As November auctions kick off in New York with Sotheby's Modern Art Evening— led by one of Monet’s Nymphéas (circa 1914–17) and Picasso’s La Statuaire (1925)— Sotheby's Geneva had a special lot last week that surprised bidders and spectators.
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Paul Mpagi Sepuya is a photographer based in Los Angeles. He takes photographs of friends, acquaintances, and colleagues, communicating with the vast history of figurative photography and portraiture.
Two ideally organized art events in Japan, Art Collaboration Kyoto (ACK) and Art Week Tokyo (AWT), gave local and international audiences a chance to learn about these cultural capitals in exciting new ways.
British artist and director Steve McQueen has decided to skip the 32nd iteration of Poland’s Camerimage Film Festival following a contentious article written by the festival’s founder and CEO, Marek Żydowicz.
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The Dutch MPV Gallery, located in the southern town of Oisterwijk, was the target of a semi-botched heist last Friday, November 1st, when CCTV caught thieves storming in at around three in the morning.Using explosives to bypass the gallery's front entrance, which resulted in the door handle being thrown about 160 feet, the perpetrators hastily left with four silkscreens from Andy Warhol’s 1985 series “Reigning Queens.”
There has always been great discourse over the worth and impact that the arts have had on the American public education system. Under the Federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the arts are recognized as a core academic subject. Despite this, it has taken a lot of work to pave this path and it still isn’t all that well implemented.
When it comes to a survey on Ecofeminism, there may be no better time than now. The future has never been a promised destination, but between the reality of it still being 80 degrees some days in Los Angeles, and the upcoming U.S. election, The Brick’s inaugural show, Life on Earth: Art & Ecofeminism arrives to a conscious audience.
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts is an art residency and studio program on 39th Street in Manhattan, just two blocks shy of the Port Authority bus station and New York Times headquarters. In their unassuming building, artists were invited to open their studios to the public, celebrating 25 years of Open Studios and sharing their inner worlds with anyone who happens to be curious.
At the Louvre Museum in Paris, amongst the various works of art, is a painting with a tragic, yet captivating, story behind it. The Raft of Medusa was painted in 1819 by Théodore Géricault, an ambitious artist eager to achieve fame and glory.
