With two major art fairs and related museum and gallery exhibitions in Seoul and the opening of an international art biennale in Gwangju, South Korea was the Asian hot spot for contemporary art last week.
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After years in private collection, a painting by Artemisia Gentileschi that was once incorrectly attributed to her artist’s studio is now on public view for the first time since the 17th century.
For a design so simple, the history of the smiley face is surprisingly long and contentious.
Hellenic Heads: George Petrides, A Personal Exploration of Greek History and Culture Over 2,500 Years is currently on show in the courtyard of the Church of Saint George of the Greeks (San Giorgio dei Greci) in Venice until November 24th, 2024.
Founded in 1852, the Yale University Art Gallery is the oldest university art museum in the Western Hemisphere. Founded to collect, preserve, study, and present art from all over the world, the gallery is housed in three interconnected buildings that cover one and a half city blocks. Free and open to the public, the gallery’s massive collections span human history and multiple genres.
Despite holding one of the most emblematic collections of 20th century western art in Japan, Chiba Prefecture’s Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art is now facing serious threats of dissolution. Located 50 minutes from Tokyo by train, the museum was initially opened in 1990 by Katsumi Kawamura, the then president of Dainippon Ink and Chemicals (DIC).
The old adage claims that all roads lead to Rome, and now, so too does the UNESCO World Heritage List. At the latest annual meeting of the World Heritage Committee, Italy's Via Appia (or ‘Appian Way’) joined 23 other cultural and natural sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
A representation of harmony and amity, the peace sign today is often correlated with anti-war beliefs. However, this signature icon would never have come to fruition if it weren’t for its emergence during World War II. The design of the peace symbol was directly influenced by naval semaphore code. Similar to morse code, seafarers would hold flags at different angles and positions to communicate with other ships across the water.
Kenny Schachter is a polymath of sorts with a multitude of interests and skills that have guided him in the arts. As a collector, curator, artist, lecturer, and writer, he has used information gathering and personal experience to create and comment on global, political, and art world-centric visual discourse.
Precursor of modernism and founder of the impressionist school, Claude Monet rendered approximately 250 oil paintings of his water lilies from 1896 to 1920.
