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We are happy to curate trending stories for you from the many fascinating developments across the globe. Here’s the latest from the art world that you should not miss! The Vancouver Art Gallery to receive a fund of $29.3m from the Federal Government The Vancouver Art Gallery is going to receive $25 million in federal […]
JUNE 20, ON THIS DAY Best known for his brilliantly coloured, expressionist paintings and illustrations that presented scenes of sports and entertainment, LeRoy Neiman passed away on this day, 20 June 2012. He worked both as an illustrator and as an artist whose paintings, prints, and drawings were shown in galleries and reproduced in numerous publications.
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A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE Bill Gates Slams NFTs Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has made no bones about his dislike for NFTS. During a TechCrunch talk on Tuesday, Gates said that NFTs are “100 percent based on greater fool theory.” “It has at its heart this anonymity through
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
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet, a painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting was born on this day, June 10, 1819. His works were to later influence the Impressionists and the Cubists. Born in a family that strongly held anti-monarchical sentiments, he grew up to be a politically active individual, and this attitude
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Paula Rego, the acclaimed Portuguese-born British artist, has died at age 87 in her North London home after a short illness. Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1935 during the dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar, she enrolled in a finishing school in England at the age of 16. She went on to study painting at
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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
Artworks seized from MET, Hause and Wirth new gallery, and seized antiquities in UK 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
Years after planning, Human ant hill is finally opened to the public Read More »
Claude Rutault, a French artist whose paintings were made according to rigorous sets of rules, has died at 80, the ARTnews reports. Born in 1941 in Trois Moutiers, France, Rutault’s paintings had an intrinsic quality of departure from the traditional and were, he thought, often covert depictions of humour. Rutault’s paintings bridged the gap between
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Jean-Luc Martinez, former director of the Louvre in Paris, was questioned by French authorities earlier this week to investigate an alleged trafficking ring of antiquities, The Art Newspaper reported. Jean-Luc Martinez had held the position from 2013 until last year amid varied kinds of accusations and misgivings by those at the helm of the museum.
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