RM, the 27-year-old leader of Korean pop group BTS, has become an avid enthusiast, collector, and promoter of contemporary art. In just the last few months, RM was featured on Intersections: The Art Basel Podcast, and he and the other members of BTS partnered with Google to show off their favorite artworks embedded in Google Street View at a location of their choice. Last ...
The United Kingdom will hold formal talks with Greece regarding the potential repatriation of the Parthenon Marbles, which have been in the British Museum since 1816. There are not dates set yet for the meeting, which was proposed by the UK’s minister for arts, Stephen Parkinson, to Greece on April 29. UNESCO announced the landmark agreement on May 17 ahead of International Museum Day. ...
Just days before the launch of a panel series aimed at addressing issues related to anti-Semitism, racism, and Islamophobia, the organizers of the prestigious quinquennial Documenta canceled the event amid a row with a German Jewish group. The talks were scheduled to take place over the course of three weeks beginning on May 7. They had been planned as a response to allegations of ...
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know this Tuesday, March 29. NEED TO READ Restitution Activists Disrupt Sale of Gabon Mask – Protesters disrupted the sale of a carved mask at a French auction house in Montpellier on Saturday, standing up in the salesroom and ...
In the summer of 1989, when the city of Birmingham, Alabama, announced plans for a future civil rights museum, Joe Minter became concerned. The Birmingham-based sculptor was worried that the focus would be only on the movement’s leaders, overlooking the work of those he calls its foot soldiers. Seeking to tell the whole story, he began building his African Village in America. A continuously ...
Yuga Labs, the company behind the mega-successful PFP NFT project, Bored Ape Yacht Club, is currently in talks with Andreessen Horowitz, the major U.S. venture capital firm cofounded by ARTnews Top 200 Collector, Marc Andreessen. In pursuit of funding, Yuga Labs is reportedly preparing to sell a multimillion dollar stake in the company to the firm, which would value the company at somewhere between ...
Artnet Talks is a series of live conversations between artists, curators, gallerists, and arts professionals that brings an in-depth dimension to our usual coverage of the art world’s biggest stories. A conversation between: Amy Cappellazzo, founder of Art Market Intelligence; Jade Mitchell, artist agent and founder, Blank Canvas Coaching; Dexter Wimberly, founder and CEO of Art World Learning; Julia Henderson, founder of Draw ...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines THE CLIMATE TALKS BEGIN. World leaders are converging on Glasgow, Scotland, for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, aka COP26, and artists are participating in various ways. A text piece by Jenny Holzer that quotes activist Greta Thunberg will be projected in the city, the National reports; street murals made by children about climate change have gone up around ...
Latest News in Black Art features news updates and developments in the world of art and related culture Curator theo tyson. | Photo by Frances Neyra Claudio Appointments The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) appointed theo tyson (above) Penny Vinik Curator of Fashion Arts. She previously served as the Polly Thayer Starr Fellow in American Art and Culture at the ...
