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ArtAdiola GayeIn this series, Artsy’s curators profile a group of emerging and noteworthy artists whose work is similar in style and spirit to established artists. This month, we feature artists in conversation with David Hockney. The acclaimed British artist’s paintings feature swimming pools, palm trees and characteristic interiors. With a career spanning more than seven decades, Hockney has been the subject of major retrospectives at venues such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Tate Britain, and his work has consistently fetched eight-figure sums at auction. He is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and…
Published onword puzzle This midsummer puzzle includes Navajo weaver Roy Kady, the Tate Museum branch by the sea, Gee’s Bend quilters, pointillism and more. Support independent arts journalism As an independent publication, we rely on readers like you to fund our journalism and keep our stories and commentary free and available to everyone. If you value our reporting and want to support more of it, please consider becoming a member today. Support independent arts journalism As an independent publication, we rely on readers like you to fund our journalism and keep our stories and commentary free and available to everyone.…
Later this month, the Acropolis Museum in Athens will host a unique exhibition titled A Tale of Two Cities. The first half of the exhibition, which will run until July 16, will focus on the thousands of years of historical and cultural ties between Athens and the Egyptian city of Alexandria, while the second half of the exhibition will be held in October at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the Greco-Roman Museum. The exhibition’s mix of historical and contemporary features is typical of its organizer, French-Egyptian curator and art consultant Nadine Abdel Ghaffar. Nearly 10 years ago, Ghaffar founded the art…
On June 2, Sullivan+Strumpf opened a new, intimate studio space in Singapore’s Kallang district. The project space will complement the gallery’s local and international projects, showcasing works from the gallery’s warehouse or previews of future exhibitions or fair presentations. Sullivan+Strumpf Singapore Studio will kick off with a presentation of work by Singaporean artist Kanchana Gupta, whose Australian solo exhibition will open at Sullivan+Strumpf’s Sydney space from 15 August.After Gupta’s exhibition, the gallery will host a solo exhibition by Spanish painter Carmen Ceniga Prado in September. In addition to intimate exhibitions, the studio will host cultural events throughout the year to…
Ari Moore is an artist, teacher, and activist based in Buffalo. (All images courtesy of the artist) This article comes from Allergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, interviewing queer and trans elders in the arts community throughout June. Artist, teacher, and activist Ari Moore entered Buffalo’s art scene in the 1970s. Today, she’s focused on sharing her decades of knowledge with the next generation. “The art scene in Buffalo is growing, thriving, and dare I say, booming,” she said over Zoom. However, Moore’s time in the art world was not all smooth sailing. After teaching at the AKG Art Museum (formerly…
Many things are sliced in front of the camera BearThe FX series is set in a Chicago restaurant, but the newly released third season features something rather unusual: a human eye. The cracked Peeper appears in a montage in the ninth episode of the season, which also features footage of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Red shoes (1948), Alfred Hitchcock dizziness (1958) and other famous films. The eyeball shot is also taken from a famous film by Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel andalusian doga 1929 short film that is considered a cornerstone of Surrealism. related articles andalusian dogLike many other…
ArtArtArt We’re Obsessed With is a monthly series highlighting the art that Artsy staffers can’t stop thinking about, and why. From lesser-known artists our editors stumbled across at local shows to artwork that’s going viral on our platform, these are the pieces of art we’re obsessed with this month.Abdul Salam, Remember, on that day, We will roll up the universe like a scroll. (21:104)2024One of the largest paintings currently on Artsy, this ink painting on canvas by emerging South African artist Abdus Salaam is awe-inspiring in its sheer scale. The painting’s radiant, symmetrical forms bring a sense of tranquility and…
Researchers have discovered what they believe to be ancient stingray sand sculptures, challenging the established timeline of human artistic expression, according to a new study published in the journal Science. Rock painting research Magazine. A team of experts from Nelson Mandela University and the South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity used OSL dating to identify the alleged work of art. In 2018, the work was mistakenly identified as a symmetrical rock formation near Still Bay on the South African coast. The findings suggest it is a sand sculpture, a pattern carved into sand that later hardened into stone. The symmetrical…
Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong, known for her role in the radical international Situationist movement and her contributions to avant-garde imagery, died on June 29 at the age of 85. Her New York gallery Ortuzar Projects and Paris gallery Galerie Allen confirmed her death, noting that she died surrounded by her family after a brief illness. Born in 1939 in Hengelo, the Netherlands, to a Jewish family, de Jong grew up traumatized by World War II. After the German invasion of the Netherlands, her family was forced into hiding. Her family managed to escape the Germans and were saved by…
LOS ANGELES—The Museum of Jurassic Technology (MJT) specializes in encyclopedic museum wonders from bygone eras, blending art and science, fact and fiction, history and fantasy. Since its founding in 1988, the museum has hosted exhibitions on a variety of topics, some of which have questionable authenticity, including Hagop Sandaldjian’s miniatures, Ricky Jay’s collection of rotting dice, Cameroon’s stinking ants, and Soviet space dogs. This September, as part of the upcoming PST ART initiative, which focuses on the intersection of art and science, the museum will undertake its most ambitious endeavor yet: an exploration of Islamic architectural forms created in Spain…