Christie’s First 21st Day Sale in Hong Kong Sees Middling Result (kaamsechitrakaar)
The day after Christie’s inaugurated its new Hong Kong headquarters with a $134 million evening 20th/21st century art sale, reality bit for the house, as its first 21st Century day sale brought in just ...
“Odyssey” by Photographer Pauline Köhlen (kaamsechitrakaar)
A visual exploration of time, space, and self by Rotterdam-based photographer Pauline Köhlen. Fluctuating between documentary and fiction, Köhlen’s work grapples with the interplay between the self and the spaces in which it emerges ...
Olafur Eliasson Gets Lost in the Disconnect Between Science and Spectacle (kaamsechitrakaar)
Olafur Eliasson’s survey “Your Curious Journey” announces the artist’s environmentalist priorities in the opening work: a series of before-and-after photographs of Icelandic glaciers titled “The Glacier Melt Series 1999/2019.” Images taken in 1999 and ...
“This Alabaster Grave” by Photographer Cengiz Yar (kaamsechitrakaar)
A collection of images exploring the destruction and pain faced by the Iraqi city of Mosul by documentary photographer and editor Cengiz Yar. Currently based in El Paso, Texas, Yar’s work focuses on mass ...
Activists Denounce Paris Museum After Tibetan Exhibits Renamed (kaamsechitrakaar)
On Saturday, Tibetan activists convened outside the Musée Guimet in Paris to protest the museum’s decision to replace exhibition materials that identify certain artifacts as Tibetan by replacing it with the Chinese name for ...
“Sowing Rice with Salt” by Photographer Kyle Lui (kaamsechitrakaar)
A series exploring how immigration affects the relationship dynamics between generations by Chinese-American photographer Kyle Lui. Based in New York City, Lui’s work focuses on the intimacies and sutures within families and communities, with ...
Whitney Museum Names Nikita Gale 2024 Winner of Bucksbaum Award (kaamsechitrakaar)
Nikita Gale, a Los Angeles–based artist best known for installations that mesh unexpected elements, pairing video and sound equipment with industrial materials like concrete and metal barricades, has been named the winner of the ...
Ai Weiwei Sculpture Purposefully Broken During Exhibition Opening (kaamsechitrakaar)
A man destroyed a porcelain sculpture by Ai Weiwei seemingly on purpose during the opening reception of an exhibition dedicated to the Chinese dissident artist on Friday evening in Italy.
The destroyed work was Ai’s ...
French Heritage Sites Had ‘Pre-Covid’ Level of Visitors in 2023 (kaamsechitrakaar)
A new study shows that attendance at French museums, monuments and other heritage sites have recovered to pre-pandemic levels with 46.8 million visitors in 2023.
According to the latest edition of the Patrimostat, the annual ...
UMichigan Museum of Art Seeks To Deaccession Buddha Statue to Nepal (kaamsechitrakaar)
The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) is seeking to deaccession a 9th-century stone Buddha to allow for its repatriation it to Nepal.
UMMA said it had “determined that deaccessioning and repatriating the ...