A Spanish decree to provide more security for artists and other cultural workers should accelerate EU-level action. Spain’s labour minister and vice-president, Yolanda Diaz—the decree will entitle artists to unemployed benefit and a pension (Carlos Sanchez Benayas / shutterstock.com) Last month, after months of discussion and political negotiations, the Spanish government launched a benefit for
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Gallery Network The dual-artist exhibition is on view at Dellupi Arte through December 23. Artnet Gallery Network December 19, 2022 Installation view of “Karel Appel – Enrico Baj” (2022). Courtesy of Dellupi Arte, Milan. Every month, hundreds of galleries add newly available works by thousands of artists to the Artnet Gallery Network—and every week, we
An art exhibition titled the Infinite Universe of Wuji: Masterpieces from Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, has debuted at The China Millennium Monument in Beijing to feature rare authentic artworks of 46 European artists such as Van Gogh. Promotional materials for Wuji: Masterpieces from Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Photo: Courtesy of Tianyu
The 59th Venice Biennale opened against the backdrop of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine and the continuing rise of authoritarianism in Eastern Europe, as Vladimir Putin’s close ally, Viktor Orban, had just won his fourth term as Hungary’s prime minister. At this moment, defined by war crimes and the oppression of minority groups, it seems
From Scratch at Peter Freeman Inc., which features five Eastern European artists, highlights a common desire among the artists that “art should proceed from the basic, elemental, and essential,” as the press release states, while still reflecting on the aesthetic and sociopolitical issues of their geographical and historical contexts. Organized by Croatian art critic and
On March 3, 1942, a special exhibition opened at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in the Fuller Building at 41 East 57th Street in New York City. Pierre, the youngest son of French painter Henri Matisse and the owner of the gallery, was an art dealer, specializing in modern and contemporary European and American artforms. While
Shells have long been valued by societies all over the world for their diversity, beauty, and luminescence. Evidence from the Middle Stone Age tells us that shells were the first objects to clearly be used as personal decoration, and in more recent history, shells were a crucial inspiration for artists like Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt,
Politicians take their language from the stock of ideas generated by local citizens—writers and artists, in particular. As the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote in his “Defense of Poetry”, “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” In this series of conversations with European artists and writers, directed by Institute for Human Sciences (IHS) Manager
The president of Germany’s Akademie der Künste(Academy of the Arts, Adk), Jeanine Meerapfel, has been trying to determine how various artists and cultural institutions could rise up against nationalist forces in Europe, an issue she’s been reflecting about ever since she took on the position in 2015. “There is an urgent need for action,” Meerapfel told DW,