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In the weeks following her death in May 2011, it looked as though the reclusive 104-year-old Huguette Clark was poised to reshape Santa Barbara with her art legacy. Much to the community’s delight, her lawyers announced that Bellosguardo, Clark...
Let’s get this straight: Fluxus is not an artistic movement, or a school. It’s a state of mind and an art of living that “makes life more interesting than art,” to quote Robert Filliou’s famous description. “Fiat Flux: La Nébuleuse Fluxus, 1962-1978,” which...
No, there aren’t any Kangaroos in the background, and good old Mona isn’t flanked by gum trees. In fact, the Australian copy of Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, which is about to go on display at the National Library of Australia in Canberra, is...
“Politicians nominating technocrats nominating politicans,” senator Francesco Storace indignantly tweeted on Tuesday, shortly after hearing that Giovanna Melandri, a current member of the Italian parliament with a long list of accomplishments...
MOSCOW — Last Wednesday, Red October Gallery opened a show by famed conceptual artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov that symbolizes the civilization and culture of the now-collapsed USSR, where both artists were born and raised....
If Mitt Romney is elected president and follows through on his threat to axe funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), artists and art institutions will definitely suffer, but they will survive. Most organizations already...
The Camp des Milles, a former tile factory outside Aix-en-Provence in southern France, held over 10,000 foreigners and Jewish refugees between 1939 and 1942, and shipped many of the prisoners to Germany by train, with 2,000 being sent to Auschwitz. After...
SINGAPORE – The ArtScience Museum is showcasing “Outside In: A Magnum Photos Showcase,” a large collection of 143 photos by three Magnum photographers - Stuart Franklin, Mark Power, and Jacob Aue Sobol.Best known for his iconic photograph of a student...
Electricians, security guards, custodians, graphic artists, office administrators, and retail staff at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor and M.H. de Young museums voted today to ratify a new contract with their employer, the Corporation...
SINGAPORE—“Panorama: Recent Art from Contemporary Asia,” an on-going exhibition at the Singapore Art Museum, seeks to chart how Asian contemporary artists approach their society’s political, social, and economic changes.Drawing from its contemporary art...
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February 09, 2013