The advocacy group behind a public work depicting the death of George Floyd says they still hope to show the piece in the city of Minneapolis even though the plan was thwarted last year. Don Perlis’s painting, entitled Floyd (2020), was shown in Times Square in New York last October and is currently on show on a 16ft…
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As California hits a bleak coronavirus milestone this month, with nearly 10% of the population infected, organisers of Desert X in the Coachella Valley have announced that the forthcoming edition of the outdoor sculpture exhibition will be postponed until lockdown restrictions have been lifted in the state. The third edition of the exhibition, which has become…
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The US Capitol’s works of art were subjected to tear gas and pepper spray during the intrusion of right-wing marauders incited by President Donald Trump on Wednesday and will require cleaning and conservation, a spokeswoman for the Architect of the Capitol reported today. Yet the works in the 1826 Neo-Classical building appear to have survived…
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In the minutes and hours after a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol in Washington, DC yesterday, leading art world figures took to social media to express their anger and dismay at scenes including videos showing police opening barricades to rioters and posing for selfies with perpetrators. Some commentators stressed the contrast between the law…
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Hundreds of the UK’s smaller museums are fighting to survive as the country once again enters lockdown. Prolonged closures in 2020 and sporadic reopenings during the coronavirus pandemic—with social distancing measures that have severely limited visitor capacity—have led to unsustainable financial losses for many institutions. Smaller spaces in particular have struggled to accommodate the need…
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The COVID-19 crisis hits hard at arts, culture, and the creative economy. This study estimates the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on the creative economy, which is comprised of industries such as film, advertising, and fashion as well as creative occupations such as musicians, artists, performers, and designers. We estimate losses in sales of goods…
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The National Gallery of Art in Washington DC (NGA) has acquired 40 works by 21 African American artists from the non-profit organisation Souls Grown Deep Foundation, a move described as a “milestone” by the foundation president Maxwell Anderson. Souls Grown Deep Foundation is dedicated to documenting and promoting the work of African American artists from…
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As 2021 dawns, we want to pay tribute to the artists, curators, writers and dealers who died in 2020. Below is a selection of our obituaries for the year January Artist John Baldessari A thinker and, in his own words, “a frustrated writer” (there was a short-lived stint as a critic in the 1950s), Baldessari…
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Maripol does not remember what she got her boyfriend for Christmas in 1977. His present to her, on the other hand, became the photogenic stuff of New York legend. From the moment Edo Bertoglio gifted an SX-70 Polaroid camera to Maripol, a young École des Beaux-Arts alum working as a stylist, it became her accessory and artistic instrument of…
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After a decades-long struggle, legislation to create a National Museum of the American Latino and a National Women’s History Museum in Washington, DC under the umbrella of the Smithsonian Institution was approved last night by the US Congress. Since the passage of separate bills by the US House to found the women’s history museum in…
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