Visual arts
AI, Africa and climate crisis star at Art Basel fair
Climate change, migration, artificial intelligence, perspectives on Africa and combating nationalism take center-stage this year at Art Basel, the world's top contemporary art fair.
Concrete daisies? There’s a fine for that
SANT FELIU DE GUÍXOLS, Spain - On a recent afternoon, Jo Farb Hernández, a Californian folklorist and curator, was admiring the bizarre structure that stood before her near Spain's border with France. Flowerlike concrete appendages rose to the sun, bejeweled with glass, marbles and shards of old pots.
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Takashi Murakami loves and fears AI
Neo-pop art superstar Takashi Murakami has always embraced new technology and was an early adopter of crypto and NFTs, but even he admits fearing that AI might make him obsolete.
Murakami, 61, has become a brand unto himself thanks to his loveable technicolor paintings that mix traditional Japanese art motifs with modern anime and manga.
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Francoise Gilot, the woman who dumped Picasso
France's Francoise Gilot, who died on June 6 aged 101, survived what she called the "hell" of being Spanish artist Pablo Picasso's mistress and muse to become a renowned artist in her own right.
The Picasso Museum in Paris confirmed her death to AFP, after the New York Times reported Gilot had passed away following recent heart and lung ailments.
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Hit Vermeer show ends in Amsterdam
Amsterdam's famous Rijksmuseum drew the curtain on June 4 on its "most successful" exhibition featuring paintings of Dutch master Johannes Vermeer, saying hundreds of thousands of art lovers flocked to the capital for the blockbuster show.
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Exhibit offers Picasso through feminist lens
Fifty years after art icon Pablo Picasso's death, his legacy is reassessed by comedian Hannah Gadsby in a Brooklyn Museum exhibition in New York, this time through a contemporary, feminist lens.
In her 2018 Netflix special "Nanette," Gadsby expressed "hate" for the Spanish master of Cubism and the creator of works like "Guernica" and "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon."
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2000-year-old fountain supplies water after restoration
A 2,000-year-old fountain that was discovered to have been active up to the seventh century is now once more supplying water in the Ancient City of Kibyra in Burdur after a recent restoration.
Opposition protest: Threats to Vučić and an incident in front of the Assembly VIDEO
The route followed by the crowd was different than the previous time.
Those gathered walked from the Assembly, through Slavija, to the Presidency at Andricev venac.
In front of the Presidency
The protesters marched down the route to form the ring around the presidency building.
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Transfer of holy icon shows Russian Orthodoxy’s new sway under Putin
President Vladimir Putin's decision to move one of Russia's holiest icons from a museum to a Moscow cathedral highlights his growing reliance on the Church as the Ukraine war drags on, but has also raised fears about the safety of the fragile artifact.
Bulgaria: The Monument to the Soviet Army in Sofia was again covered with Red Paint
The monument to the Soviet Army in the center of Sofia has been painted again.
One of its compositions is filled with red paint, which also splashed the space around the monument.
On the central part of the monument in red letters is written - DISMANTLE.
This is another attack on the monument, which periodically causes protests "for" and "against" its removal.