Art and Culture – Page 21

Centre Pompidou broke even on Koons retrospective, Paris court decision reveals

May 31, 2017

The Art Newspaper - The Centre Pompidou’s Jeff Koons retrospective in 2014-15 was the most attended exhibition of a living artist in the museum’s history, bringing in 650,045 visitors, which could have resulted...

Rare loans from Hermitage Museum

Artery

May 31, 2017

Art and Culture

The Art Newspaper- This year's top prize went to surprise winner The Square, a Swedish film about the sometimes bonkers art world and how we can best help others.Cannes has seen dozens of film premieres and pa...

The Cheese That Inspired Dali

Artery

May 18, 2017

Art and Culture, Art History

BBC - “Cheese,” as the US intellectual Clifton Fadiman put it, is “milk’s leap toward immortality.” And what milk began, generations of artists have been keen to develop. The humble food stuff has been muse t...

Can Athens Become Europe’s New Art Capital?

Artery

May 18, 2017

Art and Culture

BBC - Earlier this year, the British artist Michael Landy was dining outside at a restaurant in the Athens neighbourhood of Exarcheia – where the streets, home to anarchists, are thick with graffiti – when he w...

The Tragic Lover Who Never Escaped Rodin’s Shadow

Artery

May 18, 2017

Art and Culture

BBC - These are the words of Auguste Rodin, said of his most talented pupil Camille Claudel. When the elder French sculptor took her under his wing she was just 19, he 42, and her extraordinary precocity was e...

The artistic evolution of Pink Floyd at London’s V&A

Artery

May 18, 2017

Art and Culture

DW - The exhibition "The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains" opened this past weekend at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. DW spoke with with Victoria Broackes, senior curator of V&A and co...

Damien Hirst Show Sparks Accusations of Cultural Appropriation

Artery

May 18, 2017

Art and Culture

Artsy - Damien Hirst launched his first major show of new works in 10 years earlier this month in Venice, shortly ahead of the opening of the 57th Venice Biennale. But along with massive crowds, “Treasures from...

Three Ways the 1973 Scull Sale Changed the Art Market

Artery

April 28, 2017

Art and Culture, Art Market, Auctions

Artsy - Many common complaints about today’s contemporary art market—the billions of dollars sloshing around the market, the spectacle-driven fairs, the speculators and profit-seekers buying up works by young a...

The Army That Conquered the World

Artery

April 28, 2017

Art and Culture, Art History

BBC - In March 1974, Yang Zhifa, a farmer, along with his five brothers and their neighbour Wang Puzhi, were digging a well in pomegranate and persimmon fields an hour’s bus ride northeast of Xi’an, capital of ...

The Eerie Historical Visions that Predict the Apocalypse

Artery

April 28, 2017

Art and Culture

BBC - “These stunningly vivid pictures must certainly have imparted to those readers first seeing them a sense of awe at the progression of disasters and wonders from the beginning of history to the end of time...