Article date: Friday, August 19, 2022
Artists Rights Society Embraces Web3 with New Digital Platform Launching Frank Stella's First NFTs
Artists Rights Society, a copyright, licensing, and monitoring organization for visual artists in the United States, has launched Arsnl—a new digital platform that guides artists and institutions through the creation of digital projects and ambitious works of art on the blockchain.
Article date: Thursday, August 18, 2022
Women Earn 50% Less Than Men in the Dutch Art World
In the Dutch art world, men earn about 50 percent more than women, according to a joint study by ABN Amro and interest group WOMEN Inc.
Article date: Monday, August 15, 2022
Stolen Picasso Painting Worth Millions of Dollars Found in Iraq
A drug gang was arrested on Saturday, with the possession of a stolen painting by the well-known artist Picasso, valued by millions of dollars according to the General Directorate for Combating Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances in the Ministry of Interior.
Article date: Monday, August 15, 2022
Tehran Unveils Western Art Masterpieces Hidden for Decades
Some of the world’s most prized works of contemporary Western art have been unveiled for the first time in decades in Tehran. ‘Deviant’ works by artists including Picasso and Warhol return to display at exhibition in Iranian capital.
Article date: Monday, August 15, 2022
Dmitri Vrubel, Painter of Kissing Communist Leaders on Berlin Wall Passes Away at 62
Dmitri Vrubel, a Russian-German painter best known for his painting of the kissing communist leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker on the Berlin Wall, died aged 62, as reported on Monday, August 15.
Article date: Friday, August 12, 2022
Getty Museum to Return Objects to Italy
The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles will return to Italy the Sculptural Group of a Seated Poet and Sirens, a group of life-size terracotta figures also known as Orpheus and the Sirens.
Article date: Thursday, August 11, 2022
Archaeologists Discover Ancient City and Hundreds of Artefacts Close to Baghdad
An archaeological dig in Al-Suwaira, some 35km south of Baghdad, has revealed an ancient Parthian (247BC to 224AD) city and unearthed more than 200 artefacts.
Article date: Thursday, August 11, 2022
Stolen Painting of Tarsila do Amaral Valued at 50 million Found in Brazil
The painting “Sol poente”, by the Brazilian painter Tarsila do Amaral, valued at 250 million reais (about 50 million dollars) and which had been stolen from an elderly multimillionaire for her own daughter, was recovered in Rio de Janeiro.
Article date: Thursday, August 11, 2022
Documenta Fifteen at the Halfway Point with Very Good Visitor Numbers
On Saturday, August 6, 2022, documenta fifteen reached the halfway point of its 100-day run. By the 50th day, more than 410,000 visitors had visited documenta fifteen at 32 exhibition venues enjoying works by more than 1,500 artists.
Article date: Wednesday, August 10, 2022
A Painting by Il Morazzone Worth £2 Million at Risk of Leaving the UK
A temporary export bar has been placed on the painting ‘Self-Portrait as a Knight, with a horse, an easel with painter’s palette and a page’ by Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli also known as ‘il Morazzone’
Article date: Wednesday, August 10, 2022
British High Commission Hosts Sheku Kanneh-Mason and the Kanneh-Mason Family
Britain’s most exciting classical music performers, Sheku Kanneh-Mason and the Kanneh-Mason family will be joining British High Commissioner H.E. Vicki Treadell for a reception in their honour.
Article date: Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Lubaina Himid Wins 2024 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize
The Contemporary Austin has announced artist, Lubaina Himid as the winner of the 2024 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize. In addition to receiving a $200,000 cash award, Himid will present a solo exhibition premiering in Austin in spring 2024 at The Contemporary’s downtown venue, the Jones Center on Congress Avenue.
Article date: Monday, August 8, 2022
Lost Banksy Painting Originally Created in West Bank Resurfaces in Tel Aviv
A long-lost painting by the British graffiti artist Banksy has resurfaced in a swank art gallery in downtown Tel Aviv, an hour’s drive and a world away from the concrete wall in the occupied West Bank where it was initially sprayed.
Article date: Saturday, August 6, 2022
Archaeologists in Israel Uncover an Ancient Coin Inscribed With the Cancer Zodiac Sign
A group of archaeologists in northern Israel have discovered a uncommon bronze coin depicting a logo of the zodiac, relationship again almost 2,000 years.
Article date: Friday, August 5, 2022
Mayor Adams, Commissioner Cumbo Declare $5.5 Million for Universal Hip Hop Museum and New Capital Funding for Bronx Cultural Institutions
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) Commissioner Laurie Cumbo announced $5.5 million in new capital funding for the Universal Hip Hop Museum.
Article date: Friday, August 5, 2022
Ai Weiwei to Unveil First Body of Work in Glass Alongside World’s Largest Hanging Murano Glass Sculpture
Ai Weiwei, in collaboration with Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore - Benedicti Claustra Onlus, Berengo Studio and Fondazione Berengo, to present a new body of work set to be unveiled at a solo exhibition in Venice this summer.
Article date: Thursday, August 4, 2022
Over 100 Ancient Roman Frescoes Presented in Major Show at Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna
The Painters of Pompeii
Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna
23.09.2022 - 19.03.2023
Exhibition curated by Mario Grimaldi, presented at the Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna, in collaboration with the Municipality of Bologna and the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, and produced by MondoMostre.
Article date: Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Shareholders of Documenta Introduce Scientific Advisory Panel
Seven scholars with outstanding academic expertise in the fields of antisemitism, perspectives from global contexts and post-colonialism, art and constitutional law will advise documenta in the coming months.
Article date: Monday, August 1, 2022
Engraved Block Found at the Cova Gran de Santa Linya Dating Back 14,000 Years
The CERArq-UAB research team has identified the first block with engravings from the Upper Palaeolithic era found in Catalonia’s pre-Pyrenees region.
Article date: Thursday, July 28, 2022
Deloitte Values Rome's Ancient Colosseum at $79 Billion
Deloitte LLP estimates that the Colosseum’s "social asset value,” or the intangible value that Italians place on its mere existence, is around 77 billion euros ($79 billion).
