Tag: World

The third edition of the Burns Halperin Report, a publication inaugurated in 2018 by independent editor Charlotte Burns and Artnet News’s Julia Halperin, arrived today with the disheartening news that collections at US museums remain far reflecting of their publics. According to the report, which investigates the representation of Black American artists, female-identifying artists, and Black American female-identifying artists in US museums and the ...

Over the last twenty years, I’ve missed only one edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, in 2004, and am therefore convinced that 2004 was the best edition: the best parties, the best dinners, the best art, the best people. Back then, the parties and dinners were in hotels along the beach like the Shore Club, the Delano, and the Raleigh. Wynwood, across the causeway, ...

Doha, a city of roughly 3 million tucked in the Arabian Gulf, eagerly awaits the world. Later this month, the capital of Qatar will host the FIFA World Cup, and around 1,000 flights are expected to land in the days prior to its opening. In Doha, anticipation accompanies ambition: a slate of government-funded projects is transforming the desertscape into a destination capable of dazzling the jet-setting class. The ...

On a long-distance flight from Hamburg to Paris, then onward to New York, Israeli artist Yuval Pudik was addressing postcards. These postcards, however, were not to friends or relatives, but strangers—people he knew of, was acquainted with, or admired from afar. Pudik didn’t purchase the postcards from a gift shop or tourist destination, and they possessed none of the hallmarks of travel. Instead of ...

Issued on: 29/10/2022 - 09:22 Paris (AFP) – Art world professionals have slammed recent attacks on famous paintings by climate protesters as "counterproductive" and dangerous acts of vandalism. While some of the major French and British museums interviewed by AFP, including the Louvre, the National Gallery and the Tate in London, are keeping a low profile on the issue, others are calling for stronger ...

A clean break in the neck was one red flag, a sign that the artifact—a marble head of a woman believed to have come from a Libyan burial ground dating back to 350 BCE—had passed through the hands of looters and smugglers on its way to the vast art collection of Michael Steinhardt, the noted New York hedge funder and prolific antiquities collector. The ...

Maram Stern, the vice president of the World Jewish Congress, an international federation of Jewish communities and organizations, condemned this year’s edition of the Kassel art exhibition documenta, which ended in September after a drawn-out controversy over allegations of anti-Semitism. In an opinion piece published in the German outlet Rheinische Post and first reported by Monopol, Stern described the recently closed quinquennial exhibition as ...

Two climate activists have been arrested after gluing themselves to a Picasso painting frame.The protesters, standing alongside a banner that read "Climate Chaos = War and Famine", stuck their hands to the glass covering Picasso's Massacre in Korea at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. On Twitter, the group said it had carried out the demonstration to "highlight the connection between climate ...

Journalist Andy Brassell, who specialises in European football, travels a lot. Football street art is a common sight wherever he goes: murals of players are found everywhere from Manchester school walls and Minnesota sports bars to the facade of l’Hôtel de Ville in Paris. In a new book, Brassell celebrates the variety and spectacle of this fan art, showing how eloquent supporters can be ...

Even in retirement, Arne Glimcher, at 84, is a busy man. With his son, Marc, now fully in charge of Pace, the mega-gallery Glimcher founded as a small Boston storefront in 1960, Glimcher opens a new gallery in downtown Manhattan this week, a kind of project space that will both host exhibitions and represent a modest number of artists. The space is called 125 ...