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Crypto art conundrum, genuine or satire?

AS an academic researcher, developer of artistic technology and amateur artist, I was quite skeptical about crypto art when I first read about it several years ago. However, I follow a community of artists ...

March 21, 2021, Sunday

DR Congo artists keep music of the miners alive

THE cone-shaped slag heap in the southeastern Congolese city of Lubumbashi is a mighty symbol of the time when copper was king. In that heady era, a vibrant and distinctive culture of music and dancing ...

March 14, 2021, Sunday

Tadao Ando goes beyond art

THE life and work of award-winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando, winner of architecture’s highest honor Pritzker Prize, is being exhibited in Shanghai next week in the Bund Finance Center. The 79-year-old ...

March 14, 2021, Sunday

With no visitors, Louvre gets a rare chance to rejuvenate

THE 518-year-old Mona Lisa has seen many things in her life on a wall, but rarely this: Almost four months with no Louvre visitors. As she stares out through bulletproof glass into the silent Salle des ...

February 28, 2021, Sunday

Munch wrote the ‘madman’ sentence on ‘The Scream’

NORWAY’S National Museum says a small, barely visible sentence written with a pencil on Edvard Munch’s 1893 masterpiece “The Scream” was penned by the Norwegian painter himself. The painting which shows ...

February 28, 2021, Sunday

Switzerland’s timeless art mechanics embraces 3D future

IN his snow-bound workshop, Swiss master Francois Junod's moving mechanical artworks whir into action: birds whistle, historical luminaries write poetry — traditional craftsmanship newly recognized as ...

January 31, 2021, Sunday

Texas auction sells rare gold coin for US$9.36 million

A rare gold coin made by a noted craftsman in New York in 1787 has sold at auction in Dallas for US$9.36 million. Heritage Auctions offered the New York-style Brasher Doubloon on January 21 evening as ...

January 31, 2021, Sunday

France urged to tide over fan museum in epidemic

JUST like the leaves of its gilded fans, France’s storied fan-making museum could fold and vanish. The UN’s cultural agency has called on France to do more to stop the splendid Musee de l’Eventail in ...

January 31, 2021, Sunday

British graffiti artist Banksy focuses on coronavirus crisis

IT might be on the wall of an old barbershop, or in the subway: Banksy’s pictures appear suddenly, overnight, as if by magic. Works by the famously mysterious British street artist can often be found ...

January 10, 2021, Sunday

In Egypt, pandemic inspires passion for oud

While he waits for his lesson at an Egyptian music school, Maissara Mohammed plays his oud, its soothing tones dissolving the stress of daily life during the coronavirus pandemic. “I play four instruments, ...

December 27, 2020, Sunday



 

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