Article date: Saturday, August 10, 2024
Cover Art showing Marvel hero Deadpool’s First Appearance could sell for $7.5 million
That’s the rallying cry heard throughout Deadpool & Wolverine, which became the highest-grossing R-rated movie ever just days after its July 26 release. It’s also the perfect reaction to the news that Heritage Auctions is offering for sale the original artwork Rob Liefeld penciled and inked for the cover of New Mutants No. 98, which introduced Marvel Comics’ Merc With a Mouth.
Article date: Saturday, August 10, 2024
Banksy’s Sixth Artwork, a stretching Cat, is already taken Down
The sixth Banksy in one week, which showed a silhouette of a cat on an empty billboard in London is being taken down.
Article date: Saturday, August 10, 2024
Kasper König, one of Germany's most Influential Curators, has died at the Age of 80
Kasper König's death was announced by the Museum Ludwig in Cologne which he directed for twelve years until 2012.
Article date: Friday, August 9, 2024
A New Day, a New Banksy
Banksy has confirmed he is behind a new artwork of two pelicans above a fish and chip shop in north-east London.
Article date: Friday, August 9, 2024
Ukraine appeals to UN due over Russia’s destruction of Tauric Chersonese
Dmytro Lubinets, Ukraine’s Ombudsman, called on the UN to respond to Russia’s destruction of Ukrainian cultural heritage, including the Ancient City of Tauric Chersonese. It is Crimea’s unique historical and archaeological monument included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Article date: Thursday, August 8, 2024
New Banksy Piece stolen one hour after he shared Pictures of his Fourth Animal Work
A group of men were seen taking down the artwork from the roof of a shop in Peckham, south London.
Article date: Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Three Monkeys, Two Elephants and One Goat
Banksy has posted another artwork in London, marking the third piece of a new animal-themed collection - this time featuring monkeys.
Article date: Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Yayoi Kusama has unveiled a New Public Sculpture outside the UK’s Busiest Railway Station
Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama uses her most recognisable motif, polka dots, as inspiration to create Infinite Accumulation, a soaring permanent sculpture at the UK's busiest station, London Liverpool Street
Article date: Tuesday, August 6, 2024
The Manton Foundation donates $12 million to The Courtauld to create The Manton Centre for British Art
The Manton Foundation has donated $12 million to The Courtauld to create the Manton Centre for British Art, it was announced today.
Article date: Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Amsterdam's Kunstverein published Open Letter as funding dries up
Amsterdam’s Kunstverein has published an open letter signed by the leaders of arts institutions in support of the Kunstverein after it was recently denied government subsidies owing to “lack of budget” despite receiving a positive rating from the Mondriaan Fund.
Article date: Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Philanthropy Factory: A New Initiative benefiting Warhol Foundation Grantees
Honoring Andy Warhol’s philanthropic legacy on his birthday, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts announced Philanthropy Factory, a new initiative that provides an opportunity for recent grantees to benefit from the sale of Warhol works from the Foundation’s collection.
Article date: Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Whitney Museum Picks Marcela Guerrero, Drew Sawyer to Curate 2026 Whitney Biennial
The Whitney Museum of American Art announces that the next Whitney Biennial will be co-organized by Museum curators Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer. Guerrero, the DeMartini Family Curator, and Sawyer, the Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography, will lead the development of the eighty-second edition of the Museum’s landmark exhibition series, set to open in spring 2026.
Article date: Monday, August 5, 2024
Anne Frank Statue in Amsterdam defaced Again
The statue of Anne Frank on Merwedeplein square was defaced again. ‘Free Gaza’ was sprayed on the statue with red paint, and the hands had also been painted red. The statue was similarly defaced on July 9.
Article date: Friday, August 2, 2024
Bonhams appoints Chabi Nouri as Global CEO
Bonhams announces Chabi Nouri as Global CEO of the international auction house. Nouri, who will be based in Bonhams’ headquarters in New Bond Street, London, will take up the position in October 2024 at the 14-saleroom auction house.
Article date: Friday, August 2, 2024
Shanghai to launch First Overseas Branch of Paris’ Rodin Museum
This September, Musée Rodin in Paris will open its first international outpost – in China. The French museum’s two existing sites in central Paris and in nearby Meudon, in the villa where Auguste Rodin lived until his death in 1917, are well-known cultural destinations thanks to the fame and influence of the sculptor behind The Thinker (1904) and The Kiss (1882).
Article date: Thursday, August 1, 2024
Giant Sculpture of a Pigeon coming to The High Line in NYC
For the fourth High Line Plinth commission, Iván Argote presents Dinosaur (2024), a colossal, hyper-realistic sculpture of a pigeon cast in aluminum. Dinosaur was first submitted as a proposal for the High Line Plinth in 2020, among 80 proposals that included the third High Line Plinth commission, Pamela Rosenkranz’s Old Tree (2023).
Article date: Thursday, August 1, 2024
Artists accuse Royal Academy London of ‘Anti-Palestinian Censorship’ over removed Works
Hundreds of artists, writers and actors on Monday sent an open letter to the UK’s Royal Academy of Arts accusing it of anti-Palestinian censorship after it removed two artworks from its Young Artists’ Summer Show.
Article date: Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Stonehenge Tunnel Road Scheme scrapped
The Stonehenge Alliance has welcomed the announcement by Chancellor Rachel Reeves to cancel the £2.5bn A303 Stonehenge scheme as a “low value, unaffordable commitment”.
Article date: Tuesday, July 30, 2024
57m-Long Mosaic Mural unveiled at London Bridge Station
In a River a Thousand Streams is a major new public artwork that was unveiled at London Bridge Station on Wednesday 24 July. The 57-metre mosaic mural is the result of a collaboration between London School of Mosaic (LSoM) and AA alum Adam Nathaniel Furman, and explores themes of craft, community and collaboration.
Article date: Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Fowler Museum returns Cultural Significant Objects to Australia’s Warumungu Community
20 Items of significant cultural importance were returned to the Warumungu community of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory, Australia. The permanent, voluntary, and ethical return of the items by the Fowler Museum at UCLA, a renowned museum dedicated to global arts and cultures with an emphasis on Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Indigenous Americas, was initiated by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).