Art Industry News: In a decision that will come as no surprise, “NFT” was named Word of the Year + Other Stories
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most important developments in the art world and the art market. Here is what you need to know on Thursday, November 25. NEED TO READ Looted Palmyra sculptures return to Syria – The Geneva Museum of Art and History is restoring three archaeological objects allegedly looted […]
TAAG Studios and Gallery serves Iowa City artists and plans to expand
The Towncrest Area Artists Group studios and gallery started off as a “good accident,” owner Bella Vine said. Vine, sculptor and painter, just needed a space in Iowa City where she could create her art. But other artists Vine knew discovered his plans and wanted a place too. So she rented out old dental practices […]
Once on the fringes, tattoo artists are now an integral part of downtown Maine
Thirty years ago there were a few types of businesses that one would expect to see in the average downtown area. A hardware store. A pharmacy. A shoe shop. Things like that. But those staple businesses on the main streets have changed over the past few decades, to instead include coffee shops, craft breweries, and, […]
Influential critic dies at 82 – ARTnews.com
Dave Hickey, an art critic whose polarizing writings have been worshiped, has died. Daniel Oppenheimer, who this year published a biography of Hickey titled Far from being respectable: Dave Hickey and his art, reported in Texas monthly that Hickey died at age 82 last month. Although Hickey has written cultural reviews for decades, it wasn’t […]
Parkash Purb: Artist Donates 3 Works of Art for Holy City: The Tribune India
Deepkamal Kaur Tribune press service Sultanpur Lodhi, November 18 As worshipers begin to converge on the holy city of Guru Nanak for the 552nd Parkash Purb celebrations, there is something new and amazing to watch. The site is the Guru Nanak Art Gallery in Nirmal Kutiya, the dera of environmentalist Balbir Singh Seechewal. Right at […]
Port of Cork donates maritime art collection to Crawford Gallery
The collection of the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork has been further enhanced by the donation of maritime artwork and historical pieces from the Port of Cork Company. In addition to important paintings of the harbor and its surroundings through the ages, the donation also includes a register of the ships of the Cork Port […]
Galleries: The artist brings the rain inside for a show at the Tramway
While Scotland is no stranger to rain, most of us – the skylights that leak out to the side (and I’m speaking for myself here) – tend to only experience it outdoors. All of that changes next week with the evocative solo exhibition by Cambodian artist Khvay Samnang at the Glasgow Tram, in which the […]
Sigur Rós Star Jónsi transforms gallery into volcanic transport station – ARTnews.com
It has been a long time since I felt happy to describe an experience like indescribable, but it was the word that presented itself most forcefully after entering the first New York exhibition of Icelandic artist Jónsi. After a pandemic-induced spell limited to restricted screens and home stereo equipment, it’s truly something to walk around […]
Amanda Poss at Hillsborough Community College
Artists play a key role in shaping communities and our choices about where we choose to live, work, play and stay. But do we fully appreciate the role of curators, the designers working behind the scenes to display works of art in local museums? Here is the second of five stories about local curators who […]
New Saffron Walden Museum exhibition bridges art gallery and museum culture
A new exhibit at the Saffron Walden Museum examines how today’s society might be preserved in the fossil record. Fossilization: A Slice of the Anthropocene combines original bronze sculptures by artist Kabir Hussain with objects from the museum’s collections. It will run until March 20 next year in the Special Exhibitions Gallery on the ground […]