Over 160 paintings are on display in Beijing as part of a charity exhibition promoting children's creativity and imagination.These paintings were chosen from a pool of over 1,000 paintings from across China, including from rural places such as Guizhou Province in the southwest. The exhibition, co-organized by the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art and the…
The Shortlist Is in for the 2021 Edition of the BMW Art Journey. And the Nominees Are…
The winning artist will be granted with the exciting opportunity to travel anywhere in the world to conduct research and create new work.
May 21, 2021
BMW Art Journey shortlisted artists Julien Creuzet, Alice Wang, and Kelvin Kyung Kun Park. Photos courtesy BMW and the artists.
Art Basel and BMW have announced the 2021 shortlist of the BMW Art Journey, the world-renown prize that honors a young or mid-career artist with an exciting opportunity.
The BMW Art Journey can take an artist almost anywhere in the world to research, to network, and to envision and create new work. Artists showing in Art Basel’s selection for emerging artists in Hong Kong are eligible for the BMW Art Journey. “Our inspiration was to create a unique art award: to offer an experience allowing creativity to unfold on the road, like a mobile studio. Together with our long-term partner. Art Basel, we are very much lo
Bonaparte on the Bridge of Arcola, November 17, 1796 (1796-97) by Antoine-Jean Gros Josse Fine Art/Diomedia Images
Napoleon’s Plunder and the Theft of Veronese’s Feast, Cynthia Saltzman, Thames & Hudson (US: Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
, 320pp, £25 (hb)
The fact that a number of the world-famous works housed at the Musée du Louvre were looted by Napoleon Bonaparte has perhaps slipped under the radar for lovers of the Parisian museum.
Napoleon’s Plunder charts Bonaparte’s ransacking of Italy and Spain, among other countries, in the late 18th century, exploring “one of the most spectacular art appropriation campaigns in history”. The looted haul of masterpieces by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Titian were displayed at the Louvre in a powerful show of the emperor’s strength (some works were returned to their home countries after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815). In 1797, Napoleon removed
Lights On: Art at the Noor Riyadh Festival
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The rapidly growing state-supported arts infrastructure in Saudi Arabia tends to overshadow the lesser-known history of independent artist-led initiatives. The pioneering modernist Mohammed Alsaleem, for example, is known for establishing Dar Al Funoon Al Sa’udiyyah (The Saudi Art House) in Riyadh in 1979, the first space where artists could gather, work, mentor each other, and stage exhibitions at a time when there were no art schools or galleries. The Kingdom has gone through various stages in its cultural development from the 1960’s oil boom, a time of artistic productivity and government scholarships to study art abroad, to the tumultuous late 1970s of Islamic militancy and religious conservatism until the 2000s. “The 1960s was a time when art flourished in the Kingdom. In Riyadh, exhibitions by modernist painters were held in football clubs in order to engage the public,” says Raneem Farsi, an expert