Visitors at the Summer Exhibition 2024 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, which runs from June 18 to Aug. 18, 2024. Royal Academy of Arts, London / David Parry Contemporary galleries — and an upscale hotel Multidisciplinary artist Lauren Baker, who is exhibiting at the Venice Biennale until November, named contemporary galleries — … Read more
Entrepreneur Grant Cardone said collecting and displaying art gives him more fulfilment than investing. Grant Cardone Multimillionaire Grant Cardone, who has been collecting art for around 15 years, says he’s a spontaneous buyer. “I don’t consider myself a connoisseur. I’m very new to the art world. If I like it, I buy it. I don’t … Read more
Otake, Hiroshima Pref. – As far as museum architecture goes, the Simose Art Museum in Otake, Hiroshima Prefecture, stands out, echoing the landscape of its inspiration, the Setouchi islands, which play host to their own influential triennale. Two-thirds of Simose’s gallery space is outside its main building, split into eight connecting boxes that seem to … Read more
PHOENIX — For months after George Floyd was killed by police in May 2020, people from around the world traveled to the site of his murder in Minneapolis and left signs, paintings and poems to memorialize the man whose death reignited a movement against systemic racism. Now hundreds of those artifacts are on display for … Read more
New York – A painting made collaboratively by the Beatles during their tour of Japan in 1966 has sold for $1.74 million in an auction at Christie’s, according to the auction house. Christie’s said the work later titled “Images of a Woman,” auctioned in New York on Thursday, is “the only known painting made and … Read more
LONDON — A major work by surrealist painter René Magritte that hasn’t been shown in public for a quarter century could fetch 50 million pounds ($64 million) at auction next month. Christie’s auction house announced Saturday that it will offer “L’ami intime” (The Intimate Friend) at a March 7 sale in London marking a century … Read more
Singer Aki Yashiro, the grand dame of Japanese enka ballads who had many big hits during her career spanning five decades, died Dec. 30 of lung disease, her office said. She was 73. Yashiro, who debuted in 1971 after working as a singer at a nightclub in Tokyo’s upmarket Ginza district, had suspended her musical … Read more
British multidisciplinary artist Paul Robinson, known professionally as LUAP, combines art across many mediums, including oil paintings, sculptures, and photography. Central to his artistic work is “The Pink Bear,” which is, as it sounds, a pink bear. In reality, the large, bipedal pink bear, a person in a mascot’s attire, represents cherished pieces of Robinson’s … Read more
POMPEII, Italy — A new project inside the Pompeii archaeological site is reviving ancient textile dyeing techniques to show another side of daily life before the city was destroyed by a volcano in 79 A.D. The inspiration comes from frescoes unearthed inside the archaeological site that show winged cupids dying cloth, gathering grapes for wine … Read more
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — After nearly 200 years in a private collection, a pair of small portraits by 17th century Dutch Master Rembrandt van Rijn went on display Wednesday after a long-term loan to the Netherlands’ national art and history museum. The Rijksmuseum said the portraits of Jan Willemsz van der Pluym and his wife … Read more