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By Gauri Gharpure Robert Allen Zimmerman, who the world knows as Bob Dylan, was born on this day, May 24, in 1941. Dylan has constantly reinvented himself, giving an outlet to his multifarious talents and passions relentlessly. While Dylan has been the recipient of many awards, perhaps the most significant and controversial of them all is […]
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A dealer accused of defrauding dealers and investors out of millions of dollars, was sentenced to seven years in prison by a New York court today, May 23, bringing a saga that has taken the art world by storm to an end, reports ART News. Last November, about a year after being detained by the
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Beeple’s Twitter account was at the mercy of a hacker for almost five hours on Sunday, May 22. The hacker, who has not been identified yet, posted malicious links, possibly resulting in the loss of over $438,000 worth of cryptocurrencies and NFTs. He posted a teaser about a fake Louis Vuitton x Beeple collaboration, a
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Canadian premier John Horgan’s announcement that the troubled Royal British Columbia [BC] Museum in Victoria will be demolished and replaced by the most expensive museum in Canadian history has led to a lot of criticism, The Art Newspaper reported. Horgan announced the $789m museum upgrade on 17 May but offered few specifics, prompting scorn and
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The eponymous main character of Shondaland\’s \’Inventing Anna\’ has put up her first solo exhibit, in the form of 20 sketches drawn while incarcerated for grand larceny Anyone who has binge-watched the relatively recent Netflix offering, Inventing Anna, from the stock of noted American producer Shonda Rhimes, has probably been left both fascinated and disturbed
Anna Sorokin of the much-binged Netflix show puts up her first art exhibit… from prison! Read More »
A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE While we focus on Indian art, we can’t obviously function in a vacuum. It’s a small world and everything is connected, especially on the web. So, let’s train our spotlight across the world map to see what’s going on — from art trends
Why art sale prices are going through the roof, and more news from the world of art Read More »
A major Florentine painter of the 16th century, Jacopo Carucci also known as Pontormo was born on this day, 24 May 1494. He is an artist who introduced the world to the expressive form of Mannerism through his paintings, shifting from the art of the Florentine Renaissance. He was an apprentice to Leonardo da Vinci and
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In an aim to develop Pittsburgh into a cultural hub, Andy Warhol Museum is establishing a six-block Pop District in the surrounding neighbourhood of Pittsburgh, artnet news reported. It will turn Pittsburgh’s North Shore into a new cultural tourism destination. In a statement quoted in artnet news, director of the Richard King Mellon Foundation, Sam
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While the whole world is suffering from the art loss as collateral damage of the Russia Ukraine war, Venice has now become the new stage of protest against the war at Venice Biennale Arte 2022. At the opening of the exhibition “This is Ukraine: Defending Freedom”, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine made an unexpected appearance
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May 23, On This Day He is dubbed one of the most important yet problematic artists of the Abstract Expressionist movement in New York, and a stalwart of the New York School, alongside luminaries like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, John Ferren, and Lee Krasner. Franz Kline was born on
The \’black-and-white\’ artist, whose journey back into colour was cut short Read More »