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

Leonidas Kalai 27 July 2019

Must see - Theatre

National Theatre’s Midsummer Night’s Dream leaves a morning haze

Brandon Lorimer 5 July 2020

Art World Roundup: updates on Stonehenge, the Turner Prize, Christie’s auction of Igbo statues, a Parisian Banksy, and how the new Louvre experience

Katherine Keener 3 July 2020

Opinion

Museums need to confront racism

Maria Trujillo 30 June 2020

Marketplace - Deals

Special edition works by Simone Leigh to benefit Color Of Change and the fight against racial injustice

Katherine Keener 29 June 2020

Must see!

Trump issues executive order for “National Garden of American Heroes”

In his Independence Day Celebration speech, controversially located at the base of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, President Donald Trump announced the issue of an executive order to create a “National Garden of American Heroes.” Released on July 3rd, the executive order calls for the creation of a national garden that will pay tribute to […]

Descendants of Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Thomas Jefferson partake is photographic series recreating their ancestors

Europe began as the main focus of “The Descendants,” a series of works created by British photographer Drew Gardner. About 15 years ago, Gardner started tracking down and photographing the descendants of some of Europe’s most famous people, including Lisa del Giocondo (best known as Mona Lisa), Oliver Cromwell, Napoleon, and Charles Dickens. Then, as […]

“In Plain Sight”: an artwork flying high to raise awareness about immigration issues in the US

Looking up at the sky, borders become non-existent. Many of the same issues we face here on the ground – particularly in terms of boundaries – seem to disappear in the light blue sky that often seems endless. Over the weekend, though, the sky is exactly where XMAP: In Plain Sight, a collective artwork, was […]

National Theatre’s Midsummer Night’s Dream leaves a morning haze

The National Theatre of London brings yet another theatrical classic to screens worldwide through their ongoing National Theatre At Home program. This past week, at-home audiences had the chance to view National Theatre’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, a production of the Shakespeare classic with some modern twists, filmed at the Bridge Theatre. And while always a […]