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South Korea’s best-selling boyband, BTS, continue to make their mark in the art world as one of the group’s singers, RM, has been named “art sponsor of the year” in Korea.
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K-Pop superstars
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joined Korean First Lady Kim Jung-sook, a classically trained singer, and culture minister Hwang Hee at the
@metmuseum
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DIY art: South Korean boyband BTS contribute to 'do it (around the world)' online exhibition
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Korean boyband BTS has launched a series of five major public art projects, with one on show at London's Serpentine Galleries
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South Korea’s best-selling boyband, BTS, has launched a series of five major public art projects
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An NFT of a drawing by Jean-Michel Basquiat has been withdrawn from sale after the late artist’s estate confirmed the seller does not own the licence or rights to the work
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The curator of the global public art collaboration
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suggests that new definitions of art are required to democratise it
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Antony Gormley has produced a towering work that aims to evoke “the phenomena of human connection” during a time of political and ideological odds between humans
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The huge sculpture in Brooklyn Bridge Park is a commission of BTS Connect, an international public arts initiative funded by the Korean boyband
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A mysterious object resembling the plank sculptures of the late artist John McCracken has been discovered in a remote area of the Utah desert
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How Van Gogh's Starry Night was inspired by Hokusai’s Great Wave
@britishmuseum
@MuseumModernArt
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Hong Kong artists based in Europe are launching an online art platform to mark the first anniversary of pro-democracy protests and raise awareness among the arts community of the looming national security law imposed by Beijing
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Sotheby’s 'Banksy-ed' as painting 'self-destructs' live at auction
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The first image of the completed restoration of Johannes Vermeer’s Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (around 1657-59) has been released today by Dresden’s Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, fully revealing a hidden image of Cupid
@skdmuseum
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103 forgotten works by the renowned Japanese artist Hokusai have been purchased by the
@britishmuseum
after slipping out of sight for more than 70 years
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Adventures with Van Gogh | There is a plethora of Van Gogh shows opening in 2024 including at
@NationalGallery
—part of its 200th anniversary celebrations—and in Italy, France, the Netherlands and Taiwan. There will also be a book and immersive experiences
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A set of gold rosary beads clutched by Mary Queen of Scots during her execution in 1587 are among the treasures—worth around £1m—stolen from
@ArundelCastle
in West Sussex.
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A Japanese tourist went to visit Machu Picchu in March and—because of coronavirus—has been stuck there ever since. Now, Peru's culture ministry have given him a special solo tour
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There is more to Edvard Munch than just The Scream. Exhibition opens
@britishmuseum
this week
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London's
@vagina_museum
—the world's first physical institution dedicated to the female reproductive system—has been forced to close its doors in Bethnal Green
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Diary of an art historian | 'Autism made me an art historian. But museums must do more to welcome the disabled and neurodiverse' says Bendor Grosvenor
@arthistorynews
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Top five this week | The musician RM was recognised for donating $90,400 to the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul last September
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Thousands of collectors are staring at their digital wallets today, wondering how their investments in 'The Merge', an NFT (non-fungible token) by the pseudonymous artist (or artist collective)
@muratpak
, will mature.
@niftygateway
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A seesaw installation at the US-Mexico border that allowed children and adults from both sides to play with one another has been named the 2020 Beazley Design of the Year by London's
@DesignMuseum
.
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🤼♂️ Site is an "inexhaustible mine for archaeological research" says Italy's culture minister
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The Univeristy of Aberdeen has agreed to return to Nigeria a Benin bronze, becoming one of the first institutions in Europe to commit to restituting a sculpture looted by British soldiers in a raid in 1897
@aberdeenuni
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Tributes for the art historian Sister Wendy Beckett who has died, aged 88
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A painting rescued from the debris of a historic mansion, destroyed by the 4 August 2020 explosion in the port of Beirut, has been identified as a long-lost painting by the 17th-century Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi.
