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President Barack Obama's visit to China this week inevitably invites comparisons between the world’s two leading powers. You know what they say: Britain owned the 19th century, America owned the 20th century, and, it’s all but certain that China will...
Tags: America, China, Seattle, Art, Imagine, Cognition, Imagination, Psychology
The Ancient Origins of Debate about Cultural Property by Margaret M...Should cultural treasures , acquired under dubious circumstances, be returned to their places of origin? A review of African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity...
Tags: New York, Banksy, The arts, Work of art, Aesthetics, Conceptual art, Art
There are no sharp suits, silly haircuts or bold spectacle frames. Instead, the queue snaking outside the Royal College of Art (RCA) is made up of a motley group – bleary-eyed and unshaven – dressed in woolly jumpers and waterproof jackets. They are...
Tags: Chris Corbett, Grayson Perry, Gerhard Richter, United Kingdom, London, Postcard, Art, Conceptual artists, Women artists, Tracey Emin
For years, I'd been searching for just the right artistic statement for the spot at the bottom of my stairs -- something to brighten my mood when I stumbled down bleary-eyed in the morning, and calm me as I headed upstairs to bed at night. The Inglewood...
Tags: art walk, Inglewood, Hospitality Recreation, Inglewood California, Graffiti, Art
A new exhibition at the Stroganov Palace titled �The Modern Art of India: Pictorial Trajectories,� traces the development of modern Indian art with selected pieces from the late 19th century through to the beginning of the 21st century.
Tags: Indian, British East India Company, St. Petersburg Times, India, Mumbai, Art, Indian painting, Indian art, Abanindranath Tagore, Raja Ravi Varma
Untitled (Cowboys #8) (1980-84) by Richard Prince, Ektacolor print Where it is: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Why we like it: It is almost impossible not to be drawn into this photograph by the centrifugal force of its portrayed action.
Tags: Hungary, Budapest, Kati Marton, Peter Jennings, Art, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Centrifugal force, Lasso, Human Interest
Robert Macfarlane, in The Wild Places, writes, "I had been told that if you climb Ben Hope on the summer solstice and spent a clear night on the summit, you will never lose sight of the sun." Figuratively speaking, this is what the arts do for us – they...
Tags: Richard Eyre, Keats/Bob Dylan, Spain, Madrid, Classificatory disputes about art, Aesthetics, Art, Andy Warhol
Room with a Sea (2008) by Alys Williams, which was on show at the art festival in Hay. Photograph: Open Gallery Beauty – the idea of it, the experience of it, the importance of it – is under the microscope again. BBC4's series, Modern Beauty , is looking...
Tags: contemporary art, art festival, United Kingdom, London, Artists, Fᅢᄅlix Gonzᅢᄀlez-Torres, Institute of Art and Ideas, Conceptual artists, Aesthetics, Art
Inge Reist’s father was not interested in the subject of money. A medievalist in the comp lit department at Columbia, he reserved a “certain disdain for business and the stock market,” according to his daughter, and preferred instead to spend his time...
Tags: Ms. Reist, art history, Frick Collection, art collection, Henry Clay Frick, Columbia, Mr. Brown, Spain, Madrid, New York University Institute of Fine Arts, Collecting, Art
It was a slice of Bohemia in a city of commerce, a gathering of intellectuals striking out against what they see as mindless and saccharin art. Images On Friday night, dozens of artists converged on a small underground gallery off a dark and narrow...
Tags: Thomas Kinkade Paintings, Ron Turner, Carrie Galbraith, San Francisco Cacophony Society, bloodshot eyes, San Francisco, Cottage Gallery, Thomas Kinkade, Art, Monterey County California, Entertainment Culture