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by Elaine Yu Agence France Presse HONG KONG, China (AFP) — From murals made famous by Instagram to painting battles, Hong Kong’s once largely underground street art scene has exploded in recent years and is now blossoming across the city’s walls and alleyways. The commercial high end of the art world is at the fore in March, with gallerists, collectors, and celebrities descending on Hong Kong for the annual Art Basel fair. But English mural […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Hong Kong’s harbourfront is known for glistening skyscrapers and the sight of containerships navigating busy shipping lanes — but a new art project has added a giant pumpkin, a map of the stars and a pair of disembodied legs to the famous skyline. The Harbour Arts Sculpture Park, which officially opened on Thursday, is a collection of works by 19 local and international artists including Britain’s Antony Gormley and Tracey […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — One of the world’s most famous paintings “Girl with a Pearl Earring” is to undergo a two-week scientific examination in front of curious visitors to the Dutch museum where it lives. The luminescent tableau painted by Dutch master Johannes Vermeer around 1665 was last examined in 1994 during a conservation treatment at the Mauritshuis museum in the centre of The Hague. “Although further restoration is not yet required, major advances […]
PARIS, France (Reuters) — An astonishing collection of papers ranging from a handwritten account from a Titanic survivor to a manuscript written from prison by the Marquis de Sade is set to be auctioned in Paris. The Aguttes auction house acquired the collection from bankrupt French company Aristophil, whose founder Gerard Lheritier was charged with fraud in 2015 after suspicions he ran a Ponzi-like scheme. His company, which acquired some 130,000 pieces, was placed into […]
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AFP) — Painter and Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak on Monday opened a museum of his allegorical work inspired by Jewish history in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, more than half a century after he held his first exhibition as a nine-year-old inside its wartime ghetto. As a boy he was sent to live in the ghetto after the German Nazis occupied the city in 1941 during World War II. He survived — unlike most of his […]
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) — A Turkish Airlines plane that crash landed at Kathmandu airport two years ago will be welcoming ticket holders on board again — not for a flight but as the Nepali capital’s first aviation museum. The Airbus A330 was carrying 224 passengers when it skidded off the runway at Kathmandu’s airport in March 2015, coming to a stop with its nose buried in the grassy verge on the edge of the tarmac. […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Half a million people are set to visit the annual “Sculpture by the Sea” at Sydney’s iconic Bondi beach, where more than 100 Australian and international artists display unique artwork in an event billed as the world’s largest free sculpture exhibition. https://youtu.be/fKCISOlhaO4
SHANGHAI, China (Reuters) — Christie’s Shanghai auction season got underway on Sunday (September 24), with 35 offerings from the contemporary art world going under the hammer. Zao Wou-ki’s 24-12-2002-Diptyqe was sold for $5.09 million, which reached the highest bidding price for a single collection by Christie’s in mainland China. Collections from Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali and Andy Warhol were also up for bidding. Pablo Picasso’s Tete d’homme was sold for $200,000. Andy Warhol’s Monkey was […]
By Jaina Pallasigui (EBC Las Vegas Bureau) Eagle News Service LAS VEGAS, USA (Eagle News) — Yayoi Kusama is known for her artistic vision of perspective. Even people who have never heard of Kusama have been drawn to her immersive artwork that seems to defy the boundaries of light and space. Kusama’s Infinity Mirrors exhibition has been touring the country, leaving a huge impression at each stop. Commencing at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture […]
Locals and passers-by in Paris’s Aligre Square are treated to a unique concert: the Paris Chamber Orchestra performing a piece inspired by the daily life of an apartment building, directly from that building’s balconies. (AFP Video) https://youtu.be/bYJ3bCNF10U
by Karim LEBHOUR Agence France-Presse ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AFP) — Surrounded by untidy stacks of paper and abandoned half-empty coffee cups, photographer Aida Muluneh chain smokes cigarettes in her Addis Ababa office and rails against the negative portrayals of Africa by foreigners. The 42-year-old came returned to Ethiopia nine years ago after living in Yemen and Canada and set herself the task of changing perceptions of the continent, replacing the outsiders’ dominant eye with an African […]
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