Category: ART-Scandal
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Health concerns raised over Cuban artist and activist held in jail… LUIS MANUEL OTERO ALCANTARA
Source: THE ART NEWSPAPER Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara was sentenced to five years in prison in June Gareth Harris 17 August 2022 Share Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara. © Artists at Risk The health of the Cuban artist and activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara—who was sentenced to five years in prison in June by a court…
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Artworks To Discuss Social Justice Issues With Students
SOURCE: NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART STANDARDS OF BEAUTY Rozeal (formerly known as iona rozeal brown), afro.died, T., 2011, acrylic, pen, ink, marker, and graphite on birch plywood panel, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase with funds provided by the Women’s Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art), 2015.19.243 Standards of Beauty What’s beautiful to you? What does…
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Artist Damien Hirst Will Burn Thousands of Paintings in NFT Experiment…
NOTE: Featured Image – Cherry Blossoms by Damien Hirst ARTICLE’S SOURCE: SMITHONIAN MAGAZINE A year-long project is pitting traditional paintings against non-fungible tokens by Molly Enking August 5, 2022 Damien Hirst Damien Hirst with pieces from “The Currency” Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd. Which is more valuable—a painting, or an NFT? Last summer, Damien Hirst paired…
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JUST STOP OIL: “NORMAL CANNOT CONTINUE” The Courtauld Gallery, London…
Just Stop Oil Two young supporters of Just Stop Oil glued themselves to the frame of a Vincent Van Gogh painting at The Courtauld Gallery in London, calling for the government to end new oil and gas and for art institutions to join them in civil resistance. The painting is Peach Trees in Blossom (1889),…