@GettyMuseum
@sursockmuseum
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From Georgia O’Keeffe to Mickalene Thomas, Baltimore Museum of Art will aim to address diversity gaps
@artbma
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National treasure
@DollyParton
asked Tennessee lawmakers to withdraw a bill to install a statue of her at the Nashville capitol, saying: “Given all that is going on in the world, I don’t think putting me on a pedestal is appropriate at this time”
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Not content with letting
@ChristiesInc
hog all the crypto-limelight following that $69.3m
@beeple
sale,
@Sothebys
has announced that it will collaborate with the digital artist
@muratpak
on the sale of an NFT.
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Kerching! Banksy-note enters
@britishmuseum
. Di-faced Tenner is artist’s first work to join the collection officially—unlike his 2005 cave painting prank
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Three hundred art world figures have signed an open letter calling on the UK government to drop its plan to cut funding for art and design courses by 50% across higher education institutions in England.
#ArtIsEssential
@cvanetwork
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The secrets of everyday life in Pompeii are being uncovered as a new excavation unearths a residence housing exceptionally well-preserved glass and ceramics
@pompeii_sites
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Germany is moving towards full restitution of the looted Benin bronzes in its public collections, a Foreign Ministry official said, putting it on course to be the first country to commit to returning them to Nigeria permanently
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Reports says Russian troops tried to force a curator by gunpoint to lead them to a Melitopol museum’s trove of Scythian gold, which had been hidden for safekeeping. She refused, but they found it nonetheless.
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The artist Christo, who with his late wife and partner Jeanne-Claude was known for his monumental, often whimsical interventions on architecture and landscape, has died, aged 84
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A 19th-century bikini from Iran—how did such an item find its way to the UK's
@Holburne
museum?
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The year of Rembrandt with
@simon_schama
: the art historian gives a personal view of Rembrandt's extraordinary achievements as the world celebrates the 350th anniversary of the Dutch master’s death
@rijksmuseum
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Adventures with Van Gogh | A new online catalogue tells the story of how Vincent inspired his artist friends to exchange self-portraits (and his disappointment in one painter...)
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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC has removed its Benin bronzes from display and is planning to repatriate artefacts that were looted by the British in an 1897
@si_africanart
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The UK’s High Court has recognised NFTs as “property” in a case which is likely to have far-reaching implications for disputes involving digital art.
@BossBeautiesNFT
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Linda Nochlin’s provocative essay on women artists, which celebrates it 50th anniversary this year, is being published alongside its reappraisal in a standalone edition
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Painting of courtesan by Kitagawa Utamaro—who influenced the Impressionists—goes on show for first time at
@britishmuseum
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The release of the footage revealing the level of force used by The Metropolitan Police has resulted in a renewed expression of outrage from the arts and architecture communities.
@antepavilion
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In recognition of John Waters's gift of his 375-work collection, the Baltimore Museum of Art will rename a rotunda in its European art galleries after the film-maker—as well as a pair of restrooms in the East Lobby, “per his request”.
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Top five this week | Surrealist photographer Dora Maar will have a major show at the
@CentrePompidou
, due to travel to the
@Tate
Modern and the
@GettyMuseum
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OK, we too have got caught up in the Bernie Sanders meme mania
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Fish, migrating birds and clearer water are being reported in Venice as "nature reclaims its spaces" amid citywide coronavirus lockdown
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The
@NationalGallery
in London has acquired its first painting by Eva Gonzalès, the French Impressionist tutored by Edouard Manet—making her the 20th woman to be represented in the museum’s collection
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The exhibition Surrealism Beyond Borders considers the international breadth of the Surrealist movement, looking at how the art movement spiralled outwards from its Parisian origins. It opens
@metmuseum
this month before travelling to
@Tate
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A tourist has broken two toes off a sculpture by Antonio Canova after sitting on the work to take a selfie
@MuseoCanova
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Gerhard Richter donates 18 works to provide permanent accommodation for the homeless
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For the first time since its creation,
@MuseeLouvre
in Paris will be headed by a woman: Laurence des Cars, 54, the current president of
@MuseeOrsay
&
@MuseeOrangerie
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Artists “should be feared by the powerful" — former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis
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Germany will develop a timetable for the permanent return to Nigeria of Benin artefacts looted in a British military raid in 1897, with the goal of handing over the first of the stolen artefacts in 2022.
