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Article date: Saturday, April 6, 2019

Dan Robbins, Artist Who Invented Paint-by-Numbers Pictures, Dead at 93

Dan Robbins, an artist who created the first paint-by-numbers pictures and helped turn the kits into an American sensation during the 1950s, has died. He was 93. Robbins, whose works were dismissed by some critics but later celebrated by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, died Monday in Sylvania, Ohio, said his son, Larry Robbins.

Article date: Friday, April 5, 2019

Jimmie Durham for Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of La Biennale di Venezia

The acknowledgment will be awarded on Saturday, 11th May 2019 at Ca’ Giustinian, Venice, during the opening of the Biennale Arte.

Article date: Friday, April 5, 2019

Sea Star: Sean Scully at the National Gallery, London

New works by the Irish-born, American-based contemporary artist Sean Scully (b.1945) will be unveiled as part of a major exhibition at the National Gallery this spring. Inspired by the national collection and his love for Joseph Mallord William Turner’s painting The Evening Star, he charts a personal journey of deep admiration for colour, composition, and the power of painting.

Article date: Thursday, April 4, 2019

Zao Wou-Ki Leads China Guardian Spring Auction

Article date: Wednesday, April 3, 2019

The Long Museum in Shanghai Unveils “The World of Saha” by Yu Hong

The Long Museum（West Bund） is proud to present one of China’s most celebrated female artists, Yu Hong, with a large comprehensive survey of her work, “The World of Saha”, curated by Jérôme Sans. The title of the exhibition refers to “The World of Saha”, a Buddhist expression of great importance to Yu Hong’s personal reflection, meaning “the world to be endured”, the world that is ours, and in which anyone who suffers is the prisoner of their own personal desires.

Article date: Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Artist Christo to Wrap Arc de Triomphe in Paris

The Bulgarian-born artist, famous for wrapping the Reichstag in Berlin along with his late wife Jeanne-Claude, will cover the massive monument with 25,000 metres of silvery-blue recyclable material.

Article date: Monday, April 1, 2019

German Artist Thomas Kilpper Joins Callum Innes as First Exhibitors in New £11M Home for Edinburgh Printmakers

Edinburgh Printmakers at Castle Mills, Dundee Street, will open to the public on Saturday 27 April 2019 with The Politics of Heritage vs. the Heritage of Politics by German printmaker Thomas Kilpper, a site specific floor carving commissioned to mark the organisation's move into the major new development and responding to the social history of the building. The new institution for the Scottish capital is the former headquarters of the North British Rubber Company.

Article date: Monday, April 1, 2019

The Danish Golden Age at Stockholm Nationalmuseum

In the spring and summer of 2019, Nationalmuseum will present the exhibition The Danish Golden Age, which comprises the very best of Danish painting from 1800 to 1864. Although Denmark is a neighbour and the two countries share a common art history – the art that shaped Denmark’s image is surprisingly unknown in Sweden.

Article date: Saturday, March 30, 2019

Musée d’Orsay Temporarily Renames Manet’s ‘Olympia’

Paris’ Musee d'Orsay opened ‘Black Models: from Gericault to Metisse.’ Running through July 21st, the exhibition is in the second leg of its installation after debuting at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery last year under the title ‘Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today.’

Article date: Saturday, March 30, 2019

Grayson Perry’s Brexit Vases Acquired by the V&A for “Britain’s Mantlepiece”

The Matching Pair vases by British artist and potter Grayson Perry go on permanent display inthe V&A’s world-famous Ceramics Galleries. Created in 2017 in response to the huge social and political rift caused by Brexit, each vase depicts supporters of Leave and Remain.

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