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Article date: Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Camargo Foundation Statement on the Passing of Barbara Hunt McLanahan

The Board of Trustees and staff of the Camargo Foundation mourn the loss of our longtime board member and beloved friend, Barbara Hunt McLanahan. Barbara has dedicated her career to nurturing and showcasing artists through her wide-ranging accomplishments as a curator and arts administrator in the U.S. and UK. Her position as the Executive Director at the Children’s Museum of the Arts (CMA) in New York perfectly reflected her steadfast belief in the transformative power of art and commitment to making art accessible to all.

Article date: Monday, July 1, 2019

Apollo’s Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography

On July 20, 1969, half a billion viewers around the world watched as the Apollo 11 mission beamed back to earth the first television footage of American astronauts on the moon. This groundbreaking moment dramatically influenced the history of images and expanded the bounds of human perception. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present visual representations of the moon from the dawn of photography through the present in the exhibition Apollo’s Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography.

Article date: Sunday, June 30, 2019

Sean Scully: Eleuthera at Albertina

Sean Scully is known above all for his highly expressive abstract paintings of colorful stripes or rectangles. But it is an entirely new side of this artist that comes to light in a work series being given its first-ever presentation by the Albertina Museum.

Article date: Saturday, June 29, 2019

Egypt- El-Lahun Pyramid Opened for First Time

The Egyptian Ministry of Antiques opened El-Lahun Pyramid for the first time on Friday, June 28, coinciding with the celebrations of 30 June. Although the pyramid has been closed since its entrance was discovered up until now for restoration works, the ministry has decided to open it up for the public to visit.

Article date: Saturday, June 22, 2019

Mayor of Venice asks Unesco to Place City on World Heritage Blacklist

The mayor of Venice has asked Unesco to include city on its world heritage site blacklist after Italy’s transport minister failed to deliver a plan to avoid giant cruise ships entering central canals. The years-long controversy on big cruise ships being allowed to use busy canals and dock close to the city center has been reignited after a huge ship crashed into a tourist boat in the busy Giudecca canal in early June.

Article date: Friday, June 21, 2019

Gemeentemuseum Discovers Water Lilies under Monet's Wisteria

Conservator Ruth Hoppe got the surprise of her life when she looked at the x-ray of Wisteria. This masterpiece, one of three paintings by Claude Monet (1840-1926) in Gemeentemuseum Den Haag’s collection, was removed from the museum for the first time several months ago and taken to the conservation studio. To investigate the damage to the canvas Hoppe had it x-rayed and had several other tests carried out on it.

Article date: Tuesday, June 18, 2019

One of a Kind Victorian Ceramic Crab at Risk of Export

Arts Minister, Rebecca Pow has placed an export bar on one of the earliest pieces of sculptural art pottery in the country in a bid to keep it in the UK. The work, a large anthropomorphic crab made by Robert Wallace Martin and his brothers, is at risk of being lost abroad unless a buyer can be found to match the £217,250 + VAT of £43,450 asking price.

Article date: Monday, June 17, 2019

Chinese Media Company, Modern Media Holdings Ltd Acquires Major Stake in ArtReview

Art Review Ltd and Modern Media Holdings Ltd are pleased to announce the acquisition of a majority shareholding in ArtReview, ArtReview Asia and artreview.com by Modern Media, China’s leading high-end communications group. As a result, ArtReview, ArtReview Asia and artreview.com will join a multimedia publishing organisation that includes The Art Newspaper China, LEAP, Modern Weekly, Nowness and Numéro, among other titles, and a group that can bring the magazines’ content to new platforms and new audiences worldwide.

Article date: Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Antony Gormley: Sight On the Sacred Island of Delos, Greece

Why would you go to Art Basel if you can see Antony Gormley ‘s installation 'Sight' on the sacred island of Delos, Greece? Organised by Neon - a nonprofit organization that works to bring contemporary culture closer to everyone. It is committed to broadening the appreciation, understanding, and creation of contemporary art in Greece and to the firm belief that art is a key tool for growth and development.

Article date: Wednesday, June 12, 2019

And Berlin Will Always Need You

And Berlin will always needs you is at the Gropius Bau in German capital until the 16th of June and it is a compendium of Berlin based international artists. The title is inspired by Dorothy Iannone’s dedicated song to her friend Marz Harding in 1977 where she sang about her emotional attachment to Berlin.

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