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25 Dec Ho Ho Ho! Archaeologists Unveil the Original Resting Place of Saint Nicholas

Posted at 08:01h in Uncategorized by Verity Babbs

The Church of St. Nicholas in Antalya, Türkiye has long been believed to be the burial site of Saint Nicholas, but recent excavations have finally unearthed a sarcophagus which archaeologists believe may have belonged to the saint who inspired Santa. Saint Nicholas was a Greek Christian...

25 Dec Blockbuster exhibitions: popularity vs. substance

Posted at 08:00h in Art, Latest News, Wall Street International Magazine by Catalina Rosa Rivera

Visitors to art blockbusters worship at the shrine of great art, while the overwhelming spectacle of crowds, queues and commodities prevent them from engaging meaningfully with the works on display. (Shearer West) The term "blockbuster" was first coined in 1975 with the release of Jaws, the first...

25 Dec The 14 Best Art World–Pop Culture Crossovers From 2024

Posted at 07:00h in Uncategorized by Annie Armstrong

Every now and then, aspects of the fine art world find their way into mainstream culture. It’s rare, but these crossovers are often potent for what they reveal about the art world—or about how the broader culture sees our little sphere. Among some of my...

25 Dec The Ancient Cretan Puzzle That’s Left Historians Scratching Their Heads

Posted at 06:00h in Uncategorized by Adnan Qiblawi

On a summer day in 1908, Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier unearthed what would become one of history’s most tantalizing puzzles. While excavating the ancient Minoan palace of Phaistos in Crete, Pernier came across a peculiar artifact: a clay disk roughly the size of a dinner...

24 Dec Basquiat's Little-Known Alpine Period Explored in a New Show

Posted at 19:00h in Uncategorized by Vittoria Benzine

Basquiat. After astronomical auction prices and endless sneaker collaborations, the artist’s name most readily evokes SoHo streets and Palladium parties. For those truly in the know, though, that name can also elicit Engadin alpines. Hauser and Wirth’s latest St. Moritz exhibition “Jean-Michel Basquiat. Engadin” joins recent...

24 Dec Have Experts Cracked the True Purpose of Stonehenge?

Posted at 18:01h in Uncategorized by Vittoria Benzine

Crowds gather biannually to watch Stonehenge mark the longest and shortest days of the year. Last week, as the winter solstice struck, British researchers released new insight into the enigmatic monument’s potential purpose, concluding a momentous year of scholarship with one more revelation. According to their...

24 Dec Pop Titan Takashi Murakami Reflects on 2024's Highlights, from Hip-Hop to 'Shōgun'

Posted at 18:00h in Uncategorized by Holly Black

Takashi Murakami is a pop culture behemoth. The Japanese contemporary artist is best known in the art world as the founder of the post-modern “superflat” movement, which synthesizes elements of Japanese aesthetics (including ukiyo-e prints, kawaii motifs and manga) with a super-slick sensibility that collapses...

24 Dec Jeff Koons's Picasso Collab in Spain Is Hard Not to Love

Posted at 17:00h in Uncategorized by Jo Lawson-Tancred

The mighty Alhambra on the outskirts of Granada in southern Spain is a monument to the possibilities of merging artistic traditions. Its sprawling complex of buildings, accumulated over the centuries according to whoever was in power, belongs to both Islamic and Christian architectural styles. A...

24 Dec The 10 Most Iconic Works by Michelangelo, Ranked

Posted at 17:00h in Uncategorized by Margaret Carrigan

When it comes to the High Renaissance, Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564) is as high as it gets. A peerless sculptor, expert draftsman, and reluctant but skilled painter, he was not only one of the best-known artists of his day but probably remains one of the best-known...

24 Dec Beeple’s New Show Unleashes His Wild Take on the Future

Posted at 14:00h in Uncategorized by @EnglishBlase

Mike Winkelmann, aka Beeple, has been thinking about that banana recently. You know, the one that was bought from a fruit seller outside Sotheby’s, duct taped to a wall, flogged for $6.2 million, and devoured before the press in Hong Kong. The last time the eccentricities...