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Thereâs videos and site-specific installations exploring the fragile nature of morality and humanityâs brutality by Hong Kong artist Tsang Kin-Wah at Galerie du Monde, and a show bridging traditional folk crafts with contemporary artâand foregrounding womenâs unseen laborâat Centre for Heritage Arts & Textile, to name a couple.
Inside was âa few thesesâ worth of stuff,â Gentry noted, picking up a sheaf of paper in a musty parlor roomâsheet music for the 1917 song âJoan of Arc, They Are Calling You.â There were books on Catholicism (âSigned Ones in Plastic,â a label read); scholarly works on OâConnor; and, hanging in Louiseâs closet, three chiffon evening gowns.
In the 1941 interview in which Matisse recalled the bicycle anecdote he also revealed that, on the wall of his bedroom, he had two reproductions of paintings: Van Goghâs Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and a work by his fellow Fauve, Georges Rouault.
This challenge was one of the subjects covered in a lively panel discussion held in Manhattan on 29 January, as part of Downtown Dealersâa conversation series for New York gallerists established by the collector and adviser Bill Cournoyer.
This decision undermines access to the arts, disproportionately harming marginalised groups and stifling diverse expression,â Julie TrĂ©bault, the executive director of Artists at Risk Connection, said in a statement.
The Guggenheim Museum in New York in late February began dismissing 20 employees across the institution, or 7 percent of its workforce, citing the continued challenge of returning to fiscal stability in the post-pandemic years.
Tate Modern this week opened a vast exhibition exploring the life and work of the maverick Australian-born performance artist, fashion designer and self-styled âclub monsterâ, Leigh Bowery, as well as the variety of cultural figures in his orbit in London.
Accelerationism has been popularized in the past decade by the British philosopher Nick Land, who is part of the so-called neo-reactionary or Dark Enlightenment movement populated by figures including Curtis Yarvin, a former programmer and blogger whose proposals for an American monarchy have enjoyed renewed relevance during Trump 2.0.
On one table was a giant human arm, part of a monument of Father Capodanno bound for Staten Island; in back was a plaster mold of the head of Martin Luther King, Jr., for a bust that sits in the Oval Office.
As we near the National Galleryâs much-anticipated double reveal of its collection rehang and remodelled Sainsbury Wing, here is a curious tale about its instinct to remain closed, at least in spirit.
I would plunk my tricorne hat atop my head and meet the incoming waves of visitors, herding them around the Common and telling them the story of the April morning in 1775 when brave townspeople made their stand against the British and their king in the first fighting of the Revolution.
More than 460 visual artists, dancers, and poets signed a letter in protest of the requirements for grant applications accepted by the NEA this month in compliance with President Trumpâs latest executive order, one in a growing list intended to shape what art is made and displayed in America.