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.
This book is “Arquivo Sofia Coppola: 1999-2023”, the director’s first volume to narrate her work. Although it looks like a sturdy coffee table book, Coppola prefers to see it more as a “scrapbook” that recreates the vibes of her creative space. “For me, this book is the closest version of visiting my office and seeing all the things piled up around my desk,” Sofia Coppola told Vogue. Find out more here.
On October 25th, the birth date of Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Casa da Arquitectura celebrates the architect with free entry to the exhibitions and two events: a conversation that brings together friends and collaborators of the Brazilian Pritzker (Nuno Sampaio, Fernando Serapião, Inês Lobo and Martin Corullon) and the launch of the double issue of Revista Monolito dedicated to the houses of Mendes da Rocha, which is for sale exclusively at Casa da Arquitectura. Entry is free.