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Pratiksha Shome Customers Conversing in a Tavern (1671) by Adriaen van Ostade, which was acquired by Hitler during World War II, has been agreed to by the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, two benefactors, and the heirs of Jewish art dealers Paul Graupe and Arthur Goldschmidt. Customers Conversing in a Tavern was one of the […]
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Pratiksha Shome Last week, as Canadian wildfire smoke dyed the air orange in New York City, architect Andrés Jaque saw an unsettling resemblance between the hazy sky and an installation he had just unveiled at the most recent Venice Design Biennale. The artwork displays a cityscape engulfed in a post-apocalyptic orange glow and is titled
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Aditya Sisodia Art Basel, the world’s leading contemporary art fair, has kicked off in Basel, Switzerland, showcasing artwork that reflects current global trends. This year, the fair places a significant emphasis on pressing issues such as climate change, migration, artificial intelligence, perspectives on Africa, and combating nationalism. In the monumental works section, artist Adel Abdessemed‘s
Aditya Sisodia In a remarkable collaboration between People For Animals (PFA), India’s oldest and largest Animal Welfare Organisation, and master ceramicist P R Daroz, a groundbreaking exhibit is set to take place on the evening of August 4, 2023. The exhibit, titled ‘100 Bowls,’ introduces a new collectable art form that blurs the boundaries between
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Aditya Sisodia The discovery of an object bearing a striking resemblance to Apple’s iPhone in a 350-year-old painting titled ‘Man Handing a Letter to a Woman in the Entrance Hall‘ by Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch has sparked widespread curiosity about the existence of time travel. This enigmatic artwork depicts a domestic scene set against
Pratiksha Shome With a record estimate for a painting in the UK and Europe, Sotheby’s expects the 1917 portrait Dame with Fächer (Lady with a Fan), the final portrait by Gustav Klimt, will sell for approximately £65 million ($80 million). The artwork is being marketed by the auction house as “the star of the summer
Pratiksha Shome At the National Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, two climate activists covered a Monet painting with crimson paint and taped their hands to the glass. The vibrant picture by the French Impressionist artist The Artist’s Garden at Giverny (1900), which has pink and purple irises, was smeared with paint by the two women, who
At Sweden’s National Museum, Environmental Activists Daub Red Paint on a Monet Painting. Read More »
Pratiksha Shome This week, a Miami federal judge found in favour of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. For a short period of time in 2019, Comedian, a banana glued to a wall, was the topic of the art world after it sold at Art Basel Miami Beach for $120,000. Joe Morford, an artist who claims to
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Tsuktiben Jamir The Vadehra Art Gallery is a contemporary is a New Delhi-based contemporary art gallery that was established in 1987. The gallery’s ongoing group exhibition titled ‘On Purpose’ delves into the intricacies and cross-disciplinary nature of the connection between the written word and visual expressions. Through this exhibition, the gallery thus embarks on exploring
Krispin Joseph PX Somali land is a land of Art and primitive culture, like many other places. In Somalia, Laas Geel has a group of 10000 years old cave paintings, and many of the caves are not entirely explored. At least the caves of ten sites spread across the semi-desert terrain give them World Heritage
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