Go Back to Shop All CategoriesartdealsartdealsartnetartstchannelsComicsDESIGNguildswordgramswordpress

France Is Seeking Proposals for a New Public Monument in the Tuileries Gardens in Paris to Memorialize Victims of Slavery

by admin
Jun 12, 2020
artnet

{“id”:0}

Forensic Architecture Will Use an ICA Exhibition to Present New Evidence About the Police Killing That Triggered the 2011 London Riots

Jun 12, 2020
artnet

The Turner Prize-nominated collective Forensic Architecture will present new evidence about the 2011 police killing of Mark Duggan in London in an exhibition at the city’s Institute of Contemporary Arts in the fall. After investigating the controversial shooting, which triggered the 2011 London riots, the interdisciplinary research agency has concluded that Duggan could not have...

Previous

France Is Seeking Proposals for a New Public Monument to Memorialize Victims of Slavery, Destined for Paris’s Tuileries Gardens

Jun 12, 2020
artnet

France is commissioning a new monument memorializing the victims of slavery—and it’s asking the public for ideas. Last week, the country’s ministry of culture launched an open call for the design and production of the public work, which will be installed in Paris’s Tuileries Gardens, next to the Musée du Louvre.  “This project expresses the...

Next
Leave a comment
Further reading

How Artist Lucien Smith, Fed Up With Speculators and Dealers, Quit His Galleries and Got His First Solo Museum Show

Aug 18, 2020
artnet

In 2013, just two years out of art school, the artist Lucien Smith had already become a cautionary tale. That year, his painting Hobbes, The Rain Man, and My Friend Barney / Under the Sycamore Tree set a stratospheric auction record at Phillips New York, when it sold for $389,000. Smith saw two more years of

Read More

Editors’ Picks: 7 Things for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Ruth Asawa-Inspired Workshop to an Outdoor Photo Show

Aug 17, 2020
artnet

Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. In light of the global health situation, we are currently highlighting digital events, as well as in-person exhibitions open in the New York area. (Times are all EST unless otherwise noted.)    Monday, August 17—Sunday, November 29 In

Read More

‘Landscapes Opened a Whole New World for Me’: Artist Shara Hughes on How She Subverts the Tradition of Flower Painting

Aug 17, 2020
artnet

Kaleidoscopic landscapes and riotous bursts of flowers are the signatures of Brooklyn-based artist Shara Hughes—scenes she creates entirely from her imagination. The artist’s third solo show with Zurich’s Galerie Eva Presenhuber, “Day By Day By Day,” opened in June, but she will not have seen it in person by the time it closes in September. “It’s very strange,”

Read More