Enjoy Mozart's music performed by world-class musicians in his birthplace city. Al Qasimi is the president and director of the Sharjah Art Foundation in the United Arab Emirates, which she founded in 2009. Additionally, she has been the director of the Sharjah Biennial since 2002; unlike past editions, she curated that exhibition’s most recent edition, realizing a concept by late…
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Guess who’s back? Back again? NFT Myths is back, so tell your friends. In this series, we look at common NFT criticisms and explain where they’re right and what they get wrong. We’ve previously looked at environmental concerns around NFTs and, well, the right clickers! If you feel a lot of FOMO in the NFT world, this one’s for you: Is it too…
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Taipei Dangdai Art & Ideas, the Taiwan art fair, hosted its 2024 edition last week, with 78 dealers from 19 countries and territories exhibiting this year. The fair, now in its fifth edition, opened as Taiwan’s collectors continue to exhibit their purchasing power and the country’s leading art institutions flex their curatorial prowess to visiting international dealers, curators, and other art…
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“OUR TIMES ARE INTOLERABLE,” reads scrolling text that appears on a 900-foot-long LED screen mounted to the Guggenheim Museum’s rotunda right now. And who’s to disagree these days? Those words were first written by artist Jenny Holzer roughly 40 years ago, and she’s now recycled them anew, as if to suggest that not much has changed. For Holzer, it’s the same shit, different…
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The Wayfarers Chapel in Ranchos Palos Verdes, California, is set to be dismantled and stored until a new site is determined for it to be rebuilt. The church was closed to the public in February after a recent landslide caused damage to the structure. The iconic glass chapel, declared a National Historic Landmark last year, was designed by Lloyd Wright,…
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