Di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art responds to critical open letter saying they will downsize due to funding
On August 20th, more than 120 artists, curators, and dealers posed an open letter opposing the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art’s decision to deaccession the majority of items within […]
‘Quasi’: the massive hand sculpture moves cities
Anytime an artist installs a public artwork, it inevitably attracts praise and criticism from locals. Well, Quasi, a 2016 sculpture by Ronnie van Hout has definitely had that response and […]
The art of running…and running routes
‘When I was a kid everyone thought I’d be an artist when I grew up – I was always drawing things,’ said Lenny Maughan in an interview with The Guardian. […]
‘Sensing Change’: an artwork in Chicago reflecting the weather
Weather and the arts have always had an interesting relationship. John Constable’s cloud studies verge on the obsessive, capturing the ever-changing sky. John Ruskin, the famous English art critic, once […]
Research shows complete under drawings in Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Virgin of the Rocks’
The Virgin of the Rocks is one of the London National Portrait Gallery’s most-visited paintings. Leonardo da Vinci painted the scene of the Virgin Mary with the infant Christ twice, […]
How a photography might help solve the mystery of Amelia Earhart
During an attempt to make history, Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan were circumnavigating the world in Earhart’s custom Lockheed model 10-E Electra. In July of 1937, though, the […]
Righting the wrongs: artists and the suburbs
In second-hand shops one is still likely to find postcards that depict the advent of large housing developments. These postcards, which display bright colours even though the buildings they display […]
