How Tłı̨chǫ Dene artist Casey Koyczan blends culture and technology to render a new kind of reality As a teenager, Casey Koyczan asked a question: “Why don’t I just want to do one thing?” Now an established multidisciplinary artist, whose work includes staggering virtual reality (VR) renditions of Dene legends, […]
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ALBUQUERQUE — Many artists with an intimate, lived border experience denounce what they see as outsider extractivist practices that often feed superficial narratives. However, border politics influence many of those who have not necessarily lived along the dividing line, making the ethics of its representation questionable as people from all […]
Zsuzsa Urbach at the Piliscsaba campus, 2003 (Photo by János Jernyei Kiss) It is with great sadness that I report the passing of art historian Zsuzsa (Susan) Urbach, Hungary’s foremost scholar of Early Netherlandish Painting. She was 87 years old. She studied art history and archaeology at Eötvös Loránd University in […]
Charter of King Béla IV, 1256 On August 2, 2021, it was announced at a press conference that the collection of the Hungarian National Archives had been enriched with 520 original charters, which the Hungarian state had purchased from the Batthyány family for a price of 5,6 million EUR. This […]
Photo of Tünde Wehli, taken at the celebration of her 70th birthday, 2013 It is with sadness that I report on the passing of art historian Tünde Wehli, on November 18, 2019, in the 76th year of her life. Tünde Wehli had been a long-time senior researcher at the Institute […]
Judith Lauand, a key figure of the Brazilian Concretist movement, has died at the age of 100, according to the Museo de Arte de São Paulo, which is currently hosting a retrospective devoted to her. Lauand, the only woman in the pioneering Grupo Ruptura, made sparse compositions where geometric rigor worked in service of celebrating […]
Max Beckmann’s Selbstbildnis gelb-rosa (Self-portrait yellow-pink), 1943, was sold at Grisebach in Berlin on Thursday.* Photo: Urban Zintel. IT TOOK TWO MINUTES and forty-eight seconds to settle on twenty million euros as the hammer price of the most expensive artwork ever sold in Germany. It was a self-portrait by Max […]
This holiday season, visit The Broad! Take your friends and family to experience the new immersive and multi-sensory special exhibition William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows. Surveying 35 years of the celebrated South African artist’s practice, the show features over 130 works and includes all 18 works from the Broad […]
Colossal December 12, 2022 Colossal Still from Phoebe Wahl and Andrea Love’s stop-motion music video for Ingrid Michaelson and Zooey Deschanel’s “Merry Christmas, Happy New Year” This holiday season, give the gift of daily creative inspiration with a Colossal Membership. We love sharing the work of the most exciting […]
Anthony Akinbola employs an interdisciplinary practice that includes paintings and installations bringing attention to his community as a first-generation Nigerian American who identifies with Black culture. Undeterred by cultural misconceptions of Black American life, Akinbola uses visual art to focus on access and inclusion by encouraging audiences to recognize our […]