Posting on Instagram on the eve of the UK general election, Banksy shared an image of the Louise Michel, a search and rescue boat he has funded that has saved scores of people tying to make the perilous crossing to Europe from North Africa.
Like much of Longo’s more recent output, the works are overtly political in nature, depicting the White House, the US Capitol, the Supreme Court Building and the 6 January 2021 insurrection.
A St Louis art centre has come under fire for taking down artists Dani Collette and Allora McCullough's exhibition Planting Seeds, Sprouting Hope after finding some of the featured works to be antisemitic.
“Mabel was a free-spirited young girl, an adventurous and well-travelled woman; key to a glittering bohemian circle and one of the most significantly overlooked talents of early 20th-century British art,” according to the publisher.
“Never before has the market seen a collection of this diversity that so beautifully chronicles the history of human science and technological ingenuity—much less one assembled by a founding father of modern computing,” Marc Porter, chairman of Christie’s Americas, said in a statement.
The text also read, “On university campuses, pro-Palestinian groups have voiced support for Hamas (which is classified as a terrorist organization by the U.S. government) and a Palestinian state stretching ‘from the river to the sea,’ a phrase defined by the erasure of Israel.”
I was walking from Blackfriars to my office on Southwark Street and I saw some of the pavement was taped off, so I crossed the road and just as I got to the other side I heard a giant crash behind me.
“The Traumatic Surreal is a significant study exploring the pioneering contributions of German-speaking women artists working within Surrealist traditions and in response to the trauma and legacies of the Second Word War.
I have often told the story of what happened that day, and each time, in the telling, I see John Sewetti standing in the middle of that trapped, crumpled parade of people, as if he should have been wearing a sheet and sandals, the way those walking saints of India do, or holding a staff and carrying two stone tablets under his arm.
One of Austin’s longtime gallery patrons is Chris Tomlinson, a Hearst Newspapers columnist who, along with his wife, Shalini Ramanathan, acquires work by local artists of his generation.
A request to learn if the museum is being closed permanently or just temporarily was not answered by anyone in president Padilla’s office, although the petition described creating an art gallery in a renovated dormitory’s common reading room.
The spelling of Gnatalie (pronounced like “Natalie”) reflects the gruelling work of the palaeontologists who extracted the fossil—the most complete sauropod skeleton on the US’s West Coast—from a riverbed in the Badlands of Utah, where they endured a relentless assault of gnats.
He’s described at one point as “an anteater licking an anthill clean”; later, he talks about spiders that eat cockroaches and marvels at how “magnificent the structure of the food chain is.” Is he a predator who gets nourishment from the destruction he causes?
Archaelogists working with Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have identified ancient Maya settlements in the vicinity of Calakmul, a historic site in the state of Campeche, using light detection and ranging (Lidar), a remote scanning technology.
“John has been pushing the boundaries of art for decades and ‘crystalline work’ is his most ambitious and thought-provoking artwork to date,” Feral File cofounder Casey Reas said in a statement.
Visitors to MoMI will be able to acquire, without any costs, a fragment of digital art from moving-image works projected on the giant media wall in the museum’s lobby.
The collections include many finds from French sites like the rock shelter of La Madeleine, excavated during the 19th century, and also objects found at Montastruc on the river Aveyron—notably the famous Swimming Reindeer, brilliantly carved from the tip of a mammoth tusk.
