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Sharjah Art Foundation and The Africa Institute to Co-host Global Museum Launch Middle Ea… Sharjah Art Foundation and The Africa Institute to Co-host Global Museum Launch Middle East Premiere of White Cube (2020) Published April 13th, 2021 - 07:36 GMT Renzo Marten, White Cube (still), 2020. Digital video, colour, sound. 79 minutes. Image courtesy of Renzo Marten. Copyright © Human Activities, 2020 Highlights Taking place online on 17 April 2021, the Middle East premiere features the screening and virtual discussions with the director and scholars Sharjah Art Foundat...

Principal Investigator CHRISTINE FERGUSON is a Professor in English Literature at the University of Stirling, where her research focuses on the entwined histories of the literary gothic and the British occult revival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Her publications include the books Determined Spirits: Eugenics, Heredity, and Racial Regeneration in Angl0-American Spiritualist Writing 1848-1930 (2012) and Language, Science, and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin de Siècle (2006); she is the editor of Spiritualism, Health, Race, and Human Variation (2014), a volume in Ro...

Published Jan. 22, 2021Updated Jan. 26, 2021 In the small, sun-scorched town of Cloncurry, Australia, the artist Gordon Hookey grew up very much aware of Madison Square Garden. “It was in the psyche of most Aboriginal people, because of boxing,” says Hookey, 59, who belongs to the Waanyi people. “In the early days, boxing was a means for young Aboriginal men — an opportunity for achievement against the background of racism and inequalities.” Nearly 10,000 miles away in New York, the artist Gary Simmons, 56, grew up as an avid athlete and sports fan, often attending games at Madison ...

Landmark new commission by Nathan Coley revealed on Liverpool's World Heritage Waterfront From Here, 2020, by Nathan Coley, St George’s Dock Pumping Station, Mann Island, Liverpool © Photography by Mark McNulty. LIVERPOOL .- The installation From Here, 2020 is a co-commission between Liverpool Biennial and Culture Liverpool and is the latest in a series of high-profile outdoor artworks on the waterfront following 2018’s Liverpool Mountain by Ugo Rondinone. The text-based light sculpture is made up of the words From Here, All the Worlds Futures, From Here, All the Worlds Pasts. Inspired by...

The First Art Newspaper on the Net   by Doreen Carvajal (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- For more than 70 years, Léone Meyer’s family has fought to reclaim a looted painting, and yet she cannot bear the thought of displaying it in her Left Bank home, across from the River Seine. The small work, by Camille Pissarro, shows a shepherdess tending her flock, and hangs not far away at the Musée d’Orsay, with other precious French impressionist paintings. But the peaceful countryside scene from 1886 is fraught with a backstory of plunder, family tragedy and legal battles that stretch from Paris to Oklahom...