Spotlight: Laura Pretto Vargas
“I paint from the heart…”
Paul Zimmerman in conversation with Laura Pretto Vargas
Paul Zimmerman: How did you develop interest in art?
Laura Pretto Vargas: I’ve always loved art, the endless sear...
Spotlight: Charles Hildebrandt
“Always in flux…”
Paul Zimmerman in conversation with Charles Hildebrandt
Paul Zimmerman: How did you develop interest in art?
Charles Hildebrandt: Both my father and grandmother ...
Artists crowdfund to save UK museums
The Art Newspaper - It’s no secret that the ongoing national lockdown has made the plight of public museums and galleries across the UK even more desperate. At the end of last year, research carried out by the...
The Melancholy Marriage of Tracey Emin and Edvard Munch
hyperallergic - Edvard Munch and Tracey Emin — what a gloom-struck pair! We see them together, in two photographs hung side by side on the wall, as we enter the exhibition at the Royal Academy. - read more ...
Art to lighten COVID-19 vaccination
DW - A pink human-like shape lies on the floor; something that looks like a bear's claw juts from a rock-like sculpture; a kind of half-pipe and large marble blocks offer glimpses of their insides. - read more...
How a historian got close, maybe too close, to a Nazi thief
art daily - By the late 1990s, most of the Nazi art experts who helped loot European Jews were either dead or living quiet lives under the radar. Not so Bruno Lohse, who served as the art agent to Reichsmarscha...
With New Museums, a Once Disgraced Socialite Looks to Burnish His Legacy
CUENCA, Spain — He was once described by Vanity Fair as “a Gatsby for the Reagan era,” but, until recently, life has been quieter for the Cuban-American art collector Roberto Polo.
Polo, a financier whose ro...
node 1′ is an imagined satellite recycling and manufacturing space station
design boom - architects thanat prathnadi and joana vilaca unveil their proposal for ‘node 1’, an imagined satellite recycling and manufacturing space station in low earth orbit (LEO). with both creators extrem...
PriestmanGoode models autonomous taxi on London’s brutalist architecture
dezeen - PriestmanGoode has unveiled a concept for a driverless, electric ride-hailing vehicle for London, which the design firm hopes could join the red double-decker bus in the ranks of the city's iconic tran...
A Pink Seesaw Installation on the US-Mexico is the Design Museum’s Design of the Year
dezeen - This week on Dezeen, an installation of three pink seesaws that allow children to play across the border won the Design Museum's Design of the Year award. - read more
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