"The Italian bank UniCredit has announced plans to sell off its art collection " one of the largest corporate holdings in the world " to help finance social initiatives across Europe. … Th…
Spanning two Manhattan locations, the show mixes political rage with joyful self-expression
Like the city around it, the public-art program aspires to be both local and global. According to curator Brandi Reddick, the projects, by six internationally-renowned artists chosen from ov…
Cirque du Soleil, in celebration of its latest production, VOLTA, which starts performances in Chicago May [...] The post Cirque du Soleil's Presents City With Public Art Projections Insp…
Over the past seven years, a pair of amateur archaeologists has discovered hundreds of large petroglyphs, estimated to be 10,000 to 40,000 years old, etched into rock in a rural area roughly…
There isn't much meat on the bones here but what meat there is, it is fun to chew on and completely digestible in this most original theatrical exercise.
Now in its seventh year, applications for the 2019 Melbourne Art Trams, which will see eight Melbourne trams transformed by Victorian artists into dynamic public artworks as part of this yea…
Marc Katano's "Swallow," a bold acrylic and ink drawing on irregular Nepalese paper which produces interesting and sometimes unpredictable effects, is one of a series of invented images of s…
A particularly lovely passage in François Matarasso's recent book, A Restless Art: How participation won and why it matters, describes the opportunity of art-making for children, which Ma…
Ralph Peterson & The Messenger Legacy: Legacy Alive (Onyx)Paying concentrated attention to all of the new releases that arrive at Rifftides is out of the question. Some, however, simply …
Orbital Reflector, sculptor Trevor Paglen's 100-foot-long, titanium oxide-coated, $1.5 million diamond-shaped Mylar balloon, was launched into orbit in December and was meant to be visible f…
Roundabout Theatre Company and the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University will bring a new production of 1776 to Broadway
The artist was SKU and "the exhibition, Rainbow Scenes, was billed as exploring 'how we, as individuals, are subjected to wider cultural, economic, moral and political forces in society.'" "…
Heller blurred the line between collector and dealer " and caused an international incident because of it. "Heller's sale of Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles to the National Gallery of Australia…
Sacramento is one of 20 cities across the nation that will receive its next piece of public art as a part of Pabst Blue Ribbon's National Mural Day on Tuesday. … Click to Continue »
The Delos experiment: "In the absence of human contact " only guards and archaeologists have inhabited Delos in more recent times " the remains of a sanctuary and entire city have survived l…
Be immersed in a vast Arnhem Land floodplain and lose yourself in a forest of bark paintings as Melbourne Museum presents Midawarr | Harvest: The art of Mulkun Wirrpanda and John Wolseley in…
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The decades-old nonprofit credits Surviving R. Kelly with bringing Black girls into the cultural conversation about gender-based violence. To sisters Salamishah…
In the spaces between the Arsenale and Giardini, a new programme of live works is coming to the city
The Cerruti Collection, worth more than €500 million and housed in a villa near Turin specially built for it by collector Francesco Federico Cerruti, "includes Medieval and Baroque mas…
St. Louis seems to have some interesting links recently to the Turner Prize. The Turner is Britain's famous art award, often controversial for the contemporary work it anoints.
No, it's not because they want to launder money. "While these requirements could have significant benefits in terms of helping to curtail money laundering by bringing greater oversight to an…
And they're going to be auctioned at Christie's. "They'll fool you from a distance. They won't fool you close up." " The New York Times
Liu Xiaobo was in prison when he won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, and ever since then, his wife, Liu Xia, had been under house arrest. After he died, still in custody, in 2017, she was suicid…