"This time is tough for many of us on all levels – I just make sure to be as compliant as I can be with the rules set by the Swiss federal government. Within our team we try to do as much as possible over video conferences so that we can avoid public transportation".
The team behind ArtDependence have come together to launch a brand new app that has been made with art lovers in mind. Twimble allows users to take two separate photographs and stitch them together instantly, allowing better record keeping and photo management. Once stitched, the single image is saved for as long as you need it, in your personal images library.
2020 is cancelled. Again. Or is it? It’s been a hard year for the arts and artists around the world, with closures, delays, confinements and funding loss hitting almost every area of the art world. But there are signs of life and prosperity as the art world begins to do what it does best – get creative.
“The Picture Is Not at Ease” is an exhibition of three artists Chen Ying, Su Yu-Xin and Wang Ziquan, showcasing their creative exploration in the visual fields of painting, video and relief and latest works. The mechanism of drew picture produces new meaning and new space for reading with the profound changes in the world order and daily experience brought by the pandemic.
The new app that allows users to take 2 photographs and instantly stitch them together. Once stitched, the single image is saved for as long as you need it, in your personal images library. You can store up to 50 images at any one time.
Nika Oblak & Primoz Novak have been working collectively since 2003. In their art practice they examine contemporary media and capital driven society as they dissect its visual and linguistic structure.
Powerplay promotes the digital arts scene in Africa and presents work by digital artists who are from or based in Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Nairobi and the UK in collaboration with the National Gallery Zimbabwe (NGZ). The exhibition discusses the use of technology in creating a sense of identity and place within a digitised world, addressing gender, politics of borders and migration, dark markets of trade and the juxtaposition of isolation and communities forced out of working within a digital nature.
Cambridge University Library has announced a public appeal for help in locating two missing notebooks, one of which contains Charles Darwin’s iconic 1837 ‘Tree of Life’ sketch, pictured below.
During this extraordinary and difficult time, the Met hopes to brighten the lives of its audience members even while its stage is dark. Each day, a different encore presentation from the company’s Live in HD series is being made available for free streaming on the Met website, with each performance available for a period of 23 hours, from 7:30 p.m. EDT until 6:30 p.m. the following day.
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, and the Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands’ national museum of art and history, today announced they are extending their existing twenty-year collaboration for a further five years. This means Philips will remain closely involved with the museum as a project founder and innovation partner until at least 2026.
Explore Surrealism’s creative attraction for women artists and its revolutionary potential then and now. Read poems inspired by Frida Kahlo and Meret Oppenheim, play your own Surrealist game, learn how one woman helped MoMA save artist refugees during World War II, and much more.
The show brings together examples of the work of Mondrian and his fellow artists. The accompanying catalog will shed new light on the way Mondrian looked for ways of presenting his work that would elucidate its meaning and allow onlookers to discover a clear, meaningful relationship both to it and, by extension, to the world that surrounds it.
The festival will have two main sites within the Jimei District, Xiamen this year: Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre and Xiamen Jimei Citizen Square Exhibition Hall.
The BelgianArtPrize is a biennial Award for Contemporary Art open to Belgian and international artists residing in Belgium and to all art disciplines.
Since its conception in 1950, the BelgianArtPrize is more than just a prize. It aims at emphasizing the artistic relevance, innovative insights, diverse artistic practice and distinctive visual language developed by an artist at a specific time and within a specific context.
Yayoi Kusama is one of the most important artists of our time. From 19 March to 1 August 2021, the Gropius Bau will stage the first major retrospective of Kusama’s work in Germany, providing an overview of the key periods in her oeuvre, which spans more than 70 years, and highlighting the significance of her art in Europe – and Germany in particular.
The American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the only organization representing the entire scope of the museum community, today reported museums are losing millions while operating on slim reserves, leaving about one-third of all institutions at risk of permanent closure. As we’re witnessing increases in COVID-19 cases across the country and the potential for re-closures looming, museum directors fear that their institutions will not be able to recover from another lockdown as over half have less than six months of financial savings remaining, the new survey finds.
