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Independent Art Fair Brussels closes down, citing a weak local market and busy calendars

Leonidas Kalai 27 July 2019

A Lesson in Street Art: how a movement morphed out of graffiti and into the art world (Part III)

Katherine Keener 13 December 2019

Marketplace

Hauser & Wirth to represent Avery Singer

Katherine Keener 12 December 2019

Must see - Exhibitions

Painting of Emiliano Zapata in Mexico City exhibition sparks protests

Katherine Keener 11 December 2019

A Lesson in Street Art: how a movement morphed out of graffiti and into the art world (Part II)

Katherine Keener 11 December 2019

Must see!

Painting of Emiliano Zapata in Mexico City exhibition sparks protests

Earlier this year, Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador declared 2019 the ‘Year of Zapata,’ commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Emiliano Zapata’s death in 1919. Coinciding with the anniversary is an exhibition of works in Mexico City presenting alternative takes on the Mexican Revolution, including Zapata’s iconic mustachioed appearance. One artwork, by Fabián Cháirez, […]

Stolen Klimt painting might have been found in gallery wall

More than 20 years ago, a painting by Gustav Klimt was stolen from a modern art gallery in Piacenza, Italy. It seemed the painting had vanished as the decades went by and nothing more about it was discovered. That was until yesterday when the gallery’s gardener found a painting in the walls of the gallery. […]

An artist walks into Art Basel Miami Beach and eats a banana…

In 1982, Andy Warhol ate a Whopper as part of Jørgen Leth’s ’66 Scenes from America.’ In the 16th century, Giuseppe Arcimboldo was painting food, ranging from vegetables to fish, to create portraits. And, now, at Art Basel Miami Beach, contemporary artists have made headlines, thanks to food once more, by making it into art […]

‘Rumors of War’, by Kehinde Wiley, inspired by US Civil War monuments

Amidst the tourists snapping selfies, dozens of large screens boasting advertisements of every type, and the people dressed up as various superheroes around Times Square, you’ll find a large-scale sculpture. Upon first glance, it looks like a traditional war monument: a man commands a rearing stallion, cast in bronze, atop a stone plinth. However, take […]