Since its first iteration opened at venues across Southern California in 2011, Pacific Standard Time, a wide-ranging initiative by the Getty Foundation, has come to be seen as a game-changer for helping fund exhibitions devoted to art long under-known by the mainstream. On Wednesday, the public got its first look at what the 2024 edition,…
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“Where can I find financial support? Where are there paid residencies in the UK? Where can I find guidance about business matters such as invoicing?” These are the kinds of issues concerning many early career artists, especially in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. ArtUltra, a new website devised by Alice Black, the former co-director of…
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Amulets to ward off bad luck and the plaster casts of two men killed by the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius are among the recent archaeological finds displayed at Pompeii’s newly renovated Antiquarium. The museum opened to the public on 25 January with a permanent exhibition on the history of the ancient city, ranging from…
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A scientific analysis and conservation effort unveiled signature brush strokes and other marks of the master Just over 50 years ago, the Allentown Art Museum in Pennsylvania suffered a blow when the Rembrandt Research Project, an arbiter of what paintings can be firmly attributed to the artist, ruled that its 1632 Portrait of a Young Woman wasprobably…
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Without Emil Georg Bührle’s success in selling weapons to Nazi Germany, Zurich’s Kunsthaus would not exist in its current form. But as the museum prepares to open a $230m extension that will double its current footprint, the industrialist is casting a long shadow over its plans. The extension, by the British architect David Chipperfield, was…
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Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc with the art fair calendar and, days after Art Basel announced its postponement from June to September, Tefaf Maastricht has followed suit. Having already shifted back from March to May, the Dutch fair will now run from 11 to 19 September (preview 9 and 10 September) at the Mecc. That puts it immediately…
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Amulets to ward off bad luck and the plaster casts of two men killed by the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius are among the recent archaeological finds displayed at Pompeii’s newly renovated Antiquarium. The museum opened to the public on 25 January with a permanent exhibition on the history of the ancient city, ranging from…
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As part of its American Portrait initiative, an ongoing crowd-sourced project in which participants respond to prompts on the American experience, PBS has launched a roving public art initiative with the artists Carlos Ramirez, Swoon and Rick Lowe that reflects on American culture and identity. The multi-media installations, made from repurposed vehicles, will be shown…
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Museums worldwide, which are currently closed due to coronavirus restrictions, are doubling up as Covid-19 vaccine centres. In England, London’s Science Museum is expected to open up for vaccinations, as is the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley, while the Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds has been vaccinating patients since December last year. In…
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The City of London Corporation, which oversees the Square Mile financial hub in the capital, has voted to remove two historic statues of British politicians with links to the transatlantic slave trade from the Guildhall building in Moorgate. The statue of William Beckford, a two-time Lord Mayor of London in the late 1700s who accrued…
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