The Museum Haus Konstruktiv and Zurich Insurance Group Ltd announce the 14th winner of the internationally renowned Zurich Art Prize: In 2021, this art award goes to Swiss-Tunisian artist Sonia Kacem (b. 1985 in Geneva, lives and works in Amsterdam). The prize is endowed with CHF 100,000, comprising a CHF 80,000 budget for the production of a solo exhibition and CHF 20,000 in prize money.
Art Basel today postponed its Hong Kong fair, which was scheduled to take place in March 2021, to May 2021 in response to the ongoing impact of the global pandemic including travel restrictions.
The Rijksmuseum’s award-winning website has been totally revamped. Besides the new style and visual language, the Rijksmuseum is launching an all-new platform called Stories. This is the hub for all the stories taking place in the museum and behind the scenes.
Monday 16th November, Barcelona – Susanne Hætta, author, artist and photographer, Vadsø, Nicole Rafiki, artists and curator, Oslo, and Inger Emilie Solheim, artist, writer, and curator, Tromsø, are the selected candidates to take part in CIMAM’s StayHome Curatorial Online Residency generously financed by OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway.
A deep dive into The Met's rich collection of contemporary photography, Pictures, Revisited reassesses the legacy of visual appropriation at the Museum and beyond. The images in this show are snipped from magazines, staged, or copied outright from other artworks.
Sandra Kisters, Head of Collections and Research at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, has won the prestigious Karel van Mander Prize 2020, for her publication about the perception and representation of artists.
Until 17 January 2021, the FUORI 2020 Art Quadriennale, curated by Sarah Cosulich and Stefano Collicelli Cagol, organized by Fondazione La Quadriennale di Roma, chaired by Umberto Croppi, and Azienda Speciale Palaexpo, chaired by Cesare Pietroiusti, is open to the public at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome.
“Zero means ‘nothing,’” wrote the Japanese artist Saburo Murakami in 1953, “start with nothing, completely original, no artificial meaning.” Bringing together approximately 80 works on paper from MoMA’s collection, Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury illuminates how artists used drawing to forge a new visual language in the aftermath of World War II.
The Toronto Biennial of Art announces an initial selection of Canadian and international artists for the second edition of the city-wide event on view September 25 through December 5, 2021.
35 of the country’s leading cultural organisations and venues will be the first to receive grants between £1 and £3 million from the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has announced.
Spearheaded by The Duchess of Cambridge, Patron of the National Portrait Gallery, Hold Still is an ambitious community project to create a unique collective portrait of the UK during lockdown. They invited people of all ages to submit a photographic portrait, taken in a six-week period during May and June, focussed on three core themes – Helpers and Heroes, Your New Normal and Acts of Kindness. Over 31,000 submissions were received from across the country, with entrants ranging from 4 to 75 years-old.
Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, and Yves Müller, CFO and Spokesperson of the Board of HUGO BOSS AG, announced today that Deana Lawson has been awarded the Hugo Boss Prize 2020.
Companion Pieces: New Photography 2020 traces conversations between images. Some happen between paired or pendant pictures that rely upon one another to convey a shared message.
"Together with our very experienced and engaged Board members, we are very much looking forward to further developing CIMAM’s network and leadership role in promoting good practices in the modern and contemporary art museum profession".
"My creations are always metamorphic forms, imaginary architectures created through the assembly and alchemy of synthetic resins, papers and materials removed from Nature such as bark and roots".
Perhaps one of the most recognizable image from Haring’s work, the radiant baby is a simple outline of a baby or person crawling on the floor on their hands and knees with lines emanating from them. Haring himself has commented that for him this baby represents youthful innocence, purity and goodness.
As far as historical records show, Vermeer did not leave Delft for any significant amount of time. Could this girl with her pearl earring and far away stare represent Vermeer himself, confined by the canvas and by the art itself, but dreaming and longing for far distant lands and adventures?
The stage act, 2019 - V Yves Velter
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