Hidden Inheritance News Today

Eve Connor ponders the social, political and decorative significance of the limited edition sets of buttons created by leading artists in support of Kettles Yard

Having followed Edmund de Waal’s work as both a writer and an artist ever since the publication of his memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance (2010), and Atemwendeb, his first exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in 2013, I’ve come to realize how Edmund has managed to maintain a remarkable balance between on one hand the making, and on the other hand the writing.

In its 10th year, the Isamu Noguchi Award names Theaster Gates, Edmund de Waal, and Hanya Yanagihara as its recipients.

Like a dream that comes to life, the 264 carved, miniature Japanese carvings (netsuke) we encountered in reading Edmund de Waal’s celebrated memo

In Mount Jerome cemetery, not far from Dublin’s Grand Canal at Harold’s Cross, the epitaph on one gravestone reads: “Artist and Friend of the Poor....

On display at a new exhibit from celebrated ceramicist Edmund de Waal are 264 heirloom netsuke, or small figurines, that were hidden during the Holocaust and date back to the 1870s