Members of four organizations march in support of United Farm Workers at Denver’s Denargo market in 1967. Photo Dave Mathias/The Denver Post via Getty Images The Chicano Art Movement represents a kaleidoscopic convergence of aesthetics and politics. When examined at a distance, it can be misunderstood as a singular, cohesive movement with a clearly defined …
“Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya: Skinchangers: Begotten of My Flesh,” 2024, at Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Ohio. Courtesy Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland One’s eye typically skates right over the list of materials on the caption for an artwork, since the verbiage used—“oil on canvas,” “ink on paper,” and the like—tends to be more perfunctory …
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Daniela Hritcu for ARTnews In the summer of 1924, the roses of France turned a shade of blue. Wood became glass, and words transfigured into beings, rapping at windows to let people know they were there. That, at least, was how André Breton described the state of things in the first version of his famed …
Eikoh Hosoe (at right) with Mikhail Baryshnikov. Photo Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images Eikoh Hosoe, a Japanese photographer who blazed a new trail for his medium with his taboo-testing pictures about invisible worlds, has died at 91. The Japanese agency Kyodo News reported his death last week, saying that he died in Tokyo of complications related to …
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Hajra Waheed, Hum II, 2023, installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15. ©Hajra Waheed/Courtesy the artist and mor charpentier The Sharjah Art Foundation has announced the artists participating in the 16th Sharjah Biennial, set to run from February 6, through June 15, 2025. The exhibition, one of the premier international showcases of its kind, will feature …
Elizabeth Street Garden. via Google Images. The Elizabeth Street Garden, a communal outdoor space in downtown Manhattan, has been served a two-week eviction notice by New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development after a lengthly legal dispute. The notice comes three months after a legal ruling in July allowing the city to move …
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The same art gallery which sold the print helped identify it as stolen. Courtesy of US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California A man has pled guilty to a federal charge of trafficking after trying to sell a stolen Andy Warhol print of Vladimir Lenin to an auction house. A press release from …
Inigo Philbrick (L) in 2016 before he was sent to prison for the biggest art fraud in US history. courtesy Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Inigo Philbrick, the disgraced art dealer who committed the largest art fraud in American history, may have been released from prison but his crimes still resonate. On Tuesday, a US …
Conservatory at Natural History Museum in Paris. Getty Images On Thursday, the culture ministers of France and Madagascar announced a joint effort to begin the process of repatriating human remains seized while the African nation was under French colonial rule. Officials from both countries revealed the appointment of a joint scientific committee to conduct a …
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Tsherin Sherpa, “Tiger Saddle,” 2024, Highland Tibetan wool and Chinese silk, warp, cotton, 122 x 182 cm. Image Courtesy of the artist and Rossi & Rossi; Photo by Raj Bhai Suwal At Art Basel Hong Kong this past March, the Nepali artist Tsherin Sherpa unveiled his latest installation, a 30-foot-long runner woven by artisans from …
