Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893 National Museum of Norway, Oslo. Digital image: Wikimedia Commons. Two paintings vie for the top spot in Western art history, earning them pride of place on countless postcards, posters, and tote bags among other forms of merchandise and mass media incarnations. One is Leonardo’s Mona Lisa, the other, Edvard Munch’s …
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A 2023 protest in Glasgow. Photo Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images The Headlines BATHROOM TALK. Museums Galleries Scotland, the umbrella body for 455 museums and galleries in Scotland, has warned of “an environment of suspicion and policing of gender” in some restrooms since this year’s Supreme Court ruling on what defines a woman. (The court ruled that the …
(L-R) David Geffen, Donovan Michaels, Lady Jemma Mornington and Arpad Busson at the Vogue World: Paris 2024. Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images Entertainment mogul and renowned art collector David Geffen was sued on Tuesday morning by his estranged husband, model Donovan Michaels, for alleged breach of contract, Variety reported earlier this week. The …
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Alex West, CEO of ArtCloud, and Mike Profit, CEO of Artlogic. Photo Benjamin Brooks In the latest sign of consolidation sweeping the art-tech sector, inventory management giant Artlogic and gallery software firm ArtCloud will merge in an attempt to reshape the digital infrastructure that underpins the global art market. The move combines Artlogic’s long-established strength …
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Wesley M. LePatner. Via LinkedIn Wesley M. LePatner, a newly elected trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, was among the four people killed by a gunman in a Midtown office building on Monday. LePatner was senior managing director at Blackstone, the headquarters of which are located at 345 Park Avenue, where …
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Teotihuacán, Mexico Apolline Guillerot-Malick/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. We aren’t the first generation to be impressed by the pre-Columbian megalopolis of Teotihuacán, in central Mexico. The ruins seemed ancient even to the Aztecs, who encountered it centuries after it was abandoned. Awed, the Aztecs gave the site its name: Teotihuacán, or “the place where gods …
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Yinka Shonibare. Photo Andrew Esiebo/©G.A.S. Foundation and Andrew Esiebo In April 2011, Yinka Shonibare visited the Nigerian city of Lagos following an invitation from celebrated curator Bisi Silva, who’d invited the London-based artist for a talk about his practice and to host a show. There was no space to mount the show Silva and Shonibare …
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Paul Cezanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, c. 1890 Collection of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Digital image: Wikimedia Commons. A spa city in the South of France founded by the Romans in 122 B.C., Aix-en-Provence is the birthplace of French painter Paul Cezanne (1839–1906). Ironically, however, until 1984 you could not view any of Cezanne’s works in his hometown; …
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Georges Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884–86. The Art Institute of Chicago A view of weekend day-trippers at a popular Parisian park overlooking the Seine, Georges Seurat’s Post-Impressionist masterpiece, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884–86), is a study in contradictions: a painting of modern life that doesn’t capture a moment so much …
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Portrait of Raymond Saunders, 1981, by Mimi Jacobs. Courtesy Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Raymond Saunders, who created enigmatic paintings often infused with sociopolitical undertones, has died at 90. Casemore, Andrew Kreps, and David Zwirner galleries, all which co-represented the artist, announced his passing in a joint statement on Instagram on Monday. Saunders’s work …
