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WEBSep 30, 2024 · News. Climate Activists Who Souped Van Gogh’s Sunflowers Sentenced to Prison. Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland, two young protesters affiliated with environmental activist group Just Stop Oil, have been sentenced to prison for hurling tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh’s 1888 painting Sunflowers in an effort to bring awareness to …
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WEB6 days ago · Just over a week ago, cultural critic and Marxist literary theorist Fredric Jameson died at the age of ninety. To pay tribute to the intellectual giant—whose omnivorous mind assimilated subjects as varied as Russian formalism, the art of Nam June Paik, and punk rock— Artforum revisits a text he penned in 2019 eulogizing postmodern …
SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE TO CLOSE AFTER 151 YEARS
WEBJul 18, 2022 · SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE TO CLOSE AFTER 151 YEARS. By News Desk. July 18, 2022 2:06 pm. San Francisco Art Institute’s North Beach campus. Photo: SFAI. The San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) is shuttering after more than a century and a half and will reorganize as a nonprofit in order to “protect its name, archives and …
ART BASEL REVEALS EXHIBITOR LIST FOR 2024 SWISS FAIR
WEBFeb 8, 2024 · ART BASEL REVEALS EXHIBITOR LIST FOR 2024 SWISS FAIR. By News Desk. February 8, 2024 5:03 pm. Art Basel, Switzerland, 2023. Photo: Art Basel. The organizers of Art Basel today announced 287 participants in the Swiss fair’s flagship edition, to take place June 13–16, with preview days on June 11 and 12. The exhibitors will …
India Art Fair Expands into Mumbai
WEBSep 19, 2024 · INDIA ART FAIR EXPANDS INTO MUMBAI. By News Desk. September 19, 2024 5:29 pm. Marine Drive, Mumbai, January 1, 1992. Photo: Soltan Frédéric/Sygma/Getty Images. The India Art Fair, held annually since 2008 in New Delhi, has announced the launch next year of a novel iteration taking place in Mumbai. Focusing on art and design …
EMMA ENDERBY TO LEAD KW INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY …
WEBOct 10, 2023 · Photo: Manuel Nieberle/KW Institute for Contemporary Art. Emma Enderby has been announced as the next director of Berlin ’s KW Institute for Contemporary Art. The British-born Enderby will arrive to the institution from the Haus der Kunst in Munich, where she has since November 2021 served as chief curator and head of programs and research.
ZOE GREY WINS AU$100,000 HADLEY’S ART PRIZE - Artforum
WEBAugust 5, 2024 1:33 pm. Zoe Grey. Photo: Rosie Hastie. Zoe Grey has been named the winner of the 2024 Hadley’s Art Prize. Established in 2017 with the intent of drawing attention to Tasmanian arts and culture and restoring art to the walls of Hadley’s Orient Hotel in Hobart, the city’s oldest hotel, the AU$100,000 (US$65,000) acquisitive ...
ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH REVEALS EXHIBITORS FOR 2024 …
WEBJuly 9, 2024 1:16 pm. View of Osgemeos's installation at Lehmann Maupin's booth, Art Basel Miami Beach, 2023. Photo: Art Basel. The organizers of Art Basel have announced the 283 galleries set to participate in this year’s Miami Beach fair, slated to take place at the Miami Beach Convention Center December 6–8, with preview days December 4 ...
Art Institute of Chicago Fights to Retain “Looted” Schiele Work
WEBApr 25, 2024 · Photo: Art Institute of Chicago. The Art Institute of Chicago in a 132-page court filing rejected the assertion by Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg’s office that an Egon Schiele drawing in its possession had been looted by Nazis. The DA’s office last September attempted to seize the 1916 watercolor-and-pencil-on-paper Russian War ...
THE ART COMICS OF AD REINHARDT - Artforum
WEBArt News, 2, “Founding Fathers Follyday,” Art News, April, 1954. (Part of Reinhardt’s joke is the elimination of word spacing throughout; in this exegesis, for the sake of clarity, I have reinstated it.) To the left, the Founding Fathers meet, in a flurry of wise but dim quotations brandished by a parade of Egyptians.