For the first time in the history of the Museum Administration Master of Arts (M.A.) degree program, St. John’s students curated an exhibit outside of the Dr. M. T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery in a virtual gallery, custom-designed by students to display more than 30 pieces. The new exhibit, “UNPRECEDENTED: Posters from a World on Pause,” showcases posters, gifs,…
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Stephen L. Hayes Jr. is an artist who takes on everything he can explore. He sculpts, blacksmiths, welds, makes prints and drawings, carves and even weaves. The Durham-based artist known for a focus on social justice and incorporating historical context said he tries “just about anything I get my hands on.” “I love trying to…
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Prompting by the global pandemic, galleries and art fairs have migrated online in the past year to provide new commercial and curatorial digital platforms to view and sell art. Now art books are getting their place in the virtual sun with the launch of Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair (25-28 February), an online event comprising more…
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Seventeen artists were killed, 82 were imprisoned and 133 detained over the past year in 26 countries, according to Freemuse in its latest State of Artistic Freedom report. The survey, published last week by the the Copenhagen-based human rights organisation, is based on the analyses of 978 incidents regarding “violations to the right to freedom of artistic expression”…
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Archaeologists have discovered a four-wheeled ceremonial chariot near the ancient city of Pompeii, which has been hailed as a “unique find”. The vehicle was unearthed in near-perfect condition from the ruins of the Civita Giuliana, a suburban Roman villa northwest of Pompeii, which was buried by volcanic ash in 79AD spewing from Mount Vesuvius. Last…
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A tapestry depicting Picasso’s epic painting Guernica, which for 35 years had hung outside the entrance to the Security Council at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York, has been removed and returned to its owners, the Rockefeller family. The work was commissioned in 1955 by the diplomat and philanthropist Nelson A. Rockefeller, who requested…
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The Czech playwright Karel Čapek coined the expression for artificial men in 1921. Now they are far more than science fiction “Listen Josef,” said the Czech playwright Karel Čapek to his brother. “I have an idea for a play.” Josef, an artist of some renown, was painting furiously and unimpressed by his brother’s intrusion. “What…
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It would hardly seem necessary to state: A life in the arts — in a theater, in a studio, at a writing desk, on a film crew — constitutes honest-to-goodness work. And yet planting this truism in America’s consciousness has proved such a thorny challenge that a whole new labor movement has been spawned to…
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The new English translation of Rudolf Zwirner’s autobiography traces the seeds of today’s big money. In 1960, after only a year in business, Rudolf Zwirner’s fledgling gallery in Essen, Germany, was in serious debt. In a panic he turned to the dealer Hein Stünke, whose gallery in Cologne, Der Spiegel, had become a gathering place…
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We live in a golden age of cringe, an art form defined, at least in part, by its grotesquely earnest monuments to politicians. And while it can be funny to laugh at an oil painting of a muscle-bound President Trump or fantasies of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a superhero, the genre deserves to…
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