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 to socio-political issues to everything that affects the great aesthetic global consciousness. Or, let’s just travel the world and have some fun!
Looted artifacts were recovered and returned while investigating Shelby White’s collection
While investigating the criminal case of a private collector and Metropolitan Museum of Art trustee Shelby White, 89 artifacts were seized that were hailed from 10 different countries. The estimated value of the recovered items is almost 69 million dollars. Out of the recovered items, three antiquates collectively valued at $725,000 belonged to Yemen. A silver vessel with elaborate inscribed decorations, an alabaster female figure, and an inscribed alabaster ram make up the collection. In accordance with Manhattan DA’s office, White purchased the three items from the Mansour Gallery in London, Robin Symes, who was later convicted of antiquities trafficking in 2005, and a Christie’s auction in New York. Manhattan district attorney ordered the items to be repatriated to their home country. Nine antiquities were repatriated to Turkey last month, and Roman and Greek antiquities were seized last December. However, the three items will temporarily be displayed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.Read more in ARTnews
Courtesy: The New York Times
Educator expelled for showing Michelangelo’s David at a lesson visits the sculpture in Florence.
Hope Carrasquilla, the former principal of the Floridian Christian school, who was expelled on the charges of showcasing pornography at a lesson on Michelangelo’s David, visited Florence Italy as a guest of honor to witness the artwork. At the end of March, both the mayor of Florence, Dario Nardella, and Cecilie Hollberg, director of the Galleria dell’Accademia invited the Tallahassee Classical School’s educator and on 28th April, the guest of honor arrived at the museum along with her husband and two children. She said, “The thing that impressed me the most and that I didn’t know, is that this whole gallery was built for him. I think it’s beautiful, it looks like a church. And to me, that just represents really the purity of this figure and you see his humanness. And that’s what I’ve always loved about it. There is nothing wrong with the human body in and of itself.” Read more in The Art Newspaper
Courtesy: The Guardian
Perfect outfits for the hustle culture by artist Hannah Toticki
Danish artist Hannah Toticki created a range of clothes that double as life hacks. As we are living in the hustle culture, where several things are needed to be done at the same time, Hannah Toticki’s garments capture the similar feeling of needing to work on several things at the same time in a zombiesque manner. In her debut museum solo, on view through May 28, she creates apparel to sleep anywhere: puff coats that expand into sleeping bags, a sweater with decorative stitching that turns into earplugs. It was inspired by injuries that result from long-term repetitive movements caused by industrialization, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, the artist revealed. Along with sleep and housework outfits, the show also has a set of production outfits named “Everything, Everywhere, All the Time.” read more in Art in America
Courtesy: Art in America
