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Pratiksha Shome Climate activists erected flags, banners, and a tiny oil rig outside the Museum of Modern Art on Thursday evening during its annual Party in the Garden, a significant fundraiser for the institution, as the sky over Manhattan turned a murky yellow from smoke brought down from Canadian wildfires. In order to get MoMA […]

Tsuktiben Jamir The Downtown Minneapolis Street Art Festival is a highly acclaimed event that graces the heart of Minneapolis, USA, every year. This unique festival captures the essence of street art in all its vibrant forms, inviting locals and tourists to indulge in a captivating downtown art extravaganza. With its distinct charm, the festival unfolds

Tsuktiben Jamir Born in 1958, Peter Howson is a Scottish painter. He is well known for his stint as a British official war artist for the Imperial War Museum in 1993 during the Bosnian War. As a result, many of the paintings he produced show scenes of abhorrent depravity, such as rape, castration, and impaling.

Pratiksha Shome According to a recent study released last week by Bénédicte Savoy and Albert Gouaffo, professors at the Technische Universität in Berlin and the University of Dschang in Cameroon, respectively, German museums house 40,000 artefacts from Cameroon, more than any other museum collection worldwide, including the state collections of Cameroon’s capital Yaoundé. Researchers from

Pratiksha Shome Environmentalists have hailed the British Museum’s decision to sever its 27-year collaboration with the fossil fuel firm BP as a win. After decades of philanthropic links with organisations like the Tate and the National Portrait Gallery, this represents BP’s abrupt exit from the British art scene. There are no further contracts or agreements

Pratiksha Shome Jesse Draxler, an artist, has gone all out to set up his most recent exhibition at Naked Eye Studio in Los Angeles.  Through June 7, “U&I” features a variety of his works, including painted panels, conceptual sculptures, and digital media, all of which are placed in a setting that the artist himself conceptualised