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British street artist Endless presents his donation to Uffizi director Eike Schmidt. Photo courtesy of Uffizi Galleries In a puzzling move, Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, renowned for its unparalleled collection of Italian Renaissance masterpieces, has accepted the donation of a piece by contemporary British street artist Endless. The artist, who does not appear to have ever had a museum exhibition, is a strange fit for a collection best known for such art historical luminaries as Sandro Botticelli, Raphael, and Leonardo da Vinci. Nevertheless, Uffizi director Eike Schmidt summoned a great deal of enthusiasm for the piece at an event unveiling the unlikely acquisition. ....
Michelle F. Solomon ( Artburst Miami) reviews “Illuminate Coral Gables,” featuring installations on view from February 12 to March 14, 2021, in downtown Coral Gables, Florida. Caribbean-rooted representation includes co-curator Rosie Gordon Wallace (Jamaica) and artists Carlos Estévez (Cuban born, Miami based), David Gumbs (from Saint Martin, based in Martinique), Sandra Ramos (Cuban born, Miami based), and Antonia Wright (Cuban-American, born and based in Miami). [See previous post Illuminate Coral Gables (Exhibition).] “Illuminate Coral Gables” is a public art exhibit that’s perfect for these times. Opening Feb. 12, this incandescent-and-interactive project is transforming downtown Coral Gables into a free outdoor museum – with newly commissioned and existing works by local, national and international artists curated to engage with some of the city’s most preeminent landmarks. ....
Ten of the best art documentaries to watch right now With many museums temporarily shuttered, now is a great time to catch up on some of the superb films that have been made about art and artists. Spanning London, Beijing and New York, Picasso, Basquiat and Stella, here are 10 of our favourites 1 Jacqueline Weld spent the summers of 1978 and 1979 interviewing Peggy Guggenheim, gathering material for her biography of the revolutionary art patron, Peggy: The Wayward Guggenheim. The tapes, however, were lost and never heard by the public. When the director Lisa Immordino Vreeland set out to make a film about Guggenheim decades later, she never dreamt of discovering them. But during a fortuitous visit to Weld’s apartment, Vreeland found them languishing in a basement, in a box full of books. The recordings became the framework of this compelling documentary. ....
Singapore was also a hotbed of creativity in the Sixties, though its art scene at the time is sadly under-documented. “Several artists were experimental and bold and forced audiences to rethink their ideas and understanding of what art can or should be,” says Charmaine Toh, a curator at the National Gallery Singapore. Only recently did the gallery rediscover the first known examples of land art from the city a series of works by performance artist Tang Da Wu. One piece, Gully Curtains, hadn’t been unpacked since the Eighties. Wu was concerned to see Singapore’s landscape increasingly stripped of trees to build public housing. As a result of soil erosion, deep gullies scarred the land near his home. In response, he climbed into one of these muddy crevices and positioned seven pieces of cloth of different lengths inside it, adding jagged black marks indicating the depth of the ditch. He left the fabric there for three months, inviting nature to collaborate. The resu ....
2020/12/31 14:43 Cai Guo-qiang and HTC Vive Arts launch VR fireworks. (Cai Studio photo) Cai Guo-qiang and HTC Vive Arts launch VR fireworks. (Cai Studio photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Chinese contemporary artist Cai Guo-qiang s (蔡國強) new exhibition featuring a virtual reality collaboration with Taiwan s HTC VIVE Arts kicked off at the Palace Museum in Beijing on Dec. 15, according to a press release from Eslite Gallery. Born in 1957, Cai Guo-qiang currently lives and works in New York City. He is famous for using gunpowder as an artistic medium to apply paint to canvas. His latest retrospective, Odyssey and Homecoming, is curated by Sir Simon Schama, professor of History and Art History at Columbia University and a noted public intellectual. The exhibition was co-organized with the commission for the XXIV Olympic Winter Games. ....