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The Queen’s New Year UK Honors list for 2021 has been released, revealing which British individuals have been honored for their services to the arts. Stephen Deuchar, former director of Tate Britain who served at the helm of the UK’s Art Fund for ten years, has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth … [Read More...]
Archaeologists have unearthed a 5th-century Roman mosaic in Britain, marking what experts called a “tremendously exciting” discovery that may upend long-held assumptions about the timeline of the Dark Ages. The mosaic floor was first discovered at the Chedworth Roman Villa in Gloucestershire, England, in 2017, and underwent extensive … [Read More...]
The District Court of Prague has ruled against the capital in a case regarding a seminal cycle of paintings by the Czech Art Nouveau painter and designer Alphonse Mucha. The lawsuit was filed by the artist’s grandson John, who claimed that the city had violated the terms of a 1913 agreement … [Read More...]
The 2019 Venice Biennale closed more than a year ago, but authorities are still calling on Swiss artist Christoph Büchel to remove Barca Nostra, his controversial contribution to the exhibition. The work, the wreckage of a ship that sank in the Mediterranean in 2015 with up to 1,100 migrants from Libya on board, … [Read More...]
New York’s Pace Gallery has announced plans to relocate its London outpost to 4 Hanover Square in Mayfair, the former home of the now-defunct Blain Southern gallery. Pace has occupied a space at 6 Burlington Gardens inside the Royal Academy building since 2012. According to a report in the Financial Times, … [Read More...]
The Australian government has pledged A$10.1 million (about $7.2 million) in additional funds over four years toward the return Indigenous cultural heritage objects held in collections overseas. The pilot program was launched in 2018 with a A$2 million ($1.4 million) budget by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander … [Read More...]
David Byrne is not prone to idleness. Since cofounding the Talking Heads—the New Wave band that launched him to fame—Byrne has founded a music label, released an extensive body of solo albums, and written two books, including 2012’s How Music Works, which blends music theory and autobiography. But when the … [Read More...]
More than 1,300 arts venues across the U.K, including London’s Whitechapel Gallery and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, will soon receive a share of £257 million (roughly $333.4 million) in culture recovery funds from England’s Arts Council. On Monday, the program released data for the first round of funding to … [Read More...]
In August, it was announced that Superblue, a series of experiential art centers, would be opened by Pace Gallery president Marc Glimcher and former Pace London president Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst. After a couple months of mystery, Superblue has revealed its first plans for its inaugural art center, in Miami’s … [Read More...]
On Wednesday, students watched as a truck dumped 32 tons of fresh carrots outside the Ben Pimlott building at Goldsmiths University in London. Though some initially suspected that the giant mound of vegetables was a prank, it turned out to be an artwork. The piece is the latest work by Rafael … [Read More...]
Together with the Fondazione Prada in Milan, British artist Damien Hirst has launched a new charity campaign to aid Italian children whose education has been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. Hirst created four new limited-edition prints that were made available online today, with all profits from the sales donated … [Read More...]
David Johansen, frontman of the legendary proto-punk band New York Dolls, released a music video on Thursday with some very pointed words for viewers. “Captain this ship is sinking,” he sings, “Shall we abandon ship? Or shall we sit on it, and perish slow?” The video is … [Read More...]
On Friday Google’s homepage pays tribute to the prolific Philippine artist and activist Pacita Abad, who on this day in 1984 became the first woman to receive the Philippines’s 10 Outstanding Young Men award. Her pioneering painting practice foregrounded overlooked women—Indigenous Filipina, domestic workers from Pakistan, Cambodian refugees. “I … [Read More...]
A California man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for attempting to sell over $6 million worth of forged paintings he claimed were by Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, among others. On Wednesday Philip Righter, who resides in West Hollywood, pleaded guilty to wire … [Read More...]
In June, Black Lives Matters protestors in Bristol toppled a monument to 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston. The 18-foot-tall statue was then thrown into the Bristol harbor amid cheers from a crowd of onlookers. Since then, artists and activists have proposed replacements for the sculpture’s empty plinth. … [Read More...]
Jean-Michel Basquiat meets Dr. Martens in the latest collaboration between the artist’s estate and a retailer. On Thursday, the British footwear brand unveiled a new line featuring art from the paintings Dustheads and Pez Dispenser and the album cover for “Beat Bop,” a 1983 single by Rammellzee and K… [Read More...]
Last week major museums and galleries in the United Kingdom, including the Tate galleries and London’s National Gallery, confirmed reopening dates for the summer. But a new survey indicates that the British public may not flock to them once they throw their doors back open. A new survey conducted… [Read More...]
Why protest the detention of immigrants across the United States on Independence Day? When asked that recently, artist Dread Scott responded with a Frederick Douglass quote: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Scott is one among the 80 artists participating in “In Plain Sight,” a … [Read More...]