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Expensive upgrade of Royal British Columbia Museum met with criticism

Canadian premier John Horgan’s announcement that the troubled Royal British Columbia [BC] Museum in Victoria will be demolished and replaced by the most expensive museum in Canadian history has led to a lot of criticism, The Art Newspaper reported. Horgan announced the $789m museum upgrade on 17 May but offered few specifics, prompting scorn and […]

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Anna Sorokin of the much-binged Netflix show puts up her first art exhibit… from prison!

The eponymous main character of Shondaland\’s \’Inventing Anna\’ has put up her first solo exhibit, in the form of 20 sketches drawn while incarcerated for grand larceny Anyone who has binge-watched the relatively recent Netflix offering, Inventing Anna, from the stock of noted American producer Shonda Rhimes, has probably been left both fascinated and disturbed

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Why art sale prices are going through the roof, and more news from the world of art

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

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Warhol Museum to set-up a six-block Pop District in Pittsburgh

In an aim to develop Pittsburgh into a cultural hub, Andy Warhol Museum is establishing a six-block Pop District in the surrounding neighbourhood of Pittsburgh, artnet news reported. It will turn Pittsburgh’s North Shore into a new cultural tourism destination. In a statement quoted in artnet news, director of the Richard King Mellon Foundation, Sam

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Venice becoming the stage for art lovers to protest against the Russia-Ukraine war

While the whole world is suffering from the art loss as collateral damage of the Russia Ukraine war, Venice has now become the new stage of protest against the war at Venice Biennale Arte 2022. At the opening of the exhibition “This is Ukraine: Defending Freedom”, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine made an unexpected appearance

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Departure of Sandra Benites the first Indigenous curator of Museu de Arte de São Paulo

Excluding photographs of the Landless Workers Movement (MST), a left-leaning agricultural movement influenced by Marxism and liberation theology from an exhibition titled “Histórias Brasileiras” (Brazilian Stories) at Brazil’s largest museum Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) became the reason for departure of MASP’s first Indigenous curator Sandra Benites and her co-curator, Clarissa Diniz. It

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Colette Pierce Burnette appointed as the new CEO of Newfields

After the resignation of Charles Venable as the Director and Chief Executive of Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Colette Pierce Burnette is the new Director and CEO of Newfields, the artnet news reported. According to the artnet news, Venable resigned after the organization came under fire for a racist job posting calling for candidates

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George Gittoes Odessa Murals Draw Inspiration From The Hobbit Trilogy

Many artists from all around the world came out for the support of Ukraine amid the Russia Ukraine war through their own form of art. One such award-winning Australian artist George Gittoes in collaboration with local poet Viktor Solodchuk has created an outdoor mural titled Russian Offensive on a graffiti wall in Hrets’ka Square, Odessa,

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