Marina Abramović. Photo Stefano Guidi/Getty Images Glastonbury, the widely attended music festival in England, generally makes a lot of noise, and this year will be no different, with fans there to see acts such as SZA, Coldplay, Paul McCartney, Avril Lavigne, and many more. But artist Marina Abramović will also be on hand to cut …
Marilyn Monroe, 1954. Photo Baron/Hulton Archive/Getty Images The Headlines MARILYN MONROE’S MANSION in Los Angeles has been declared a landmark in a bid to save it from demolition by its owners, according to Variety. On Wednesday, the Los Angeles City Council designated Monroe’s 1929 Spanish Colonial house a historical cultural monument, in an unanimously approved decision. The actress lived …
David Hockney asleep in the transit lounge at Dubai Airport, 1977. Courtesy of Lyndsay Ingram. The tale of the artiste maudit is often spun to inject mystery and intrigue into the lives of great painters, that image of a tortured soul working all hours for peanuts, fingers worn to paint-splattered bone, barely sustained on a …
Peruvian artist Violeta Quispe Courtesy of La Biennale de Venezia Deep within the cavernous Arsenale di Venezia, amidst hundreds of works on view at the 60th edition of the Biennale, two paintings by Peruvian artist Violeta Quispe offer an invitation into a queer, gender-breaking multiverse. The works — El Matrimonio de la Chola (2022) and …
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Bertille Bak. Courtesy the artist In Bertille Bak’s five-part video installation Mineur Mineur (2022), children from Bolivia, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, and Thailand pretend to get dressed to go for work in the mines. Then these kid performers act out their labor, getting dressed in mining gear before heading off to their jobs and waving their …
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Barcelona, Spain Jim Bennett/Getty Images. Barcelona, the crown jewel of the Catalonia region of Spain, is a city that weaves an enchanting tapestry of culture, art, history, and of course food. Nestled along a sun-kissed Mediterranean shore, this vibrant city mesmerizes visitors. I’m admittedly biased, Barcelona having been a favorite city of mine for years …
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Niamh Lynch and Rajan Naidu of Just Stop Oil spray orange powder paint on the Stonehenge monument. Courtesy of Just Stop Oil To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES STONEHENGE VANDALISM. Two Just Stop Oil climate activists sprayed orange powder paint on Stonehenge on Wednesday, reports Harrison Jacobs for ARTnews. The two demonstrators …
Niamh Lynch and Rajan Naidu of Just Stop Oil spray orange powder paint on the Stonehenge monument. Courtesy of Just Stop Oil Two protesters with Just Stop Oil sprayed Stonehenge in England with orange powder paint on Wednesday, according to a video posted by the activist group on X. The protesters, identified as 21-year-old Oxford …
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MIAMI, FLORIDA – APRIL 01: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks about a toll highway relief program during a press conference held at the Greater Miami Expressway Agency on April 01, 2024, in Miami, Florida. The Governor announced a second consecutive year of a Toll Relief Program, which is expected to cut the toll rates of …
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Ron DeSantis. Photo Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The Headlines FLORIDA SLASHES ARTS BUDGET. Governor Ron DeSantis has vetoed over $32 million in arts and culture grants that had already been approved by the state legislature for next year’s budget, according to the Tampa Bay Times. The cuts to two arts grants programs that support nonprofits throughout the …
