Tag: Pandemic

Illegal activity involving cultural property has spiked during the global Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new survey by the international police organization Interpol. In 2020, the rate of illegal excavations of cultural heritage increased across the world beyond pre-pandemic levels, according to Interpol’s “Assessing Crimes Against Cultural Property” report. Africa saw an increase in offenses related to digs, up from 44 incidents in 2019 ...

Less than two months before it was set to take place, the Volta art fair has canceled its first-ever fair in Miami. According to Artnet News, the fair decided to call off its 2021 edition amid a combination of pandemic restrictions and organizational issues, including difficulty nailing down a venue. Volta had been set to open in November, alongside Art Basel Miami Beach, NADA ...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines LOS ANGELES LOSES A LEGEND. Art dealer Margo Leavin, who ran a trailblazing contemporary art gallery in L.A. for more than 40 years, has died at the age of 85, Christopher Knight reports in the Los Angeles Times. Leavin set up shop in 1970 and closed in 2013; along the way, she showed canonical and soon-to-be-canonical ...

Jennifer Guidi’s career skyrocketed with her 2017 exhibition “San Fernando” at Almine Rech gallery in New York. Guidi’s abstract trance-inducing landscape paintings with bursts of subtle color and texture gradations resulted in a collectors’ frenzy—one so mad, in fact, that dealer Stefan Simchowitz wrote in a frustrated Facebook post, “If another person asks me to get them a Jen Guidi I think I might ...

LONDON — Amrita Jhaveri gently jokes that she was rescued by a Bollywood star. When the actress Sonam Kapoor Ahuja, a client of Ms. Jhaveri’s art gallery, approached her in the summer of 2020 to ask if she would like to use Ms. Kapoor Ahuja’s London office as something of an exhibition space, Ms. Jhaveri was intrigued.“She said, ‘I have this space, you can ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — It has been 581 days since the Art Walk made its last appearance.“When they shut it down, it was kind of bummer, but there’s a lot of people here,” visitor Aryanna Harris said.STORY: ‘He put me through 7 years of hell’: Former JSO officer sentenced for attempted child sex crimesThe Art Walk showcases creativity from local artists, like the business “Art ...

To say that Myriam Ben Salah’s appointment as director of the Renaissance Society, a highly influential museum within the University of Chicago, got lost in the news cycle on April 22, 2020, is an understatement. Coronavirus deaths in the United States had surpassed 45,000; the New York Times had front page stories on the Senate passing a $484 billion relief package and on how ...

Portrait of Jim Jarmusch, 2019. Haedrich/VU/SIPA My collages are sourced from newsprint. The physical material of newsprint is almost becoming obsolete, which I find interesting. And now our news is delivered in many other ways, mostly digital. But I don’t analyze my collages or think about them too critically. These collages are are just kind of fun, little dream worlds that I go into ...

OMAHA, Neb. — After being closed for over a year, due to the pandemic, artists are once again gathering at The Union for Contemporary Art. 3 News Now reporter Danielle Davis has more on why it held off reopening until now and what it means to the community it supports. Source link

A Newcastle street artist has created a tribute to frontline health workers who are working long hours under difficult conditions during the pandemic.Key points:The stencil artwork was created during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemicIt sends a message of community support to frontline healthcare workersEvocative street art has become prolific in Newcastle, particularly in the CBD and surrounding suburbsCooks Hill resident health care worker Bianca said ...