Owners of Atelier 11, the studio space of Modigliani and Gaugin, are raising funds to restore the Paris space for a new generation of artists.
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Several editors of Artforum have resigned in solidarity with its former editor-in-chief, David Velasco, who was fired for his decision to publish a letter in support of Palestinian liberation.
From Naoshima to Chicago, Art & Object brings you eleven popular and thought-provoking public artworks around the world.
Here are ten great and significant artworks to put you in the Halloween spirit.
A newly restored work by Artemisia Gentileschi, that had been censored centuries ago, makes its debut at Casa Buonarroti in Florence in the exhibition, 'Artemisia Up Close | Artemisia in the Museum of Michelangelo.'
Judging by its nicknames (Tinseltown, La-La, City of Angels) Los Angeles nestles in the collective imagination as a place that's not quite there: Not surreal, like, say, Las Vegas, but irreal, a mirage consistent with its true nature as a desert basin populated by freeways, movie studios, and glitzy neighborhoods sprawling through arroyos and canyons. Then, of course, there’s the evanescing quality of L.A.’s light, which seems to suspend everything within it like motes in a projector beam.
For 120 years, Rome and Carthage fought three protracted wars; at their conclusion, one people emerged as the major power in the Mediterranean, the other was wiped from existence.
When the heirs of the late Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, began looking through his belongings, they were shocked to find a collection of almost 25,000 works of art – most of it worthless.
See 10 highlights from Paris+ par Art Basel (pronounced "Paree ploos") featuring Marlene Dumas, Urs Fischer, Prune Nourry, and Magritte protegé Evelyne Axell.
This list spans approximately 25,000 years of art-making and is by no means comprehensive. Although this history is complex, the manner in which the female nude appears through the ages is sometimes academic, often objectifying, and occasionally empowering.
