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Article date: Saturday, April 27, 2019

Kehinde Wiley to be Honored with The Gordon Parks Foundation Award

Roberts Projects announced Kehinde Wiley will be honored with The Gordon Parks Foundation Award on June 4, 2019 in New York City. The award celebrates Gordon Parks' legacy and honors those who continue Park's vision for social change through their work in the arts and humanitarianism.

Article date: Saturday, April 27, 2019

UK Arts Minister Michael Ellis Steps in to Save the Bacon

Arts Minister Michael Ellis has placed temporary export bars on four works by Francis Bacon worth a combined total of more than £3 million in a bid to keep them in the country. Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992) was one of the most important British artists of the 20th century.

Article date: Friday, April 26, 2019

‘New Banksy’ as Extinction Rebellion Protests at Marble Arch

The mural popped up yesterday night when protestors gathered at Marble Arch to celebrate the end of the ten day long demonstrations. The image showed a child clutching an XR sign while crouching near a plant, with accompanying words: ‘From this moment despair ends and tactics begin’.

Article date: Friday, April 26, 2019

Moon's Rabbit at Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale

Article date: Thursday, April 25, 2019

Continu by Sasha Waltz

Continu is a piece that was developed in 2010 as a continuation of two site specific works created at the Neuen Museum in Berlin by David Chipperfield and at MAXXI in Rome by Zaha Hahid. From the dialogue between the two architectonically influenced works, was generated Continu, also strongly inspired by architectonic forms and lines.

Article date: Tuesday, April 23, 2019

ArtBox.Projects Zurich as a Part of the Swiss Art Expo this Summer

ArtBox.Projects Zurich 1.0 will be part of the SWISS ART EXPO from August 15th to 19th, 2019, in the time-honoured SBB event hall under the huge sculpture "NANA" by Niki de Saint Phalle. With over 80,000 visitors daily, it is one of the most visited places in Switzerland. This means that over half a million visitors will see the artworks throughout the entire exhibition period.

Article date: Sunday, April 21, 2019

Art in the Eye of the Camera (1957-1983): Shunk-Kender at Centre Pompidou

With this exhibition, the Centre Pompidou presents the first retrospective devoted to the photographers Harry Shunk (1924-2006) and János Kender (1937-2009). Through a selection stemming from more than ten thousand prints from the period, housed in the Kandinsky library and acquired in 2008 thanks to a donation by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, discover a priceless eye-witness account of post-war art.

Article date: Tuesday, April 16, 2019

French Billionaire François Pinault Pledges $113 Million to Help Rebuild Notre Dame

François-Henri Pinault — chairman and CEO of Kering, the French-based luxury group behind Gucci, Balenciaga, Yves Saint Laurent and other world-renowned brands — has pledged $113 million towards the rebuilding of the Notre Dame cathedral.

Article date: Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Fire Destroys Much of Notre Dame, but Priceless Relics were Spared

Laurent Ferri, a curator at the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell University told Bloomberg the relics inside were “now likely reduced to ashes”. If some were lost, many more were saved. The city’s mayor, Anne Hidalgo, said most of the significant artwork and holy objects inside were recovered. France’s culture minister Franck Riester shared images of priceless artworks being loaded into trucks.

Article date: Monday, April 15, 2019

Notre Dame Cathedral is on Fire

Notre Dame cathedral has caught fire, according to the Parisian fire service and eyewitnesses. Footage posted online shows a large fire engulfing the upper part of the cathedral, with the flames licking around its two bell towers.

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