As is its annual practice, Pantone has chosen the color of the year for 2024 – a color meant to give you a warm feel. Pantone 13-1023 Peach Fuzz is a pinkish-orange hue that evokes feelings of tenderness and compassion while conveying a sense of caring and community. Find out more here.
Russian feminist performance arts collective Pussy Riot will be the subject of a new scripted TV series about its co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova. The activist is an outspoken critic of Putin and, earlier this year, was placed on Russia's most wanted list for creating “obscene” NFTs. Find out more here.
Visitors to New York's Rockefeller Center will now have the opportunity to recreate the iconic 1932 photograph, “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” that captured construction workers eating while sitting on a metal beam 800 feet in the air. Find out more here.
The list of 50 nominees, which includes the Royal Treasury Museum and the Archaeological Center of Rua dos Correeiros, in Lisbon, and the Covilhã Museum among those nominated for the European Museum of the Year award, was published at the beginning of December on the website ' official of the European Museum Forum, responsible for organizing the award. Find out more here.
Oxford-born, Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist Jesse Darling has won the Turner Prize, considered the UK's most prestigious artistic honor and accompanied by a grant of £25,000. Find out more here.
Artist and activist Nan Goldin topped “ArtReview’s” Power 100 list for 2023, jumping several notches from her eighth spot on last year’s list. The magazine states that this year's list is “dominated by artists who use their platforms not only to discuss freedom, but also to practice it, intervening through actions and also words (and images) in the pressing issues and social policies of the current moment.” Find out more here.
A full portrait painted by Spanish painter Diego Velázquez of Queen Isabel de Borbón, wife of King Philip IV of Spain, is expected to fetch US$35 million when it is auctioned at Sotheby's New York in February 2024. Find out more here.
A mural by anonymous street artist Banksy, critical of Brexit, has been officially demolished along with the dilapidated building where it was painted. Authorities have now promised to rescue at least some of the remains. Find out more here.
Russian artist Nadya Tolokonnikova, co-founder of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot, was arrested in absentia in Moscow on charges of “insulting the religious feelings of believers”. Tolokonnikova, who currently lives outside Russia, will face immediate two-month detention if she returns to her home country. Find out more here.
The works, which were presented in 2014 in an exhibition at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam, arrived at the Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine, the Kiev institution said. Find out more here.
The painting 'Construction', by Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, will go up for auction in December, in Paris, with an estimate of between 200 and 300 thousand euros, auctioneer Christie's announced today. Find out more here.
FLAD launches the Flechada program, which aims to support artists between the ages of 24 and 31 in starting their career, financing up to 5 grants with a maximum of 10 thousand euros each so that they can organize their first solo exhibition. Applications for this program are open until January 25, 2024. Find out more here.
“Napoleon” (2023), by Ridley Scott, his latest feature film - which was considered the “best since Gladiator” - was released this week in theaters. Find out more here.
The left-handed Fender Mustang guitar, "the favorite" of the Nirvana frontman, used on Nirvana's last tour in 1993-1994, was sold at auction for more than 1.5 million dollars (about 1.3 million euros), said Julien's Auctions, in a statement released on Friday. Find out more here.