Nov 13, 2020 | Art, News & Trending
There is nothing new about inept art restoration. But in the past decade or so and particularly since the 2012 destruction of the Ecce Homo in Borja by a well-meaning parishioner, it has become a popular kind of public spectacle. The latest, which was posted to...
Nov 10, 2020 | Art, News & Trending
Just a few months after the Giant Wave went viral in Korea – a massive outdoor screen with a right angle in it, capable of amazing tricks for the eye – London has announced that they’re creating an immense outdoor art program of their own.
Being called the...
Oct 30, 2020 | Art, Exhibitions, New York, News & Trending
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Nicole Fleetwood grew up in a small, poor town in southwest Ohio, and saw friends, neighbors, and family members go to prison, some for large crimes, most for small ones. She kept in touch with her relatives while they were incarcerated, trading back and forth...
Oct 21, 2020 | Art, New York, News & Trending
Sheer chance and an observant art enthusiastic are the heroes of the day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, where a long-lost painting has been restored to its collection. The collection, titled Struggle: From the History of the American People, is...
Oct 16, 2020 | Art, News & Trending
In June, while the world was following America into widespread protests about racial discrimination in justice and treatment, Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza and two other activists made a pointed speech about the plunder, still ongoing, of art from African nations by their...
Oct 9, 2020 | Culture, Exhibitions, Gallery, News & Trending, Organizations
It’s common for modern historical pieces – films, novels, etc – to include black figures in ways that previous iterations of the genre never did. For instance, the BBC series Merlin included a black Guinevere, played by Angel Coulby. Netflix’s 2020 series...
Sep 9, 2020 | Culture, Exhibitions, News & Trending
In April 2019, Notre Dame burned. Its tower collapsed in and the 800-year-old oak beams blazed to charcoal while the world watched live. Many were shocked to learn that it was the cathedral’s first major fire in its long life. It survived both World Wars and two...
Sep 2, 2020 | Art, Culture, New York
Misty Copeland was already winning awards for ballet at 15, only two years after picking up the art, and her accumulation of accolades never stopped. In 2015 at the age of 32, she became the first black woman to be made principal dancer for the American Ballet...
Aug 26, 2020 | Art, Exhibitions
The San Francisco Art Institute, the oldest art school west of the Mississippi, faced closure this spring after COVID-19 made it impossible to reopen for in-person classes this fall. But an April vote by the school board confirmed that the school would remain open,...
Aug 19, 2020 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery
In the early 1820s, English King George IV commissioned the architect John Nash to make some renovations to Buckingham Palace – most notably, to build the picture gallery, a home for George’s collection of fine paintings. Now, two centuries later, the gallery is...
