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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 the effects of ...
In 2004, writing for Artforum ’s “Pop After Pop” special issue, the venerable art historian Robert Rosenblum reflected on the exhibition’s palpable legacy: “We now know that the show nurtured brilliant progeny, along with resuscitated precursors—whether the new brood knew it or not.”. That progeny has now begotten its own.
By News Desk. July 25, 2024 12:45 pm. The Barnes Foundation Art Museum, Philadelphia, December 9, 2017. Photo: Universal Images Group/Getty Images. The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia over the past six months terminated a dozen full-time roles, Artnews reports. The eliminated positions account for 6 percent of the museum’s 206 employees.
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 from South Asia ...
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 legacy,” the ...
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.
Art Basel Miami Beach, December 2022. Photo: Felix Mizioznikov/Alamy. Art Basel Miami Beach has named the 277 galleries participating in its 2023 iteration, slated to run December 8–10, with preview days on December 6–7. The number represents a slight dip compared to 2022, during which a record-breaking 283 exhibitors participated.
The 2020 awardees are: Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement. Eleanor Antin. Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art. Joseph Leo Koerner. Distinguished Feminist Award—Scholar. Maud K. Lavin. Distinguished Teaching of Art Award. Annet Couwenberg.
Photo: Jay Galvin/Flickr. A new nonprofit formed by a group of wealthy philanthropists and arts patrons has purchased the historic San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) and the landmarked 1931 Diego Rivera mural contained within. Led by Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, the organization paid $30 million dollars for the ...
Photo: The Andy Warhol Foundation. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts on June 27 announced the forty-nine recipients of its spring 2024 grants. The foundation will award more than $4 million to visual arts organizations and institutions dispersed across nineteen US states and the District of Columbia as well as one in South Africa.