Join an icy plunge in Helsinki
Guide Kati Pankka.
On a virtual trip to Helsinki, Intrepid tour leader Kati Pankka will guide you around a private lakeside sauna. Pankka’s insights into traditional Finnish spa rituals include her taking an ice swim which, combined with sauna in winter, locals believe is a mood-booster with potential health benefits. The tour is part of a recent launch of 15 interactive virtual experiences by Intrepid’s Urban Adventures team, intended to help support its cohort of local guides during the pandemic. Sessions are conducted on Zoom in real time, many of them in the guide’s home. Other options include Mandala art and meditation in Delhi, and Polish pierogi-making with a Kraków cook.
Plus, Damien Hirst puts his art on ice in Switzerland and technology is revolutionizing art authentication.
January 8, 2021
Supporters of US President Donald Trump sit inside the office of US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as the protest inside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 6, 2021. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images.
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Friday, January 8.
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Artists React to the Riots in DC – Artists including Dread Scott, Glenn Ligon, and Marilyn Minter were among the many public figures condemning the pro-Trump rioters who stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday afternoon. Photographs from inside the august building showed chaos and destruction with nary an arrest in view, and many artists compared the surreal images to those at Black Lives Matter protests, where peaceful demonstrators were often maced, kettled,
Members of law enforcement rest beneath Robert Walter Weir s painting Embarkation of the Pilgrims (around 1837) in the rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Photo: Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images
In the minutes and hours after a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol in Washington, DC yesterday, leading art world figures took to social media to express their anger and dismay at scenes including videos showing police opening barricades to rioters and posing for selfies with perpetrators.
Some commentators stressed the contrast between the law enforcement reaction to the mob breaking into the Capitol and the massive show of police force for Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the capital last year. The US artist Dread Scott summed up the sentiment in an Instagram story: “People in DC protesting the police lynching of George Floyd get maced and beaten. Fascists storming the US Capitol during an attempted coup get a welcome mat. Any questions?”
Popular TMA exhibitions to close Jan. 3 & 17, respectively Published by twalro@presspub. on Sat, 01/02/2021 - 5:47am
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Judith Schaechter’s “The Battle of Carnival and Lent” is among the pieces on display in the exhibit, “The Path to Paradise,” which is closing its run at the Toledo Museum of Art on Jan. 3. (Photo courtesy of the Toledo Museum of Art)
Two exhibitions on view at the Toledo Museum of Art will close in January.
“The Path to Paradise: Judith Schaechter’s Stained-Glass Art,” featuring an artist who turns stained glass on its head by using new techniques and exploring thought-provoking subjects – often with a feminist sensibility – will close on Sunday, Jan. 3.