African-American paintings, sculptures and literary works: the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) in New York brings the “Harlem Renaissance” artistic movement born from the Great Migration of millions of black people from the South to the North of the States out of marginality -United at the beginning of the 20th century. Starting Sunday, one of … Read more
Maria Bolaños. Professor of Art History at the University of Valladolid and former director of the National Museum of Sculpture It is not strange that the artist who resists being current, resisting easy success, is precisely the one who best embodies the spirit of his time. This is what happens with Eduardo Chillidawho, in 1948, … Read more
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I return from New York, from the inauguration of the new Olnick-Spanu Magazzino pavilion, with my eyes full of its wonderful collection of Carlo Scarpa crystals and the magnificent exhibition space built with light by Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo and, in a synchronicity worthy of Carl Jung, ICON Design gives me the gift … Read more
But who is the mysterious sender hiding behind the name of Yves Gallinace, residing in Cour la Basse, and who sent Michel Sabatéry, a local historian from the commune of Bessan (Hérault), a metal rooster stolen in 1999 from the top of a mission cross located in one of the streets of the village? The … Read more
In Plaza Santander in the municipality of San Juan del Cesar, La Guajira, The sculpture of the singer Nelson Velásquez was unveiled within the framework of the 46th version of the National Vallenata Music Composers Festivalwhere he is one of those honored along with ‘Beto’ Zabaleta. With this tribute, the people of San Juan highlight … Read more
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of Greece expressed his dissatisfaction yesterday (27 November) after British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak abruptly canceled bilateral talks, despite the Greeks hoping to use The occasion pressured the British government to return marble sculptures that had been removed from the Parthenon in Athens more than 200 years earlier. The two leaders … Read more
Fernando Botero saw the light in a humble family. But he soon lost his father when he was four years old, so his mother raised him and his two brothers with the help of her brother. He became interested in drawing early and studied it first in Medellin and then in the Colombian capital, Bogota. … Read more
The MusBA is devoting its 2023 exhibitions to sculpture by offering an original approach to the works, by sharpening the senses of visitors and taking care to shake up their usual landmarks! These two exhibitions both focus on the human figure, the red thread of the route proposed on this occasion between the Gallery, the … Read more
Tai Kwun, a cultural heritage landmark of Hong Kong Hold a large-scale contemporary art exhibition HOPE Created by renowned Australian artist Patricia Piccinini, it reflects hopes and fears about the impact of science on humanity. It contains over 50 surreal yet realistic sculptures, paintings and animations. This exhibition is on display from May 24 to … Read more
AFP, published on Friday, June 02, 2023 at 8:04 p.m. World hub of arts and finance, New York lifts the veil on its international traffic in antiquities, hundreds of works looted in recent decades in Asia, Europe and the Middle East and seized by the courts from collectors and in prestigious museums, such as the … Read more