Giant ants swarm the facade of an aging theater. White-clad, face-painted dancers and circus performers frolic on a central boulevard. Cuban and American chefs serve gourmet cross-cultural meals from a boxy shipping-container kitchen. Havana’s alwaysRead More…
A Chinese court has made an unusual decision to hear a lawsuit by dissident artist Ai Weiwei who accuses the government of violating the law by imposing a 15 million yuan ($2.4 million) tax evasionRead More…
“Animation is exported from 3DS Max, and imported into the Lightplot software which then drives a robotic arm to draw the models in the air. The software also controls a DSLR camera to take longRead More…
Ruling in long-standing restitution battle may threaten defence that a purchase was made in good faith. The Art Newspaper writes that: “International dealers have joined forces to lobby against potential US legislation that could haveRead More…
“In a surge of bidding unprecedented in art market history, Christie’s Tuesday evening sale of contemporary art took in $388.5 million, the highest amount ever in that field.” The New York Times: “A world auctionRead More…
“A statue representing the birth of the Romanian nation has been greeted with derision by the public and critics”, the BBC reports. The sculpture, unveiled outside Bucharest’s National History Museum, portrays a naked Roman emperorRead More…
Indonesian-Chinese farming tycoon Budi Tek poses in front of a painting by Gerhard Richter during an auction preview in Hong Kong. Tek is set to open the De Museum in Shanghai next year featuring AsianRead More…
Arii Matamoe (known in English as The Chief Is Asleep or The Royal End) is “the sort of painting Gauguin had in mind when he wrote to a painter friend … from Papeete, ‘My canvasesRead More…
“The Eagleman Stag is a rare feat of short filmmaking. Resolutely strange, mysteriously beautiful, Michael Please’s Royal College of Art dissertation + recent BAFTA award-winning film is a masterpiece of both conceptual and technical prowess.Read More…
The Afghan Box Camera Project provides a record of the kamra-e-faoree (instant camera) which as a living form of photography is on the brink of disappearing in Afghanistan. In this video, Qalam Nabi, one ofRead More…
