The Nile’s flooding is out of control, and Sudan is struggling to save its people and its historic sites.
September 2020 Art News
2500 years ago, China was fractured into competing aristocratic states vying for supreme control. Warfare hastened cultural exchange and ultimately gave rise to a unique visual language across the realms, exemplified by this impressive gold, silver and glass-embellished bronze vessel to be offered in Sotheby’s Important Chinese Art auction. Formerly in the famed collection of Adolphe and Suzanne Stoclet, this archaic vessel features innovative glass inlays virtually unseen in museums and in the marketplace, providing a rare window into the art history of China.
The White Room Gallery’s XX FACTOR is a celebratory exhibition marking the hundred-year anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote and gave them a political voice.
Listen to and watch an in-depth visual description of the sculpture Two Forms (Divided Circle) by artist Dame Barbara Hepworth. It is displayed in the Sculpture Garden of the Barbara Hepworth Museum, the artist’s former home and studio in St Ives, Cornwall.
Years of exploration with paint have led Eveline Luppi’s journey to create work that is technically challenging and visually inspiring to the viewer.
Ashmolean curators decided to reexamine a neglected painting in the Ashmolean’s own storage, once thought to be an original Rembrandt, now discredited.
Classicist and British Museum trustee, Mary Beard discusses iconoclasm in Ancient Rome and what that can tell us about the current debates around removing statues in the modern public spaces.
Best known for cultural mashups that blend contemporary social issues with traditional porcelain pottery, Roberto Lugo’s powerful commentary on poverty, inequality, and racial injustice has made him a defining artist of the moment.
Sanctuary asks viewers to consider themes as diverse yet interconnected as sustainability, migration, belonging, and cultural identity, all of which seem precarious in 2020.
