Workers at Museo Picasso Málaga are organizing a strike for fare wages and working conditions just as the international initiative, Celebrating Picasso 1973-2023, which honors the life and art of Pablo Picasso, is about to kick off.
Interviews & Essays
With the recent discovery of a fully in-tact Bronze Age sword in Germany, and a complete suit of armor in Spain, we take a look at the miraculous nature of the preservation of such pre-modern objects.
In June, Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington, an illustrated biography of the groundbreaking British artist was published by Thames & Hudson. In celebration, we take a look back at the hand-painted tarot deck she created.
“Games, Gamblers & Cartomancers: The New Cardsharps," a summer show in Newport curated by Dodie Kazanjian and Alison M. Gingeras, brings together seventeen buzzy contemporary artists—including Cecily Brown, Rashid Johnson, Sanya Kantarovsky, and John Currin—to revisit the trope of cardplay.
'Van Gogh’s Cypresses' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the first exhibition to give the spotlight to the trees in the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890). With the iconic work The Starry Night taking center stage, here is a brief history of that work.
A recent Russian airstrike on the Ukrainian port city of Odesa badly damaged several UNESCO-protected heritage sites including the historic Transfiguration Cathedral, the first Orthodox church in Odesa.
Intimately connected with the conceptual and minimalist art movements, American artist Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) used geometric shapes, lines and curves, along with abstract swathes of color to explore form, ephemerality, and positive and negative space.
“The Book of HOV” is a sprawling exhibition at the Brooklyn Public Library that features among its vast array of memorabilia, art, and clothing, a full-scale replica of Jay-Z’s Baseline Studios, where the iconic musician created some of his most celebrated and beloved songs. Oh, and the exhibition was a complete surprise to Jay-Z.
In the opulent halls of the Chateau Versailles, where grandeur and luxury intertwine, one name continues to captivate the imagination: Marie Antoinette. A woman shrouded in mystique, she sought solace and privacy within the sprawling palace walls.
The archaeologists also came across the base of a large rectangular hall, which was realized to be the ‘curia’ (senate house) of the theatre of Pompeii. Infamously, this was the building in which Julius Caesar was assassinated.
