by News | Nov 10, 2018 | Potentials of Art
Written by: Javier Pes, November / 2018 / A sculpture the Met bought more than 50 years ago tops the kingdom’s most-wanted list. Thailand has stepped up its efforts to reclaim bronze and stone sculptures that have been in US museum collections for decades. The...
by News | Oct 16, 2018 | Potentials of Art
Written by Eileen Kinsella / 2018 / When Charles White died in 1979 at age 61, he was reasonably famous. His work was in 49 museums, he had won 39 awards, and he had been the subject of 48 books and 53 one-man shows. The artist Benny Andrews said in his obituary that...
by News | Oct 12, 2018 | Potentials of Art
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, better known as Michelangelo, is one of the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance period (between the 14th and 16th centuries AD). The Renaissance marked the transition from the Medieval period to the Early Modern...
by News | Sep 30, 2018 | Potentials of Art
The portrait is likely of a day laborer that worked on the grounds of the asylum where the troubled artist stayed near the end of his life. By Jason Daley/ September / 2018 / After Vincent Van Gogh sliced off most of his ear in 1888, his friends and family convinced...
by News | Sep 27, 2018 | Potentials of Art
Think twice before copying Tyson’s tattoo. Photo: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters / By Shontavia Johnson / More than 20 percent of all Americans have at least one tattoo, and for millennials that number jumps to almost 40 percent. What could be more intimately a part of you...
by News | Sep 15, 2018 | Potentials of Art
Authors: Yasmin Gunaratnam / Reader in Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London and Vicki Bell / Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London / The opening to John Berger’s most famous written work, the 1972 book Ways of Seeing, offered not just an...
