Leading lights - Artists
Kanye West gives $10 million to James Turrell’s Roden Crater project
Rapper Kanye West has given $10 million to American artist James Turrell to help fund his ongoing land art project. In a December tweet, West stated ‘This is life changing. […]
Singapore exhibition features an unexpected star
What do a series of books featuring cut outs and found objects, the National Museum of Singapore’s exhibition ‘Unhomed Belongings’, and Kill Bill have in common? Well-known Hollywood actress and […]
Make it new! Jan Dibbets and medieval art at the French national library
On a lovely spring afternoon in April 2014, Charlotte Denoël, chief curator of medieval manuscripts at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the French national library in Paris, invited the Dutch […]
New study sheds light on Rembrandt’s impasto technique
Works by Rembrandt (1606-1669) are often easy to spot. Trained completely in the North – unusual for the time, artists often worked towards studying in Italy – Rembrandt built a […]
Conservator finds UV images in Jean-Michel Basquiat painting
When researching or working with an artwork, conservators are accustomed to finding unusual parts of it that often get overlooked or are invisible to the naked eye. Sometimes, underpaintings are […]
Lina Iris Viktor reaches settlement with Kendrick Lamar and SZA
British-Liberian artist Lina Iris Viktor and hip-hop artists Kendrick Lamar and SZA have seemingly reached a settlement in the lawsuit Viktor filed against Lamar and SZA concerning their music video […]
Queen includes members of the arts community in 2019 honours
With the ringing in of 2019, a new set of people in the arts have been recognized by Queen Elizabeth for their work. Included on the UK’s list of honourees […]
