A series of events celebrating the life of Stoke-on-Trent-born artist Arnold Machin – who sculpted the iconic portrait of the Queen used on stamps since 1967 – is being held as part of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations in the city. The events will kick off with a free walk around Stoke town on Saturday and …
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A year ago, as Ireland’s Covid-19 vaccination programme finally began to roll out, the internet was our main way of engaging with the arts. I wrote a column back then arguing that organisations needed to move away from all the free events of the time, which risked devaluing arts performances and setting a longer-term expectation …
Culture shift needed as audiences decline for both real and virtual events Read More »
PALERMO, Sicily — Until recently, this city was infamous as one of the world’s organized crime capitals. Warring mobsters gunned down rivals in the streets and built ugly high-rise apartments with public funds while much of the historic center was left to crumble. Palermo authorities have since managed to clamp down on the Mafia, and …
In a Former Mafia Stronghold, Art Remembers, and Warns Read More »
Ringo Starr is the first Beatle to auction off a collection of NFT digital artwork: ‘Spreading peace and love in the metaverse!’ By Cassie Carpenter For Dailymail.Com Published: 11:03 EDT, 24 May 2022 | Updated: 15:29 EDT, 24 May 2022 Sir Ringo Starr is making history as the first member of The Beatles to auction …
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Fun new Fantastic 4 fan art transforms Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville captain Ed Mercer into Reed Richards aka Mister Fantastic. Seth MacFarlane’s captain from The Orville becomes the Fantastic 4’s Reed Richards in new fan art. It’s been seven years since 20th Century Fox last tried to make a movie franchise out of classic Marvel …
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Few artists are as strongly associated with a single painting as Edvard Munch is with The Scream. Even before its endless memeability became apparent it was as much a fixture of popular culture as of art history. But there has always been more to Munch than his most famous work, and a new show at …
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There’s a real-life yellow brick road forming in Ghana, and it shares at least one thing in common with the fictional path it’s named for. Much like Dorothy in the story “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” who must follow a magical yellow route to find a way back to Kansas, Serge Attukwei Clottey — the …
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The iconic painting by Leonardo Da Vinci has been one of the most talked about pieces of art for decades now. I, just like any other person, got caught up in the hype of it and went to Paris to see it in the Louvre Museum. Much has changed over the years and now when …
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TORRE ANNUNZIATA, Italy — The account has long been that a shipwreck in the ancient past had sent a precious Roman marble statue — a rare copy of a fifth century B.C. depiction of the “Doryphoros,” or spear bearer — into the depths of the seas off Italy. That was the account given in the …
Italy Says Ancient Statue in U.S. Museum Was Stolen, Not Lost at Sea Read More »
And now, the forces within the art market are betting big on an artist who once struggled to break out of sales at auction houses such as Swann’s, which focuses on African American artists. On Thursday, New York galleries Ortuzar Projects and Andrew Kreps, along with the talent-agency-associated art venture UTA Fine Art, announced that …
