The founding French Surrealists loved the subconscious. They also loved women—as muses, as subjects of erotic desire, as sources of inspiration, but not necessarily as artists at first. Women weren’t present at the birth of the movement when poet André Breton published his Surrealist Manifesto in 1924. But inevitably women were attracted to the movement …
El Anatsui holding a record from his collection. Moz Photography/Courtesy Efie Gallery El Anatsui may be known best for his metallic tapestries made from bottle caps, but he is also a musician. In his university days, he played trumpet, performing music by Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington in a school band led by an American …
When El Anatsui Isn’t Busy Being One of Africa’s Biggest Artists, He’s Collecting Vinyl Read More »
The elaborately decorated head of a Bodhisattva statue was found in a storage unit. Courtesy HSI New York The Manhattan District Attorney‘s office recently announced the return of 133 antiquities “collectively valued at $14 million” to Pakistan after being seized as part of multiple investigations of trafficking networks. The press release specifically mentioned Subhash Kapoor …
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Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Celebration? Realife Revisited, 1972, installation view, 2016, Serpentine Galleries, London. Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images for Serpentine Galleries Marc Camille Chaimowicz, an artist whose unclassifiable installations trotted the line between art and design with aplomb, has died at 77. His death was announced on Thursday by Brussels’s WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, which do …
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20th-century mummies on display in the vault of the Panteon cemetery at Guanajuato on the summit of Trozado, Mexico. Photo George Pickow/Three Lions/Getty Images The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), Mexico’s governing body for archaeological studies on the federal level, is up in arms after the mummified corpse of a body that was …
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The refurbished Grand Palais in Paris, ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and Art Basel Paris. Photo YOAN VALAT/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Art Basel’s Paris fair will see several notable changes when it opens its third edition this coming October. First among them is the fair’s expected relocation to the Grand Palais, which had …
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Courtesy Cinefrance Studios, Cannes Film Festival. It is an ongoing mystery why so many artists’ biopics, though undoubtedly coming from a place of deep admiration, choose to ignore the very thing that makes their subjects extraordinary—their art—in favor of outlining the less extraordinary (however torrid) circumstances of their private lives and loves. The latest example: …
The signing ceremony. From left to right: Luo Yi, deputy director-general of Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture and Tourism; Joan Valadou, consul general of France Consulate General in Shanghai; Gong Yan, director of Power Station of Art; Zong Ming, vice chairwoman of Standing Committee of Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress; Renaud Bailly, president of North Asia …
Chanel and Shanghai’s Power Station of Art Sign Long-term Partnership Read More »
The new exhibition features 47 works by KAWS and Andy Warhol. Photo by Bryan Conley There are no shortage of exhibitions dealing with KAWS and Andy Warhol individually, but there haven’t been many that contend with the two artists together. This unusual focus forms the subject of a new exhibition that recently opened at the …
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The Main Building at CalArts. Photo: Scott Groller/Courtesy CalArts Citing an enrollment crisis that threatens to shutter its doors forever, the Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) in Montpelier has forged a partnership with the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Los Angeles that will allow its students to fulfill short-term residencies on the CalArts …
