Last year, Independent New York launched the inaugural edition of its sister fair, Independent 20th Centuryheld at the Battery Maritime Building in downtown New York, highlighting art and artists from …
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Brooklyn Museum Director Anne Pasternak Applauds Critics of ‘It’s Pablo-Matic’ Show + Other Stories
Art Industry News is a daily summary of the most important developments in the art world and the art market. Here’s what you need to know this Friday, June 30. …
Stone Age humans in the Levant created tiny flutes from delicate bird bones, archaeologists say
Archaeologists working in the Levant believe that the advanced stage hunter-gatherers flutes carved with finger holes from waterfowl bones to imitate the cries of birds of prey. The theory, published …
A pair of collectors have spent decades amassing more than 4,000 historic photos of men in love. See images of the tender, now on display in Geneva
More than 20 years ago, Hugh Nini and his partner Neal Treadwell were rummaging through an antique store in Dallas, Texas, when they came across a 1920s photo of a …
A Helsinki deputy mayor was arrested painting graffiti in a train tunnel
Paavo Arhinmäki, one of four deputy mayors of Helsinki, Finland, may have a future ahead of him as a graffiti artist if he’s ever done being a politician. He apologized …
Historians slam Philadelphia’s Museum of the American Revolution for hosting ‘dangerous’ right-wing group
Historians across the country are denouncing the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia for renting its building to Moms for Liberty, a controversial “parents’ rights” organization that opponents say …
7 questions to Diana de Solares on finding inspiration in myth and eros for her solo exhibition in Guatemala City
Working mainly in the field of sculpture, Diana of Solares (born 1952) uses a range of ready-made and found materials to explore space as a cohesive whole and answer the …
Björk’s iconic swan dress, which once stole the Oscars red carpet, will headline a London show of daring fashion designs
The swan dress Björk wore to the 2001 Oscars was delightfully provocative, even by the musician’s standards, especially when a large egg fell from it. Controversial at first, the design …
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso. To mark the occasion, an international event called Picasso Celebration was organised, with 50 museums around the world …
Bea Scaccia’s otherworldly paintings of rising talent capture the harmony and tension between beauty and monstrosity
Fairy tale by French author Charles Perrault from 1695 donkey skin is a story of how women sometimes have to become monstrous to survive. A beautiful queen’s dying wish is …