After being a familiar landmark on a street corner in the middle of Manhattan for many years, a well-known sculpture with two large red letters stacked on two others is once again a selfie hotspot in the heart of New York.…
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Munich (dpa) – The Bavarian State Library has acquired one of the most famous graphic works of art in the world, the “Great Wave” by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai. The work was purchased from a private collection for a low seven-figure euro sum, the State Library announced on Tuesday. It is the highlight and a culmination of a series of…
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London (PA Media/dpa) – A collection of rarely seen drawings by David Hockney which “encapsulate his love for life” is to go on display. The Wolfson Gallery at Charleston – the home of painter Vanessa Bell in the British village of Firle – is holding the exhibition of examples of Hockney’s early works named “Love Life.” The display is named…
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Monaco (dpa) – It was December when Claude Monet painted Monaco’s Monte Carlo from the nearby French headland of Roquebrune during a two-week stay on the French Riviera in 1883. The French artist (1840-1926), who by that time had already set up camp in Giverny, was soon to return to the Mediterranean, heading just across the border to the Italian…
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The 60th edition of the Venice Art Biennale, set to begin in April 2024, will focus primarily on the themes of migration, exile and the experience of "foreignness."…
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Following years of planning and delays, the new Perelman Performing
Arts Center (PAC) on the One World Trade Centre site in New York City is scheduled to open in September.…
Presenting almost 100 works on paper from the Joseph Beuys family for the first time in the UK, Joseph Beuys: 40 Years of Drawing is the first major exhibition dedicated solely to the artist’s drawings to take place in London for 30 years.…
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British artist Veronica Ryan on Wednesday won the prestigious Turner Prize for her installations focused on the Windrush Generation and Covid. Ryan, 66, won the £25,000 ($33,000, 30,000 euros) prize for contemporary art for marble and bronze sculptures placed on a street in Hackney, east London, that depict tropical fruits from the Caribbean — custard apple, breadfruit and soursop. This…
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Greece’s culture ministry on Thursday said it was creating a centre for the study of Cycladic antiquities on the island of Naxos in collaboration with New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The centre for the research and study of the Bronze-Era Cycladic culture is to be delivered in 2026, the ministry said in a statement. It will be equipped with…
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An exhibition of over 250 art pieces created during the communist era (1949-1990) by the deceased East German artist, Jürgen Wittdorf (1932 – 2018), has been a success. The exhibit has attracted more than 20,000 visitors since it opened last month in Biesdorf Castle, a suburb far from Berlin’s historic city centre. At a time when sexual freedom is under…
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