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!
Masterpieces from Milan museum brighten up hospital
Courtesy- Art Newspaper
Many visit museums searching for solace and enrichment. But the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan attempts to expand its therapeutic reach by taking some of its iconic masterpieces into a local research hospital Details from works at Brera by artists from Francesco Hayez to Raphael have been blown up in high-definition and pasted onto walls in the corridors and waiting rooms of the Humanitas hospital in Ronzano, in the metropolitan area of Milan. The project’s organisers claim the partnership will improve the well-being of patients. The Pinacoteca di Brera boasts one of the world’s finest collections of Italian painting, with a special emphasis on Venetian and Lombard artists. For the “Brera in Humanitas” project, curators have selected details from 15 of the museum’s works and expanded them to a ratio of 1:36. The walls of one corridor display the faces of Hayez’s lovers from The Kiss (1859), while a waiting room in the radiology department has been decorated with the arched gallery encircling the temple of Raphael’s Marriage of the Virgin (1504). Read more on The Art Newspaper.
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Hong Kong heiress sues gallery over alleged £500,000 Banksy fraud
Details- MenaFn
An heiress to a billion-dollar Hong Kong beverage company has sued one of the city’s top art dealers over claims the gallery never delivered on her purchase of a well-known painting by British artist Banksy. The lawsuit’s filing coincides with the opening of this year’s edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong, the city’s largest art fair. Karen Lo, whose grandfather Lo Kwee-Seong became a billionaire after founding soy milk giant Vitasoy in 1940, filed a lawsuit this week claiming that she never received a Banksy painting she purchased from Pearl Lam, whose eponymous gallery is one of the major art world players in Hong Kong. According to the complaint, Lo paid Lam £500,000 under the belief the gallerist had purchased on her behalf Banksy’s Show Me The Monet (2005), a parody of Impressionist Claude Monet’s series of paintings of the garden at his home in Giverny featuring orange traffic cones, a discarded shopping cart and other garbage in a pond. The painting sold for £7.6m with fees at Sotheby’s London in 2020 to an Asian collector. At the time it was Banksy’s second most-valuable work to sell at auction. Details on MenaFn.
