“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.
The 47th edition of CINANIMA - Espinho International Animation Film Festival takes place from the 13th to the 19th of November. This year, the Espinho Festival highlights the different European Cultural Identities, from the Mediterranean to Northern Europe, CINANIMA promises to be a true journey through Europe, presenting different experiences and perspectives from different parts of the old continent. Find out more here.
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation yesterday launched the Salavisa European Dance Award (SEDA), worth 150 thousand euros, to honor the dancer and choreographer Jorge Salavisa (1939-2020) and distinguish the talent of dance artists around the world. Find out more here.
A painting by the famous cubist Pablo Picasso of his lover Marie-Thérèse Walter sold for $121 million at Sotheby's much-anticipated Emily Fisher Landau auction. Find out more here.
The Italian Ministry of Culture wants to restore a work of Banksy, while some artists consider that it should be left to gradually deteriorate. Find out more here.
Two Just Stop Oil protesters were arrested after breaking the glass covering the painting of Diego Velázquez, “Venus in the Mirror”, on National Gallery. Find out more here.
For the first time in 54 years, Beatles they returned to the top of the UK charts with the song "Now and then", a track that uses Artificial Intelligence to bring together the legendary British band, it was announced today. Find out more here.
The Arpad Szenes Foundation - Vieira da Silva An international public competition will open on November 15th to choose the new director of the museum, in Lisbon, a source from the board of directors revealed today to the Lusa agency. Find out more here.
The Project Support Program of the Directorate-General for the Arts (DGArtes), to be implemented in 2024, will have 13.350 million euros, this body told the Lusa agency yesterday. Find out more here.
The studio where modern art giants like Amedeo Modigliani and Paul Gauguin lived and worked before they became famous has launched a crowdfunding campaign for a major restoration to continue its mission of residency for international artists. Find out more here.
Artforum editor-in-chief David Velasco was fired on Friday after six years in the role. On the same day, the magazine's editors released a statement about an open letter in support of Palestine that had been published by “Artforum” on October 19. Find out more here.
A long-running debate over the authorship of Marcel Duchamp's “Fountain” was recently reignited by two British art historians. Find out more in this article.
The Museum of Contemporary Art - Centro Cultural de Belém (MAC/CCB), in Lisbon, will open today with a fund for the acquisition of works of art worth two million euros, announced the Minister of Culture, Pedro Adão e Silva. Find out more here.