Photography in the Raw
NY Times - It’s great that the American Folk Art Museum doesn’t charge admission these days. More than one visit may be needed to absorb its landmark exhibition “Photo Brut: Collection Bruno Decharme & Com...
Germany doubles pandemic aid for arts with an extra €1 billion funding
The Art Newspaper - The German government has doubled the amount of emergency pandemic aid for the arts, adding an extra €1bn to help cultural organisations and workers survive the second coronavirus lockdown, ...
sotheby’s unwraps rare look inside christo and jeanne-claude’s NY studio ahead of auction from their personal collections
Designboom - the world is invited to step into the private sphere of famed artistic couple christo and jeanne-claude with an auction of work from their personal collection held by sotheby’s this month. - read ...
Over 150 Artists Call for Leon Black’s Removal From MoMA’s Board Over Jeffrey Epstein Financial Ties
Hyperallergic- Over 150 artists, art workers, and activist groups are calling on the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York to separate itself from its chairman, billionaire Leon Black. Michael Rakowitz, Xavie...
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...