The Woodside-area Horse Owners Association (WHOA!) is inviting artists to celebrate the beauty of all things equine. The organization has put out a call for artists to submit works to its juried show of horse-themed art that will kick off the association's annual Day of the Horse weekend in mid-October. Woodside-area Horse Owners Association (WHOA!) has put out a call for artists to submit ...
"Essentia is a proponent of the arts and seeks to elevate Vision Northland with fine art created by artists from across our region," a news release from Essentia said. "We know through evidence-based design that art has healing properties and enhances the hospital and clinic setting." In partnership with Integrated Art Group, a Madison-based art firm that helps offices and health care facilities curate ...
The town of Silverthorne is looking to continue its support for public art with an inaugural grant program available for businesses and artists. According to a news release, the goal is to supplement funding for projects that provide opportunities for the community to share common and diverse histories, traditions and customs as well as enjoy permanent, temporary and spontaneous expressions of art and culture. ...
U.S. prosecutors said on Thursday that they were attempting to return a 10th-century sculpture that they claimed had been stolen from Cambodia in 1997. The statue comes from the site of Prasat Krachap, a temple in Koh Ker, which was the capital of the Khmer empire between 928 and 944 C.E. It depicts Skanda, the Hindu god of war, atop a peacock. The U.S. ...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines WHILE BILLIONAIRES AND COMPANIES RUSHED to donate money to rebuild Paris’s Notre-Dame cathedral after it burned in 2019, the Catholic diocese is still seeking more funding to restore and upgrade its interior, the AFP reports. The issue: a French law requires that cash raised through the public subscription can only go toward structural issues with the building, which is ...
A newly filed lawsuit reveals that, in 2016, the U.S. government seized an ancient Roman statue that was allegedly being delivered to Kim Kardashian. In the suit, filed on April 30 in the United States District Court of Central California’s Western Division, the U.S. government called for the forfeiture of the “illegally imported” statue, which resembles the lower half of a person draped in fabric. ...