August 9, 2024
European Art

War Hasn’t Stopped the Kyiv Biennial. It’s Multiplied It.

Containment is a strategy that works only so long; the war will not stay put, the war will come to you. The Kyiv Biennial, a key fixture of contemporary art in Eastern Europe over the past decade, has opened its fifth edition on time and at full scale, but not (or not principally) at home.

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European Art

The underworld opens its doors in a New Haven parade celebrating Día de los Muertos

Day of the Dead, or Día de los Muertos, is a tradition passed down through generations. A day meant not to mourn the dead, but to remember and celebrate their lives. In certain Latin American cultures it is believed that for one day, the barrier between the living and the dead is lifted, allowing families

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European Art

Christmas at Biltmore begins Nov. 3, 2023

— NEW Hallmark Christmas movie set at Biltmore — ASHEVILLE, N.C., Nov. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The delivery of a towering 35-foot Fraser fir tree at America’s Largest Home this week was the finishing touch after a year of planning and weeks of decorating Biltmore House for the holidays. Christmas at Biltmore begins Friday, Nov.

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Robert Brustein leaves legacy as champion of American theater – Harvard Gazette

When Robert Brustein died on Oct. 29 at the age of 96, he left behind a legacy as a teacher, playwright, critic, occasional actor, and author. But central to the pugnacious longtime Cambridge resident was his role as an innovator and creator of theater, notably at Yale and Harvard, where he founded the American Repertory

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European Art

Will the Art Market Need to Discount Its Masterpieces?

Major auction houses are hedging their bets in the fall season of sales that begins Monday, offering fat guarantees to sellers to secure their works — and pricing some of their top items more conservatively after the spring season demonstrated weakness in the blazing-hot $60 billion art market. And now, sellers are trying to anticipate

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ULM School of Visual and Performing Arts readies slate of upcoming events

Tweet tweet button for twitter Published November 2, 2023 MONROE, LA – The University of Louisiana Monroe School of Visual and Performing Arts is inviting the public to a series of upcoming and ongoing events. See below for full details of each event.   Speed Dating Tonight musical at Spyker Theater, Nov. 2-5  Speed Dating Tonight

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European Art

Amoako Boafo Exhibition at Denver Art Museum

and paper transfer on canvas. On view at Denver Art Museum. Chadd Scott Free advice for America’s leading art museums. Not entirely free, following through could cost several million dollars. Consider it an investment. Amoako Boafo (b. 1984; Accra, Ghana) has a painting on view in his exhibition at the Denver Art Museum entitled Sunflower

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At Cascadia Art Museum, a noted midcentury photographer gets his due

Some of the old photographs by Chao-Chen Yang (1909-1969) could have been taken today. They are immediate, tender or funny, and bear no traces of having been created decades ago. Others show telltale signs of their eras: cars or attire from the 1940s or the high-key tones of 1950s color photography. Edmonds’ Cascadia Art Museum

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US exhibition to reveal audacity and experimentation of Eastern Bloc artists

The Walker Art Center’s new exhibition—Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s—is the latest in a number of ambitious international surveys organised by the Minneapolis museum. Five years of research have resulted in an exhibition of 250 works by close to 100 artists from East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia before

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Malherbe ’26: In a world of problematic artists, who you listen to sends a signal

We are not short on problematic musicians. It feels like every other day a well-known artist makes headlines for an offensive tweet, predatory behavior or saying a slur. Anything awful you can imagine has probably been done by someone with more than 500,000 monthly Spotify listeners.  This constant wave of scandals is so intense that

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