Archaeologists have discovered 14 stemmed projectile points at the Cooper’s Field excavation site in Western Idaho from 13,200 to 16,000 years ago. The “razor sharp” points range in size from about half an inch to 2 inches long. They were also 2,3000 years older than ones previously found in the area, making them the oldest ever found in the Americas. A research paper on ...
In a year defined by controversies surrounding large-scale exhibitions, first at the Berlin Biennale and then at Documenta 15, India’s Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) offers a ray of hope. Nurtured for four years by Singapore-based artist Shubigi Rao, the fifth edition of the Biennale, titled “In Our Veins Flow Ink and Fire,” is finally opening its doors on December 23 after being postponed twice due ...
"I was delighted to contribute to this celebration. It is astonishing that PAL has been inspiring artists in the Bay Area for 101 years," Walsh told this news organization in an email interview. Helen Kim, whose colorful, small-scale works in oil and cold wax include “Summer Night,” above, won second place in the “Small” category for another piece, called "Firefly." Courtesy Helen Kim. Cindy ...
A French teacher has become one of the country's biggest arts benefactors - giving the National Gallery nearly £7m more than 20 years after her death.Mrs Bailey, who died in 2000, lived in the North Yorkshire village of Hutton RudbyMartha Bailey, who lived in Hutton Rudby, near Stokesley in North Yorkshire, left land in her will to the gallery in Trafalgar Square, London, following ...
AN ANDOVER arts charity has secured a further three years of funding from Arts Council England. Chapel Art Studios (CAS) will continue to be supported by Arts Council England and will remain part of its national portfolio. Established in 2009, CAS was first made a National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) in 2018. The charity applied for and was granted a renewal of the funding it has received ...
Subhash Kapoor, a former Manhattan arts dealer described by authorities as one of the world’s most prolific antiquities smugglers, was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a court in Kumbakonam, India, on Tuesday. Kapoor, 72, faced charges for the burglary and illegal export of idols belonging to the Varadharaja Perumal temple, a Hindu place of worship located outside the southern Indian city of Kanchipuram. These ...
At a press conference on the eve of Mondrian. Evolution, a Piet Mondrian exhibition at Germany’s Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K20 museum, curator Susanne Meyer-Büser announced that New York City 1 (1941) has been displayed upside down since it was first seen in public, German publication Monopol reported Thursday. The first clue that the painting, an adhesive tape version of the similarly named New York (which hangs right-side up ...
A lost Fernand Léger painting has reappeared after more than a century of being hidden behind another canvas. The work, an unnamed piece from the “Smoke over the Rooftops” series (1911–12), was discovered on the flip side of Léger’s Bastille Day, painted later that year, per the Agence France-Presse. The finding was announced by the Hague-based Studio Redivivus, which also conducted the picture’s restoration. Experts in ...
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is the latest institution to remove the Sackler name from its walls following protests from activists. On Saturday, the Guardian reported that the V&A had dropped the Sackler name from its education center and one of its courtyards. The move, a museum spokesperson told the publication, had come after the family and the institution had “mutually agreed” ...
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 on this Monday, September 26. NEED-TO-READ Rijksmuseum Tells Cleaners to Stand Down in Show About Bugs – Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has ordered its cleaning staff to lay off spiders and their webs for the duration of its exhibition ...
