More than 2,000 Russian artists and other creatives have condemned the Ukraine war in the past 18 months — and many of them now live in the West. The culture-drain began long before Russian president Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last February, but Russia’s new level of aggression is swelling the flow of emigration.
While Picasso found inspiration in the primitive art of his native Spain, it was after he encountered African art in Paris that the painter completed his Demoiselles d’Avignon in 1907, a revolutionary work that redefined art and propelled Cubism. In that composition, completed when he was just 26 years old, Picasso abandoned the bourgeois notions of
Just as Britain’s town centres are increasingly alike, with the presence or absence of key chains a ready reckoner of relative affluence, the Galataport is fluent in the international argot of urban regeneration. In the tradition of London’s Bankside/Tate Modern, industrial Bilbao/Guggenheim Bilbao, the Galataport/Istanbul Modern waterside development signals a free, open, modern city, ready
In Europe, during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, European artists had a very strong interest in portraying Biblical accounts. Naturally, as most of these biblical anecdotes and figures relating to Christianity, Europe’s dominant faith during the medieval times, occurred in the Holy Land, artists from the continent, while many of their inscriptions were legible
Book Launch: Comradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-socialist Europe, Zdenka Badovinac in conversation with Ana Janevski DateFebruary 15, 2019, 7pm e-flux 311 East Broadway New York, NY 10002USA Join us at e-flux to celebrate the launch of Zdenka Badovinac’s new book Comradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-socialist Europe published by ICI. The evening will feature a
Shows & Exhibitions Three exhibitions will take place in Ukraine, showing art made by displaced artists responding to life under occupation. Jo Lawson-Tancred July 28, 2023 A bystander draped in the Ukrainian flag looks at destroyed Russian military equipment at Kyiv’s “Maidan” Independence Square, that has been turned into an open-air military museum on Ukraine’s
Erwin Bowien (1899–1972): The Sand Dunes in Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, 1937 euroart*, the “European Federation of Artist Colonies” presents a digital summer exhibition of European artist colonies. This summer, the theme of the exhibition is WATER. Many museums or cities and municipalities also exhibit the paintings presented in the digital exhibition. Visit some
Getty Images Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles is the winner of the Roswitha Haftmann Prize, the European art award with the biggest cash purse of any on the continent. He will thereby receive 150,000 Swiss francs, or just over $174,000. The prize takes its name from Roswitha Haftmann, a Swiss dealer whose Zurich gallery was in
Reckoning with the events of world history and their lingering effects leads not only to creating stereotypes—it also impacts how performers from around the globe both interpret and convey aspects of their own cultural identities in light of them. As this year’s Cirkuliacija Festival asked non-European circus companies to take the continental stage in Lithuania,
Much has been written about Latin America’s current clout when it comes to exporting artists, thanks to the global success enjoyed by the likes of Bad Bunny, Anitta, J Balvin, Shakira, and most recently Peso Pluma. However, there’s just as much interest in international companies and artists going the other way and reaching audiences within Latin