The Moscow Union of Artists (MUA) has said that more than seven hundred Moscow-based artists are facing eviction and the destruction of their workspaces by the Russian government, according to a report in The Art Newspaper. Moscow owns about a thousand studios, most of which are located in “Khrushchyovka” residential buildings scattered throughout the capital; […]
Arts consultant and curator Laura Domencic has been appointed executive director of the Erie Art Museum, Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh native will assume her new role on February 8, replacing interim director Pam Masi, who had occupied the post since March, following the hasty January exit of executive director Joshua Helmer. Helmer had been with the […]
Michael Darling, chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, is leaving the institution to serve as a cofounder and the chief growth officer of Museum Exchange, a for-profit platform launching today that will match art collectors with institutions seeking their donations, the Chicago Tribune reports. Darling, who has helmed MCA Chicago since 2010, […]
Blue-chip megagallery Gagosian has announced critic Antwaun Sargent as its newest director, the New York Times reports. Sargent, who will be based in New York, joins some thirty directors across the gallery’s seventeen outposts, which additionally occupy space in Los Angeles, London, Paris, Geneva, Athens, Rome, and Hong Kong. His first show for Gagosian, to take […]
Art Basel, the preeminent global contemporary art fair, has announced that it is pushing its 2021 flagship iteration from June 17–20 to September 23–26 owing to the continuing Covid-19 crisis. The decision echoes that taken in 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, when the fair similarly postponed that year’s Swiss edition from June to […]
Following his inauguration this morning as the forty-sixth president of the United States, Joe Biden was presented by Republican Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri with a painting by Robert S. Duncanson, a prominent Black painter of the Hudson School. The presentation of the work, Landscape with Rainbow, 1859, which is on loan from the Smithsonian […]
A number of shuttered arts institutions around the world have found a second calling as Covid-19 vaccination centers, the Art Newspaper reports. Among them are London’s Science Museum and the Black Country Living Museum (BLCM) in Dudley, UK. The Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds, UK, perhaps unsurprisingly, beat both of them to the punch, […]
Nick Cave’s Truth Be Told, 2020, a massive text work currently on display on the exterior of the School, an outpost of Jack Shainman Gallery, in Kinderhook, New York, will move to the plaza of the Brooklyn Museum this spring, the New York Times reports. The work, which comprises the three words of the title […]
The UK government has announced new legislation meant to protect the country’s historic monuments. If the bill passes Parliament, anyone wishing to remove a historic statue would need to first obtain listed building consent or planning permission. Councils seeking to grant such permission would be required to notify the British communities secretary, who would render […]
New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has announced the appointment of Naomi Beckwith as deputy director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator. In the latter role, Beckwith, formerly senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, will replace Nancy Spector, who resigned in October. In her dual roles, which she will assume in […]
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Art is a way to describe our world and what is happening in it through someone’s original perspective. Art is also the highest manifestation of human intelligence and ability to create which is absent among the rest of the living beings. It becomes a topic to read about in newspapers as without art our world would never be the same. Whether you are a passionate artist or just a curious person, below is what you can find under this platform’s section of the art world news.
Given the complexity of this topic, this news section is divided into subsections according to geographical and subject-related attributes. Thus, we have visual art articles about local and global developments in visual arts as well as some other interesting art articles touching upon different collections, artists, along with men of vertu opinions. The design of section contents is maximally convenient to navigate thus creates added value for online readers.
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Our news section, as already mentioned above, covers a variety of art-related subject from history to modern developments. Since art is a transcendent phenomenon always worth studying, our authors cover not only the most recent developments in the field but also provide vital retrospectives. For more information on what exactly is highlighted there, see below:
Eventually, learning about art and its various forms and endless manifestations is a useful activity for people with different backgrounds or occupations. Given that art is a way for some a bit more creative personalities to reflect their world vision on canvas, by studying it one studies our world as it is.
