Renowned London fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner has been chosen to curate the sixteenth iteration of MOMA's Artist's Choice exhibition series. Wales Bonner will select approximately fifty works from the New York institution's collection, which will appear in the museum's street galleries from November 18 of this year to April 7, 2024. Learn more here.
Books and jazz memorabilia belonging to late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts will be auctioned in a two-part auction in September
In the second half of 2023, Culturgest celebrates its 30th anniversary with several national premieres and a new exhibition space. Environmental crimes, political-sexual approaches, gender and identity issues, emptying versus overpopulation of territories or the place of the Earth in the Universe are some of the themes addressed in this season. Learn more here.
Two decades in the making, the Charleston International African American Museum is open to the public. The museum building serves as a memorial to the approximately 100,000 enslaved Africans who passed through the site.
The exhibition 'do not suffer more', by the Icelandic Ragnar Kjartansson, in Coimbra, will be open for more than 24 hours uninterruptedly, between Saturday and Sunday, in a special program for its closing, with concerts, visits and performances.
The Museum of Contemporary Art/CCB will open its doors on October 28th with the presentation of the collections in deposit – the Berardo Collection, the Ellipse Collection and the Teixeira de Freitas Collection, as well as a solo exhibition by the Belgian artist Berlinde de Bruyckere. Learn more here.
The Manhattan property where Andy Warhol It is Jean-Michel Basquiat lived and worked will be occupied by actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie.
Entry for Portuguese people and residents of Portugal to museums and monuments will once again be free on Sundays and public holidays throughout the day.
The Warhol Foundation yesterday announced the forty-nine recipients of its spring 2023 grants. The foundation will award more than $4 million to arts organizations and institutions spread across twenty states and the District of Columbia, as well as one in Mexico City and another in Stockholm. Nineteen of those receiving funding are first-time beneficiaries. Find out more here.
Based on the phrase «My Body Is Your Body», a reinterpretation by Rui Órfão based on the work of Ernesto de Sousa, the Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra launches a challenge to the artistic community, from which it will select three new artistic projects which will coexist at CAPC Headquarters for three months. Find out more here.
A special edition of Charles and Ray Eames' innovative 1950 Shell chair gets a reissue - complete with its original design. The chair was a collaboration between Charles and Ray Eames and legendary 'New Yorker' illustrator Saul Steinberg. Find out more here.
Bonhams Paris offered the art collection of iconic French actor Alain Delon in an auction that more than doubled its pre-sale estimate for a total of US$8.8 million. Find out more here.
The "Lady with a Fan" painting by Gustav Klimt It was auctioned by Sotheby's in London for more than 86 million euros. Find out more here.