©️ Kehinde Wiley. Courtesy the artist and Templon, Paris, Brussels, and New York. A towering 13-foot bronze equestrian statue gets its own dedicated room in Kehinde Wiley’s exhibition at the de Young Museum. Modeled after a monument portraying Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart, An Archaeology of Silence (2021) depicts a shirtless Black man draped over the
Courtesy: LEN/Christina Marmet The Artistic Swimming European Championships got underway today in Oświęcim, Poland at the III European Games with the Duet Free and Team Free Preliminary events. In the morning, 18 pairs faced off in the hopes of finishing in the top 12 to qualify to the Duet Free Final on 24 June. Anna-Maria
A towering 13-foot bronze equestrian statue gets its own dedicated room in Kehinde Wiley’s exhibition at the de Young Museum. Modeled after a monument portraying Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart, An Archaeology of Silence (2021) depicts a shirtless Black man draped over the saddle of a horse. Here, Wiley unflinchingly portrays the ugly reality of Black
The work in question is up for auction later this month It’ll be the first time the painting has come to auction in nearly three decades In art news, a piece being auctioned at Sotheby’s in London on June 27 could be the most expensive painting ever sold in Europe. The piece in question is
1918 was the year Spanish flu swept across the globe, claiming more lives than all those lost in World War I. It was also the year Vienna’s Golden Age drew to a close with the unexpected loss of its most gilded talent, Gustav Klimt. Left in his studio were two unfinished paintings still standing on
Courtesy: LEN Artistic swimming events will run from 21-25 June at the Kraków-Małopolska 2023 European Games. The sport was last featured on the European Games programme in Baku 2015 but was then a junior-only competition. This year and in front of a sold-out crowd in Oświęcim, artistic swimmers from 25 countries will compete across eight
Gustav Klimt’s Lady With Fan, which he completed soon before his death in 1918 Sotheby’s When it goes to auction later this month, Gustav Klimt’s final artwork could become the most expensive painting ever sold in Europe. The Viennese artist completed Lady With Fan just before his death in 1918. The painting, which hasn’t come to
These three additions to the art’otel portfolio will open in Zagreb, London Hoxton and Rome, joining the brand’s existing properties in Amsterdam, Berlin, Cologne and London Battersea. European growth The contemporary lifestyle hotel brand, art’otel, which is owned by PPHE Hotel Group and a part of Radisson Hotel Group, is set to expand across Europe
Sotheby’s is auctioning a painting by Gustav Klimt that is one of the most sought after and valuable works of art ever to be offered in Europe. Standing on an easel in Gustav Klimt’s studio at the time of the artist’s unexpected and untimely death in February 1918, Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan) – a
The last portrait painted by Gustav Klimt will carry the highest estimate ever put on a painting in Europe or the UK when it appears at Sotheby’s in London this June, pitched at in excess of £65m. The sale for at least that amount is, effectively, a foregone conclusion as it is guaranteed by a