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@Tate
Modern takes a ‘slow look’ at Pierre Bonnard’s fleeting moments in new show, opening this week
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The top ten museum acquisitions of 2017
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@mfaboston
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France’s culture minister Roselyne Bachelot announced today that the country will return a painting by Gustav Klimt, Roses under the Trees, to the heirs of its Jewish owner Nora Stiasny, who sold it under duress during the Nazi era
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Emerging as a worthy contender for most disastrous first day on the job, a Russian security guard at the Yeltsin Centre in Ekaterinburg has been charged with vandalising a 20th-century painting after drawing eyes on its faceless figures.
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McDonald’s has been stopped from building a drive-through restaurant at the ancient Baths of Caracalla in Rome
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Ten Picasso pieces among forgotten works rediscovered in Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art's collection
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As England and France enter a second lockdown, David Hockney sends two new images of hope
@davidhockneyart
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Several galleries and museums have been destroyed or severely damaged following the explosion shook Beirut
@sursockmuseum
@Marfaprojects
@GalerieTanit
@OperaGallery
@SfeirSemler
@JanineRubeiz
@_SBGallery
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Visitors to the blockbuster Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the
@MuseeLouvre
will be able to see the Mona Lisa as part of a virtual reality experience
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Art’s Most Popular: Michelangelo
@metmuseum
captivated audiences in New York. The show ranks second in our overall survey and tops our Old Masters category with nearly 7,900 daily visitors (702,000 in total)
#ArtsMostPopular
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Giacometti’s chaotic Paris studio brought back to life with permanent reconstruction open to the public
@FAAGiacometti
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The Manhattan home and studio of celebrated Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein will become an outpost of the
@whitneymuseum
housing its revered Independent Study Program.
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“Actions that take place on one side have a direct consequence on the other side,” say project founders
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Newly discovered Artemisia Gentileschi painting realises €2.4m at auction in Paris—Self-portrait as Saint Catherine, another woman who resisted, achieves record price for the artist
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Pierced hearts, unicorn horns and a bottled witch: Oxford show investigates the history of magic and witchcraft
@UniofOxford
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Exclusive: The Vatican to host major Andy Warhol exhibition of his religious works and "spiritual side"
@Pontifex
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Pablo Picasso made no bones about his fondness for blue, calling it “the colour of all colours”. The first exhibition to focus on his Blue Period paintings comes to
@agotoronto
in 2020
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Two halves of Andrea Mantegna painting reunited for first time in centuries at London's National Gallery
@NationalGallery
#MantegnaBellini
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Conservation work that began 20 years ago on a giant set of 16th-century tapestries is almost complete: 12 down, and one to go.
@NThardwick
@nationaltrust
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Portraits of leading women in British life, taken by female photographers from the roster of the agency
@MagnumPhotos
, will enter the permanent collection of London's National Portrait Gallery as part of a new partnership
@NPGLondon
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A survey of Ukrainian Modernism
@MuseoThyssen
has involved the largest-ever legal transfer of art from a war-torn country, after 51 works were secretly shipped from Kyiv to Madrid under missile fire
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Comment | "The West's abdication of ethics is allowing China to become the number one superpower in the world," says Ai Weiwei:
@aiww
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Banksy has released a new video on Instagram showing a tube train being graffitied in apparent support of face coverings
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Diary | "I can’t wait for some sour old arts journo to describe it as a ‘waste of paper and paint’": comedian
@joelycett
unveils his painting of a lounging
@GaryLineker
at London's
@royalacademy
summer exhibition
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The late San Francisco-based Japanese American sculptor Ruth Asawa is the latest artist to be honoured by the US Postal Service (
@USPS
), with a series of ten stamp designs featuring her suspended looped-wire works
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