UK New Year’s Honours 2021: awards for artists Michael Landy and Denzil Forrester

June 3, 2019

Stephen Deuchar, former director of Tate Britain who led the Art Fund charity from 2010 to early 2020, has been made a knight in the Queen’s New Year UK Honours list for 2021. Christopher le Brun, who stepped down as president of the Royal Academy…

LeRoy Neiman’s knockout sketches of Rocky on show at legendary Brooklyn gym

June 3, 2019

LeRoy Neiman’s sketches pack a punch—quite literally. The late US artist—known for his kitsch expressionistic paintings of bruised boxers dodging jabs or throwing hooks—spent hours on the set of the Rocky films starring Sylvester Stallone, sketching the stars and the scenes from this popular cinematic tale of…

Building a picture of the pandemic: Smithsonian curators capture Covid-19 in real time

June 3, 2019

“Right now the ground is moving, and we don’t have the answers,” reflects the artist Mark Bradford in a Zoom recording captured as part of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art’s new Pandemic Project—a collection of 85 interviews with artists and arts workers about their…

‘The well is drying up’—rare Rembrandt biblical work could fetch $30m at Sotheby’s next month

June 3, 2019

Measuring just 16cm by 21cm, Rembrandt van Rijn’s Abraham and the Angels (1646) may be diminutive in size, but its price tag is anything but. Last publicly sold for £64 in 1848, the Old Testament oil painting is now expected to make $20m to $30m at Sotheby’s in…

Artist David Medalla—the kinetic art pioneer known for his Cloud Canyons foam sculptures—has died, aged 82

June 3, 2019

Filipino artist David Medalla, who once described himself as a “poet who celebrates physics”, has died at the age of 82. Medalla’s partner and collaborator, Adam Nankervis, confirmed his death in a Facebook post, saying that many artists were “inspired by his genius as an…

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