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A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE While we focus on Indian art, we can’t obviously function in a vacuum. It’s a small world and everything is connected, especially on the web. So, let’s train our spotlight across the world map to see what’s going on — from art trends […]
Art speaks out against the Mafia in Italy; in Africa, it helps reclaim looted artefacts Read More »
The replica of Hong Kong’s “Pillar of Shame” is being unveiled in Norway in May 2022 and will be on display in the garden of University of Oslo for almost a month until June 20, CNN reported. It’s been coordinated by Amnesty International and the non-profit organization Hong Kong Committee in Norway. To acknowledge the
Pillar of Shame to be unveiled in University of Oslo Read More »
It was a long-drawn effort to retrieve aboriginal art that culminated in success recently owing to a proactive move by Australia. Two rare artworks by Wurundjeri artist William Barak at auction at Sotheby’s in New York and The Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Cultural Heritage Corporation had raised $117,627 via a crowdfunding page to buy the artworks
Victorian government spends $500,000 to retrieve rare Aboriginal art to Australia Read More »
Jean-Luc Martinez, former director of the Louvre in Paris, was questioned by French authorities earlier this week to investigate an alleged trafficking ring of antiquities, The Art Newspaper reported. Jean-Luc Martinez had held the position from 2013 until last year amid varied kinds of accusations and misgivings by those at the helm of the museum.
Former Louvre Director Detained for Alleged Antiquities Trafficking Investigation Read More »
Eminent collector Bob Rennie was first approached last year about transforming the Rennie Museum in Vancouver’s Chinatown into a new home for the Chinese Canadian Museum, he initially declined the offer. After meetings between Rennie and the society as well as Melanie Mark, BC’s minister of tourism, arts, culture and sport, it was announced in
Collector Rennie to go big by housing Chinese Canadian Museum Read More »
The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the World Monuments Fund are going to collaborate on a digital project aiming to strengthen the understanding of several historic sites in sub–Saharan Africa, The Art Newspaper reported. The collaboration will be on the occasion of the reopening of previously antiquated galleries of African, ancient American, and Oceanic art in 2024.
Met and World Monuments Fund to collaborate on digital project for art galleries Read More »
A few months short of a year to her demise, an art show celebrates the strongly feminine, spiritually energetic artworks of Rini Dhumal in an exhibit that coincides with NGMA’s 25th anniversary A tribute to the celebrated artist and printmaker known for her portrayal of women and feminine divinity, the late Rini Dhumal, is
Rini Dhumal retrospective honours late artist’s ‘Shakti’ at Mumbai’s NGMA Read More »
May 25, On This Day A French artist known best as a painter of animals (or animalière) and also sculptor in a realist style, Rosa Bonheur was born on March 16, 1822, and passed away at age 77 on May 25, 1899 — 123 years ago from today. Some consider her the most famous female
The French artist who defied gender norms in the 1800s Read More »
May 25, On This Day Ramkinkar Baij, one of the iconic sculptors, painter and the most seminal artists of modern India was born on this day 25 May 1906 in a poor barber family in Bengal’s Bankura district. He used to imitate the local idol maker Ananta Sutradhar at a very young age and
Ramkinkar Baij: The father of modern Indian sculpture Read More »
By Gauri Gharpure Robert Allen Zimmerman, who the world knows as Bob Dylan, was born on this day, May 24, in 1941. Dylan has constantly reinvented himself, giving an outlet to his multifarious talents and passions relentlessly. While Dylan has been the recipient of many awards, perhaps the most significant and controversial of them all is