Archive for January 2020
Hong Kong follows China in closing museums amid coronavirus outbreak
Usually a time of celebration and enjoying time with family, the Lunar New Year’s celebrations in China have now been used as a way to help stop the spread of […]
From the gallery wall to the silver screen: getting artwork into a movie
When used well, an artwork can add volumes to a movie. In SKYFALL, James Bond first meets Q at London’s National Gallery. The pair sit in front of JMW Turner’s […]
NEA releases survey of how adults in America interact with the arts
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is a government supported entity in the US that helps support the arts across the country. In partnership with the US Census Bureau, […]
The Long Game: how Wolfgang Beltracchi conned the art world
Former art forger John Myatt—who in the 1980s forged hundreds of “masterworks” and fenced them to institutions as venerable as London’s Tate Gallery—recently told reporters that in his opinion, pulling […]
The Obama portraits, by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, to tour five US cities
Getting to meet the president of the United States is an honour that many people won’t see in their lifetime. Usually, the closest you get is visiting Washington DC, the […]
‘100 Years | 100 Women’ at the Armory
One hundred years ago this year, women, and a handful of men, in the US fought for the right for women to have the vote. Their labour resulted in the […]
Conservators give the lamb in the Ghent Altarpiece a facelift, now, everyone is freaking out
When restorationists took to cleaning and conserving the Ghent Altarpiece, no one could have expected the reaction the internet was going to have. Without a doubt, the project, which has […]
