When was the last time you visited your local library? If you’re lucky, a bit of investigation could lead to a massive windfall. A small town near Lyon, France, discovered it was keeping a Gerhard Richter painting potentially worth millions in its artothèque, an art library where citizens and local businesses could borrow art.
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Pro-democracy activists and artists in Cuba say they will hold public protests on Monday, despite the government's statement that such demonstrations will not be permitted.
Read MoreFifteen films, including Simon Franco’s Charlotte and Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari’s Land of Dreams, will vie for the top awards as Goa will host the 52nd edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) from November 20-28.
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ART 19 BOX ONE will exhibit at ART COLOGNE at : Hall 11.1, stand B-002 from November 17th to November 21st 2021.
The aim of Art 19 through Box One is to raise money to support Amnesty International’s human rights work. The ten limited edition original signed prints in Box One are on sale from this website for € 50.000 for the complete set. Individual prints are not for sale.
Read MoreThe celebrated artist Gerhard Richter and members of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation met in Cologne today to sign a major long-term loan agreement that will provide the Nationalgalerie in Berlin with a formidable collection of 100 artworks by the 89-year-old painter.
Read MoreA German prize for democracy and freedom of expression was on Wednesday awarded to imprisoned Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny and his FBK anti-corruption foundation.
Read MoreThis includes Marian Goodman Gallery, whose booth dedicated to early work by the South African artist William Kentridge is likely to be a showstopper. The display focuses on works made between 1985 and 1991, a turbulent time in South Africa’s apartheid history. The booth will be designed by Kentridge’s long-time collaborator, the set designer Sabine Theunissen, and is centred around the artist’s first trademark charcoal-and-collage animation, Vetkoek – Fête Galante (1985).
Read MoreSo Gupta’s art has something quietly heroic about it. She reminds us of the infinite preciousness of free expression. Poets and writers who have been imprisoned fill her imagination. “Whether they’ll shoot me at that point when chaos starts,” wonders another of her typescripts, “And I’ll press my trembling hands to the hole that was my heart…” These are the words of Irina Ratushinskaya, whose poetry got her sentenced to seven years in a Soviet hard labour camp in 1983.
Read MoreShilpa Gupta’s spellbinding installation at the Barbican Curve, For, in Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit, is at the climax of this show – a gloomy room, lit by hanging lamps, in which 100 black microphones hang from the ceiling. They’re also speakers, and from them we hear voices chanting, whispering, singing and reading.
Read MoreIn 2015, an abstract painting by Gerhard Richter broke the world record for contemporary art by selling at auction for £30.4m, and the octogenarian is often described as the most important living artist.
But I’ve always found the prices fetched by his work baffling and the claims made about him exaggerated, since his paintings leave me cold.
Read MoreThere is something appropriate about the piles of broken crockery that greet visitors to the autumn programme of exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery in east London. Yoko Ono’s Mend Piece, in which gallery visitors are invited to reconstruct teacups from pottery shards using glue, string and sticky tape, briefly captures a returning-from-lockdown determination to put things back together again (even while keeping a sanitiser bottle to hand).
Read MoreThe voices of persecuted poets narrate Shilpa Gupta’s first national solo show in more than a decade. From the eighth century to present day, viewers hear Arabic, Azeri, English, Spanish, Russian, and Hindi poems from writers who experienced imprisonment and execution for their words.
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