Outspoken filmmaking duo Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero don’t believe Mexican storytellers have the luxury of creating apolitically. Not at a moment in history when thousands disappear or are murdered as a consequence of drug-related violence and the widespread state complicity that enables it. Neither of them set out to make movies with a social…
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Crusader Staff Report Let the music play. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on Martin Luther King Day to open the new National Museum of African American Music in Nashville. A limited number of spectators were allowed inside for the event, though a Facebook live stream of the program drew more than 1,000 viewers at a given…
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Robert Viens, a 48-year-old man from Randolph, Massachusetts, was arrested this week by the Boston police department in connection to separate break-ins at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Arden Gallery this month. According to authorities, Viens had a warrant for his arrest for two counts of vandalising property and two counts of receiving…
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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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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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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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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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In his first day in office, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. revamped the White House’s Oval Office in Washington, DC, with artworks that aim to symbolically reflect his administration’s strides toward a more unified America. The centrepiece of the room—installed above the “Resolute desk”, the 19th-century oak desk given to the US by Queen Victoria…
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A 16th-century copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi that was stolen from a basilica museum in Naples has been recovered by Italian police. Thought to be executed by a student of the Renaissance master, the painting was found during a police search in an apartment around 7km from the Museum of San Domenico Maggiore. The owner…
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Some German vaccination centres are offering patients an injection of art along with the coronavirus jab. In the Bavarian town of Straubing, 84 works by 42 local artists are on show in a vaccination facility established in a trade exhibition centre. Patients awaiting their turn to be inoculated against the coronavirus can pass the time…
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