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Tsuktiben Jamir The Ashmolean Museum is the world’s second university museum, as well as the oldest public museum in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1683 by rich antiquarian Elias Ashmole. In recent times, the museum has found itself in a dispute over the ownership of Augustus John’s works. Augustus John (1878-1961) was a […]
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Tsuktiben Jamir This year marks Pablo Picasso’s (1881–1973) 50th death anniversary. One of the most significant artists of the 20th century, he revolutionised the field of art with his creative approaches. Picasso, who was born in Spain, had a prolific career spanning a variety of creative movements, from the Cubist movement he co-founded through his
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Pratiksha Shome Stephanie Temma Hier described the opulent visual contrasts that distinguish her work as “the flotsam and jetsam of daily life.” Her pieces blend glossy, careful oil paintings with three-dimensional ceramic sculptures in a real avalanche of shapes—lobsters, teeth, horses—that frame them, creating an unsettling visual tension. Hier shows a stack of three automobile
Pratiksha Shome Thanks to a senior neighbourhood garbageman, archaeologists last year unearthed more than 20 old Roman and Etruscan statues in Tuscany, close to a thermal treatment where specialists had spent years looking in vain for supposed nearby historic remains. The 2000-year-old statues will now, after months of cleaning and restoration, go on display in
Pratiksha Shome The exhibition “It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby,” which debuted today and received unfavourable press in ARTnews and the New York Times, has been defended by the Brooklyn Museum. More than 100 pieces are included in the exhibition, which Gadsby and senior curators Catherine Morris and Lisa Small of the Brooklyn Museum
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Smriti Malhotra The iconic Breuer building on Madison Avenue, Upper East Side has been sold by the Whitney Museum to Sotheby’s, which will shift its headquarters to the building by 2025. Designed and conceptualised by the renowned artist Marcel Breuer in 1966, the building was the third home to the Whitney Museum in New York.
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Smriti Malhotra The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation has donated around 186 works of the late artist and other materials to many institutions ahead of the Pop Artist’s 100th Birth Anniversary in October. Many renowned institutions such as Albertina in Vienna, The Colby College of Museum Art in Waterville, Maine,The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
Tsuktiben Jamir When it comes to superhero teams, The Avengers is a favourite among many. From Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor, to Hawk-Eye and the Hulk, these names are not uncommon in the world today. Unfortunately, they have never been to India; we can only imagine the supposed scenario in our heads. However, an
Pratiksha Shome The title of this show at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art in Cape Town is a parody of Ava Duvernay’s 2019 Netflix film “When They See Us,” which centres on the Central Park Five, a group of Black teens who were wrongfully charged with killing a white jogger in 1989 before being
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PratikshaShome The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that a 16th-century painting known as Madonna with Child that is credited to the baroque painter Alessandro Turchi has returned to Poland after being stolen by Nazis during World War II. The artwork, one of 600 pieces that have been returned to Poland since the war and discovered
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