There’s a vibrant scene painted on the overhang of a sandstone cliff in the Koesberg mountains, central South Africa, that’s challenging local traditions of paleontology. Spanning 30-feet in all, it depicts warriors battling amid flying arrows, hunters on the prowl, and an array of animals including antelopes, an aardvark, and a cat. These details are…
Portraits of the people who will be defining the season in the arts. Source link
A new study shows that attendance at French museums, monuments and other heritage sites have recovered to pre-pandemic levels with 46.8 million visitors in 2023. According to the latest edition of the Patrimostat, the annual reference publication on attendance at heritage sites and establishments from the Department of Studies, Foresight, Statistics and Documentation (DEPS) of the Ministry…
One example is VIT (2020), a surreal video divided into three acts for which Vascellari was put to sleep and strapped to a gurney that was flown by helicopter over the forest and mountains of Cansiglio in northern Italy. This eerie vignette, partly inspired by the opening scene of the film La Dolce Vita (1960)…
A performance-based protest against BP sponsorship of Scottish Ballet (2021). Photo: Guy Reece Unprecedented scrutiny over funding sources has prompted many UK cultural organisations to suspend or turn their back on philanthropic contributions. But could these increasingly messy call-outs and protests, personal attacks on social media and public decouplings result in an already woefully underfunded…