Archive for August 2020
Tate Enterprises to dismiss more than 300 employees due to “loss of revenue” in era of COVID-19
Protests marked the July 27th reopening of Tate Enterprises museums after they had been shuttered since March 17th, when the UK enforced sweeping lockdown measures in response to the pandemic. […]
Thomas J Price unveils statue in London representing the Black “everywoman”
Who do we celebrate? Who do we memorialise? These questions loom large as cities around the world are forced to deal with the implications of their public monuments and memorials […]
Members of the art community band together to aid Beirut after explosions devastated the city
The full extent of the devastation in Beirut is still unknown after two explosions ripped through the city on August 4th. In the week since the blasts, artists have begun […]
MIT develops AI that identifies similarities between unrelated artworks, spanning centuries, artists, and mediums
Art imitating art? That isn’t quite the case here, but a new algorithm developed by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in conjunction with Microsoft searchers for […]
Art World Roundup: upcoming exhibitions and more, from a sculpture damaged by a selfie-seeker to a new report on the Ghent Altarpiece
This week’s Art World Round up covers the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, which plans to persevere this autumn, upcoming exhibitions by Mark Surridge as well as Ania Hobson, and […]
A sample taken from Stonehenge 60 years ago helped researchers figure out sarsen stone origins
Thanks to a core sample from a 1950s repair to Stonehenge’s “Stone 58,” researchers have been able to locate the exact place where the massive sarsen stones came from. A […]
RA exhibition “Gauguin and the Impressionists” to open after four month delay, adds context to Gauguin’s problematic history
In March, the Royal Academy (RA) in London was all set to open a major exhibition of 60 works by some of the most famous Impressionist painters. The works were […]
