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Discover ancient Egypt for kids at NGV International
MELBOURNE.- Ancient Egypt for Kids is a free exhibition inviting children to unlock the mysteries of ancient Egypt through a series of activities exploring the art and culture of this fascinating world. Coinciding with the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces® exhibition Pharaoh at NGV International, this interactive exhibition will captivate young visitors and their families with displays of ancient Egyptian objects from NGV’s Collection, including a decorated coffin lid, over 2,500 years old, along with a space filled with gleaming gold walls and floor-to-ceiling hieroglyphs. The exhibition is designed to evoke the mystery and wonder of ancient Egyptian culture. Children will step into a space to discover a golden funerary head covering and an elaborately decorated coffin illuminated to reveal imagery of gods, goddesses and hieroglyphic ... More

Heide Museum of Modern Art unveils major new exhibition exploring the significance of hair in contemporary culture
MELBOURNE.- Heide Museum of Modern Art has unveiled a new exhibition exploring the complex significance of hair in contemporary culture through a selection of Australian and international works of art. Presented until 6 October 2024, the exhibition titled Hair Pieces brings together historic and recent works encompassing a wide array of media such as painting, photography, video, installation, sculpture and recorded live performance. For millennia hair has been a resonant and compelling site of meaning, transmitting ideas about gender, mythology, status and power, the body, psychology, feminism and notions of beauty. At once radiant and repellent, and often richly symbolic, it has always assumed ... More

Globus and Fondation Beyeler announce public art project: Julian Charrière Calls for Action
BASEL.- This summer, Swiss-French artist Julian Charrière will transform Basel’s historical department store Globus, currently under renovation, with a boundary pushing artwork that aims to connect visitors across vast distances, bridging mountainous Switzerland with a Western Andean Cloud Forest in Ecuador. A radical intervention in public space, it invites the citizens and visitors of Basel to become participants and protectors, lending their voices to one of Earth’s critical carbon sinks and biodiversity hotspots. Calls for Action is the second iteration of the “Globus Public Art Project”. During the three-year renovation of its iconic department store on Basel’s market square, Globus is collaborating with the Fondation Beyeler on inviting artists to conceive and realize new site-specific works of art that engage with the building and the public. ... More

Lawrie Shabibi opens the first-ever solo exhibition of works by Dima Srouji
DUBAI.- Lawrie Shabibi is presenting the first-ever solo exhibition for artist, architect and researcher Dima Srouji titled Charts for a Resurrection. Srouji’s work lies in the expanded context of interdisciplinary research projects. It acts as a form of political commentary and as a place-making or un-making tool. Srouji collaborates closely with archaeologists, anthropologists, glass blowers and sound designers to develop her architectural projects, installations, product designs, and writing. Working across a diverse range of media including glass, text, archival materials, maps, and film, Srouji questions ideas of identity and globalisation through historic strata and space, in connection to the spirit of a place and displacement. Interested in the ground, objects, displacement, restitution, forgeries, and living archives, Srouji looks ... More

Modern Art opens an exhibition of works by Sanya Kantarovsky
LONDON.- Teachers and Students. Honoré Daumier published his titular series of lithographs in the journal le Charivari between 1845–46. With its title Professeurs et Moutards, the choice of words also suggested that the “students” depicted may have also been rascals, little devils—at least something about them had to merit the punishments, the revulsion exhibited by their authority figures. Rebellious, liberatory moments reoccur in the series. The young students subvert the foolish superiority of their elders, who appear pompously stately, perhaps as armatures of the state itself. A painter is always already a student, a fact that Kantarovsky implies through rhyming with Daumier himself. What happens to knowledge as it’s transmitted and perverted through another subjectivity? The paintings in Teachers and Students approach this question ... More

A Met Orchestra of mixed quality returns to Carnegie Hall
NEW YORK, NY.- So far, Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s tenure as the Metropolitan Opera’s music director has been mixed. That much was evident over two Met Orchestra concerts at Carnegie Hall last week that were by turns excellent and mystifying. This group’s specialties can seem indistinct; its quality, inconsistent. And, in general, it has been difficult to assess these players under Nézet-Séguin, who took over in 2018. A music director needs to be present to shape the sound of an ensemble, and he has been chronically overscheduled, juggling the Met with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Orchestre Métropolitain in Montreal, not to mention his post as the head of conducting at the Curtis Institute of Music. On a practical level, a music director also needs to build an orchestra, and the Met’s is still regrouping from a wave of retirements during ... More

