The mostly defunct red phone boxes no longer attract much attention in London except from tourists. But Stuart Fowkes is thrilled to stumble upon one still in working order. Its ring is one of the world’s disappearing noises that his pioneering “obsolete sounds” project is dedicated to preserving. He whips out a hand-held recording device and swings into action, explaining,…
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Ukraine has detained eight people over the theft from a wall in the Kyiv suburbs of a mural painted by elusive British street artist Banksy, the authorities said. The stencil image of a person in a nightgown and gas mask holding a fire extinguisher next to the charred remains of a window in the town of Gostomel went missing on…
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Art Basel announces further show highlights for its largest edition yet in Miami Beach Since its launch in 2002, Art Basel Miami Beach has served as a dynamic platform uniquely bridging the art scenes of North and South America, Europe, and beyond. The edition marking its 20th anniversary will be the largest to date, featuring 282 exhibitors from 38 countries and territories – more than half of…
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Protesters have taken to the streets of Shanghai, Beijing and other cities in recent days to demonstrate against heavy COVID-19 measures and restrictions on freedom, a show of civil disobedience that is unprecedented since leader Xi assumed power. Ai Weiwei said the protests were not likely to carry on – not only because security forces would quash those speaking out…
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Choreographers Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Némo Flouret take over the Louvre Museum with dance performances in front of the works of art. The museum offers performances by a dozen artists whose movements enter into dialogue with the masterpieces of David and Leonardo Da Vinci and also to allow different forms of art to crossover. SOUNDBITE 1 – Anne Teresa…
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A remarkable wartime self-portrait of painter Max Beckmann will be auctioned in Germany next week, valued at a record-setting estimate of up to 30 million euros. “Selbstbildnis gelb-rosa” (Self-Portrait Yellow-Pink), widely considered a masterpiece and in private hands since it was painted in 1943, features the artist during his Dutch exile from Nazi Germany. It was initially a gift to…
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The anonymous graffiti artist Banksy has shared a behind-the-scenes video of his latest street art creations from his trip to Ukraine. Damaged buildings in Ukraine’s Kyiv region have become a canvas for Banksy, as graffiti representing a man taking a bath appeared on the walls of a shelled and destroyed building in Ukraine. Another graffiti shows a woman wearing a gas mask and…
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Andy Warhol’s nephew will put two works by his late pop artist uncle on the market for the first time Tuesday in New York, with both expected to sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars at auction. The two paintings were created when Warhol, the son of a working-class family of Eastern European immigrants, was a 20-year-old art student in…
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Climate protesters glued themselves to an Andy Warhol painting at the National Art Gallery of Australia in Canberra on Wednesday (November 9), the latest in a spate of activist demonstrations in art galleries around the world. Video footage released by the Stop Fossil Fuel Subsidies group showed two female protesters using adhesive to stick their hands to Andy Warhol’s “Campbell’s…
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Two climate activists on Saturday each glued a hand to the frame of paintings by Spanish master Francisco Goya in Madrid to protest inaction in the face of global warming. The protest at the famed Prado museum damaged neither painting, but the protesters scrawled “+1,5°C” on the wall between the two artworks and both were detained, police said. The United…
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