The wife who survived Henry VIII finally gets her big-screen due
NEW YORK, NY.- Midway through Karim Aïnouz’s “Firebrand,” King Henry VIII of England takes a break from playing bowls on the lawn to walk with his sixth wife, Katherine Parr. Gripping her arm tightly, limping heavily, the king, played with terrifying menace by Jude Law, offers a threat to those who betray him. “They know what would happen,” he says quietly, turning to face the queen. “We’d have to have their head cut off.” Alicia Vikander’s Queen Katherine smiles faintly. “I’m sure you would come up with something much more creative,” she says. “Firebrand,” which is based on Elizabeth Freemantle’s novel “Queen’s Gambit” and opened recently, is set during Henry’s final months, in 1546-47. Katherine is trying to keep her head on her shoulders while the king, ill, paranoid and angry, grows suspicious of her alliance with ... More

"On Water, Flow and Warped Time" opens at Vleeshal
MIDDELBURG.- On Water, Flow and Warped Time is a group exhibition that features work by Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Ewa Ciepielewska, and artist duo HUNITI GOLDOX (Areej Huniti & Eliza Goldox). In our western society, time is seen as a linear process revolving around growth and progress. More than ever, humanity is focused on productivity and time management. But how can we experience time in our current society? Can we move through the world differently? The artists in the exhibition On Water, Flow and Warped Time explore the phenomenon of ‘time’ from various contexts and perspectives, focusing on water(ways) as entities from which we can learn to collectively live together; a counter-narrative to capitalist notions, contemporary productivity, and colonial structures. In July 2022, Nomaduma Rosa Masilela and Thiago ... More

'Say Less' by Greg Gulbransen to be published August 2024
NEW YORK, NY.- Over the course of three years, Greg Gulbransen photographed Malik, a set leader of the violent street gang, the Crips. Malik was shot and paralysed in 2018 by the bullet from a rival gang, and as a result his world now centres around his small Bronx apartment in New York, where he is cared for by his family and fellow gang members. Gulbransen, a practicing doctor, had been photographing in the Bronx during his spare time and got to know some of the local kids. He began to notice a lot of young men in wheelchairs with spinal injuries and was professionally curious. He was told they had all been shot. He wanted to speak to someone in a wheelchair and was introduced to Malik through a fellow Crip. ‘As a physician, it was a way to explore one facet of the epidemic of gun violence in this country. There are shootings ... More

Hosfelt Gallery opens Rina Banerjee's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.- Born in Kolkata and based in New York, Rina Banerjee creates shamanistic sculptures and vibrantly sensuous paintings-exploring the complexities of identity, the aftermath of colonialism, the nuances of migration, and what it means to be human-through the lens of a transnational woman of color. Banerjee's approach is characterized by its defiance of traditional hierarchies-be they cultural, material, or linguistic. Her multifaceted artistic practice includes crafting fetishistic assemblages from a mix of antiques and tourist-market trinkets; painting and collaging evocative images of women in states of ecstatic transformation; and composing poetic titles that draw viewers into the emotional atmosphere of her creations. Her fourth solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery focuses on the fundamental human rights to freedom from oppression: ... More

MCA Chicago announces 'Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence'
CHICAGO, IL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is presenting Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence, running through January 5, 2025 in the Bergman Family Gallery. Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence is the first major retrospective and largest monographic exhibition to date of the work of Virginia Jaramillo (b. 1939, El Paso, TX; lives in Hampton Bays, NY). Tracing the artist’s practice from the mid-1960s through the present, Principle of Equivalence features over forty abstract paintings and handmade paper works that reveal her longstanding preoccupation with the relationships between the earthly and metaphysical realms. Taking shape in New York and Los Angeles of the 1960s and 1970s—amid mass political movements and debates around representation and the relevance of painting Jaramillo’s work has long ... More

How Digital Artists Can Safeguard Their Work Through Encrypted File-Sharing Services
Digital artists face unique challenges in protecting their creations. The rise of online art theft makes it crucial to use secure methods for sharing files. Encrypted file-sharing services offer a reliable solution to safeguard your work. As a digital artist, your creative works are valuable assets that need protection. Sharing your files without adequate security measures can expose you to risks such as unauthorized use or theft. Encrypted file-sharing services provide a practical way to ensure your art remains safe and confidential. ... More